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Got a phone call yesterday. It was an unknown woman. "This is it , I thought. It's the Mammy of one of that Accurascale crowd going to hammer me for the out of hours communications. Actually I was wrong. It turned out to be an "Eir" scam. Relief is not the word....
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Once again I lashed off a query to Accurascale in the wee hours of the morning. It concerned the forth coming class 66. Sure enough I got a prompt reply. They seem to be open all hours, despite the site saying they would be away until Monday. This is all good and dandy for people like me with queries being sent in at ungodly hours. There is one thing I dread when I send one in at unsociable hours, namely what happens if "The Mammy" of one of the IRM/Accurascale people takes umbrage at this and goes on the warpath?
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Short article here Iarnród Éireann DMUs reliveried | News | Railway Gazette International
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Renfe Class 310 - Wikipedia
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Lots to see in different scales. I am sure the IRM lads are cringing looking at the Deltic close to the buffer stop, that is not there. I was very taken by the lady in the cab of the steam loco, nothing like the hostesses we got over here for awhile. Compare and make up your own mind!
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The wife said she is going to buy me a Geiger counter. She says I am spending a lot of time in the attic shifting nuclear waste so she wants to be sure I have not picked up a lethal dose of radiation. Last night she turned the light off to see if I was glowing in the dark. See, I picked up a brand new Vitrains DRS class 37 recently and it's been earning it's keep on nuclear waste and such stuff....
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I found the couplings on the "A" class to be lower than the couplings on the IRM ballast wagons. I cannot shunt the ballast wagons with the "A" class as the coupling on the loco goes under the coupling on the wagon. I can shunt the wagons with the Murphy Models locos. Seems the couplings on the "A" class are a bit of an anomaly. I posted this previously and others have the same issue.
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You can still see the viaduct piers.
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The old maxim of "measure twice, cut once" does not seem to have been followed here. I wonder if this had happened on Irish Rail would anyone have been held responsible or the units just stored in Inchicore as a new expensive sound barrier? $276 million was spent on 31 Spanish trains before it was realized they were too big to fit in the tunnels (msn.com)
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I had a Dapol class 59 dispatched by Hattons on the 14th December and I received it on December 29th.
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Will see how it flies..or rather rolls.
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Just ordered in some of the newly announced Accurascale "Fixed Dellner Coupling Bars - 4 Couplings".Fixed Dellner Coupling Bars - 4 Couplings — Irish Railway Models I intend to have them fitted to some Bachmann Tilcon JGA hopper wagons. The hard part is getting the wagons booked into Inchicore to get the couplings removed and replaced by the new magnetic yokes. It is harder getting booked into Inchicore than it is getting your car booked in for an NCT....
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I see a news release stating that Nolan Transport are opening new €12,000,000 warehouse facility in County Wexford. It said that the company "is seeking options to add on railway connection" in the future
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Seems Eamon Ryan was complaining about the emissions from that loco. He said it was that bad he saw it from the airplane he was travelling in to go to another "green summit" in some far off place. He said he was not the only one who saw it. He said that some of his 91 person entourage were enraged by it...
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Nice bit of research. Should set you up for a job as a researcher on Prime Time....
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Back on Terra Firma....
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Car went into the garage recently and was put up on the lift...and there it stayed. A fault developed with the lift and it would not come down. Part on order....for the lift.
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I managed to get these recently, all are new and unused. The DRS Vitrains class 37 and 47 are from EBAY and the Lima class 37 is from Clarks Railworks.
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County Donegal
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First decent snowfall of the season. Funnily enough it was crunchy and crispy down low but pure soft powdery higher up. Tiring especially on the slopes. Just a few photos. When I was leaving this morning about 10.30am the Mrs informed me that it was -3 degrees according to her phone. Funnily enough when I was putting my gear into the car I gathered that I would not be wearing shorts....
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Thats them GREENS again. In order to save energy the train does not stop enroute so you have to run after it and board it a la Butch Cassidy. They are also saying that this gives you much needed exercise.
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Hopefully asbestos free, unlike some of NIR coaches in the past! Ah well there is a quarry not too far from here, just in case.
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For anyone that is interested the Dapol class 59 has finally hit the shops in the UK. Have ordered Natonal Power 59204. Comes in at €186.04 EUR including postage. Hattons do the VAT thing etc so it should come through O.K. Dapol 4D-005-003 Class 59/2 59204 "Vale of Glamorgan" in National Power (hattons.co.uk)
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I think they need that squad to walk in front of the Luas and clear the people with eyes for their phones only out of the way.
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American visitors to Tara Junction.
spudfan replied to ttc0169's topic in US / Canadian Railway Modelling
Union Pacific HO Scale Model Train Diesel Locomotives (hobbylinc.com) Canadian HO Scale Model Train Diesel Locomotives (hobbylinc.com)
