DJ Dangerous

Wow, incredible offers.

No excuse for anybody who hasn't already stocked up.

The warehouse will be empty by Monday...

Hope you have a container of something arriving soon!

That A Class is something else!

19 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

it actually happened!!!

Delighted to see that.

The guy is obviously missing out on some things that niche-within-a-niche Irish modellers would know, for example "SuperTrain", which is understandable if he's young, British and hasn't experienced certain things for himself.

His issues with design / packaging / information are valid, and supported with evidence, ie are constructive criticism, but he does not allow these to take away from an otherwise outstanding model.

Hopefully, manufacturers in general learn from the comments of influencers such as him.

I see some commenters underneath his video suggesting IRM wagons to run with the 121, and suggesting that he reviews an A Class. If he does an A, hopefully he understands the relationship between IRM and Accurascale, and thus what the A means for future UK locos. It'll be a while before my own A's get here, but from what I've seen here and on YouTube, Sam will be blown away by the A.

Sam's Trains takes a beating on here, but I suspect that some of that is prejudice rather than judgement.

He addresses the unsuitability of the custard and cream coaches in his video, so is obviously well aware how blasphemous that is.

Hopefully, somebody tells him about IRM's Black Friday sale tomorrow and he gets himself a load of wagons to review!

1 minute ago, jhb171achill said:

I don’t think they do car ferries, yet…….

Boooooooo!

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!

40 minutes ago, richrua said:

Great wagons , they look great in transit or sitting in a siding. I have four from the last time, so I'm glad of a chance to grab a couple more . Nice models, another unique wagon. I wonder could I run a mixed rake of a couple of blues / oxides. Good stuff 

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.

20 minutes ago, Dempsey said:

House calls in this climate?! 

This climate?

4 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

A few select people know where C202/C227 is but I believe we won’t be seeing it anytime soon 

 

Looks like nice Canarian sunshine in that photo...

If so, she travelled a long way!

On 17/11/2021 at 12:35 PM, Westcorkrailway said:

 

Of course the RPSI picked there colours by simply removing a few layers of paint To find the original livery buried below! 

Whereabouts on the loco was that?

On 16/11/2021 at 11:03 PM, spudfan said:

One of these would be nice

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!

On 8/11/2021 at 7:36 PM, Rob said:

Cheers!  Most of all that weathering on the wagons, containers etc was thanks to Irrailways Weathering Services from @Dempsey here!

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.

Just now, jhb171achill said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and suspect that not one person will agree with me; I would love to see an ICR in black'n'tan, or 1950s green, snails an'all...!  Or a NIR 4k in UTA green..

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!!!

1 hour ago, connollystn said:

I'm in  my 70s. What does 'URL' mean? 

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

11 hours ago, airfixfan said:

The ex NIR Gatwick coaches at Dundalk were noted to be in very poor condition now on Wednesfay

Any photos or links to photos?

1 hour ago, Billycan said:

Do you have any URL links?

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.

2 minutes ago, murphaph said:

I'd need to build an extension to house the plane first!

Sure no better man!

7 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Would be nice to see MM re-release the 201 in the delivery livery. Was 220 the only one MM did? I'd like no. 201 in her 1994 outfit anyway.

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