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"Clifden" at the head of the afternoon passenger service for
Ennis
pulling up in front of the new station at Lahinch. |
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Slieve Callan has had to take the down loop at Lahinch with
the short
goods train, which includes the new WCR wagons, in order to allow the
railcar
to make its stop. |
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Slieve Callan at the head of a long passenger train, easily
handles
the S-curve in the eastern corner of the garden. The halt will
some
day have a closer resemblance to the West Clare halt at Willbrook. |
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Slieve Callan leaving Lahinch towards the
south, offering
a good view of the WCR open wagons. |
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Slieve Callan coasting down Black Hill
towards Rineen.
To my mind, it doesn't get much better than this. |
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Lady Edith with her first train, raising steam. |
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Lady Edith working hard as she attacks Black Hill between
Rineen and
Lahinch. It was a cold afternoon, and the steam effects were
glorious. |
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Slieve Callan at the head of a train of West Clare
stock. Note
the spring thaw hadn't quite arrived. |
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Lady Edith arrives at Kilkee with the morning passenger train. |
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Two examples of the Bristol box vans built for the opening of
the West
Clare. Many were re-roofed with corrugated iron in later years. |
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Fr. O'Malley greets the engine crew as Slieve Callan drifts
into Kilkee
with the evening goods. |
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Outbound from Kilkee. Note the second wagon, open
cattle wagon
no 80, the latest scratchbuilt model to be added to the roster. |
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The new goods shed at
Lahinch. The core is one inch
insulating
foam sheet, covered with a skin of Quikcrete (c) vinyl concrete
patching
compound, which was scribed while wet with a stone pattern. The
roof
is foam core and embossed styrene sheet. Quick, cheap, easy, and
to my eye, rather effective. |
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I've had this Jane for many years, and after much running in
she's become a nifty little engine. She's much smaller than my
Irish engines, but is a fine representation of a generic
industrial/quarry engine. She's seen here with a box vanwhose
origins are lost in the mists of time, and several opens based on LGB
wagons.
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Here's Jane running through from
Kilrush towards Kilkee. It might seem that the driver is looking
wistfully at the open field where Taylor's Pub will stand some day
soon. He insists that he was inspecting the lineside for
encroaching mosses.
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Percy at the head of a goods
train in the early spring, running past the bluebells growing in the
flower beds.
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"Catharine," my Roundhouse
HELENE-class engine based on the Zillertahl prototypes. Though
she's thirteen years old, she still runs well and looks good at the
head of a rake of my LGB coaches.
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