Killybegs

They go together beautifully Dave so stop worrying and get on with it! I agree with you about the limitations of our knowledge of wagons. There was quite a lot of input to my Worseter thread when I was building mine. See Page 31.

Exquisite

The camera can be very unforgiving! I love the prototype, will you be building a fleet of barges?

Coming along nicely Dave, can't wait to see it painted. I had to trawl back through your blog to remind myself of its origins and found entries that I had must have missed while away, hence belated ratings.

Unfortunately the Cardonagh branch is the least photographed, certainly beyond Buncrana, and least documented section of the L&LSR, probably because it was not a commercial success and not much visited. Good luck with your research.

Great stuff Robin. Pleased to see that one of us is getting something done!

Looks very impressive.

Stick with the plate girder bridge.

Great stuff Robin. I'm sure it was very refreshing to get back to some 'modelling' after all that time spent on trackwork and electrics.

I just get a black screen with sound effects!

Very nice Robin

Very nice Dave, I look forward to seeing the finished locos.

Thanks Robin, looks good. Just back from a whistle stop trip to Devon and Cornwall. Found a great book on Bristol's Floating Harbour in brother's collection.

John

Well done Dave. Good solution, I wondered how you were going to get on with soldering it

Now come on Robin, I expect to see trains running when I come over next month. Ho, ho.

I sympathise Dave. I find that it's always more difficult unsoldering stuff than it is soldering them in the first place. Today while finishing off the brake gear on a Rumney Models Grampus chassis, I spotted that I had the brake assemblies on the wrong sides of the chassis. Now, I know I checked and double checked which way round they went so how did I end up getting it wrong when I soldered them in place. So off came the push rod safety loops which are rather delicate before I attacked the brake assemblies themselves. These were not so easy as each end had to be heated and pushed out of its locating slot before the could the heat could be applied again so that they could be lifted vertically. Thank goodness they are relatively robust! Anyway, all cleaned up and reassembled now.

I like the weathering Dave, a bit grubby but still loved.

Thanks for posting the pics Robin. Needless to say, it's all very neat.

Looking good Dave

That's good news Robin. Hopefully it will have been worth the wait.

Nice turntable, wonder where that came from!

Looking good Robin

I expect the trackwork to be ready for inspection at the weekend old chap, what.

That first photo really is brilliant.

But what would I do with my cupboard full of BB's !! I must say that, once set up, they do run very well.