Actually ts "Injebreck" (the Caradoc mod) that has the painted cylinders, the whole loco was repainted from the standard Accucraft green into revell EMAIL COLOR SM331.
the Railcars are scratchbuilt from thin ply and bits of moulding strip from B&Q, the inside seats are actually an old bath seal strip cut into seat sized bits. They run on a power bogie from a bachmann Mid West 45 tonner, the trailing car power bogie is...... unpowered! the passenger coach sections are running on bogies from a bachmann american christmas coach.
The practice of running a van in between the cars is prototypically Manx, when we aquired the real things from Ireland, they were to run the entire winter service on the IMR, there were no suitable turntables at the terminus stations, so they ran everywhere back to back, one hauling the other "dead", the van was added to accomodate the small amount of goods traffic that was still being carried by rail, and piped through for vacuum braking.
Although the van in the video is a standard Accucraft W/L covered van, plans are in hand to change the appearance to that of a standard IMR "G" van fairly soon. The van provides the power for the railcars, converted expertly by NHN, inside is the radio receiver and re-chargable batteries.
I have a soft spot for the railcars, when they were taken into service by the IMR, my dad was the first man to drive them (as he was one of the few employees with a driving licence for road vehicles!), as a consequence I got to travel in the cab with him on quite a few occasions. they were incredibly noisy, I guess health and safety would insist on ear defenders at least wre they still operational.
