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Noel, I enjoyed all the pages so far, and clearly as did all the other modellers by the comments they left, it great to see the many model layouts in this section that developed over time, so many seem to start then dissolve to no more pages. and since i been on site you have contributed to my knowledge with chat and answers to my posts/questions, so thanks clearly you enjoy you layout , the space you have is amazing, your weathering is developing so well, it gives hope to us newbees who have it all ahead of us, something tangible to aim for. i love this pic, and esp' the pallet, base board, thats so honest for a Rolexman. as for the GM 201 class number 201, as your layout is so large, its speed will suit it perfectly. it may even take off up the rising line like the Delorian car in the Back to the Future movie and end up in 1972.

yip bos, describes you well, i had seen this before on Youtube, didnt know it was your layout, fab. love the dart, so you have a dark side! the building next left besides Easons was the Palm grove ice cream parlor, i often had Roma Cafolla's peach melbas, while looking out at paddies day and easter parades, that building was bought by Easons sometime later, they extended the book depts into Dublins very best ice cream shop..

leslie, i must be a real modeller now, to pay for 2019, i turned off the heating last november,

@leslie10646 thanks was there new generator vans too... but before i asked you, i looked up wiki and found... generator vans (sourced from retired Irish Rail MK3 then i thought DMU's sure there not many as described below. "which make up the majority of the fleet" i did not know that. is that correct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-end_power In Ireland, HEP is provided at European/IEC standard 230/400 V 50 Hz (originally 220/380 V 50 Hz.) This is to the same specification as the power systems used in Irish and EU domestic and commercial buildings and industry. On the Cork-Dublin CAF MK4 sets, this is provided by two generators, located in the driving trailer van and on the push-pull Enterprise sets, this is provided by generators in a dedicated tailing van. Irish DMU trains, which make up the majority of the fleet, use small generators located under each coach. Historically, HEP and, in older vehicles, steam heating was provided by trailing generator vans containing generators and steam boilers. These were normally located on the rear of train sets. The Enterprise Dublin-Belfast train sets initially used HEP from GM 201 diesel-electric locomotives, but due reliability issues and excessive wear on the locomotives systems, generator vans (sourced from retired Irish Rail MK3 sets and adapted for push-pull use) were added.

Noel (or however you get that green name tab you just used) Yes, I am learning about rail history, had read that info, before, then like most info i read had forget most of it about 10 mins after, so thanks for reminder, As i am consuming so much train info so fast. i am tending to keeping the stuff that suits my layout, and my ebay or silver fox 121 fits perfect cant wait for MM's. for me rail is a major part of a wider farm and industrial heritage which i love reading about.. 121 sorta says it all..

so real.. i love rust

Hi Popeye, I just read all 7 pages of your workbench posts so far. all your models are works of art, and you photos are great quality, your eye for detail is spot on. Do you or anyone give modelling classes? I for one would love to learn 1/100 of your skills.

thanks Noel. but its not a real photo, is it, its one of Popeyes models isnt it !!!, i just reading popeyes workbench during lunch, wow, i am amazed at the skills about here. flabbergasted. dumbfounded, such a skilled helpfull nice bunch like you uploading a photo for me.. ta i needed to stop after two hours bend over soldering tracks, so it was back to the laptop and a cheese sanger, but i drooling over popeyes works not the cheese

is the 121 loco in video in a livery ? it looks so unpainted, jes i know nothing bout dem trains

