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Scahalane, when I got home tonight, I had a look at all 5 pages, of your layout on a better screen n faster upload, i read every comment going back since u started, like everyone else i am totally gobsmacked n amazed not only at your skills, the layout design, it's build, more so the atmosphere you have created, thank you for sharing, then I realised my photo joke may be taken in bad taste, I didn't know you had used photos, I didn't mean that at all at all at all, ,, please forgive. You started with H' Select controller, admitted you needed to fast track learn Dcc, wiring took ages, n then got side tracked running trains,,, that gives me so much hope. Thanks I love what you done, the pic with the steps tween the houses perfectly describes your attic layout, Stairway to heaven.

Have you no consideration, as to how most of the rest of us are feeling right now, All I see are old prototype photos placed under someones attic. Wheres the model layout you promised? You even went to the trouble of having jars of scenics on a shelf to make us believe its a model. garage is sublime

anything but orange, you have convinced me to seriously consider this livery. love the grime of second pic.

you could also post it to the calander and win brownie points

Hi pop's ,, mutley is my fav', snigger , i no longer use rolls of film, plates my boy plates, had to resize the photos to upload to IRM, feels like waste of time now, i was going to say with a bit of insulation it could be a dublin home!!! but i thought it better taste not to

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/7406-good-wagon-in-field-in-birr-co-offaly/

Goods Wagon, no wheels, The wagon is on Nenagh rd just outside Birr, first field after last houses on bad bend, wagon on right as you leave town. Sorry i couldn't measure the wagon, was on private property and I on business driving past, so i hopped over the wall, took the photos quickly. looks like 50's 60's Cie goods wagon i wanna take it home! End to end joy above photo with vent, part rivited on this side upright on pressed steel angle iron, maybe its older than 1950's then its bolted on at the other end of wagon , opp' end see below and 3rd pic down, could been repaired earlier wagon didnt see any markings the frame door hinge detail, i love rust, no realy, i go to great lenghts to capture rust on all sorts of old items, see those nuts, me thinks there 1950's below is door on far side, by road with flashing, looked like alloy not lead, sorry was rushing, didnt think to check. below, as plywood was manufactured way back, no clues there, as too age ah sure what about another glorious view, smaller image than first pic, i noticed those boards on ground and theres some yellowish green paint... ye are licking the lips by now is that a Cie logo? doubt it, but as timber expanded so did paint, maybe a sellers mark, drips and all yummy. either great steel or not that old? i thought pins like this were 1930's not 1950's

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.