GSWR 90 Overhaul

[Mol_PMB]

20 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Are you fitting it with sound and DCC?

With such a small loco, I think the steam effects generator will take up too much space for those features.

[GSWR 90]

2 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Are you fitting it with sound and DCC?

DCC no, but it will have sound, directional lighting, and flickering firebox 

[jhb171achill]

2 hours ago, GSWR 90 said:

DCC no, but it will have sound, directional lighting, and flickering firebox 

You can maybe 3D print its furry dice….

[Niles]

Of note, yesterday DCDR had no fewer than 27 volunteers working on various projects, including 90, across the site. Heartening to see. 

https://www.downrail.co.uk/2026/02/a-record-number-of-volunteers/

[GSWR 90]

23 hours ago, Niles said:

Of note, yesterday DCDR had no fewer than 27 volunteers working on various projects, including 90, across the site. Heartening to see. 

https://www.downrail.co.uk/2026/02/a-record-number-of-volunteers/

If you want to help us to get to 30 or even 40 volunteers in at one time, send me an email at info@downrail.co.uk

Edited February 9 by GSWR 90

[Westcorkrailway]

Next week is valentines so some on this website may need a place to hide 

[Westcorkrailway]

Munster perspective of 90 this weekend (some 12 inches to a foot scale modelling) 

Not long after arriving on the 0500 Ex-Cork car, we examined our options to get the bolts off, didn’t take long to realise that these nuts were too far beyond whacking them off, so modern methods as seen below were used 

To acheive the above photo, it quite literally took a day to do, trying to cut off the bolts without damaging anything else, most bolts needing to be cut on 3/4 times before being loose enough to knock off 

after another hour of hacking, the ashpan had been finally lowered into the pit

here we get a unique look into 90s firebox 

[Niles]

https://www.downrail.co.uk/2026/02/90-restoration-ashpan-removal/