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Great find Fran

Wait till you run your class 67 Fran they are a disaster I took them of mine and threw them in the bin

Don't you know it is

Yes John black or grey would be nicer

Very nice Stephen you really are a dark horse

Well said another little mistake was on the EGV there was no door hinges on one side of the coach. But to be fair after making a few modifications I'm just glad to have them on my layout but not everyone is pleased or happy by them. As Paddy says you cant please everyone.

That don't sound to nice

That looks superb it great to see you guys starting to post up photos of your rolling stock and layouts instead of just talking about them. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more pics

Ok see you there:-bd

Great video the 071 looks brill hauling the timber wagons

No probs Bud what time you going

Maybe Eamonn will be able to find out of Gerry about remapping the Lenz

Watch out for low flying planes

A great place to go on holidays always enjoyed any time I spent there

Stay of the vodka or God knows what way you'd wire up the rest of them. Next doors TV would be doing all sorts of funny things.

Ok I will try and explain this as best I can if I'm wrong I stand corrected and I will have learnt something new today As I said before the Lenz is a 5 function decoder 1st function is F0 side lights 2nd is F1 red tail lights on and off 3rd is F2 head lights these are directional 4th is F3 shunting speed 5th is F5 cab light #1 end The reason f5 works the cab light is because that is probably the factory default. You could go into the CV settings and remap F5 to button 4. To get the cab light working on the other side I would assume you would need a six function decoder. The cheapest 21 pin 6 function is the TCS DECODER

Me thinks its time for you to have a beer and sit back and enjoy

So what your saying is you spent the whole day lying on your back

All good things come to those who wait

To be fair Seamus the RPSI steamers ain't as shiny and new as their UK counter parts. Tornado and Duchess of Sutherland come to mind. From a distance the RPSI steamers look clean its not until you get up close that you see the dirt paint chips rust etc on them. As i said everything has some amount of dirt and paint chips etc on it. I don't know if your going to Cultra tomorrow but if you are take a look at Dunluce Castle sitting there it may be clean but take a really close look at her she has rust and paint chips even those loco sitting in the museum ain't perfect. And before any RPSI heads start on me I ain't knocking them in any way were talking dirty trains here.

Seamus did you not have a video on the old site of her running

No train is ever clean unless its just out of the paint shop. As for the RPSI stock you ain't looking closely enough. B141 looks clean in photos but if you were standing beside her you would see dirt some where.

It's like everything on my layout Seamus. When I run my trains I like them to look a realistic as possible. Dunluce Castle as you know sits in Cultra and is probably the cleanest she has ever been in her whole life. I don't see the point in spending a lot of time and money on a layout and scenery to make it look as realistic as possible and then spoil it all with a train that looks like a new toy out of the box. It's not how they looked in real life whether diesel or steam and I think clean trains look stupid on a good layout it one of the biggest pet hates I have. It really sickens me when I see a fantastic club layout at a show and all the effort that went into that layout and the next thing this shiny new train running around it. One layout in particular that stands out was at the Carrick show this year I can't recall the name of it but I think it was a new layout owned by the BFPMRC it had a big Ford banner at the front of it. A fantastic layout really nice detail and I could have stood and watched it all day. But you know what let the whole thing down. Yep you guessed it clean unrealistic looking trains. I just hope Bleach Green isn't as big a letdown tomorrow.