DJ Dangerous

I miss your videos and photos!

If there is no NIR stuff like 111's or Hunslets to haul the Mk2B/C packs, maybe we'll see Irish freight stock - bogie cements, ammonias, timbers, or even auto-ballasters.

Less than half that! And he still has it for sale, I think? If so, I might buy it from him and sell it for €400 on eBay. I'm sure they bought it themselves using another profile in order to inflate prices, there has to be some con going on there.

This Spanish magazine trio and their IRM colleague have been in the post since April!

That 7078 photo was fab!

Aside from the lovely buses themselves, the yard surface looks great.

Brake chains?

Fertin' Hell, a brand new in box set!

Slightly off topic, but if railcars were the staple long before the end of steam, why do forum members bitch about the railcars of today, while calling them trams, yo-yo's etc? Yes, @Noel, I'm looking at you, but not only you, there are several others. I just didn't want this to appear as a passive-aggressive dig at you, that was not my intent.

2600 / 2700 / 22000 / 29000 would be incredible, perfect for end-to-end and loop style layouts! The IE livery Bachmann 158's are nice and all, but still, IRM grade MU's would be awesome, specially something like a 2600, which ran for so long in so many guises.

Oh my goodness, have you had 071 and 072 repainted in IRM and Accurascale liveries at Inchicore? LOL to both. No, I meant somewhere that you'd actually want to go to, not get away from, probably a few thousand km south.

If none of them are B&I ferries, I'll be disappointed. Probably two tone green Dublin buses, Roadliner trucks, 071 Class locos, 800 Class locos, 47' Flats, Mk4 coaches, Mk2A/B/C range expansion, loose coupled wagon three packs, 2600's, or who knows? Maybe one of the lads has a baby on the way and that's one of the announcements. Or maybe they're pre-empting sanctions on China and opening a plant in a low wage area much closer to home, one with a young, skilled, multi-lingual workforce, one that's less than four hours away, one that has blue skies most of the time, and one where palletwide containers are the norm, and that's one of the announcements.

Yeah, that little cloud of cigarette smoke around the back seats, forgot about that! That DCC chip will have a lot of work to do.

For the extra cost of the DCC chip, it would also need to emit Co2 or something to make you nauseaous, for that authentic bus-home-from-town nostalgia trip. I'll take a two-tone green trio any day!

Are you hinting that it'll be three different destinations on the next batch???

He knows when you're lying, duh.

Outstanding, @Rob. Pity you don't have any ammonia tanks lying around.

Hmmmmmmm..... Feels like a while since a bus announcement... There must be one on the way for filling the Christmas stockings?

I'd like to report this photo as offensive. I'm offended by how awesome it looks and how I'll never see anything like that myself.

Received this bundle of joy yesterday - a very lucky eBay win!

So what are these appropriate for? Are you guys using them on the Mk5's?

Yup: Don't worry, @Mayner, I forgive you for missing that - reading is hard.

They sound more like 121's, though:

Class 319, Subseries 2, numbers 201 to 220, known affectionately as "Retales". Retales has two meanings; "patchwork" and "scrap metal". The 319's were built using a patchwork of 071 style bits from GM, and the scrap metal / remains of the original Class 319's. The original 319's had a single cab, about two thirds of the way along the body. Great performers but were terrible for rust, so instead of being completely scrapped, they were torn apart and rebuilt in the Subseries 2 locos. I think that most of them were sold and exported to Argentina, but there are still a few skulking around:

Not until after your 071's, please! Are you going to do a 319 Retales variant of the 071? Might be a risky one in 1:76 but I'd definitely take a few. My 1:87 one looks like a midget.