DJ Dangerous

Dapol emailed me and said that there is no way they'll be going back to the old print quality. It is too time consuming and not cost effective. Much as it's sad to hear, you have to respect their honesty and openness. You hear that, @Arran??? We need you to duplicate Dapol's range with non-fuzzy print right now! The 45' CobelFrets and 40' Rainbow Maersks will do for starters, please.

€150 is not a bad price for a 141 given the current market. https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-model-class-141/30269541

I suspect the Irish connection is even more vague, like, "I'm @BosKonay and I love trolling you all. Trolls are green so there's an Irish connection" ...

Another one or two photos of the HUO's. These are something else.

Sounds like they're the same externally, so.

Thank you. Now I see it on the underside, there is one pipe at one end, and a little hole where this second pipe should be, then a valve thing at the other end, and a hole where there should probably be a second valve. Absolutely incredible attention to detail!!!

What's the difference between a Mk2/2A Second Open and a Mk2/2A Tourist Second Open, when talking about donor coaches? Are there external differences or only internal differences?

Rails of Sheffield have just announced a new run of Dapol's Class 68... Looks like there are one or two that would be ideal for hauling the Accurascale Mk5 TransPennine Express coaches. https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/new-dapol-oo-gauge-class-68

Sounds lovely! Any plans or drafts or anything?

Duuuuun dun. Dun dun, dun dun, dun dun, dun dun! It's getting closer!

I wonder if @Sean has seen this thread. The plans, size and general discussion remind me of one of his layouts. He may have some advice on how moving from plan to reality worked out in his case.

Although I disagree with your use of the term "proper loco", I agree with your sentiment and I'd rather a mainline loco than a yard-only loco. Maybe if we both shave our heads, or shave each others' heads, IRM will run a mainline BO-BO for us.

IRM: "Always finding new ways to make you poor"

One of these? And look at this quote... Hmmmmmmmm...

So you'd suggest a C Class, a 121, a 141 or a 181 for the first IRM O gauge loco? I could definitely get behind that.

I can't agree there. I don't think it's time for IRM to throw the towel in, just yet. If China do something stupider than usual and get sanctioned, that may have an impact on output, but I do not see demand drying up without a mitigating factor like prices being tripled. Back to O gauge, yes, definitely fanciful, definitely not likely to be on the IRM radar at thr moment, but... If somebody had told me ten years ago that the abundance of high quality RTR models we now have was likely, never mind definite, I'd have laughed at them. And, I'm probably not the only one.

Missed this thread yesterday. Wow! Nice t-shirt!

I'm obviously overly optimistic, as always, and that I will concede, but at the same time, maybe your figures are a bit low, and fail to take into account the global market for Irish and / or O Gauge? Remember this?

I do, I'm sorry. I put it down to bad parenting.

Motors are too small?

Where's the Troll emoji in that list???

I saw that both Hatton's and Rails of Sheffield put the Dapol Class 59's on offer yesterday. Something wrong with them or just coincidence?

Obviously I'm hoping for an O gauge IRM A Class after the first one or two loco launches prove so popular and sell out on pre-order... Without going too nutty, something to haul these HUO's would be nice.

Following on from THIS quote on RMW, is anybody else excited for the first O gauge Accurascale locomotive? [QUOTE=] Hi everyone, Excellent to see that there is interest in us doing more O gauge. So much so, we want to let you into a little secret... We can confirm that we have designed our first O gauge locomotive and it is going to tooling in the coming weeks. It is not a locomotive currently in our OO range, so it is O gauge from the ground up. Feel free to wildy speculate on what it might be! We will reveal it when tooling is complete and a pre-production sample is in hand later this year. Cheers! Fran [/QUOTE]

Hmmmmm... On RTFM, this last line in capitals worried me. Not about the model, but about humanity.