Hi Ironroad, great pics being on IRM blog makes me realize i am worlds apart from the serious modellers on IRM, as i write, i am waiting for the glue and sand to dry under my latest track section, an engine yard, (yes i use play sand to level my layout. (dont ask thats for another day) Wrenneire Daves lima collection, pics and pages give me great hope for my railway eye! that my understanding of design lead me to spot appreciate Lima before i found daves blog, as it was my own personal opinion, before i found daves collection, i had already bought a good few irish Lima coaches and found that many more shun them. great says I, the price is cheap. i dont have lima locos, just coaches i am writing this as much for new modellers as anyone, as aspects of this hobby can appear elitist, until you meet people n attend shows etc. I already know my limitations, that I should stay apart from the serious modelling scene as i could never aspire to the premier league of railway enthusiasm anyway, i dont have the knowledge, time, skills nor the inclination. But i do occasional get to work on rail, motorway and pipelines mostly DCC fascinates me, murphy models inspire me, and learning about model rail from scratch, while knowing very little about the hobby, is keeping me entertained at least, and broke. and theres so much more to learn and understand, at the DCC end i am taking it all in quite seriously. the aim for now is to run trains, what the future brings i dont know. ps. I am buying IRM too. As yet i have no grand theme or era, and likely wont, and if running Lima breaks the possibility that one day i might be a good modeller, i wont worry, i know that, many here have a life time craft experience and skills and tools and machinery for model making that i dont and wont. so my horizons are very different. At the same time i have to design my layout for youngish under 10 y, kids, who dont show that much interest as the layout is slow to progress. and sessions are few and far between the construction, so they dont often get to run the trains.. but i nearly there. and the kids r still young. Lima suits them. perfect quality! Early on i decided, getting a layout up and running was going to be challenge enough, so just running trains is joy enough, and Lima run, and crash and stand up far better than many, so to me 'tacky' is quality for my layout requirements, but i dont think they are tacky. and on, ,,those Lima pics you hosted arnt like the models i have and got from Dave, mine are even less prototypical, than your photos, so i dont know what they feel or behave like, but hek, i enjoy them as much as Mr Murphy and IRMs products that i have. italian irish is always good in my book. u said " some of that range was so terrible, it didn't necessarily reflect well on Irish quality" some of us find beauty in terrible, and lots of thing dont reflect well on quality. i am in my late 50's & i have discovered what is oft considered quality, was on surface Quality in appearance only, too often the choice and manufacture of materials destroyed our planet, its workers and resources, our pockets and like many brands was made by the same firm that re- branded the same stuff as yellow packs.at far lower non quality price..far too often we were sold 'a pup' in many walks of life..in the name of quality. i not arguing, just presenting a difference of opinion..one way I see it, if CAD software is fed measurements and photos and an IT/PC/IA machine pumps out a model that is an exact replica i dont necessary consider it quality. its exact for sure, the exactness is quality, But the materials are plastic not iron, steel, tin nor brass nor timber or potters clay. and if your not into plastic, then Q goes out the window, dont get me wrong i aint pointing a finger, just looking as i do with my other hobbies, on the nature of materials, the craft of how they are worked - what the personal effect is, the social effect, the politics and economy at the time, how they effect the planet, how they feel and behave as they are supposed to be used. sure for sure someday in the not to distant future oil based 'plastic' will be a material that ignites a collectors mind for reasons other than what we see today. durability, degree of carbon in the materials, who knows. and too often Quality is achieved by slaves who are paid buttons, and is by many considered not the same as quality from crafts persons , yet over the centuries, the real thing was so exactly faked that quality,, needs to be considered from all angles and if it stands up, then Q it shall be. Many antiques dealer will tell you quality is achieved today by fakers who put as much effort as the original. strangely in many fields collectors now collect some of the tattiest things that relate to there interest as they can provide the most pleasure.. in modelling many rustic layouts have a charm, one thats probably very hard to achieve by just throwing cash and plastic scenery at the layout... as for Price, its actually the last measure of quality. yet the first in popular culture. for me, if by hand, someone turns out even half the Q' of what Limas worst Quality is, drawings, making moulds, fixing together by hand, in a newish Irish state, with limited resources and an unskilled but willing workforce, (designed to compete in the Uk through the Irish back door of UK import bans on European trains "quotes from dave") there is e a certain quality i enjoy. eye of beholder, i suppose.. anyway WreeneireDave, you and I and many others enjoy Lima, and enjoy all these pics and pages that dave and others hosted, and for us beginners, Lima are relatively cheap to get going.. so thanks Dave et al, your a legend. every penny, every upload was well worth it. long may this lima collection last. its a national treasure.

CIE was obviously extremely proud of its new ‘A class’ diesel trains heralded by a sun-burst and shamrock. Like other posters aimed at the north American market, the aim was to stress modernity of transport. my comment, the loco looks like IRMs Cad drawing, whats going on ? Signed Curran. c.1950. https://www.museum.ie/Country-Life/Exhibitions/Previous-Exhibitions/Come-Back-to-Erin/Ireland-Welcomes-You

