DJ Dangerous

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?

Couldn't resist running some of @Arran's containers, that arrived in the post today. Still haven't gotten around to lubing up, hence the squeak. Maybe this weekend.

Looks very much like @Irish Rail's Fingal County layout.

Outstanding, @Broithe!!! Any more photos of it? So your grade was 1 in 24? That gives me hope for some of my dreams were dashed by the 1 in 50 rule.

Any old excuse to hint at Tin Vans!

B134 is now a 2021 loco, JHB, just looks like an old-timey one.

It would probably be more financially viable to piggyback off another production run. Existing tooling or not, running a few hundred of each of three coaches would probably mean the set would retail at about €400! I'm sure the RPSI are considering all options, and if we're lucky enough to get some IR livery Mk2D's, maybe piggybacking off that for a run of 303 and 304 would make more sense. Time will tell, I'm sure!

Chatting with @murphaph about this very thing recently. Maximum grade is supposed to be around 1 in 50, ie a 10cm increase over 5m. Two things that Murph pointed out were that the MM locos don't have traction tyres, so it won't take much of a gradient to slow or stop them, and that pushing trains up is even worse if they have standard tension-lock couplers, which ride up on top of one another. Maybe post a rough plan of what you want with a few measurements, and somebody will have an idea. Dave, the builder of the new Fry Model Railway is on here, but I forget his username. I'm sure somebody will remember.

Warming up two freshly unboxed 121's. One needs a new vacuum hose and a little surgery on the hand-rail!

Wow, awesome photos, thank you! Soooooo... When are IRM launching the 47' flats???

With thanks to @Arran for the containers!!!