skinner75

I've been in the IT game for the past 25 years - no backups is a real no-no!

Once I've all bases covered with diesel locos & stock that ran with them, I'm done, and my bank account can finally take a long overdue breather!!

Would that not leave only the ballast wagons pulled by a tamper as the only rolling stock? Or did NIR get rid of the ballast wagons?

Sounds interesting - care to elaborate?

Love this even more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Cb9x70gYQ

Saw this on the RTE webpage this morning: https://www.rte.ie/history/irish-free-state/2022/1123/1337904-the-conflict-on-irish-railways-1922-23/

Another reason not to order from the UK - if the extra duty due wasn't enough!

Whatever is going to be released, it'll give me a chance to get the accounts back into the black! I'd have no interest in steam at all, as for me, my earliest memories of the railway is from around 1980 Connolly station, and plenty of GMs and Metrovicks in action! On a Sunday, my uncle would take me for a trip out to Howth, Bray, or Dun Laoghaire - I can remember him taking me on the DART on its first day of operation too

What about Tracy and Sharon (Shard'n)

Happy to have missed them TBH, as I have a full rake of the legit ones

Nice looking build - I built a block shed with my dad, but we never did the insulation in the slab. It's more of a home to a couple of motorbikes, several mountainbikes, with a workbench, cabinets & shelving taking up the rest of the space! We did run electrics down to it from the house, and have the armored cable coming up through the slab - setting it in place before pouring the slab in sections - mixing the concrete ourselves.

Didn't click on the vid, but I'm assuming it was shot on carpet too lolz!

I hope it's mostly steam era stuff, so I won't end up in the poor house!

In the case of the two farms above - the question is - was the land bought from the railway after closure? If not, surely then it is a case of tough titty pal - follow the former railway alignment, as the farmer doesn't own that land

What are all the gashes on the driving trailer?

Great quality print that! Did you have to do any/much sanding down to remove 3d printing 'lines'?

Are scones bread or cake?

Easy peasy to rip up tarmac in the future if the demand is there for rail, which it appears not to be at present

Are the pocket wagons able to handle the extended 40+5' containers, or has the extra 5' addon made them too small to take those containers?

I think freight comes through Athlone from Dublin around 12.30pm-ish, and then heading towards Dublin it passes through around 4.30pm (I think)

These have gone on to a good home today

Exactly this - I don't have any layout, but I am still buying the IRM releases as they come out. I'd be a right eejit to not buy them when they are released, and then in X years time when I have a layout, have a whinge about crazy secondhand prices when IRM have sold out!!

Have you seen what old Nintendo stuff goes for?!?!? (doesn't mean that they'll get it, but the rare games market is crazy) https://www.ebay.es/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=nintendo+rare&_sacat=0&_sop=16

I remember getting a ride around the track as a kid many, many years ago! It is just a simple oval of track - possibly dual guage?

I came across this on YouTube- a look at the way things were back in the day. Oh for catering like that these days! Enjoy a trip down memory lane https://youtu.be/ocnE95oVDW8