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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

At this price we will all be selling https://www.ebay.ie/itm/OO-Scale-Irish-Four-Wheel-Open-Plank-Wagon-MIOB-LIMA-305617W/153938542810?hash=item23d773c0da:g:4BkAAOSwPEhccmiQ €10.oo

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

NEW Lima L149437 Irish Class 201 Train Pack with 3 Coaches CIE Black & Orange

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/ 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.

Is it a bird ? not murphy, nor IRM. its IFM https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Iarnrod-Eireann-Tara-Mines-Wagons-x3-Murphy-Models-etc-Excellent-condition/264687533262?hash=item3da09b3cce:g:FqcAAOSw35ZehiK8

WRENNEIRE you better order 10 of these, at that price youll be rich https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Lima-L305347-BR-mK1-Corridor-Composite-CIE-orange-black-mint-boxed-cond/264506709031?hash=item3d95d41427:g:0cMAAOSwE-9drfx7

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.

whats this, stall of books at station?

Hi George. even on farms where biodiversity flourish, some hedgerows have to be cut back. but the newspaper piece argued that due to destruction of nature, whats left is forced into tighter communities and virus cross between species, then wild animals get eaten , bought in wild meat markets and disease spreads. hence why we need to protect biodiversity as opposed to shooting all the crows, for a functioning natural environment, would have such problem so often as now a days. have just divided up my layout into many blocks, using nearly 100 Isolated tracks for current sensors, isolation is a term i have been very familiar with all winter, what most dont understand about many farmers is we mostly isolate through the winter, and most were itching to get out to the land to plough, or whatever, but its been so wet. no we can, we cant really socialize and tel each other how crap a winter it was..

thanks , after reading the guardian article I sorta feel everyone gonna rush out and shoot crows, or worse, all the crows, so much biodiversity is lost, stuff that we could have used in global healthcare... even the amazing biodiversity of track side in the past century is gone, fires from locos, used to control vegetation and created a diverse transient flora, much of which is gone, what remains on old railways tends to be woodland flora in shade and gorse/furze or shrub in sun., the short term grassland meadows, filled with colorful annuals and biennials is gone. I notice irish rail is sowing wildflowers back into some waste ground instead of spraying it.

i am still shivering from the time i met you last year. it wasnt the mask

166887 - 7474 - Independent support for Hybrid Project Publication date: 16-03-2020 Response deadline: 03-04-2020 12:00 Irish time Procedure: Iarnród Éireann - Non OJEU Negotiated Procedure (Electronic) Description: As part of Iarnród Éireann’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and contributing towards environmental sustainability for Ireland, we are seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified independent specialist technical advisors to assist in a key engineering project relating to our existing fleet of Intercity Railcars. The project will see a number of new Euro Stage V, EU Directive 2016/1628/EU, MTU Powerpacks being retrofitted into the existing fleet of Intercity Railcars. In addition, the project will also see the retrofit and trial of three Hybrid Powerpacks in 2021. Both of these projects will result in a cleaner and greener passenger service which will not only reduce fuel consumption but will also reduce emissions considerably. The successful tenderer will provide independent technical advice and support during the design phase which will extend to the following; CAD drawing services; Validation of engineering designs (FEA, FEM etc.); Noise, vibration, torsional and modal analysis; Standards verification and approvals (TSI, EN, GM/RT etc.) The contract will commence in Q2 of 2020 and will continue throughout the acceptance and commissioning process during 2021. Buyer: Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail

It turns out the kids santi set had 3 hornby pullmans, if ever i get to bashing/making the models, this is one conversion i could see my self attempting. if only matching the colour.

oh dear, lima has a charm, no fuss, great for kids, i addressed lima 'trainism' b4 in another post. rant rant rant. its like the modeller with the real scale prototype railroad in his garden, everything done in small scale and plastic to them is also plastic 'cr or what ever your having your self'. perspective. peace and love to lima. the only trains to run high speed when testing tracks, if they tumble, no damage ever. so poplar r lima i oncd stood in front of daves bray stand to find two lima lovers, n Dave and me, thats nearly a lima club!

