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Thanks, @StevieB. Kidney failure is just awful. It's almost always too late to do anything by the time it's detected. I have lost so many to it over the years. Around five odd years back - maybe slightly more, maybe slightly less - I started introducing kidney food into their diet. It was a slow process, increasing the percentage over time, but their dry food is now around 80% to 90% kidney food. Half that 90% is Royal Canin and half is Purina. The remaining 10% to 20% is a cocktail of Purina Gastrointestinal, Purina Hipoalergenico, Afiniti Advance and Optima Nova. Since the change in diet, kidney failure has become one factor of several for those passing away, instead of one of the main factors. The amount passing solely due to kidney failure is almost zero. Four passed away this past year, one of undetermined age, multiple organ failure, died within weeks of me finding him, one of kidney failure, aged approx 14, two of multiple organ failure, aged a little over 15. The vets reckon the last three would have been dead years ago if not for the change in diet. Sorry, waffling a bit there! Cheers! Well, I don't intend passing away myself before I get to 120 odd, so you're probably in for a bit of a wait. I've already nominated @murphaph as the unlucky one who has to fly down here and help the family sell it all, after my rotting corpse has been removed, in case all of the sausages and rashers reduce my optimistic expiration estimate. The display cabinets will FORM the bulk of the layout when done, running along most of both walls, if all goes to plan. Two new cabinets every three months sounds like an attainable goal. Then it's just six removeable sections to cover the areas that I can't / won't be putting cabinets. Cheers, @Rob. Only do it all because I live too far from East Wall! Hint hint.
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Well, I got distracted last night thanks to the excellent second season of Reacher, so my progress was limited to measuring, marking and scoring. Everything is stacked and ready for assembly, but with today being Reyes / Three Kings, I’m not sure that whipping out Drilly McMelterson would be appropriate. In theory, only three of the four lateral panels need to be cut, but cutting them all gives more modular flexibility further down the line. Get it? Down the line?
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All mixed race, either dumped or unwanted. I only take home the ones who are old, sick, terminally ill, unloveable or unlikely to survive on the streets for whatever reason. Oldest one at the moment is estimated around sixteen. Quite old and weak, needs to be syringe-fed several times per day. All microchipped, too!
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So, back to see if I can get one of the two 40’s at least cut and prepared for assembly. Revising things a little. Was initially thinking of running cabinets along one wall only, and having them finished for summer. Now thinking of doing both walls and being finished a year later. One wall is 6m, with a 95cm entryway, the other is 6,95m. The last unit each end will be 40cm rather than 80cm, as I want 1,2m curves in all four corners.
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I often flick through the "Pre-owned" section on the Hatton's website, and see an 0-6-0T that I have to double check whether it's Irish or not.
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Same! Was thinking about an O Gauge one when they were on offer, but on lookind at the photos, there were just too many differences to turn a blind eye to. Maybe IRM's first O Gauge loco.....
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073 repainted into IR white stripe livery
DJ Dangerous replied to thewanderer's topic in What's happening on the network?
So, is it true? I looked at the video on Tik Tok but it shows 073 in orange and black livery, not grey. I'd have expected one of the forum's 071 class titans like @ttc0169, @MOGUL or @Rob to have let us know! Screenshots from video: -
P.S.: I'm sure that there is "somebody" viewing this thread at this very moment, just dying to troll us about IRM re-runs, but can't do so due to his scold's bridle and recently broken fingers, thanks to a hurley kept under the counter at the IRM stand.
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Nearly sure that aul' Billy from Adverts.ie had the same wagon listed on eBay at the same price a few days ago. Billy buys anything Irish on Adverts.ie, then lists it for twice the price on eBay. His stuff rarely sells, so he's probably hemorrhaging a lot of cash.
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Somebody, possibly @jhb171achill, told me about a conversion like this before. Hopefully, whoever it was sees this and chimes in.
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I never got that email, so thanks for letting the good folk here on the forum know. Mine are still "in transit", boooooooooooooo! You mean two-tone green, Silly! How common were Dublin Atlanteans in Cork anyway?
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As with the IRM wagons, try sending a PM to @WRENNEIRE and emailing Chris Dyer. Also worth periodically checking Adverts.ie, and adding them to your Hatton's wishlist. They vary in price at Hatton's, sometimes surprisingly cheap and sometimes overly expensive. Paddy Murphy did say the he may consider another run of Cravens, here, so it may be worth hanging on a year or two to see what happens. With any luck, that will tie in with another pack of RPSI Cravens - or two packs, a blue pack and a blue and cream pack!
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Try sending @WRENNEIRE a message, he often knows things and sees things and hears things... Also, try sending Chris Dyer an email, another gent who comes across treasure troves from time to time. Worth checking Adverts.ie periodically, they do appear every now and then for less than they would on eBay. Just to clarify, much as he's a nasty piece of work, that DJD character, the Lyons tea was for sharing!
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What's the closest thing to a Sambre et Meuse Y33 bogie in O Gauge? The Dapol Turbot wagons are lovely but the bogies look funky compared to the Y33's on the IRM Flats.
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A few different Hapag Lloyd boxes. Disappointing Dapol 20' with print layers not lining up. Two of @Arran's lovely C-Rail 40' boxes, an 8'6" and a 9'6" High Cube. 1:48 scale unbranded 40' x 9'6" High Cube from eBay. I have quite a few of these in different liveries, and aside from the first order being damaged in transit due to poor packaging, they're excellent O Gauge boxes. Have a few more pics to take later, will add when I can.
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Dapol Dong Fang 20' box. Print quality is not as bad as usual, love the opening doors, not a fan of the moulded body-coloured locking bars. Thanks to @MOGUL for letting me know about these! Any info or phoros that anybody would like to share, eras, routes, contents etc, please feel free to do so!
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The tunnel faces are incredible, @derek! The moss really adds to the overall impact.
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Just lovely. The loco, the livery, the layout, the atmosphere!
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Of all the people on all the threads, there's no better man to speculate on some Provincial Wagons releases! That's something to look forward to! Lovely shot, @Bob229. The carpark is particularly nice. The spacing, the lack of clutter, also very evident on @Rob's Heuston North (no Heuston North updates nor North Wall photos lately, @Rob???) is great. We tend to try cram as much as possible in and it often feels very cluttered and unrealistic, but you two have nailed it perfectly. Picked up two four-car 29000's from Chris a while back, the first four-car units he ever did, but the paintwork was abysmal. Chris retired before we could do anythinbg about it, so I'm stuck with them. I think that the paintwork on his later commissions suffered as his painters were overworked. Some of the earlier examples like yours look excellent!
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Definitely don't want any if they come with Crapol's worst print!
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Thanks, @MOGUL! 225 was out of action for almost a decade after hitting that tractor on the level crossing? Was the damage that bad or was it more because there was a fatality involved? So there are 12 of the 34 stored at the moment? 201 202 203 204 205 210 211 212 213 214 224 (Cracked frame) 230 (Fire damage)
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What's the status of the 201 fleet these days? There were ten (?) in storage according to earlier posts in this thread. One of the in-service locos (224?) suffered a cracked frame, but also sure that one of the mothballed ones (230?) was brought back into service? Stored as of October 2018 according to @Railer's photo and @ttc0169's photo: 201 202 203 205 210 212 214 Wikipedia also lists the following as being stored: 204 211 213 Basically the non-push-pull-equipped locos, 201 - 205 and 210-214. Wikipedia also states that 230 has been in storage since July 2017: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_201_Class
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Are you gonna make me do all the work on that one, too, quoting you into this thread, or are you gonna do it yourself for a change?