murphaph

Thanks chaps!

Thanks @Anders112 and welcome to the forum! That answers the second part of my question nicely. So the remaining part is, when did a Hunslet propel a mk2 set for the last time?

When was the very last time a Hunslet propelled one of these sets? Anyone know? Did they ever do so after the 111's entered service?

@WRENNEIRE Dave do you have any pack A of the bubbles?

Very crisp indeed. What's the story with the black axles? Any particular reason you've changed the design there compared to the P42s?

Awesome, thanks!

Some useful info on the handful of mk2d firsts and what became of them here:

https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/rpsi-collection/76/304-mk2-first-open

I've decided to just pre-order 1 rake of IR ones. The way things are going with the hobby I will be suprised if either MM or IRM don't do these again in a few years so I am not buying any to renumber. 

I have pre-ordered the 5 tippex ones. I'd rather have them and not need them than need them and not have them. @BosKonay I inadvertently placed the pre-orders without being logged in but the pre-order name/email form confirmation popup said the pre-order was successful. I am assuming this is ok and that I don't need to repeat in a logged in state?

Edit: The 5 confirmation emails arrived so I guess it's all good.

Another couple of questions for the experts before I pull the trigger and place a pre-order for these....

5103 is listed on the IRM shop as a first. According to my second edition 1989 Irish Railways T&T 5103 was a standard by then. Was it converted from a first post the 1987 rebranding to IR, or is the book perhaps in error?

5154 was a standard by 1989, having started life as a composite. Does anyone know if the modelled version will be the composite type or standard type? Were there even any internal changes to the coach.

Great stuff! It seems I didn't miss anything that I "need" to model my chosen 1994/5 era. I had some black roofed stuff but sold it as they only started painting the roofs black much later. The Galway livery is also too late for me. 

Has someone got a complete list of the "original" IE run of these from MM? I have the following and am trying to figure out which ones I missed out on:

MkIId    MM    MM5229    5229    MkIId open std, IE                                                                                                                                                                    
MkIId    MM    MM5236    5236    MkIId open std, IE                                                                                     
MkIId    MM    MM5609    5609    MkIId EGV, IE                                                                                       
MkIId    MM    MM5407    5407    MkIId restaurant, IE                                                                                        

2 hours ago, Sean said:

I can definitely tell the difference but its subtle enough that I wouldnt really care, the horns sound better to me on the modded loco in the video, the brake squeal sounds better in the first video however, and the prime movers sound a bit different, but as i said above  different means not authentic and the guys primary goal seems to be to make things louder by getting as much power into the top speaker as he possibly can. I personally turn all my locos down to 75-100 because i find it that bit more realistic to not fill the entire room with the sound of one tiny little machine and by doing this i am running the speakers well below their full power anyway so im thinking things would actually sound better with the 2 speakers at this volume rather then removing one.

 

@DJ Dangerous its hard wire only unfortunately as you are swapping an always on function with a directional one.

Yeah I'm the same. I don't want to hear a loco from a scale 5 miles away. The sound should fade in and out as the loco approaches and moves away for me.

I won't be doing the sound mod. I'm not able to tell enough of a difference to make it worth the hassle. The lighting mod will be performed on all mine though.

2 hours ago, Fowler4f said:

The 056s body on the irreparable A46 chassis will sit outside the repair shop awaiting the scrap man’s cutting torch !

Can you post some pics of the damage? I wouldn't write the chassis off unless it's badly bent. I even fixed a slightly bent one for @DJ Dangerous that had fallen from height. The plastic bits should be available as spares from IRM, if not immediately then after the warranty periods have run out.

071's??

A couple of short videos from the above two locations...

And a few more from Zalabér-Batyk Station kind of in the middle of nowhere but my wife's Hungarian side of the family are from this area so we occasionally visit. I usually drop down to see if anything is doing. Until 2007 this was a branch station providing interchange to the 6km short branch to the south east, which was closed due to austerity measures. Allegedly it will be reopened some day. For a pretty dead station in the middle of nowhere you can still get to both Budapest and Ljubljana direct from here, but most trains are local or regional. Freight trains often stop here to let passenger ones pass. There's an abandoned loading ramp which looks like it may have seen beet tipped from it at some stage! The parking area is clearly made of recycled sleepers laid face down to create a flat surface. 

And a few from a much more tourist oriented Balatonarács, taken in the evening sun...

Couple more snaps taken today:

I have about a dozen words Leslie. My wife can speak it well enough though so she does all the talking

A couple of impressions from Hungary, which we are currently visiting. We took the sleeper from Berlin to Budapest Nyugati via Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Journey time of just under 14 hours. Still plenty of jointed track in southern Poland which made sleeping a bit difficult. Two long shunting stops in Bohumin and Breclav allowed for some more solid sleep. We departed Berlin in a train made up of Hungarian, Austrian and Polish coaches and arrived in Budapest with the Hungarian, Czech and different Polish coaches (ones which came from Warsaw and joined our train in Bohumin). Allegedly this route is the most complicated sleeper route in the world with all the cities served.

This is Nyugati (west) station. From here we took a taxi to the grim Deli (south) station and from there took an ex German built rake of interregional coaches to lake Balaton which took roughly two hours. The stretch along the lake's western shore is single track so there was some waiting for oncoming trains to pass...

The Danube was also in flood following all the recent heavy rains further upstream:

@DJ Dangerous has a Lokprogrammer AFAIK. That would be the weapon of choice for changing anything on an ESU decoder. Waaay easier than fiddling with CVs anyway. Once click and you're done with a Lokprogrammer and it's much less likely that you will mess something up.

Personally I have decided to standardise on the "US diesel" way of doing things, so F9 for drive hold etc.

2 hours ago, Sean said:

Are you referring to like a pure graphite stick from an art shop @murphaph?

I've seen some folks just use a 2B pencil for things like thise. If it's just for the couplings I reckon it would be just fine but pure graphite wouldn't do any harm of course.

You could just use a pencil rather than graphite powder. The powder is very messy I found. A bit of fine sandpaper and a pencil will also produce graphite powder if direct application using the pencil doesn't work.

On 23/6/2023 at 4:16 PM, Fowler4f said:

These arrived in post today from Arran.

Mine arrived in Germany today. Unfortunately stung for €22 VAT + handling