WRENNEIRE

5 years to the day and my first DCC train does a lap of honour

Going by his usual expensive pricing I reckon it will be in the £100 range (stg) Another thing which I spoke about with a couple of the lads from here is that he has not captured the Irishness in the width of these models Should be 10'3" wide but they look very British width wise

Troops If we do some crowd funding they might keep him for longer.........

I had a trip behind one back to Richhill from Portadown with my grandmother in the 1950s, but which one? How many Grandmothers did you have Leslie?

Silver Fox have some pre production models for inspection If you are at the Bangor show this weekend drop over and check them out TPO & Luggage Van I reckon they need NEM style couplings, the older Lima/Triang Style ones are long out of date

Looking to extend the cable from my Gaugemaster DCC controller to my hand held controller What kind of cable should I Buy? Ether net Cable?

I did 35MPH down Knockmaroon Hill on my mothers Raleigh All Steel with no brakes, finished up at the Strawberry Hall without pedalling!

A few here http://s612.photobucket.com/user/WRENNEIRE/library/Chris%20Swaps?sort=3&page=1

Also some bits that I never associated with Meccano Bayko Building sets, called Outfits in the catalogue Bayko was a precursor to Lego as a building toy. Also Play Doh, a new one on me It says Made & Guarenteed by Meccano! Super Skates, New from America, but again made & guarenteed by Meccano

Picked up a Meccano Catalogue today at Bray Wheelers Nothing exceptional there you might say 1964 Irish Edition with Price List Irish Distributors name printed on the catalogue as opposed to the usual John Bull stamp Also a John Bull stamp on some pages of the catalogue for The Model Railway Shop, Monck Place.

I have some new Bachmann DCC chips for sale, all ex shop stock 36-552 8 pin 2 function with harness 36-553 8 pin with harness €15 36-554 21 pin 3 function €16 36-557 21pin 4 function €18 36-558A 6 pin €15 36-565 8 pin to 21 pin adaptors €4 Also 2 Loksound52402 V3.5 BR44 Steam chips which can be reprogrammed €75 each

1504 & 1515 are early single stripes coaches

Photobucket still seems to be working well.

As said before PECO track is basically HO gauge This is most obvious when you look at the spacing on the sleepers and indeed the sleepers themselves This company provides OO scale sleepers that can be used to give more realism to your track http://www.finescale.org.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=346_375_383

More bargains Check out some of his other prices http://www.ebay.ie/itm/BACHMANN-MURPHY-MODELS-OO-GAUGE-MM1701-MK2-FK-RPSI-LIVERY-COACH-4U-/322468150775?hash=item4b14997df7:g:Jg4AAOSwTM5Y3TnL

I should be at the next Bray Wheelers show on April 9th If the wagons have arrived by then and it suits the IRM lads you can collect your wagons from me there Obviously I will have to sort out the finer details with the lads but I dont see any problem my end.

8 letter word ORGANISM

Rome wasn't built in a day and all that K Having some serious issues with a point and a diamond crossing, keep getting a short although I have changed both the point and the crossing Buy I have a man, who is actually calling this afternoon, a bit of an electronic guru he tells me He was with me a couple of weeks ago and he took away the point and crossing that I had taken from the layout and hopefully he will have some good news for me today Has to be something simple as the road was running well before I put the crossing in

Back in the day when I was a keen DIY man I replaced all the doors in chez Wrenneire The old ones were standard flush doors, 6'6" x 2'6" in old money These doors have a very rigid structure and when fixed to a 2"x2" frame they are almost indestructable Because of the nature of the construction it is easy to cut holes for point motors etc and also to scoop out parts to make rivers , valleys etc Every skip in the neighborhood has a flush door or two ! Unfortunatly the "layout" is now a large storage area but plans are afoot to start rebuilding a DCC version I have the controller.........

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One of the regular lads who attend the Bray show bought a 1960's Hammant & Morgan catalogue They were the Rolls Royce of the controller world back in the day It also contained a 1661 pricelist and a list of suppliers for the "British Isles" Low and behold there was Dublin listed with 3 suppliers Heleys, spelt incorrectly, of Dame St M Ascough of Lower Leeson St And the bould Cyril L. Fry of Churchtown Rd I never knew he was a retailer, I wonder what else he sold?

From the Hornby Irish Freight set R1020 http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/content.php/221-Hornby-Irish-Freight

Don't forget to put your clocks forward tonight

See you in Bangor Leslie

Remember it will be HO scale Tony