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share the love and be happy ,*i*, the class 121 club! sorta like the skyhigh club. my 121 is DCC fitted and came weathered, i love it as its the only brass model i have, cant remember where i got it, was second hand in plain box with black n white print on top, (box stored away, so until i get into storage i wont know from where, but irish rail modellers or somet'ink made it ) had to cut the front underside to get it to fit onto peco 100 track, saw wrenneire has one on display. he also said the front had to be bashed to fit some tracks Bashfully, its the first and only kit bashed bashing i have done.

i was amazed at the lads in video emptying the wagons with shovels, only talking to carlow man last week about beet forks shoveling the beet into wagons from a bridge

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/County-Donegal-Railway-009-Narrow-gauge-Locomotive-Body-And-Wagons-Irish-Narrow/183733849195?hash=item2ac7640c6b:g:xSkAAOSwzd5cjR~5 OR A millionaires truck from OZ. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/OO-Scale-Irish-Four-Wheel-Open-Plank-Wagon-MIOB-LIMA-305617W/153417638853?hash=item23b86763c5:g:4BkAAOSwPEhccmiQ

spotted that. .. did you see the train post cards and photos, I not often in city center, but if someone was near whytes - it would be worth a look

Description: Steam powered engine, also O gauge German and Basset-Lowke LMS tenders https://bid.whytes.ie/lots/view/1-1QXMRK/lms-o-gauge-0-4-0-real-steam-locomotive-and-two-tenders-3

specially on my layout its only 50cm off floor, dont ask iwill explain when i host my layout

shame on ttc0169 U posted an amazing drone pic of timber wagons in topic/7198-drones-and-civil-aviation/ in an outta the way post. WHY cant we have more of drone pics! especially steam engines :) i have only seen this one pic of a train from a drone, shame shame shame, i shall go search for more shame on all ye modellers for not noticing this pic, and liking it, and sharing it,,, this is the way to go, ....wow i think one of the best pics i have seen about trains,, it will put an end to that often used comment, "the base board has to be at a certain height to be realistic", now even models on the floormat will be acceptable, its a whole new perspective on modelling

So let me get the latter part of thread ---straight, Warbonnet just announced the fertilizer wagon which i have great interest in, will be modeled as a boat. I looked up google to see what project 42 means, wow! many many many answers, but not 42 foot', or marilyn's skirt Glenderg calls a spade a spade, but fertilizer wasnt spread with a spade, however, the beet wagons, after loading were, if any fell off while loading, a spade like rake tool (beat fork) was used to clear up the final few roots that fell, i know this as I live beside Carlow and a local ol' lads loaded beat tween athy and carlow, i even have the tool he used to load a wagon from a bridge. its some job hoisting beet up to them wagons, but some i am told were loaded with gravity from a bridge in other parts, how did they get the beet out? no way could any forklift get into the corners of the wagons. i must ask the locals The yellow plough, and the weed spray wagon, any colour makes black n tan," orangeitis" coaches more interesting, but having watched the weed spray train videos, i cannot believe the way the workers walked so close to the weed spray as it was spraying toxicity on flora, theres one clip of a crossing gate , jes the poor bloke gets sprayed with residual spray..thats murder, in my book, come to think of it so is the latter part of this thread .

As a newbe, i can recommend the following sellers that I found about this website and whom I have dealt with. IRM, personal service, high quality, I intend to add more of their offering to my small Murphy Model collection WrenneIRE on IRM, friendly and informative, great range, I was esp' interested in Lima, he's even got a sense of humus, which seems unusual for a gricer. GNRi1959 on IRM, fast and friendly, cant say more as I just got one product, an out of stock IRM ballast that i didnt have and wanted Off site, elsewhere Marks Models, online/shop went out of their way to assist in unforeseen circumstances and I find them excellent Chris Dyer (fairs) also a fine service I have bought from UK sellers, DCCtrainautomation, Model railways direct, Hattons, Silver fox and certain UK Ebay sellers, all were good to buy from and all Irish Ebayers were all good too Theres a lot of other good sellers i don't know about cos i didnt buy from them in other cases buyer beware, I was very dissatisfied with Hornby customer service, our first train a santa presie 'Select' in box set crashed and we never got satisfaction a complete waste of a lot of money, I have a Hornby loco runs that runs well and their black insulted rail joiner fishplates are the only product i can recommend to newbes If i missed someone else out, i am sorry. Oh and I recommend the HSE, who replaced the arm and a leg i have spent on trains. but not the mental health services as they cant cure this locomadness

if any one won lot in auction...today at purcells could i get to see this item, for historical research GS & WR - Eight Hand Drawn Deerpark Colliery, Castlecomer Diagrams (various), largest 67 x 17.5in

if any one won lot in auction...today at purcells could i get to see this item, for historical research GS & WR - Eight Hand Drawn Deerpark Colliery, Castlecomer Diagrams (various), largest 67 x 17.5in

just 7, just 7item? i am bidding on two items, if Dublin & Blessington Tramway, dont go for much what would you pay and i will try win them, if your not bidding

some day i will cut a ribbon on my layout.

silver looks sky blue, , Pale blue and tartan , hauling purple and pink coaches, reading this out loud to my daughter, she just became a modeller! and she asks can they have ribbons, ,, says i only at the launch,, do you launch locos, like a ship, ???

