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Slightly off topic but still 121 related. I remember many years ago, probably the middle 1980's, I was over in Leinster Models in Monck Place and Ciaran McGowan was on counter duty-with pipe in full swing. He was showing me paper plans (blueprints) for an "O" gauge 121 he was building for a customer. I wonder if it is still in existence? Also you could get 121 in "00" gauge built on an American chassis. Don't know if he used Bachmann or Athearn. Anyway it was outside my budget at the time. Little did I realise at the time that a 121 would be available as a standard item. I used to frequent the shop a lot and I have some great memories. I can still smell the pipe smoke from some of the Lima models I bought there!

It's not my pain...

If any of you lads up in the IRM Tower headquarters have been feeling poorly lately i.e. lots of stabbing pain in the arms, legs and torso well I am afraid it is my fault. The wife happened to see my proposed purchases in my shopping cart and went away and got some dolls from the attic. One now sports a cardboard name tag which says "That crowd up in IRM Towers". She has been dutifully sticking pins into the aforementioned doll.

My car has a Sat Nag, but it is "old" technology . There is no turn off button, it starts as soon as the car does. It has a glitch in the soft ware, namely it sometimes gets LEFT and Right confused. No big deal the car has a large fuel tank...… The warranty has long expired. That went with the "FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE" acceptance thing. Ah well I did get to see a lot of the country, in a bonus type of way.

Normally, to get this excited about photographs on the internet you have to click on the "Yes I am over 18" caption. The type of site that you hit EXIT when the Mrs enters the room...and hope that it doesn't freeze. But that is another story......

Methinks you and I will be moving in together!!!!

Update. As I was blessed with only two kidneys I headed to the local butcher shop. I managed to pick up a few more kidneys for Ebay…. As an aside I do carry an organ donor card (female members please exert some self control) so I do feel some pangs of guilt. Also the JCB has arrived and has been suitably camouflaged..... for the St Patricks Day parade. Anyone else any good ideas, or are you keeping them to fund your own requirements?

I have pre sold so many internal organs that I'll be on life support in bed watching my layout with the A class being controlled by the Mrs.....

Looks like it'll be Christmas Day in the attic. I'll just leave lots of photos lying about so that the wife and kids remember what I look like.

Regarding reincarnation...would it be possible to spread the cost over multiple lives? I could really cut loose then, with the credit card.

We recycle now...….

Too many...

Just booked a JCB online with the local plant hire outfit.....

It has been reported that a prisoner has escaped from Mountjoy. He is described as a midget who is also a psychic. So the Gradai have issued a press releases stating "There is a small medium at large..."

The little Guinness trains that used to run through the cobble streets to the various parts of the Saint James's Gate complex. Happy memories, I can still get that smell as I stood watching them. Need to increase the size of the layout to get a brewery complex in, complete with internal rail system!

All Garda leave has been cancelled to assist with crowd control for the appearance of Paddy and the 121. Some people are getting ready for the end of the world owing to the momentousness (?) of the occasion. Some are saying this was mentioned in the Mayan calendar as one of the signs that would signal the end of civilisation as we know it. Boris Johnson is complaining that it is a ruse by the Irish government to divert attention from him. Me, well I'm going to wrap myself in tin foil tonight ...just incase.

The Rail Rover was a good idea and it worked very well...going forward. The trouble was getting all of that weight to stop using the Land Rover brakes on their own.

On the way to a good home....

Will the models featuring the Crossley diesel engines have an intermittent break down facility built in?

PM me with your address and I'll send it on.

Thanks for this. I have had a shower and have asked the wife for money for diesel for the car. Now it's the long drive to Portlaoise.

Looking at the wishlist of existing and forth coming IRM models, I suddenly thought of the future. When my time does come to exit this mortal existence I would not like to see my hard earned rolling stock go to waste. The answer? I've decided to follow the pharohs of ancient Egypt and build a pyramid so as I can take all of this rolling stock with me. Nothing as ostentatious as the Great pyramid of Giza I might add. Just something modest, complete with hidden rooms, blind passages, a trap or two to ensure I get to enjoy my hobby in the next existence. Anyone recommend some architects that could see this through from planning to final build? Just had a final thought. What happens if the electricity in the here after is a different phase to ours? Better add a generator to the list of necessities for the pyramid. As I am still planning this any useful suggestions would be gratefully received.

Thank you.

Have been washing the dishes (with a smile) for the last while. The Mrs thinks there's something up (the smile probably over did it). Trouble is that my hands have become so soft and wrinkly that I doubt I'll be fit to lift any of these wagons out of the box and put them on the track, let alone a 121 or an A class.

Anyone know the e-mail address of the CME (Chief Mechanical Engineer) at Irish Rail? I cannot find it on their site.