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sorry, I seem to be on the wrong page, I was looking for railway roadkill recipes, surly you dont eat cats?

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i have 3 axial trailer, if someone is buying these, i be talking combines with ken graham, stradbally, this week, he might be good eye to look over those before buying one, i will ask him. and we would also need tracks, n a shed. 30 bog train wagons

yip i have time this n next week but once harvesting starts, i will have very little time, count me in, Coolnamona or where ever, as long as the choice of sites makes sense on a few levels. Westland horticulture also have peatlands, they might have locos, i was suppose to meet them, about other business, but the lead went cold.

LNERw1, i thought you had something in mind. We could erect a Greenway sign. Another greenway sign, Seems all old railways end up as 'greenways'. were suppose to be protecting nature and all greenways do is disrupt the wildlife corridor on the disused. anyways i agree with your quote, and as per tread, i too hear much of everything BnM peat division is sold off. What weight range would those BnM locos be in? 4-6 tons?.

count me in, were sowing peatlands for BnM, Boora and else where, the bogs gone very quite with out the rattling hum.. every 'green way' in d country should get 10 miles of free BnM track and an engine. , better still a railway line.!!!!. why didnt someone think of that! Lookit' i have the ballast . it kept Marks Models busy posting it all out in little plastic packets.

i love this layout, its got a great vibe, where do you get the time for all the quoted FILLosophy, as well as great modelling.

Kevin, i read your entire post and followed links, i am so impressed with all of it, as for the quote above about your unused locos awaiting for finished track, with buildings like yours, an empty railway not distract from all that amazing architecture.

Railyard update, Hoping your all well... June 2024, not much happened since 2019, when i decided to change to digital control using block detection, my digital manufacturer, dutch firm, Digikeijs went out of business, but i can still get same components from YaMoRC. i rewired hundreds of tracks for block detection. Finally, got lots of different trains running smoothly, i had very little time to play trains these past few years, after i decided to rewiring every track section to introduce blocks for digital control, after that the track didn't run well, so lots of time consuming minor adjustments were made, including some track layout changes and more. these changes used up most of my limited free time. for the kids, we tried to make train driving realistic, meaning you had to slow right down in rad 1 and 2 bends, while there are bumps rises and inclines, to navigate, some had to be flattened out to allow certain models to progress, Lima models were able to get over badly laid tracks, (just like on prototype vid's of trains going over very dodgy tracks) which we love the most. But many other makes/models failed to get over our layout, so the track had to improve. wetting the sand was easy way to get track up, no carpet glue no nails, just lots of PVC, easy to wet, re stick with more pvc. Didnt have time to go to any model railway shows, or bray wheelers , anything really, just farming and family. ..... photos show updated layout. railyard, Railyard showing incline on left Real Castlecomer anthracite, "learning to get trains to run was hard enough, never mind taking photos"

years ago, I got done from a site like this , i suspect its a fake site. selling models https://www.uitlr.xyz/products.aspx?cname=irish+train+sets&cid=25

is the pandemic over? we have been so busy at work past 3 years, i haven't had much time as usual. hardly ever time for IRM. the update , i have all the faults sorted bar a few wires, over 25+ turnouts installed all now leveled perfect, (very time consuming) a base undercoat of landscape scatter, grass and lots of ballast to take the look of the sand base of the model railway, as scenery will have to wait until turnouts are automated where sand was unforgiving in getting the track level , with pvc and sand over painted ply base, to undo anything, just pour water over pvc/sand it leave 30 seconds, add more water, and excavate the sand, oh so easy, everything come up so trouble free, no track nails and no solid glues. my dec/jan break was ruined by one big family cough and cold, so i just worked on model landscape. thats finsihed for now so its time to plug it all in again. as i had to dismantle the entire layout 3 years ago to install block occupancy. If and when i get the trains running again i can post a video when, IF it runs again, as we now have broadband, but not in train attic yet, it will be.... happy christmas for 2023... in-case its another hectic year, and i dont get back

Hi Ken. we supplied seeds for the recent works to stabilize the Avoca mines in about 2018, if i can find the landscape architect i ask if there maps ? it may take some time, ..... as those files are archived

There's lots of web chat unverfied/unofficial talk of boycotting all countries that support Russian war . including China and India. that will slow down production boycott also suggested for Germany and France also if No Fly Zone is not enacted. we may all have to buy kits from local makers.

Wonderful photos, just saved page to my fav's, something i rarely do. i just love those photos of the GSWR wagons: and GSR wagons: ,GS grain hoppers, equivalent to LMS grey in England Ranks wagon and the CIE grey thank you, as usual...

chug a chug chooo chooo, and another train set rumbles around the xmas tree, and another family get sucked into mod'rail at their peril. Seasons greetings and a happy new rail model.

fab, great vid as well.

is it not a garden railway? who needs a room

photo 20 of 52 shows the platform, p`16, what i suppose is signal box, cute! https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-brockagh-lower-glenfarne-co-leitrim/3547904 theres even enough room to store all the empty IRM boxes photo 13 has rusty shed industry in background, drool drool

is there a video about fitting the loksound chips? to the A's

thanks, Robert, I think your footbridge is one of the nicest models of anything to do with Irish rail , since i saw the post the other day, i just keep wondering where a foot bridge will fit on layout, found three spots at least,

are there any other options for chips, the warranty is 12 months on A's, i need a chip to test the A,s

Sorry Robert, i missed this post, yes i would love a footbridge. if I am not too late.

Oct 2021, 3 full years since i started this my first layout, being a crop farmer, I have no time to model railway from spring to November, but will make up with lots of time off in winter. Irish rail continued to buy our seed products for landscape repairs on the permanent way, one job was sowing the Irish rail Biodiversity works in the portlaoise service depot, we supply a specialist bespoke product to grow on rocky gravelly soil out the back lot. I did blag me way so i could visit the depot to see where the seed mixture was going to be planted, (to get it right! of course)and get a close up look at the depot, but in the end was too busy to go, as the harvest was hectic this sunny year. I did say i was railway modeller with Construction card, PPE and all, if Irish rail continue to buy, a visit is still on the cards. The Layout. at the very end of a long winter and late spring, I finally got a loco to run around all the tracks, so the power is correct and connected. all well, bar a few bumps and badly sloped bends on inclines, but as its all laid on sand, just wet the track, lift and add more sand and PVA. there a dodgy track in a tunnel, again thats just a leveling issue. The post, brought a new A or two and these lovely engines will like other sit in boxes, unused until i get the track perfect. I had planned to install my first turnout motors, but if i get the track running perfect this side of christmas, i will be happy.

blog, track laying update - nov 2020, after long summer, finally got time off to finish the track block occupancy wiring and set up. with over 100 tracks to re-wire to the digikeijs dr4088cs Loconet current sensors . having tested sections and got the digital side software working, i moved on to spreading buckets of washed fine sand as ballast, which made the uneven base board easy to level tracks on, much like laying patio slabs, one could say the construction works are very prototypical or indeed proto-topical ! even got to unbox some limas and a few hornby models to test the tracks, tedium is fixing every nick and bump, bad solder and more.. well over 70% done of the >150 metres of track. there are a few unopened boxes of IRM models, but until everything is fully tested and working, these will stay in boxes. i just have to will watch all your vids and pics and drool, until i get going at this rate first full run, should be about march 2028,