DJ Dangerous

InverTrain parcel arrived yesterday... Wonder what the GJH PLant Company bogies will be like!

A 22G1 20' CAI (or former CAI) box spotted at the old favourite, the Chio roundabout, on Monday 13th May. Number TYMU-6351986. The "TYMU" and the final "6" appear new additions. Looks to have been adopted by TYMSA up in Valencia: https://www.tymsavlc.com/ And what gorgeous patchwork!

Two retired-looking boxes snapped on an undeveloped parcel in Barranco del Inglés last Thursday, May 9th. They look to be NENU 4EG1 box no. 9941958 and I can’t make out the other.

They are about the layout, specifically how well stock should run on the 600mm curve. Good luck with the repair!

Agree with @Ironroad and @irishmail here. Something is definitely catching or stuck. 1100mm radius is insane for OO Gauge. For perspective, the Heljan O Gauge Class 56, a Co-Co diesel, runs on minimum 800mm radius. Think the O Gauge coaches run on around 1200mm minimum radius.

The sale of these locos fell through at Christmas, so they're still available. PM if interested.

You’ll be grand with 600mm radius curves. Set-track radii are approx 371mm for R1, then R2 or approx 438mm is the minimum that the manufacturers recommend nowadays, then approx 505mm for R3 and approx 571mm for R4. 600mm would almost be like R5, way above anything else.

Even if Mark's don't, IRM will release extra units into stock once all pre-orders have been packed and shipped, so I wouldn't panic too much. You can subscribe to be notified when each item is back in stock on the IRM shop website. Plus, in hindsight, we all know a man who has probably bought a pallet of each to sell on, now that he's cleared space in his store room for them!

Afraid so. I was able to order the Open Wagons, missed out on the Flats and Oil Tanks, and Patrick helped manually place my order for the H Vans and Grain Hoppers. There are usually extra units released into stock once the items arrive and all orders have been processed, so it’ll probably be grand.

And six packs of IRM Keg Liners for €810: https://www.ebay.es/itm/266792224779

IRM A Class for €220, DCC fitted: https://www.ebay.es/itm/266805944065

Mmmmmmmmmh, doughnuts.

If anybody has over-ordered their oil tanks and wishes to dispose of some, please let me know. I was unable to order due to account glitches before they sold out.

Just saw the latest advert for Heineken Blue. Well worth a watch:

Delighted with this announcement! The H Vans are my favourite of the Bulleid chassis vans. Will have to order a few to compliment @leslie10646’s Dapol vans and @Mayner’s wagons! As a rough guide, are we saying Flying Snail until late fifties, grey with CIE Roundel for fifties and sixties, brown for sixties and seventies?

I'm convinced by his workrate that Patrick isn't human. It's the initials for some sort of AI algorith strung together. Part Android Terminal Replying In Continuous Keystrokes?

Will we have an IRM announcement tomorrow? H Vans maybe? Or a Hunslett?

Seven previously sold-out Class 37's back in stock, single figures, get them while they're hot: https://www.accurascale.com/en-eu/collections/class-37/availability_in-stock

Thanks, John! Haven't seen an ECS box in a while!

I had always wondered how they managed to offer the trunk service to everybody. It seemed like something that would only work with a certain volume per trunk, and for a fixed period. If somebody were to leave one single item sitting in storage for a long period, you'd lose a lot of space and reduce efficiency. In essence, they'd have been better off not making that tiny sale rather than taking up space, time and resources storing it. Shame that we'll never get that service again, but it is what it is.

I think that people who live in odd places can and must accept the increased postage costs, they're just a fact of life. We can see from the An Post website what the likely postage price is for anybody without an An Post contract. The point in offering a limited trunk service for those specific clients is maximising the utility of the increased postage costs. In a former life, I spent a lot of time in warehouses that warehouse managers had told me were full. There was almost always unused capacity to be taken advantage of by moving racks around, adjusting the height of the bars at the top to fit half-pallets in, even sliding racking a metre or two to one side or another often freed up additional space in an otherwise unused gable end. If there is unused capacity like this at IRM's fulfillment centre, then maybe it could be used to facilitate a limited trunk service for those living outside of the EU and the UK, meaning that nothing else would suffer. The packers will know the exact unit weights and volumes, and can apply that knowledge to ship the trunk items in the most efficient way possible. Or, if somebody were to input the weights and dimensions of each IRM product into a database, I'm sure there would be an AI algorithm or piece of software that could quickly calculate the optimum packing order based on the available tarrifs.

A general trunk system would place too much strain on IRM's fulfillment centre, if I recall correctly. However, I can't see a trunk service solely for non-EU and non-UK customers being that much of an issue. Depending on the height, it probably wouldn't even take a full rack in the warehouse.

If you compare the wages, that EU and UK model railway allowance is more like €1000 per month, not per year! I hope you also have wind. Both the internal and external kind. X.

From the bottom of my heart, I hate you all and hope that it rains all summer. Lots of love from outside the EU. X.

I think you've just solved a major mystery. The big jump in price over the 121's was because these are DCC sound fitted, but the factory made a boo boo and installed Class 37 "Tractor" chips by mistake.