DJ Dangerous

078 and 080 resting in the "depot"...

Always amazes me that this is N Gauge! The detail is excellent. Yay for Ashburton Sundays!

Did I not some pics of the IRM NIR coaches in this thread the other day? Was the post deleted?

Well, @BosKonay, I think I speak for everybody ("No you don't" is cried in unison) when I say that given your feudal status here on the forum, you are obliged to provide biannual (not biennial) updates on Amiens Street!

Or maybe turntables and mixer, a couple of IKEA KALLAX units for your record collection, a smoke machine and some strobe lights? Or a set for making amateur porn?

Saw an update on YouTube a few weeks ago, feels like a perfect time to share:

I missed your updates on this. The photos are fabulous! Love that shot of A15 and B141 sitting at the buffers.

Will be well worth waiting for, specially if the design is going to be modular!

Absolutely lovely stuff here! I agree with the sentiments of everybody, the layout, the scenery, the era, the background modelling, the Tinnelly truck hiding by the warehouse, the main street, the bridge, the platform lamps, the photography and videography, everything is top notch.

Any hints as to how the footbridge will be sold? Will there be several different fixed models, or will it be sold in modules, or will different models be compatible to make it fit any layout?

How's that "sturdy" Chinese Wall doing, @Edo?

CD decks and a tiny mixer??? You frikkin' kids!

Your post was clearly iCR-bashing. I'm not super familiar with AI, but I'm sure you could train a freely available AI program like ChatGTP to analyse this thread for the data, asking it to calculate the probabilities, which would save you a fair bit of time. @Sean is mad for AI, he gets moist just thinking about the rise of the machines, maybe drop him a message for some pointers.

I'm still struggling to get my head around your two posts, here, but I THINK that you're trying to say: "Whenever Paddy Murphy himself announces an estimated arrival for the new 071's, he will still be subject to external factors that may affect delivery." But, Paddy hasn't even announced them, yet, never mind given a lead time. We have livery information from two members who received it from Paddy Murphy and from Murphy Models. We have an estimated delivery of late 2024 / early 2025 from two members, again who received the info from Murphy Models and from Paddy Murphy. If Paddy is telling people that, it is fair to assume that he's likely to be more or less on the mark, so why say / imply that he's not?

Are ye dancin'?

Easy there, Ned Ludd, there's no need to turn into another Noel, bashing progress every chance you get. Next, you'll be saying that you won't board unless the loco's painted black with orange and white bands... I imagine that if you read back over this thread, and analyse the info posted, you will be able to paint a picture of the days and times where a loco-hauled Enterprise is more probable than ICR's.

Maaaaaybe re-read the thread again. Both @Noel and @MOGUL confirm that they have spoken with Murphy Models and Paddy Murphy, respectively. Don't be lying to the youngsters, @Georgeconna. It stands for "Crikey, Not Yet"...

Searchability on Facebook, and social media in general, tends to be quite poor, and many posts lack sources / references. Often best to bookmark the url to the post, take a screenshot, and email both to yourself with a subject that you're likely to remember. Translation was pretty accurate at least.

Going back to the new run of 071's, does anybody know which NIR liveries will be reproduced? There were quite a variety, and it would be nice to see a 1990's livery, which was missing from the original run, a deep blue with red / faded red warning panel, and a version as they run today. I'm assuming that the livery application is not yet finalised but the tooling, ie marker lights, probably would be?

Following on from the posts in this thread, here's a video of a UK HST (Intercity 125) on trial in Mexico in October 2023. I quite like the livery! These two posts:

Were the "diamond frame" bogies all replaced with "Gloucester GPS" bogies in the seventies? If so, are the only variants still available pre-1970's? What does "More On The Way" mean?

Well, I know of somebody who has some of MY coaches to play around with, so maybe we'll find out how interchangeable the bogies really are in time...

So, @228RiverOwenboy, any further comments from that Tik Tok guy?

So, following on from these posts over the past few months, scattered throughout the forum, it's time to start a thread on the new 071's. According to @DonderBlitzen, they are definitely due in freight grey, and according to @Noel, as well as IR, both NIR blue AND freight grey are definites. Definitely in stock with IRM and Mark's Models by the end of 2024 according to @Noel, who got the info direct from Murphy Models. IRM opened pre-orders for the 141's / 181's on August 15th, and they're due pretty soon, so it's probably fair to say six or seven months from Expression Of Interest pre-orders to delivery. I know that the immediate reaction was that there's no need for 071's, but I feel that they will sell well. Links to the various posts, hopefully in chronological order - maybe @BosKonay could copy the relative posts into this thread, also leaving them in their original threads? https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/12383-new-murphy-models-141s/page/5/#comment-213276 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/12383-new-murphy-models-141s/page/5/#comment-213287 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/14875-south-dublin-model-railway-exhibition-2023-list-of-exhibitors-and-traders/#comment-217041 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/14875-south-dublin-model-railway-exhibition-2023-list-of-exhibitors-and-traders/#comment-217059 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/14875-south-dublin-model-railway-exhibition-2023-list-of-exhibitors-and-traders/page/2/#comment-217245 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/15308-2024-irish-model-speculation-thread/#comment-221361 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/14004-ebay-watch/page/75/#comment-224643 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/14004-ebay-watch/page/75/#comment-224821 Given the prices that the 071's currently fetch second-hand on eBay, and I put my hand up and admit that I bought a few for far more than they were worth, myself, it will be a relief for anybody who missed out. Since they're probably pretty far along - they'd have to be if delivery is due this year - does anybody know the actual pricing or what the decoder access will be like?

Same, I need the DCC mumbo jumbo in broad strokes, I said BROAD STROKES, but once the mumblers start mumbling, it's all Orks and Ballrogs, no idea what they do be saying. I think that the basic premise is that anybody who wants to run two different DCC locos on the same track, using ESU decoders, will HAVE to change the address for one or the other. In the case of the IRM DBSO, you need it to have the same address as the loco, so happy days.