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Cheers btb. I'm actually located near Berlin so getting h0 scale stuff isn't a problem but I'm only using these relatively cheap locos for test purposes. The real collection and layout will most definitely be Irish! Collection is in the attic in storage until I have cleared enough space in the hobby room to actually build the real layout in a couple of years. For now I'm making do with this sort of "research" stuff so I'm ready to just go when the time is right. I've already learned some valuable lessons from this little test setup that I will take advantage of during the big build.

One of the "trains at speed" series of YouTube videos has a fairly good shot of of an empty bulk container train passing underneath. I can't remember which one unfortunately but it's one in the teens I believe, definitely not a low number in the series.

Great to see them selling so well.

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?