Billycan

'The Knack' and great advice. More like that welcome.

Agree with everything said by Joe and Noel and would add that over the past year or two there has been a growing support and knowledge sharing on this forum for NCE PowerCab users.

JB, I haven't considered anything like a landscape scene for WR&A but I have a little experience with buildings. So, this is a tuppence worth that might help kickstart some more discussion. For the cottages at Erne Terrace I photographed each cottage front on from about 10ft, imported into software, and edited. That involved resizing to 20ft wide x 9ft high and making a perspective adjustment to the vertical sides to remove their vanishing point. The important thing was that I knew the size was 20ft x 9ft when printed out. It's a very slow process but has worked well for the buildings. I'm sure others have done similar. Now, it occurs to me that if you had a front on photo of some scene you wanted and that view had say a fence with posts at 4ft-6in centres x 4ft high right at the front (or a gate, or a car, or a signal cabin?) then you could use known dimensions to scale the photo to OO scale when printed. It seems to me that such a photo is already scaled, so getting the front fence right would automatically get a mountain background to the correct appearance. If that fence is now the boundary between the modelled layout and the backscene then it should look reasonably good. I know this is simplistic and is not mathematically accurate but if it looks right... etc etc. Trees and shrubbery would help to blend the two where they join. This approach might daft for a backscene but I don't know of anyone who does this type of bespoke scene commercially so I too would be interested in any observations that other modellers would have.

On the Guinness Brewery 27 June 1950 photo what make/model of cars should a modeller use for a taxi line like that? Also, we are now familiar with Guinness keg liners from IRM, but what was in those wagons in the photo, crates of bottles, or barrels, or kegs, or what? Any photos? TIA

Remembering 187 years. A short video for the day that's in it, Dargan Day, 17 December 2021, a suburban special departs from Westland Row. https://youtu.be/n7pG2Ze1qu4

Yes, important to record the history for the future.

There you go, and like the man says, 'Every day is a school day'. Thanks to Warbonnet and D J Dangerous for posting the links. Enjoyed the videos, especially the way Jennifer overlayed stills photos of some point she was explaining in the video. Nice that. Those A Class are the business.

Do you have any URL links?

Have you your PowerCab set up for Extended Function Control and have you tried any of those functions?

And full credit for running them, sharing photos and posting videos.

Thanks DiveController, maybe someone will have a memory of it. The second photo reminds me of school days many years ago and the other Guinness narrow gauge. I also recall a super Guinness model layout being exhibited at a Spring Show or Horse Show at the RDS. That's a long time ago.

I believe there was a similar saddle tank loco at Broadstone (top photo). Did it have a nickname like Sambo?

Well, well, glad you all had great sport and enjoyed that, and all based on the assumption that I have an order with IRM. I guess I'll give you that one. I do have an order with them. However, the second assumption was that I was looking to speed up delivery. Not so. Last week when I realised that personal commitments would mean that it was quite possible that I would not be here if An Post delivered, I changed my order to 'collect' so that I could manage safe shipping later rather than sooner. Who'd have thought that a simple customer relations question could engage folk to that extent. Fran, Pat, Bosko you need to get some orders out to a few of these poor modellers, especially any who might be finding the wait challenging. Enjoy the modelling, share photos and keep uploading videos.

I wrote, Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later. What do you think?

So, people who 'strictly' didn't have to pay and didn't, will have priority over people who didn't have to pay but did? Just seems to me that those who paid their money first should be served sooner rather than later.

Easier, certainly, but not acknowledging early payment. Nope! Order date or payment date?

Fran, Is date of payment not a priority?

9901 at WR&A,

Congratulations. Well deserved.

Mr Dargan would be well pleased.

That's a bit of a bummer and looks like we'll have to feel some pain. But ouch! What's the best estimate for when the non sound chips will be available? Perhaps there's an alternative?

HI Guys, Looks like the long wait is just over and we are into the final week. Just noticed that the A Class - DCC Standard Chip is Out of stock. Any update on that?

Some notes on the convoys from North County Dublin to the City Markets. The cars are a clue to the date. One of the enduring stories of my childhood is of the men who ‘went the road’ to market. Everything was done by horse. From working the land with horse and spade to taking the produce to Dublin market by horse and cart. The cart was loaded in the evening and you set off for market before midnight walking with your horse to Dublin. It took 4½ hours to Dublin – a horse could pull 1 ton and a pony could pull ½ ton. Upon arrival at the market you queued up and waited for opening at 7:00am. There were often convoys of carts arriving together and fierce competition for a place in the queue as there were distinct advantages to being early and your produce ‘first up’. Many of the vegetables where bunched in dozens and multiples of 12 and could be placed loose in the cart. But many softer vegetables like lettuce had to be packed into boxes or containers to prevent crushing or damage. This was a huge problem. There was no plastic (it had not been invented yet); cardboard boxes could not even be conceived. Boxes were made of wood and expensive, so you looked to the docks and fruit importers for their empty boxes. (Martin Ruigrok, (2011) Dublin Market Tokens, NSI Occasional Paper No 51, p64-73)