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  1. Bumble_Bee
    Yes, as an example, a post could be like: 'here is a historic picture of a CIE A-class loco trundling about its duties in the 1950s, this line doesnt exist anymore, but you can make your own' then have a historic pic of an A-class and then a pic of a model.
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    Must be used to the French custom of only naming half the wheels Or else they are coaches made for running on 3 rail dublo track. Or maybe the Lartigue monorail, those are technically three wheeled right?
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    Interesting! Certainly food for thought. Instagram's audience seems to prefer 'real life' topics rather than hobbies to be fair. For example i used to run a cosplay page and it was very difficult to gain a following compared to other things like my music account. Photography and history does do quite well though, so perhaps an idea would be to try an instagram account based on real irish rail history photos then link it back to the modelling another way.
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    Absolutely @Westcorkrailway! I have a lot of LMS stuff as well so have preordered the Hattons LMS genesis 4 pack, they will be an absolutely perfect size for this. I have their Andrew Barclay Katie loco and they will look absolutely perfect together as a little heritage railway. Then I can imagine the upcoming A class and these orange 'modern' coaches being my version of main line rail tours I have a few more old mk1s and mk2s that I might leave in their BR livery or convert to a made up heritage livery if I can design one. (Similar to how RPSI had the blue and cream coaches inspired by GNRi and the current green ones inspired by UTA)
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    Current fleet of 'work in progress' passenger stock. As my layout is very small, it looks daft with more than a handful of carriages in a train (if i make a 9 rake 'realistic' length train, the loco is almost coupled to the rear coach haha) So these handful of orange thingies will serve me well for the time being. When I get closer to finishing I will be getting decals to complete the look
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    Great idea to try instagram, today i will be planning out proper milestones and aims, i wouldn't want to try too much to quickly and overburden myself but i for sure would try instagram at a future time maybe after getting a team together to run the page also.
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    For sure! Now I just need someone to make an 0 gauge NCC W class
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    I find it interesting that O gauge has grown too, perhaps because the RTR options for that have grown significantly over the last number of years. Perhaps instead of having full layouts, people like to buy them to display since they are a lot larger. For example I was considering getting the upcoming UTA jinty from Dapol, purely for display because I barely have room for my 00 layout let alone even have a 'back and forth' 0 gauge layout haha. Yeah the history of the whole 00/H0 thing is interesting. Personally i wished that we all agreed on one or the other so that I can run continental stock on my layout without it looking small, but i know that its far too late to even float the idea of converting now.
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    Interesting to mention American modellers. Do you think that they would prefer H0 scaled stuff (therefore requiring full retools of existing models etc) or do you think they would just get the 00? In a way, running a 00 loco on an H0 scaled layout would be kinda close to fixing the scale on the gauging issue? Perhaps modellers would be tempted to make full 00 layouts instead of H0 if they were interested enough. Then again, even if every amercian-irish modeller bought a single irish model as a 'wall hanger' for display, that would still be a LOT of sales! I think thats why I feel so much like a 'celebrity' loco like Merlin or Meabh would sell so well, as they are perhaps the Irish equivalent in terms of popularity as Flying Scotsman or Mallard. That said, i don't know the popularity of those locos outside of Ireland so maybe they are not as well known as i am assuming Interesting to mention American modellers. Do you think that they would prefer H0 scaled stuff (therefore requiring full retools of existing models etc) or do you think they would just get the 00? In a way, running a 00 loco on an H0 scaled layout would be kinda close to fixing the scale on the gauging issue? Perhaps modellers would be tempted to make full 00 layouts instead of H0 if they were interested enough. Then again, even if every amercian-irish modeller bought a single irish model as a 'wall hanger' for display, that would still be a LOT of sales! I think thats why I feel so much like a 'celebrity' loco like Merlin or Meabh would sell so well, as they are perhaps the Irish equivalent in terms of popularity as Flying Scotsman or Mallard. That said, i don't know the popularity of those locos outside of Ireland so maybe they are not as well known as i am assuming. Also, bringing it back to Facebook for a moment, you can actually make targetted adverts with a page, and ask Facebook to show them to a specific audience, so i can for example make a post aimed at local young people to maybe catch the interest and get them involved, OR as suggested above, target the US or North America (because I know there are a lot of Irish Canadians too)
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    Thats a good point. I would love to model in N gauge but considering the prices are the same or more expensive than 00, i couldnt justify it haha
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    Yeah, although to be fair the hymek was way too far from being accurate haha. At least something like an NCC jeep, jinty or whippet would pass a 'two foot test' as they say.
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    Sometimes I enjoy annoying 'rivet counters' on purpose haha
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    Well I have just repainted an old gwr county class in 'maebh teal' and I might stick a CIE roundel on it just to see what it looks like haha.
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    I feel like Hornby etc are only able to do their railroad stock because it already existed from old moulds or previous companies etc. I agree that tooling up a basic loco wouldnt make the economic sense, if you are going to make a completely new mould then might as well go for it. I wonder what the potential for a 'half retool' would be economically. For example re-jigging the LMS 4P tank mould to make a NCC Jeep.
