DJ Dangerous

Did you not see the limited edition B&T 071's announced there about three and a half weeks back?

You almost make it sound as if you have a personal grudge against the Silver Fox guys. They are pretty cool to deal with, as others have said before. Their A Class doesn't hold a candle to the IRM offering, that goes without saying. But... You want a C Class, even in NIR livery? No problem. You want Mk3 coaching stock and EGV's? No problem. You want a weedspray van to go with IRM's weedspray train? No problem. Not my weathering, by the way, that was done by the very talented @Noel. But the point is that even today, they are the only show for many RTR Irish items. You've said that you're not a purist, that you'll have a silver A Class hauling Mk3 stock, so what's the problem with Silver Fox?

Me too!

Are you not?

The Tara Tax?

I was starting to have a problem with some going into SPAM before the change in mailout delivery provider, but none are going into SPAM since. I received emails for TJ last Sunday, but not today, which coincides with the other notifications that stopped working for me on Thursday afternoon.

I got one for Boskonay's post in this thread, and yours, but Tara Junction has vanished the past week.

Strange. Some threads are working again, like this one and the eBay thread, but some, like Tara Junction, no longer appear in my forum notifications, nor am I receiving email notifications for them.

€20 per kilo from Germany for an alternative product: https://www.ebay.es/itm/313491917405

My email notifications stopped again around five or six yesterday afternoon. They're not in my SPAM folder, and my notification / follow settings on the forum are still the same. Have you guys been blacklisted again?

My point was that, as per the post that I quoted, it sounds like IRM have a load of announcements all ready to go, so content or not, we are gonna be spoiled again this year. Been a bit of a wierd winter down here, milder than usual but also more changeable than usual. 28 degrees at midnight on Sunday night and only 14 degrees at the same time the next night. Hope your friends made the most of it either way!

A42 getting scarce, less than 20 left. I'm amazed that A55 sold out before A42 and A30. The green and the silver are lovely to the eye.

Hi Sean. Sorry to reply so late, but I've been busy lately. I had been going to suggest something like the attached image - forgive the crudeness, but I only had a moment to scribble something down. In the image, I've shown the roads with a kind of orangey-brown highlighter, I've omitted the turntable, and I've left the left hand side of the run around loop off-scene, allowing you run longer trains in and out, and simplifying the pointwork a little. This would mean running two tracks through the hole instead of just one, but I think that you have two tracks just outside that hole, so you lose a bit of functionality by having only one track entering anyway. All only suggestions, so no offence is intended. Also, rather than an embankment on the left hand side, how about archways? You can still run the road along the top, as I get you, the cars need to be shown off, too. But, you don't lose much space on your board, and you get to run a dummy line out through one of the arches if you like, where you have the Evergreen with the hot box in one of your photos. I know now that the hill in the right corner is pivotal, and staying, so maybe a tunnel cut into it?

Jaysus, if you want to bitch and moan, do it in private.

My money is on the next announcement being IRM t-shirts. Green with white font, white with green font, and a limited edition silver one saying "Our models are A1" in a wooden case.

As in they should cancel everything that they have ready to announce this year, or they should make no announcements next year for the following year? Steady on, Mr. Rich Man! Our pockets will be emptied one way or another, don't worry.

Well, I believe that we're due an IRM announcement early this month and another late this month or early next month, so you're not the only itchy one!

A couple of Ian Hayes trucks on eBay at the moment. This one is from a seller that I've bought from several times. Good guy, combines shipping etc: https://www.ebay.es/itm/374014582051

Thanks, Robert. Tough times these past few years, but we will survive one way or another.

Hi All. Firstly, if this post is in breach of the forum rules, I apologise in advance and I'm happy for admin to delete it. Much as it pains me to do so, after I had bought myself duplicates of the IR livery A Class locos for re-numbering, I have to let them go. I run a small animal welfare charity here in Tenerife, called AsoCat. Things became a bit difficult after BrExit, as Brits had less to donate, and, strange as it sounds, many of the Brits living here are / were pro-BrExit, and didn't want to be involved with or help a charity run by somebody who is openly anti-BrExit. Still, we were scraping by until the pandemic hit. Any remaining donations dried up almost immediately, and ten weeks of lockdown in early 2020 made it impossible to do our jobs. We were under curfew for seven odd months after lockdown ended, pretty much until just after Christmas 2020. The lockdown and subsequent curfews meant that we could not be out on the streets at night when we needed to be. The focus of our charity is castrating and re-homing stray and abandoned cats. On top of lockdown, subsequent curfews and a lack of donations, many vets stopped working or went out of business, making it much harder to get appointments, even if there were funds, for urgent cases. Sadly, we also saw a spike in the number of cats (and dogs) dumped as people lost jobs. Aside form the cats, I caught several dogs on the streets and delivered them to the local police during the pandemic, some with collars, some with wounds were microchips had been gouged out etc. So, the combination of all of those factors has seen an increase in the number of stray and abandoned cats on the streets, and I am basically out of money to keep funding the charity. I donate a quarter of my wages each month, but it's not enough. As a result, I am selling four IRM A Class locos, with the following caveats. 1. Price is €360 per loco. 2. Payments are to be made by standing order, directly to the AsoCat bank account in the form of monthly donations of €15 for 24 months, totaling €360 EURO. 3. Shipping is to be paid for by the buyer, and probably works out at €20 per loco, but that's not an exact price, just an estimation. I'm well aware that there are cheaper options out there, but the installment plan may suit some people better than a large one-off payment, and small monthly donations are what we desperately need in order to keep working at what we do. The four locos are brand new, in box, never even opened, and are: 1. IRM-1113 Irish Rail livery A Class no. 048 2. IRM-1114 Irish Rail livery A Class no. 017 3. IRM-1115 Irish Rail livery A Class no. 054 4. IRM-1116 Irish Rail livery A Class no. 036 I am aware that trust may be an issue, and having almost been burned once here on the forum, yes, I am fearful, but am prepared to take the risk in order to bring in funds for the association. AsoCat website: http://www.asocat.tf/ AsoCat Facebook (not updated in a long time as I work during the day and do the charity work at night) : https://www.facebook.com/asocattf/ AsoCat listed in the government registry (you have to search for "AsoCat" in the "nombre" field) : https://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/entidadesjuridicas/asociaciones/ Thank you.

D'oh!

Will he have 171 by any chance? Or IRM Cement Bubble Pack A?

https://www.pinterest.es/pin/343469909071808886/

071 with covered gangways...

071 would look better with a CIE roundel instead of that multicoloured N.