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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

3 hours ago, LNERW1 said:

Again, any members in or near Laois, the Coolnamona trip is still going ahead of there’s enough people, please do express interest here. Even if you don’t live near Laois, could schedule it for the afternoon to allow people to travel. There’s also a good few motorway hotels only around 1km from the site, so if staying overnight is more convenient for most the trip can happen earlier.

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.

On 28/4/2024 at 9:58 AM, LNERW1 said:

I really think at least a few of these locomotives should be preserved. As it is, no Irish preserved railways really have a locomotive shortage, but it’s probably wise to grab a couple for storage while we still can.

What weight range would those BnM locos be in? 4-6 tons?.

On 12/5/2024 at 9:10 PM, LNERW1 said:

Alright, anyone interested in the Laois area- planning a trip to Coolnamona plant via Portlaoise PW depot (I want to see some 071s), then the short spur of the Kilkenny line, down to the crossing (have already posted google maps coordinates). Please express your interest here, any time in June works, more or less.

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.

On 29/9/2022 at 4:58 PM, Tullygrainey said:

This forum is full of fine examples of modelling which is historically and/or prototypically realistic and I have enormous respect for all of you who do that. It requires extra effort on every front to pursue that sort of accuracy and the results, however good (and there are wonderfully good things here),  are forever vulnerable to being held to account against the real thing. Fictitious flights of fancy are easier because there’s no reality to compare them unfavourably against.

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.

On 4/12/2023 at 6:08 PM, Kevin Sweeney said:

Can't wait to get some of these running, They have all been run in, but most have never hauled a coach or wagon.

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.

13 hours ago, David Holman said:

 So, where would there railway room go...?

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

On 27/10/2021 at 9:41 PM, BosKonay said:

The DCC blank includes mini switches he’s for most of the light functions of that helps. Otherwise any generic 21 pin decoder that fits should let you run the engine. 

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

On 27/10/2021 at 11:48 PM, RobertRoche said:

Not to worry, Irish Railway Models will be producing the footbridge - IRM will provide all the updates on it!

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,

DCC where to start???

within the next month or so i am about to finish 4 years of building my DCC track layout, i only have spare time in winter, so its on /off build, returning each october to pick up from last winter. it took all last winter to rewire to block occupancy.

the layout hasnt run since nov 2019,  nor do i have good broadband so i will not be live streaming , unlike RULE1 in Waterford, as in this video uploaded October 24th 2020

DCC ??? i started with a layout that I tested on basic DCC wires, Z21 an DR5000 control options. once my entire layout (part1) was laid i ran as many different train to test the layout to make sure it all worked. all done, i then  installed blocks and many many many wires to DR4088, (S88) Dr4088CS, DR4088LN-CS, LOCONET for reporting at speed and allowing expansion. including introducing Dr04088ln opto, for optical sensors as well as the hundred or so current sensors build two layouts in one, the first DR5000 connected to 4 Dr5033 boosters, more to add using loconet booster bus,

the second part of layout, including to be built  hidden standing area, for long fully built rakes, will have railcom for Z21 and a new track that can run on 4 boosters on the booster RBus .as i have dreams of one day running rocos camera train, even with all its reported other problems.

STARTING OUT, my advice research reserch, research, ask questions, join supplier forum and unlike me start small and expand slowly, i had to start large due to space restrictions, finish the entire layout at once.
Good news is broadband, arriving to my house next winter according to a National Broadband Plan letter ,, so i can upload a video if and when i get it all running

I was watching these great videos explaining an Irish made show layout with UK trains  in waterford. Top class running, Rule ! will be on my fav's list if ever i log into youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Rule1ModelRailways/videos

Hi, i been busy since march, havnt had time to look up if either irm or murphys trains arrived, i placed an order with Irm and Marks models, didnt hear from either, i suppose there all sold now, and they forgot . i even think i paid for them on line