DJ Dangerous

Can find Amazon without a link? Or can find one specific Amazon product among thousands, without a link. Both are very very different things. Wait, you wouldn’t happen to be trying to belittle me to hide your actions, would you? Classic misdirection, Archer. Would you mind highlighting that “literal” quote on it being Chinese, please?

Bachmann IE livery Class 158 / Class 2700, DCC fitted, for €260: https://www.ebay.es/itm/226731608210

Started yesterday afternoon, finished tomorrow afternoon, time to invoke @Broithe’s law:

Now now, that’s the opposite of the truth. I forget what that is called. I’m a low watt bulb so your playground tantrum is definitel warranted. You said the following, while providing no link: Yet last time, for German manufactured cases, you DID provide a link: Selective?

Meh, doesn’t bother me. Price displays in Euro, I pay in Euro, happy days! I mean, they’re made in China and distributed from the UK, so I’d be OK with pricing in Renminbi OR Sterling, once I can pay in Euro.

What about the cabinets? Hui Mei sounds like a traditional Irish cabinet maker to me. Think you mean the power of stupidity.

You can change the currency if you scroll to the bottom of the sales page:

Here, maybe:

So, fitted and unfitted could be mixed, provided there was a brakevan, and unfitted could ONLY run with a brakevan?

While analyzing failures fascinates me, I also enjoy apparent successes, like this one: Copying and pasting the video blurb: China’s $7.7 Billion Ship Lift – The Engineering Marvel That Defies Gravity What if ships could sail over mountains? China didn’t ask “what if” — they built it. In one of the most extreme landscapes on Earth, China has pulled off the unthinkable: a $7.7 billion-dollar vertical ship elevator that lifts 10,000-ton vessels nearly 200 meters straight into the sky. Welcome to the Goupitan Ship Lift — a project so massive, it compresses four days of river travel into just 2.5 hours. But this isn’t just about moving ships. It’s about rewriting the rules of engineering, economics, and even geopolitics. Built in Guizhou Province, one of China’s poorest and most isolated regions, this lift transformed a logistical dead zone into a thriving inland shipping hub. Shipping costs dropped by 67%. Foreign investment surged by 83%. Entire villages were reborn around this new inland “highway in the sky.” What You’ll Learn in This Video: The wild terrain that made traditional locks impossible How a floating steel chamber lifts ships the size of skyscrapers The precision systems that prevent 10,000 tons of mass from going off balance Why this project is part of China’s bigger plan to future-proof its economy The secret strategy behind China’s “internal circulation” model And how this could be a preview of the next generation of global infrastructure Why Does This Matter? While the world watches China build skyscrapers and bullet trains, it’s the hidden infrastructure — buried in mountains and rivers — that could shape the next century. Goupitan is more than a marvel. It’s a move in a larger economic chess game. Is this the future of freight transport? Or just a massive flex?

Ahem, cough cough, hint hint!

I’ll stick to my €200-ish per loco, thanks very much!

1970’s they would have gone brown. What’s the difference between fitted and un-fitted from an operational aspect? Did it determine what loco could haul them and what other stock they could run with?

On top of that, I’d assume that the new factory would need to maximise the utility of those happy Dubliners earning €2 per hour… You’d need to be swappping out toolings and machinery as soon as you finish one contract, having another contract ready to start on. It would need to be heavily subsidised for a long time, in order to reach that maximum utility point.

@Warbonnet covered the reasoning a couple of years back HERE: And, as you say, it’s difficult to estimate the consequences of an overly simplistic knee-jerk reaction. Also, how many of us would be buying models if they were three or four times the price and the quality was crap? To enjoy the current price vs. quality balance that we do, we need to exploit economic and societal differences.

Can’t go much smaller than Cement Bubbles… Unless you mean N Gauge?

To where, though? Keeping it largely to scale models and similar products.

Couple of SeaCo or SeaCell boxes in there, by the look of them!

Let the speculation begin, while I run off and look for my last wishlist post to copy from… Jumbo Tar Wagons, or some sort of fuel wagons, Ammonias, Class 80 railcars, AEC railcars, or even Project 47. Dun dun duuuunnnnnnn!

Mmmmmmmmmhhh, Burger Bites...

My cankles are finally something to be proud of.

You could sell the empty boxes, they’re so nice!

Dapol Class 68 on offer at Rails of Sheffield, down to £100 GBP from £180 GBP. Love that TransPenine livery.

It was @Sean posting HERE.

Somebody posted a few years back on the Das clay, and I think that they said that running an old credit card along the inside of the rails provided perfect clearance and straight lines.