Alan's Workbench

[Galteemore]

53 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

It wasn't the carpet! I put the body in a box temporarily, and now I can't find the box!!! 

Sounds like a particularly incompetent murderer talking to defence brief ! 

[Horsetan]

34 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Sounds like a particularly incompetent murderer talking to defence brief ! 

More like a "retired" 'RA member trying to remember where he buried one of the Disappeared. 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Ah, a "Safe Place". I've made that mistake a few times too.

Hmmmm indeed.

I have many such "safe places", wherein dwell model railway stuff, one set of house keys, an IR£4 winning lotto ticket, two sets of car keys, at least one mobile phone, an expensive jacket, a practically unused 10-day CIE runabout ticket from summer 1979 and gawd only knows what else.

Trouble is, they are VERY safe. VERY safe indeed.

[Galteemore]

Big question of course Alan is - what’s next ? New loco for Kilmore ?

[Tullygrainey]

7 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Big question of course Alan is - what’s next ? New loco for Kilmore ?

 I've been trying to resist that temptation David.  Kilmore needs some attention to get it properly operational, I have half finished wagons that need doing and other bits of rolling stock I'd like to have a go at. But then again....

[Galteemore]

Excellent. Old no 9 - which was re numbered when the BCDR’s last 4-4-2Ts were delivered c1945 I think 

Edited Sunday at 22:36 by Galteemore

[Tullygrainey]

15 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Excellent. Old no 9 - which was re numbered when the BCDR’s last 4-4-2Ts were delivered c1945 I think 

Yep that's the one David. Built originally as a tender engine in 1887 but subsequently converted to a tank engine. Marked down for scrapping in 1929 but survived derelict until the UTA takeover. Lost its number to a new bogie tank in 1945. (Information from Desmond Coakham's book)

I thought it might be interesting to try building a 0-4-2 chassis with drive on the front axle and the other two axles compensated. It ought to be possible to hide a motor/gearbox in the smokebox and boiler. Much the same as my chassis for BCDR No.6, just the other way round.

[Horsetan]

1 hour ago, Tullygrainey said:

....I thought it might be interesting to try building a 0-4-2 chassis with drive on the front axle and the other two axles compensated. It ought to be possible to hide a motor/gearbox in the smokebox and boiler....

Anyone fancy a go at Sambo?

[Mol_PMB]

28 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Anyone fancy a go at Sambo?

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

[Metrovik]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

Never realised Sambo was a derogatory term til now, I had always thought they named the loco after a sandwich! (That term actually dates from the 1970s)

[cheesy_peas]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

I imagine the choosing of Sambo and Jumbo was from popular culture of the time; Jumbo the Elephant being world famous in the mid to late 1800s, he unfortunately (and ironically) met his end when a train collided with him and his remains were mounted and put on display by a certain PT Barnum.

The Story of Little Black Sambo was a hugely popular childrens' book first published in 1899. Unusually for the time, the main character was one of the first black heroes in childrens' literature, a positive portrayal of black characters compared to contemporary books that regarded black people as uncultured and uncivilised, unfortunately the characters' names chosen were of course racial slurs.

[Killian Keane]

0-4-2 tank, a rare type in Ireland, tender versions were common enough in the 19thC 

The WLWR did however have a very handsome example

[Horsetan]

6 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

I don’t think either Sambo or Negro would be acceptable these days. The GSWR did choose some strange names for their locos. 

These days, they'd probably choose Hamas