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Are there any other h0 fremo modellers in Ireland Jack that you know of?

Thx but I can't afford those sort of prices over buying sheets of birch ply and cutting out myself!

Yeah I had a look at the standards a while back. The main 00 fremo guy in Germany actually lives quite close to me. Most of the few 00 fremo meetups have been about 10 mins from me but I hadn't yet gotten back into the hobby at that stage. I might someday build a couple of modules but there hasn't been a 00 fremo meetup for 5 years now.

Yeah that's the concept. There are huge fremo meetups here in Germany and beyond where loads of people bring their modules along and bolt them together to create very long runs. It's all standardised. It's a pity the 00 subgroup seems to have died a death. https://www.fremo-net.eu/en/modular-systems/h0-scale/00fremo/

Short video of current configuration... Rocrail test layout demonstrating end to end running, simulating a shuttle with two track station at either end of the run. Also featuring learned braking distance/curve (BBT) so trains learn with each iteration when to begin braking to reach the stop (in) sensor smoothly. The long straight between the stations consists of two physical blocks, grouped together into a logical block group and designated as a critical section, forcing Rocrail to reserve all the blocks in the group, thus preventing a head on stalemate condition at the 12 o'clock position.

Ah ok. Thx. Way too late for me unfortunately. Will have to wait for IRM to do the old ones

Any information about the year? What years did the sugar beet operate with the bulk containers on 42' flats?

Symoba is a German supplier that I heard good things about on a German forum. http://www.symoba-schniering.de/sym-produkte.htm

I love the "IRRS piano music". Nice touch.

It's possible they need to heat up certain foodstuffs like treacle to get them to actually flow out I suppose.

Ok Dave. That's a shame but bigger picture and all that.

The plain ones are indicated in the Traffic Signs Manual. The sign is designated RTS 005. I suspect because the border colour is not specifically mentioned, that someone has taken the liberty of installing the UK version, which appears identical but with the red and white border.

What's the electrical switchgear used for on a tanktainer? Some site of heating element?

Glad you got to the bottom of it.

Is the fair still due to take place as of now? I understand the situation is fluid but given current restrictions will it be taking place is what I mean.

I'd love to see more of these. Great stuff. It would be nice if you could use a mic or something to capture your speech a bit louder over the loco.

Finished at £82! eBay is mad.

Were these uniload containers for domestic use only? Any examples of customers?

I'd say PM is well annoyed with the speaker manufacturer. That's really bad luck.

What decoder is fitted Thom? Is it the same decoder you're trying in both?

I would be amazed if the motors at least were custom made for MM and not an off the shelf item used in other models, no? Body parts are the real problem I would have thought, but with 3D printing improving all the time there is surely a solution there for the future. Instead of trying to best guess the lifetime spare parts requirements for a product before the production run a manufacturer could in theory make many of them to order when a customer request comes in. They have the CAD files. The replacement parts wouldn't be free or cost pennies as setting up a 3D printer is going to require some effort but they would be available indefinitely at least. I bet that in the future you'll have 3D printing as a service where little human intervention is required. That's what it's now like with PCBs. You send the file and on their end it's all automated, spitting out the finished packaged and labelled PCBs at the end. The cost of getting custom PCBs made is a fraction of what it was in the past. I'd say 3D printing may go the same way in time.

So this train always followed the Dublin train it was connecting with as far as Claremorris? Did it follow or lead the Westport train to Manulla Jct?

Did the Ballina branch train sit in Claremorris between duties on the branch or did it sit in Ballina or Manulla Jct?

It's not layout, rather a "test-bed" for different technologies I am evaluating before I some day start my proper layout. The oval is a simple sheet of framed chipboard, attached at a hinge point to the wall and also attached with two chains that bear the load when the oval is folded down. I don't really need this space saving design here but this oval was put together almost ten years ago now and we lived in a smaller place back then. I've recently remounted it here in the basement room where the future layout will go and fitted or refitted the following to the underside: -Raspberry pi model A running Rocrail server (bottom right) -openDCC kit built DCC controller. -openDCC kit built DCC booster (directly under controller) -two cheapo point motors at the extreme left and right ends -openDCC based point motor controller (basically homemade using openDCC processor from their solenoid motor controller project). Bottom centre. -s88 bus block occupancy detector. 8 inputs available. Current based detection. Centre left. -s88 bus board for reading optical sensors in and reporting back to controller. 16 inputs available (12 in use). Centre right. The yellow patch cables carry the s88 bus (it's just a long bit shift register) signals back to the controller. The controller simply routes those back to Rocrail so it can keep a track of loco progress. The current sensing is used to alert Rocrail that a loco has entered a block. Rocrail then starts to decelerate the loco if the loco needs to stop in that block. The loco will then trigger the optical sensor near the end of the block (I have no signals but the signal post would basically be just after the optical sensor) and Rocrail commands the loco to stop. I had much of the hardware lying around and wanted to try Rocrail. I will not be using any of this hardware except the raspberry pi (and that may be a bit weak too as it's single core) in my big layout. It has too many limitations for what I want to achieve but it was useful as a learning experience. https://youtu.be/crxxs8xIPOk

It should do yes. You need a decoder with an aux 5 output for the above circuit to work. Aux 5 is the first unused aux on the 201 so I used that. The 6 function decoders have aux 1 to aux 6, with aux 3,4,5,6 being TTL as long as they are nmra spec compliant.