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Top notch work on the ViTrains 47. They're a lovely loco and when Hattons start knocking them out for next to nothing it's rude not to pick 1 or 5 up!

As I said in that thread; Well, lets be fair, Hornby Mark 1s and Dapol/Airfix/Hornby Mark 2 air cons weigh next to nothing. Stick them on a rake of your MIR wagons, then I might be impressed. There's no doubting their smoothness, and they are a decent motor bogie, but nothing will beat a central can motor and flywheel drive powering two bogies. If it did, we'd still have our 141s and new 201s powered with a motor bogie. If the railroad bogie suits your needs then fine, I'm still going down the all-wheel drive road. And don't even get me started on traction tyres!!!

When you put things in perspective they aren't that great value for money. You can go to Hattons and pick up much better detailed Bachmann, Vitrains (like the lovely 47 in Anthony's other video) and Heljan diesels on special offer for cheaper or similar prices to a €60 railroad loco and they'll have proper chassis too. The 55 for instance is terrible, too short by a large margin, tooling over 30 years old now, crude detail, HO bogies, non flush glazing. The 73 is still a superb piece of tooling mind you, and offers a cheaper alternative to the Dapol loco. They have pick-ups on both bogies, a major advantage over the old lima locos they come from. And as for the haulage test? Well, lets be fair, Hornby Mark 1s and Dapol/Airfix/Hornby Mark 2 air cons weigh next to nothing. Stick them on a rake of your MIR wagons, then I might be impressed. There's no doubting their smoothness, and they are a decent motor bogie, but nothing will beat a central can motor and flywheel drive powering two bogies. If it did, we'd still have our 141s and new 201s powered that way. If the railroad bogie suits your needs then fine, I'm still going down the all-wheel drive road. And don't even get me started on traction tyres!!!

It is a great livery alright Anto, I believe model rail mag are doing a limited edition model. It's a pity it hasn't been upgraded though, the hornby 91 isn't the best detail wise.

Lovely job as usual!

Looks Proto 2000 to me.

Cheers for the info ttc, would love to get a video of it sometime

Wish I did Seamus, saw a liner too, pity I was stuck in some conference!

I've seen a railroad class 59 run on Bren's old layout and it seriously struggled with even just a few wagons. You just cant beat a proper all wheel drive set up with flywheels and a can motor so that's what I'll be going for. They run smooth and pull well.

In Croke park at the moment and I saw the train roll past twice already, is it doing a Dublin circuit today?

They have little or no pulling power though, even when weighted.

I have to agree Seamus, my favourite so far. If only I could afford a brass model of this baby... My current wallpaper on my laptop http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=398874&nseq=1

Good to see, Kenny is going to be a tough act to follow considering his status at the club. Attracting big name players is still going to be the big problem though. If they do go down the sporting director road I hope whoever they appoint has an address book full of quality talent.

Certainly looks like it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/30/liverpool-brendan-rodgers-swansea-city Must say I'm happy enough with that. Hope he is given the time to rebuild.

I have an Athearn SD9 chassis ready to go, might even transplant a kato motor in, should be fun...

I noticed the handrails after I put the pics up Rich, and they do go into the doors on the model, schoolboy error! The flanges are very fine, I'm guessing it's to do with the design of the bogies and using scale sized wheels (as opposed to using small wheels like Hornby did on their 50)

Maybe it's raining, but I would say they are a tad too long. On the real thing they were pretty prominent though http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/images/DP2%20Kings%20Cross.jpg

Some pictures of the new Heljan DP2 Prototype diesel that arrived today (I have a thing for the one-off proto diesels!) Now these models have come in for a bit of criticism around the cab roof area, as supposedly the cab roof should taper inwards, something that the Heljan DP2 doesn't do. DP2 was essentially a class 50 prototype using a Deltic bodyshell. I can see what the critics mean, but have been unable to find my Bachmann Deltic to take a comparison shot. Still, it isn't a deal breaker for me though, and something I can live with. People have been championing the Bachmann Deltic recently compared to this, but the Bachmann Deltic is probably one of their weakest models. The nose shape looks a bit wrong to me, printed panel lines and horrid bogies. DP2 has no printed panel lines thankfully, and sits on its bogies beautifully; Overall I have to say I'm pretty happy with her, Heljan was even kind enough to send me two limited edition certs!

It's a horror show Seamus, I'm hoping it will look like this eventually; http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=39219&nseq=7 Might start a thread on it, but there's a lot that needs doing to it!

Stunning. Jeez Seamus three American train postings in one day. Is someone on the turn?

You should see what I'm working on at the moment! The horror... Paint has since been stripped off, and some detail parts have been added, with more on the way. Going to take a lot of turd polish to turn this one around!

Line-up of the four EMD units done so far outside the EMD factory. Four 071s lined up outside Inchicore in heritage schemes would be awesome. http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/0/3/0/8030.1338082142.jpg

Two for the price of one, Reading ACe, absolutely gorgeous! http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=398644&nseq=2 Erie SD70ACe, again very nice! http://www.railpictures.net/photo/398802/

Buy one Bachmann Class 25, rip internals out. Transplant into APT power car, graft on bogie sideframes and Robert's your mothers brother! Well, it's what I plan to do anyway.

A mate of mine has been shooting some vids in France recently, enjoy!