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    An example of my rolling stock so far. Dapol unpainted vans make a great start. And a 'what if' NIR/GNR castle class that was used as painting practice haha. Most of my locos and stock are actually LMS. Until I can get some irish steam locos, my layout works with 'borrowed' British locos, and with the power of imagination I can ignore the gauging issue
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    Yeah, it would be technically possible to do an Irish train set from hornby, their railroad Jinty for example easily repainted into NCC or UTA livery, with some wagons/vans for a 'York road' look. I doubt they would though. And same here folks, so far my Irish rolling stock consists of a lot of repainted Dapol wagons and some old hornby and lima coaches. I have the early 2000's Hornby 040 with the flying snail livery, but the upcoming A Class will by my first actual representation of a REAL irish prototype (Hopefully followed in 2046 by an NCC mogul to coincide with the completion of the real one )
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    Hello all, I have decided to finally start a thread for my own layout. The track and board is from my childhood but a lot of work has went into painting, priming, corking, pinning,ballasting etc etc to get it to this stage. It is of course still very much a work in progress and I am trying to decide which sort of buildings and equipment I should be adding. It is a fictional preservation line and I imagine the left hand sidings to form a station/shed area that is like a miniature Whitehead, and the sidings to the right will be the remains of an old quarry or frieght siding that has been converted to storage. I know its very small but it is all I can work with until I can get a house of my own etc. Being a preservation layout means I can have a mix of modern and old. With that in mind does anyone have suggestions for what kind of buildings or equipment (machinery, cranes etc) I can add? So far the only thing set in stone is the roll on ramp to the left and a hornby small station platform (not currently pictured) but I am open to moving that anywhere it will fit.
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    As soon as the A Class lands on Irish shores I'm sure there will be an announcement of some kind
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    I must admit that my haunt is normally twitter more than anything now because my attention span is less than that of a lobotomised goldfish
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    Oh what a tease! And thank you!
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    ooh thats lovely!
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    Some old Hornby box vans had sliding doors, and there are some kits that can be modelled with open doors (like the dapol meat van) however thats only goods vans. That does remind however that when I saw the latest Hornby 'sliding door' mk3 carriages I got very excited then very disappointed that they did not in fact open, but were just the name of the type of door that the prototype had haha.
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    Hi Fran thanks for your comment, I understand and appreciate the work that MM and IRM have done for the hobby over the years, its honestly second to none. My reasoning behind the page isn't because I think you folks aren't doing enough or anything like that at all. I feel that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding from folks over the intentions of the page. I am not by any means trying to lobby MM or IRM into doing more. Instead I want to raise the profile of Irish prototypes to people who may not have seen them before, and also to show that there are gaps in the market currently not filled by any model manufacturer. I understand that you all work hard to promote your products and to work with your audience, but my point is more about creating a more general audience. The options for RTR Irish diesel era modellers have been served well by MM and IRM over the years, however we can see a growing number of folks interested in steam era stock and also more modern interests like the DMU fleets. Orange diesels are fantastic, but Irish railway history is far more diverse than that, and I would like to promote that more in the hopes that someone is inspired to make those types of models. I am no marketing expert, nor do I have experience with manufacturing processes, I am just someone with an idea for something new to try. That said, I am willing to bet any amount of money, that the first company to make a commercially available and reasonably priced (to todays standards), ready to run GNR(i) V 'Merlin' model will make a killing. As the flagship loco to so much of Irelands preservation history, I am sure we can all agree that it would be wanted by anyone and everyone with even a vague interest in irish railway modelling. I understand that social media is not for everyone, I personally hate it too, however one cannot deny the power that is has in modern society. To answer some other comments raised, there is no 'dilution', a page is a completely separate idea to a 'group' and completely separate to a 'forum'. I understand that not everyone has a lot of experience with social media, so I do not blame anyone for the misunderstanding, however it is fundamentally different in aim and audience. Perhaps I should have phrased my initial post better, I honestly did not think it would bring so much confusion and I apologize. Yes this is exactly my intention. Think of the page more of a way to reach new people rather than 'preaching to the choir' so to speak. ultimately I want to help promote Irish railway models and their real world history, and in doing so will inevitably help funnel new members to forums like this. I actually found this forum from facebook because I saw the new MM 121s advertised on Hattons page, which led me to the MM page which then led me to the IRM A class and then to this forum
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    I understand what you mean but I also feel like there is misunderstanding between a facebook group and a facebook page. Yes there are groups on fb with 1000s of members each, however they are all different. IRM for example as you say has this forum with 1500 registered members. However another manufacturer might look at a group on facebook and think 'oh theres only 800 people interested in this' and not bother when they are missing the larger groups. A page means that everyone can 'like' it and if everyone from every group liked it, it would be a wider representation of the irish railway modelling scene rather than just using a single source. It is not duplication because it is a fundamentally different aim.
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    Great idea, lets have a 'gift wrap' option from Hattons etc that helps expensive trains pass under the radar as kids toys
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