DJ Dangerous

Variations on a theme meaning specific tooling not required, so the bowling ball 22000's are not reckless and feckless? But the blue Taras with G1 lids, the NIR generators and driving trailers, the 22000 shunter (and catering trolley???) and the 2023 steam project are? Just to be clear, that's all.

If anything, I'd say they're even more reckless and feckless... The blue Taras were a bold move, too old for the modern "rake" crowd and too rake-ish for the older "mixed" crowd... NIR Mk2B generator in a livery (GBW) that only lasted 3 years tops... 22000's in liveries that were very short-lived, even that little shunter thing that goes 4mph... And steam on the way next year! That has to be a big gamble, probably the biggest yet.

Tragic. I'm in tears here.

Social media is what you make it. If you wade through the sludge, then you smother yourself in poop. But, that's a choice, your choice. At this very moment in time, I've just used our Facebook page to take a booking from guests looking to arrive tomorrow. They wrote via one of our advertising platforms, and couldn't make the payment due to card problems. The platforms block all forms of subterfuge, email addresses, phone numbers, urls etc, to protect their income and to protect their clients. I was able to tell our guest how to find us on Facebook without having my message blocked, they found us, made contact, paid by bank transfer after seeing our credentials, so they win and we win. I wasn't subject to anything bad in the process, didn't see anything racist or extremist, and that booking would not have happened without social networking. I will confess that in general, I don't use FB. I often stay logged off for so many months that I can't remember my password and have to look it up. I imagine that it's boring, very boring, if you're online going through other people's stuff, but if you are using it for a specific purpose - a model railway group, accepting holiday bookings, re-homing animals, it's a useful and powerful tool. Where it frustrates me, personally, is when somebody says that something is "on Facebook"... They might as well just say "It's somewhere on the internet" if they're not gonna provide a url to the resource. Likewise, the expensive resin bus models that only get released "on facebook" ... How the Hell is anybody supposed to get themselves one with something so vague? A url, a date, a time and a name make a big difference.

Short memories... Fifteen years ago, pre-Bebo, pre-MySpace and pre-Facebook, it was only fora and chat-rooms!

Yup, and one that you now know about thanks to @Westcorkrailway, and can actually find thanks to the url. You're welcome.

Useful for anybody who IS on FB, and for anybody who knows somebody on FB.

OK, found it, in the comments section under this post: https://m.facebook.com/groups/1111393745593442/permalink/6006210829445018

Links / urls?

Could be handy for the IRM O Gauge and Gauge 1 ranges...

Just bumping @Blaine's post on the livery date ranges as these babies are getting pretty close to arrival, I imagine! I take it that an entire GBW rake was probably pretty rare in reality, as it seems to have been a kind of bridge livery between the GB and the CI? Maybe a mod could also merge these two threads?

OK, I can read between the lines, I have to bribe you to be sticky-fingered, got it.

Fingers crossed for more Bubbles, yup!

All about priorities... So are the 27B and the Brian Collins PB Expressway for sale???

Different description to the first one, though. That one was PO-01. These two are PO and PO-02. And there are two instead of one. Maybe they were listed together but not published as Hattons are trying to tease out the spending... Ooh, an Irish coach for the same price as a loco, I'll buy that! I want more, but there is only one, so I'll buy some oher junk instead... Then a few days later... Oooooh, another Irish coach, but only two this time, I'll buy some more junk at the same time!

The Cement Bubbles seem to be a very popular wagon. Any plans for another run of them? I meant to post this photo early this year, when I was trying to get some sort of display together for my Bubbles, but...

I should have thanked @murphaph properly for these two beauties, but I'm just not that pleasant a person. These were hand-delivered, which just goes to show the level of dedication that @murphaph has to his craft, specially for anybody who knows geography... Lovely looking little vans... Just need some nice IRM Mk2 B/C coaches to run with them!

One half of a little IRM order that had appeared lost to the depths of shipping and An Post arrived today!

Lucky bunny here received one or two packs of wagons in the post today...

A few nice boxes today:

Thread merge alert!

I hate you! I'll be lucky to have mine by March!

Those boxes must be VERY good if they add £60 onto the price!

I wasn't mad on the prototype, but the models look lovely. Hopefully a few pre-ordered Caledonian coaches go unwanted, too!

Six of these available on the IRM site at the moment: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/vehicles/products/irizar-i6-bus-eireann-expressway-tri-axle-coach-route-x8-dublin-airport Painful to see while mine are still in transit. Oh, the joys of living outside the EU!