while searching the web for old irish locos I found this from https://railwaywondersoftheworld.com/gswri.html GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE No. 365, DESIGNED BY Mr. R. COEY, LOCOMOTIVE SUPERINTENDENT A GUARD OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY ROSSLARE, on the Wexford coast, answers to Fishguard. The two harbours were built at the same time as the terminals of the short sea route, but boats for Waterford and boats for Cork also start from Fishguard for those who prefer a longer sea passage. All three ports are served by the same railway, the Great Southern & Western, Ireland’s chief system. This extends from Dublin to Queenstown, from Rosslare to Kenmare on the south coast, and, on the west coast, from Valentia to Collooney near Sligo Bay, which is fairly to the north-west of Dublin, though the line goes round by the south-west to get at it. Inchicore, near Dublin, is the Great Southern & Western’s locomotive headquarters, and it has branch works at Limerick, for when it absorbed the Waterford & Limerick, and a reduction of expenses was provided for by removing the locomotive shops from there, the Limerick people got a clause into the Act retaining their works where they were, and thereby increased the working expenses instead of diminishing them. It owns about 300 engines, and among them are some excellent examples, powerful, serviceable, and smart, that would do credit to any company anywhere. Of its 8000 vehicles about a thousand are passenger coaches, many of them, such as are used in the Killarney express, being as good as those of the great lines in England, and none of them so bad as some of our survivals. Its carriages, like its engines and the miles of its track, number more than a third of the Irish total. There are in Ireland about 3100 miles of railway, and of these the Great Southern & Western owns over 1100, the Great Northern and the Midland Great Western coming next with 1080 between them in almost equal shares. The English companies are beginning to take more interest in Irish matters in a practical way; not only have the Great Western gone to Rosslare, but the London & North Western have been the owners of the Dundalk & Greenore since 1873, and the Midland have an Irish section farther north. The oldest railway in Ireland is the Dublin & Kingstown, authorised in 1831, now forming part of the Dublin & South Eastern, which also includes the once atmospheric Kingstown & Dalkey that led Brunel astray with regard to the South Devon. The Great Southern & Western was authorised as a line from Dublin to Cashel in 1844, and has grown by many amalgamations, for all Irish railways began in a small way and have had to struggle for their existence. They have to depend on passengers more than on merchandise, and the whole of them together do not carry so many passengers as the London, Tilbury & Southend, nor so many goods and minerals as the South Eastern & Chatham. The gauge battle was just the sort of thing in which Irishmen would revel, and they chose their gauges to please themselves. The Ulster, for instance, completed twenty-five miles of the road from Belfast to Dublin on a gauge of 6 ft. 2-in, while the Drogheda, which set out from Dublin to meet the Ulster, adopted 5 ft. 2-in. When this was complained of by the Ulster company, the Irish Board of Works replied that though it looked a bit awkward, yet, as there was little chance of the intervening part being finished, it really did not matter. This airy sort of thing, however, was not quite good enough for the Ulstermen, who appealed to higher powers, with the result that Sir Charles Pasley, the Inspector-General of Railways, was requested to look into the matter of these Irish gauges. That ingenious engineer, after trying persuasion in vain, solved the difficulty arithmetically by adding up the width of gauge adopted by every Irish company, dividing the total by the number of companies, and thereby obtaining an average of 5 ft. 3-in, which thus became the Irish national gauge. Being national, it was, of course, not generally adopted, and so we have at present eleven lines of 5 ft. 3-in, and five - the Ballycastle, the Cork, Blackrock & Passage, the Londonderry & Lough Swilly, the Londonderry & Strabane, and the Ballymena & Larne - each of 3 ft, and the Listowel & Ballybunion with its mono rail without any gauge at all.

Brexit fears have led to a heritage railway carriage being brought across the border sooner than expected. With continued uncertainty over what will happen after March 29, the Downpatrick & County Down Railway rushed to get the carriage across the frontier this week. Railway chairman Robert Gardiner said: "We worked flat out to ensure we brought the vehicle to Downpatrick before the Brexit deadline. We didn't particularly like the idea of smuggling a railway carriage across the border." https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/brexit-fears-mean-historic-train-car-moved-over-irish-border-early-37887175.html

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I bought stuff monday 10pm from IRM, it arrived today, if thats down time, busy time, ye must be setting land speed records for deliver times when your not drinking hot whiskey.

i think i will cancel my order, and wait for the model of daves photos above with the engine stripped down, looks fab to me

being a newbe, i learnt loads from both progs, the first was tame, I enjoyed second one best, and so much unfinished history, editors couldnt decide who to offerd with "' playing, enthusiasts, modellers, toys, " ' who cares, its all good, bar the 'electrified cat'

if you model a branch line from belmullet to the far end of the penensula, to blacksod light house and/ or customs house down a wee bit over the side road its a fine building and had a great walled garden, its still there, and you have to include Una's bar next door, one of the friendilest places in Ireland. this way if you follow the road the track from belmullet could transverse salt marsh, sand dune and storm beaches galore, no matter what era, you could have smugglers, and best of all the most colourful old fishing trawlers right next to the end of the line at the pier. with landscape compression you could have the gas terminal flares every so often.

and another one on basset loock after it

fantasy going nuclear, all these new engines. A's, 121's i am so glad i started modelling in past two years, its been a great time, for Irish modelling, a golden era, by the comments of all ye drooling men, you will all be broke by year end, so cancel the holidays, and if RTE news today is correct, with a mini nuclear power station being touted for moneypoint, sure you'll all be pulling nuclear flasks, with all these new Irish locos.. the though of ammonia trains crashing into nukes in limerick Junction.. now thats what my Kids consider worth modelling

Hi, Ironroad, I new to site as well, so i wont say welcome, for now i'll leave that for the senior members, I am also reading through these pages with fascination, Lima represent to me an era of simple modelling, i run carraiges-coaches on my new layout, for they ideal for kids to play trains with, cheap enough to allow them to handle, tough enough so they dont get 'weathered' by kids, and the plastic is wipe-able! and for some reason they run great to test my new laid tracks, esp' before i place/test the more modern and more expensive models. The wheels are wider than more recent models and thats great for testing/getting my turnouts running, before there set as perfect for new models, and best of all they uncouple easy, which for a newbe is a real challenge with more expensive models. I also love the feel of lima models, even if they aint accurate of prototype, to me, they are fun and represent an era of simplicity in design. and its so nice to see made in Ireland on stuff. i dont know if i will be able too, but changing the dc locos to dcc will be a project i have long fingered for the golden years.

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