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/vtg-badge-irish-rail-railway-junior-depotperson-larnrod-eireann-uniform-ireland/143135659826?hash=item21538cd732:g:EtcAAOSw9KVcXcP6 sums me up nice ... despot

oh dear, maybe this post should be moved to tip and tools, there is so many apps and tools that apply. and now there is a microscope camera to plug to phone for closeups. but my fav tool is this, a trials plot combine, i drive this one all summer its 1972 german made with VW petrol engine, maintained by Ken Graham, who runs Stradbally steam rally,

Broithe yes i know, i rushed the post , its on the intructions in box. bu i thought as it was for measuring planes, not trains, i just pxxss u off

My oldest one, and then this a planimeter, area, and FINGER Measure app, for measuring distance on map,google map does, and FINGER Measure app, for phone, uses google map and give liner and area measurements, make your life easy . or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus_longimeter The Steinhaus longimeter, patented by the professor Hugo Steinhaus, is an instrument used to measure the lengths of curves on maps. It is a transparent sheet of three grids, turned against each other by 30 degrees, each consisting of perpendicular lines spaced at equal distances 3.82 mm.

Gb antique shops have heaps of them, Irish ones not so many

ah! something i do know about, check out Cartographer's drawing sets, drafting tools but especially 'technical pens' - 'Cartographer's ruling pen' /ruling bow pens, there are plenty of these old drafting tool sets about usually for same price as new ones, old sets are lovely to use and while often available very cheap with a piece or two missing from the set marked as incomplete, usually the ink nibs,. I often see the pen in such sets, from €5 at car boot sales, your price was about right for full set. There are brass sets too. some marked sets go for more than an average loco

do you mean ballast hoppers? yes please

Hi Junctionmad. the suggestion that some Toy trains are not "beautiful hard crafted models" ? woops, i mean no offense, I only relayed what i thought the editors were afraid to say, i meant they didnt know who to offend. if i understand above you are upset at hornby not me, i hope. but i disagree with your comment 'poorly modeled track or wacky track configurations are just as bad as a poor models of a loco or wagon' surely we all have to start somewhere, and looking at the hobby, with fresh eyes, to me, Lima's Irish models are beautiful, be they far from the reality, yet the capture the era in which they were made, just as modellers wish to recapture past eras, as for poorly laid track, BordnMona would be quite upset, and from what I see of old irish prototype rail, there was a lot of poorly laid track in the past, indeed getting trains to run around and around poorly laid track is my favorite aspect of this hobby, me and my kids have great fun, slowing down and driving the trains over difficult sections of tracks, they are learning how to drive. My layout was both 'excused' and inspired by a video of an incline that showed an irish loco struggling uphill on very poorly laid track. that i said is what i want an aspect of my model rail to represent,' the skill of the engineer/driver.' as i said "editors couldn't decide who to offend with "' playing, enthusiasts, modellers, toys, " '"meaning i understand the difference, but they were tip toeing about all the terms, not really committing to any one term to describe the hobby and being confusing in their various portrayals, and maybe they are reflecting a general criticism of the hobby, cos before i started looking, i hadnt a clue about what modellers got up to, or why.. yet i fully understand industrial heritage as its a passion of mine. i added 'who cares', cos i learnt stuff from the program, and that was all that mattered to me and may i suggest the general public feel the same, and form what James of DCCtrainautomation said in the increase in interest after the last program was aired on ch4 in 2018, his sales shot up by ten new customer a day, and isnt that an important part of the hobby, to occasionally inspire a modeller or two more to start the hobby for what ever reasons. play or realism, it doesnt actually matter. yes its clear that most on IRM are modellers, the skills and knowledge in this place amazes me, hence why i am contributing and reading through so many pages in the hope of accruing even a drop of your skills and knowledge, ,but i also see a number of abandoned blogs and layouts, and i ask my self why is that? many reasons I suppose, but one reason may be to enthusiasts and modellers, versus playing with toys. which just may upset the many who started with a boxed train set or as kids with toy trains and still consider it play, surely they didnt come to the wrong site?. In defense of toys, some of the most desired collectors / collections in the world are highly modeled accurate and prototypical toys, both manufactured and hand made. Be they Tin plate, carved old African, straw, wooden, clay, Video or plastic, many serious toy collectors would be quiet upset at the suggestion that some Toys are not "beautiful hard crafted models that represent the original" and this includes trains and the artists who create video games including train simulators. indeed I learnt from the 2nd prog that it was german toy manufactures of toy trains that inspired the first English models, which were marketed to the elite rich as toys for the 'boys'. Modelling only came much later. No I am not going to upset modellers by calling your creations toys. But modellers have to stop upsetting toy enthusiasts by claiming yours is a more noble hobby , it is a different hobby and just as yours should not be confused as toys, you should not belittle the levels of skills for the toy makers and video artists who create games,(toys) war games, lego, board games, and those who play them, you get the idea, its in the imagination of the beholder that matters. all human effort is relative, i hope i didnt offend you or anyone by saying all this, as there are many references on this site to playing with the models, nor will I be telling my partner, that I was playing with a model!