DJ Dangerous

I reckon that off-shore wind farms and wave power will play a large part, with pumped storage facilities in any mountainous area to cope with peaks and troughs in demand. But, yeah, if we continue burning coal, peat etc to generate the electricity, it's no cleaner, it just moves the pollution from one area to another.

Another couple of years and the RPSI will have a few ICR's in their collection for sure!

LOL, you're already infected with it, and your collection of shame is growing! If it's any consolation, in twenty years time, the 071's will be nothing but a memory, the last and longest serving diesels ever to have run on Irish railways, before being replaced by smaller electric top-and-tails locos for freight trains, meaning no runaround at all, ever again. The 201's will be scrapped, first, with various bits being donated to keep the 071's going a bit longer. Through a cruel twist of fate, the twin sets of electric locos will be built to replicate the 141 / 181 class, and painted in classic CIE green to reflect their reduced environmental impact.

If you need something to keep the mind occupied, George, I'll allow you fly down here for some vitamin D and a couple of hundred weathering projects. I hear that you guys are lacking in vitamin D up there.

Says the man with a grey 071 and a bright yellow weedspray train!

They look a little larger than 1:76, though.

Four different three packs of Oxford Diecast utilities vans? An Post, Telecom Eireann, Eircom, ESB?

They look awesome, really!

How'd you get the white lines so neat on the "golden era" ones? Reverse masking?

YESSSSS!!!

Nice! The curve on the bonnet threw me off! Any plans to stock the Brian Collins limited editions? http://briancollinsenterprises.ie/product/brian-collins-enterprises-dfb-scania-cp31-appliance-dn17a1/ http://briancollinsenterprises.ie/product/brian-collins-enterprises-dublin-fire-brigade-ambulance/

I have a stack of those to repaint when I retire! All joking aside, your accessories look awesome, fair play!

Jaysus. Hope the guy from upstairs pulls through.

Are those Bachmann Mk2's or resprays? How much for them?

I'll throw in a nice apartment for you and the Missus while you're here!

Fascinating, specially the bit about the snatcher. They must have been made redundant a log time ago. My 088 in as-delivered-wrong-orange has them, as does ST livery 126, and the black 141's, but nothing newer.

A batch of them arrived in Las Canarias yesterday, too. Presumably via Las Palmas de Gran Canaria!

Yuuuuuuuuuuup! DHL and their €40 handling fee per parcel!

This one here.

This BrExit! No frikkin' sausages in Iceland!!!!! Empty shelves throughout the shop!

Looks great! I had a very similar baseboard arrangement in the attic many many years ago; eight 2' x 4' baseboards arranged just like that to give a 14' x 6' layout. Looking at what you have there, you could almost triple the length of your ramp by following the curve of the upper level, then running it alongside the front of the upper level again, reducing the gradient to a third of what it is. If the upper level is at 10cm high, then your ramp would have dropped to only maybe 3cm high by the time it had gotten around to the front, so wouldn't obscure anything, really.

Is that a Matchbox Peterbilt tipper truck in the second, third and fourth photos? Did I see that same power station in another of your layouts? Outstanding layout, and the natural progression / extension is awesome!

So 40ft HC's are rare in Europe?

That's right, I should have made a two-hour unboxing video prelude to my sixty second clip!

That is awesome! 03:30 in the first video... Did somebody lose their coaches?