as, DCC block occupation wiring is nearly finished, as i look around the entire room and find i am 360 surrounded by wires, i think i run an earth (unattached to dcc) up the outside wall of house to stop near height of the window. but away from window,i dont know enough about electrics, but if i dont attract it, by installing earth , if it does hit, at least it has an outside route to ground, as opposed to the sockets if i dont connect it to anything, bar the wall, i can expect lightning to hit there before this monster model rail of a lightning collector goes bang. i live in a lightning active area in uplands, often when fork lightning down the valley, we have low cloud fill with sheet lightning. i have seen everything electric blue in misty clouds, house, cars trees, people covered in glow. maybe i take up origami instead.

not so bad, the farm gates are shut the everyone, we isolated the business, the family are hunkering in, n occupation blocks 23,24,25, n more are now finished, after two resisting under board wires due to 50cm baseboard off floor, one tight corner was getting hairy wirey'' so i went under the base board with wiring. ran into an old bus, i think it was the 46a.

Now that I know about him he is clearly a ferroequinologist, and in an Irish context a FRYrroequinologist

Turns out the 'Ex' soviet union 'wanna bee' flyovers are not spying on UK defenses. They trying to figure when the A class will be delivered. .

yip, to above,, since i started looking up the history of trains, it dawned on me, that the cargos were often very bad for nature, environment and people, even coal wagons are today replaced by conifer forest wagons, which most say aint good either, mine ores and spoil, nuclear flasks, ammonia fertiliser, peat and ash, the day old chickens, beet n cattle were safest.

un-twisted occupancy detection wire, a question about boosters? and too many beers and out with the reverse loop Today, stuff moved on, i finally got a definitive answer as to twisted occupancy detection wire, as i suspected, Do not twist the wire between dr4088lnsc and track, as the negative - blue wire is common and that goes everywhere, except back to dr4088ln-sc , which is really only for positive wires, contrary to a youtube vids or two. The blue wire joins the command stations twisted main bus and is split out before the dr4088, i just mount a block on the wall and connect all the commons up close to the main bus, not far from the pos + wire going from main bus to dr4088's, (dr4088's come in a few varieties, In my case its DR4088LN-CS) So there I was bent over in the tightest of corners most of the afternoon, i managed to wire up 7 runs of block wires, all soldered and coated with insulating paint. the next four to do are inner tracks, more ceiling space for me!. I will have more blocks and sub sections to do, but the work will be far easier to reach and work should progress faster from here on. I took a photo of the work which i hope to upload someday, its shows the cramped space. the multitude of wires that cant be tidied until all 16 wires return to a dr4088. i t reminds me of spaghetti with anchovies. Boosters Dr5033, There's no point in adding boosters if the track work dont run everything correctly, so for now the power plan is being kept simple, one booster on which to test tracks and not burn out command stations as i start up the system after testing. Looking at the spaces i left for boosters, figuring out how many i really need, the original plan was 1 x command station with its built in 3amp booster and 1 x booster mainly running the clusters of turnouts dotted about. the plan was running 6 trains at once. but the capacity of track space to run from 12 to 30 plus locos with lights full on in yards. many turnouts, steep rising tracks 2% plus, and cobalt SS surface motors, sorta worked out at 5 boosters x3 amp or 3 x 5amp , still not certain, but in looking at all that , its better to leave the scalable up option designed into the wiring than do what many seem to do, rip it up again, as i had to do in parts, to reduce boosters, I scaled back somewhat. before the beer, i ripped out the rising reverse loop, for i long suspected the best place for the drama of the reverse loop was to have it hidden behind a tunnel. so today, the route i had planned in the first design was ripped up finally to match the latter Itrain layout, shown somewhere above on this page.. some day i can build a reverse loop as there is space in the east attic, but its no longer required due to block occupancy, it was in place to reverse a route where the mainline 'A down eventually got stuck in a tight dead end'. All in all, Thats one less booster at the west end where there is no longer space for mounting accessory space. a productive day.

great photos, thanks, your photos captured the craft of modelling, back in the days before laser and internet, how did ye manage at all? i take me hat off to those who went before, i have seen some criticism from the laser squad of how 'un-prototype' some old models seem. In this new age, where exactness wins over craft, its clear each model in you photos has a charm of its own and tells a story. Something many of my new model cannot do, maybe if I ever get to weather my newbees, that may change. The craft of toy making is as highly skilled as any. Some of the models above both show toy and modeller all in one, simply charming, once again thanks, I loved this page.

sorry to hear that, often when we glorify old industrial times, we tend to forget those who paid in suffering. even today, with all the health and safety there's still work that takes its toll.