flange lubricator Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Great scenes as always Patrick, hope the 121 class will put in an appearance soon at Glen More . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Patrick A very enjoyable 27 seconds. Because you’ve been able to model a reasonable length of railway with two stations, plus a siding, there’s the potential with your layout to demonstrate how railways used to operate. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) The immement arrival of a grey 121 inspired the. construction of a grey palvan, this time with different doors and ends. It may be time to build that SSM brake van kit and finish it in grey Edited September 25, 2020 by patrick 9 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 3 hours ago, patrick said: The immement arrival of a grey 121 inspired the. construction of a grey palvan, this time with different doors and ends. It may be time to build that SSM brake van kit and finish it in grey As always, PURE magic! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flange lubricator Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Nice job on the palvan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishrailwayman Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 9 hours ago, patrick said: The immement arrival of a grey 121 inspired the. construction of a grey palvan, this time with different doors and ends. It may be time to build that SSM brake van kit and finish it in grey I like the C with the yellow panel - is that a Silver Fox model? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 2 hours ago, Irishrailwayman said: I like the C with the yellow panel - is that a Silver Fox model? Looks like it - I have one like that, and I'm noticing - also a Morris Minor like that! Must fix the loco fuel tank which has come apart..... I've a green one too, but it needs livery alterations as the "snail" on it is white! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 That is a Silver Fox C class. Let's hope IRM will do one, but first hopefully a Birmingham Sulzer! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) Much the same scene as the previous photos but with an A class and signals. Edited September 25, 2020 by patrick 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 10 hours ago, patrick said: That is a Silver Fox C class. Let's hope IRM will do one, but first hopefully a Birmingham Sulzer! I would love to have a Sulzer! For a producer, seven options would be there - silver, green, black, black'n'tan with full height tan, and with low band, and a few ended up in "Supertrain" livery, though most assuredly never pulled any "supertrain" - nor, probably any passenger train in that livery, apart from the IRRS special in 1978. Also, of course, with and without tablet snatchers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) "I would love to have a Sulzer! For a producer, seven options would be there - silver, green, black, black'n'tan with full height tan, and with low band, and a few ended up in "Supertrain" livery, though most assuredly never pulled any "supertrain" - nor, probably any passenger train in that livery, apart from the IRRS special in 1978. Also, of course, with and without tablet snatchers. " 106 remained in servile until 1976 in Supertrain colors often working ballast trains. I wasn't aware that any were fitted with tablet catchers, presumably for the Rosslare express. Edited September 26, 2020 by patrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 26, 2020 Author Share Posted September 26, 2020 Its finally here! A sound decoder is due any day now, a first for the South Waterford Line. 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 All very nice. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 27, 2020 Author Share Posted September 27, 2020 134 hasn't turned a wheel on the layout yet, I'm still waiting for the decoder to arrive from IRM. Meanwhile I'm having fun posing her for photos. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 I hope that car doesn't reverse back. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 Waterford to Cork goods train passing Glen More and Kielys Cross October 1974. 20200929_030044.mp4 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Priceless! Love the "back to back" wagon - can we see it closer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 It just gets better. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) Here you go John. Prestwin underframe, styrene body Dart Castings buffers. Dimensions guesstimated from the few photos and videos I could find online. Three more are in the works which will make a nice block of wagons for the pick up goods to drop off for Glen More co op. Edited September 29, 2020 by patrick 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flange lubricator Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 7 hours ago, patrick said: Here you go John. Prestwin underframe, styrene body Dart Castings buffers. Dimensions guesstimated from the few photos and videos I could find online. Three more are in the works which will make a nice block of wagons for the pick up goods to drop off for Glen More co op. They have a very homemade look to the sides which is exactly how the real wagons looked following repairs to them . they look spot on too me size wise 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 134 on a Cork Waterford passenger crosses A50 on a beet special in Glen More. 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Shrives Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Good to see the 121 got home ! Great shots and I hope DCC chip arrives to increase the fun. Have to say the factory looks better for the low relief roof and tall tanks. Good to see clip as well, life looking up ? Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 A50 shunts beet wagons as the Cork Waterford passenger leaves Glen More. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 Having finally got most of the messy scenery work on the layout out of the way it was finally time to clean up. Tools and materials which were left on the layout were put away, the floor swept and washed and the layout set up for an October 1974 operating session, the first in a while. The photos show the first train run, the Waterford Cork goods. The train dropped off three wagons and picked up two. The train then continued to Grange where it met the Cork Glen More beet special which will be the covered in the next post. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Shrives Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 That must have taken a while to shunt, hope the crew had time for a drink ! great pics, station looks pretty well complete I think you were looking at a good store for the siding where the car flat sits, did that plan proceed? I do think that the loading dock surface has captured that elusive natural rolled stone look As always thanks for sharing this little part of Ireland! Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Could the shunt at Glen More be recorded on video? I think this is the best way of showing the intricacies of shunting, what railwaymen did to make their life as simple as possible and also the length of time it took. Nowhere as long as the real thing but but more than just a few minutes if you build in the time for coupling/uncoupling, etc. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 The beet special drops off an empty and picks up a load at Grange. It then proceeds to Glen More where it meets the Cork goods which waits in the loop after finishing its work there. 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 I have spent from before 10 this morning until 8 this evening writing lengthy captions for a selection of photos like this! Here’s how realistic this layout is; I open this post, see the first picture and without thinking, my mind starts saying: ”OK, what date, what loco, where’s he going, anything interesting among the wagons, what time did he leave Waterford, anything unusual?” ......then onto the keyboard and me eyes are cross-eyed as I type: ”On 3rd December 1986, Locomotive no. 142 approaches Glenmore with empty beet wagons for Wellington Bridge. Later that day this loco was seen passing in the other direction, paired with 188 and with a maximum load of 43 laden wagons for Mallow.....” I’m even still scanning the train of vans to see if there’s one worth commenting on specifically..... Yes, lockdown has me scribbling again. Keeps me off the streets. ”Rails Through Glenmore”!!!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 2, 2020 Author Share Posted October 2, 2020 The goods proceeds through Kielys Cross and Grange where there is no work today and on to the fiddle yard. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) As the beet special shunts Glen More the passenger train from Cork to Waterford runs through. Edited October 3, 2020 by patrick 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 The thought ‘died and woke up in Model Railway heaven’ springs to mind. Just wonderful. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 Once the Waterford passenger train left Glen More the beet train completed its shunting and began its return journey shunting Kielys cross on the way. There is no work at Grange so the train rolls straight into the Cork fiddle yard ending the operating session. 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 The views along the line are just magical. As 142 comes out of the tunnel and goes along past the telegraph pole, the scenery is especially realistic - the sort of hillside covered in ferns that you see all over the place. How did you do the ferns type of stuff on the slope? (I can feel the midges coming after me already.............!) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 On 4/10/2020 at 2:45 PM, jhb171achill said: How did you do the ferns type of stuff on the slope? The ground cover is Woodland Scenics light green coarse turf scattered over wet tan paint. Further applications roof turf is added as needed to cover bare spots or build up texture. The bushes are Woodland scenics light green Clump Foliage. While it is often recommended to mix different color scatter materials I found it did not work for me at least on this layout. While running a few trains this morning I caught the Cork passenger behind 141 at Grange. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 Work progressed on three new new back to back ferts on the kitchen counter under carefully controlled conditions. Maureen was not home....... 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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