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    update - no news

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    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

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    Murphy Models new 201 and Mk3 coaches

    in News

    Posted

    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.

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    Irish Footbridge - Expression of Interest

    in Irish Models

    Posted

    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,

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    Railyard, layout

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    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.

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    Railyard, layout

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    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,

     

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    Transitioning from DC to DCC in Simple Terms for Beginners

    in General Chat

    Posted · Edited by WaYSidE

    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

     

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    Class 121

    in Irish Models

    Posted

    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

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    BEMU vehicles, - 'ever-ready' Irish rail - Bemused by batteries

    in What's happening on the network?

    Posted

    168687 - 7498 - Infrastructure study for BEMU operation
    Publication date:  27-04-2020
    Response deadline:  22-05-2020 12:00   Irish time
    Procedure: Iarnród Éireann - Non OJEU Negotiated Procedure (Electronic)
    Description: Iarnród Éireann - Irish Rail has a requirement for a consultancy service to provide all studies necessary to, and produce the cost estimate for 1. Life cycle costs of BEMU vehicles 2. Life cycle cost associated to BEMU operating infrastructure – battery charging system, sidings, turnouts, maintenance, etc
    Buyer: Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail

    i suppose i can rip up two winters work of wiring my layout

    and get the IRM battery version of the new BEMU.

    no wires :)

    i did say in a post some years ago, we should all change to batter op' model rail

    ditch the wires and all

    Coronavirus

    in Letting off Steam

    Posted

    Is This Train Car Carrying ‘COVID-19’? The facebook fake.
    "It's puzzling why more conspirators aren't caught when they operate so brazenly"  by    David Mikkelson     Published 14 March 2020  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid19-railroad-tankcar/

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    conclusion to page, david writes:
    Most obviously, a tank car labeled ‘COVID-19’ makes no sense, as COVID-19 is not a term that identifies a virus or any other physical thing that can be carried. COVID-19 is the name of the coronavirus disease caused by a particular virus, so a tank car marked to display that it was carrying ‘COVID-19’ would be akin to a package bearing a label indicating that it contained ‘DIABETES.’ In furtherance of an alleged conspiracy to spread the COVID-19 illness, the tank car would carrying not COVID-19 but the virus known as “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2,” or SARS-CoV-2 for short.

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    Coronavirus

    in Letting off Steam

    Posted

    thats it...... Leo n gang saw this entire post and decided to lock us all away and confiscate Daves last face mask, as its the only one left  in the whole of Ireland.

    845pm,,,to-nite 27/3/2020 total shut down in Ireland for Cov-19,,,,,

    9.05pm Garda arrive at notorious train robbery in Santry,

    9.30 Dave arrested for hording IRM models, for having 30 boxes of cements.

    10.30 pm dave released, Garda realise he will never do good behavior.

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