DJ Dangerous

What can you guys pull out of the hat this Black Friday? Everything is selling out too quickly... There'll be nothing left to put on offer... Unless there's a secret announcement on something that was hidden in the container with the Tara's. Something large, blue and white, and buoyant, maybe?

Received notification this morning that my order shipped. Slightly circuitous route to get here so it'll take a while, but it'll be worth the wait! Somebody, possibly Garfield or Murphaph, posted a photo in another Tara thread, showing a blue and a brown Tara side by side. They were almost indistinguishable apart from a few areas, possibly the buffer beams, and obviously the G1 and G2 lids.

This climate?

Looks like nice Canarian sunshine in that photo... If so, she travelled a long way!

Whereabouts on the loco was that? Wasn't it only a quarter of the loco that was painted like that? So would a manufacturer run a limited edition that's three quarters rusted and missing doors, and a quarter trial 201 livery?

Firstly, my apologies if there is already a thread on this. I've searched back the last year or two and cannot find one. Just thought that it might be an idea to have a resource thread like this one for news and information on the preserved mainline diesels on the island. I know that the RPSI have B134 looking like it's nearing completion, B142 awaiting repairs at Whitehead, and B141 and 175 stored at Connolly. The ITG have A39R and 146 operational at Downpatrick, plus 226 and C231 under restoration at Carrick-on-Suir and Downpatrick respectively. In storage at Moyasta, they have A3R, 124, 152 and 190, while B103 is stored at Carrick-on-Suir. A Class number 015, owned by Jackie Whelan, is also stored at Moyasta. If anybody has any more to add, please do so! I've linked each loco number to where I got the information, so as of today it would seem to be accurate. Thanks, @Westcorkrailway. I had forgotten about the A55 shell at Hells Kitchen, Castlerea. I didn't include the shunters as I wasn't sure that they were considered as mainline locos. B113 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, is also new to me! Hunslett no. 102 is also at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum!

Have to get that @Dempsey fellow to fly down here and do some weathering. A lot of weathering, actually. @Rob, your layout is something else. Many of the photos look almost real. You have a talent for making off-track spaces look realistic, not over-crowded with evey square cm home to something.

Yes, welcome on-board indeed!

That pin-striping is lovely, and has a very "RPSI" feel to it... I wonder if there's a subtle hint there that I'm missing.

Those beautiful 29000's already wear a gorgeous green livery!

Dear IE. Please stop with the teasing, and just paint some God damn 201's like this! Now!

Have to disagree. The 201's are gorgeous locos. Massive presence about them, just dripping with charisma and power. A more prudent decision would have been ordering 201 locos built into identical shells to the 071's, and all push-pull equipped. Hopefully, if IE ever order more locos in the future, the shells are identical to either the 071's or 201's.

I'd say there are several happy A46er's today!

Man down in the 4th photo!!!

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, and basically means a link to the website that you are referring to.

Any photos or links to photos?

CHB Rail (Christian Bitter) reviews: Is it just me, or is that A Class gobbling up those steep grades as if it's still on the flat???

They only launched their UK sister company last year. I guess that there must be a saving using plastic over diecast in manufacturing, the trade-off being weight loss, but as you say, it allows or a much greater level of detail.

Received a few of these beauties in the post today, Birmingham / WMT Leyland Fleetline buses from Rapido Trains UK. My interest stems from having family live in Birmingham, aside from that, it's all two-tone green Dublin buses for me. Hopefully, they are one of the "small" IRM announcements this side of Christmas. These are plastic buses, not diecast, so they feel very light, but the level of detail is great. They come with lighting, powered by two cables trailing from the underside of the bus which you connect to a 9V battery, but I have not tried this function. The wiring could probably have been designed slightly better - a friction-fit or magnetic clip to connect the cables to the underside of the bus, rather than having them trailing permanently, but overall, they're lovely models.

Sure no better man!

203 and 220 in the original livery, then 201 and 210 in the yellow-face livery. One of these would go really well with a '94 livery 201: https://www.amazon.com/ANTONOV-124-100-RUSLAN-AIRCRAFT-MODELSVIT/dp/B010SVO1DW

https://www.ebay.es/itm/331422674305 https://www.ebay.es/itm/403289859078 https://www.ebay.es/itm/373769074869

Hard man to please!

At one stage, Silver Fox were almost the only option we had, and their Mk3 Suburbans and DVT's, while not MM or IRM standard, are not bad:

I don't mind paying €200 for some grey 071's and some NIR 071's!