Patrick Davey

Thanks to @Mol_PMB for spotting the latest update to the IRRS Flickr treasure trove - 355 superb photos from the lens of Gerald Beesley, a mix of B&W and colour, centred on Dublin with a nice selection from Belfast too (Great Victoria Street & Queen's Quay included.) Some cracking colour views of A class locos following their 1968-71 engine upgrade: black & tan heaven! This has been said many times but it's worth repeating: the price of the IRRS membership is worth it alone for access to the Flickr archive, over TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND images from railways throughout the island of Ireland, very few if any have been published, and many many very rare and obscure locations featured. Very highly recommended! Very many thanks to the team at the IRRS for the huge effort involved in digitising and uploading these invaluable photographs. What a resource!

Just getting better and better!

He has well and truly retired Alan, now living in rural seclusion at Blackstaff in Co. Louth, with the two cats, Merlin & Peregrine!

Yes indeed David - that's the plan!

I am pleased to report that Brookhall Mill has a new owner, who will take great care of it and may well return it to the exhibition circuit. And with it, goes my final fling with DC - plenty of chips needed now so I can run everything on Clogherhead.

So much so, they asked for an udder sermon.

Mighty Kevin! Great to see you back at the buildings again. I love how you never shy away from a challenging prototype!

Lovely shots Ernie. The Athlone cabin almost looks Great Northern!

Cracking Hunslet sir!

Magnificent altogether - Alan & Jamie (and my non-forum friend!) have done all the work, and I get to keep the locomotive!! It looks fabulous, and I hope I don’t ruin it by replacing some of the moulded detail and attempting a decent paint job….. Sincere thanks to both @Tullygrainey and @J-Mo Arts

Mega work David - how have I missed this! No. 74 is a favourite of mine, as she seems to have been caught by the photographers of the time on a good few occasions. She looks great with the crew!

That was a very helpful video on resetting the decoder, I’ve done it and still have the same problem, as @Signal Post anticipated

I can confirm that the marker lights do not illuminate when this is attempted. The only way I can get them to work simultaneously is by swapping in a standard chip. IRM I think recommended I reset the chip to factory settings but dopey me wasn't able to follow the steps

Yes I am familiar with this video. I have watched it a few times but my soldering skills would not be appropriate for this level of precision!

I’m using an NCE PowerCab and it definitely does weird things from time to time - usually when I press F11 for rear marker lights, the whistle sound activates first, a second press does as expected. Some other times when I select an already operating locomotive, it other turns off or changes direction! Possibly all related?

@Signal Post - here’s a summary of the cab light issue with my A classes: This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series And Part 2:

@Signal Post thank you for those kind words! As far as I recall I believe I tried swapping decoders between locos and the problem matched the decoders, and all of my sound decoders had the same issue, 1 EMD and 2 Crossley. But I will try it again to make sure. Updates tomorrow and thanks for offering to help!

Well I did use iMOOvie

Absolutely none of which was done by me

Update on the 3D printing: The excellent file created by @J-Mo Arts has now been printed on a resin printer - quite an improvement from the previous print!

Looking superb Alan!

Thanks Kevin, very kind! And yes, guilty as charged re. the music! Thanks a mil JB - very kind words! I thought you would approve of the ‘instant’ unboxing! Thanks David! Thanks Alan!

Just magnificent - mills always make a good layout subject!

If it is, it's the most realistic track weathering I have ever seen!!!

I'm very sad to read this - I only had very good experiences with Dave. I hope everyone finds a resolution.