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To be honest I was thinking of getting a second one in dark green, but alas! Surprising that this sold so quickly like the BnT livery, must have been in smaller quantities. Were many painted into the dark green? Was considering a renumber. Might also do a light green with a stripe if I get brave enough

Sambo was definitely at Inchicore, not sure of the loco pilot at Broadstone before closure

The hope that we'll be able to pop into town for a few pence instead of a few pounds seems not to have realized. Still the Drumm railcars were ahead of their time but probably limited by the accumulators of the time

Did you check the lights on DC first. I presume they are all working as per the switches on the loco? If you have multiple chips, install another and see what happens. You could try to reset the decoder CV8=8 , goes to factory settings and all mapping goes back to that specified in the tech sheet, Loco address back to 3 One of the 121s has a lighting issue but I think it is 129 off the top of my head Which Chip? 53614?

Hard to believe that there is a summit to redesign coaching stock interiors. Railway operators have ignored customers opinions and needs in this regard for a considerable time

Anyone able to give an unbiased opinion on the quality of the associated captioning? As erudite gricers of the steam era pass as the steam era itself has done, younger railway enthusiasts need a better understanding to appreciate the worth of the work. A photo may only be as good as the readers understanding of what is in the photo.

1921 The British leave Ireland (more than less), chaos ensues 2021 The British have left the EU, more chaos ....

Would the new Pelletstown station qualify for this thread? Nothing at all as far as I can see

I will say I was impressed with the box, plastic outer sleeve so the box is not scuffed or beaten to a pulp like so many other models, large box due to thick foam insert, outer plastic sleeve on formed plastic enclosure, the space between the holding the bag of bits. The molded plastic enclosure holds the loco securely at specific structural points, leaving finer parts suspended out of contact with anything else. The contact points are padded with moleskin to prevent scuffing where it contacts the model. But, yes, we might need a bigger boat ... lol I only got one of the dark lined green because I couldn't remember how many of them actually got that livery. Anyone know the details?

Agreed, more likely broken in transit I guess. Surprising as the box is pretty beefy. There is a a leading axle looking at me behind there so I wanted to be sure the thing needed to be glued in the first place

Very nice, Ernie. Love that layout, attention to detail is excellent, rocks, man working, blending foreground to background as mentioned previously. Top stuff! Cement bubbles look well behind the A. You deserve some play time away from the Archive (but we do enjoy it!)

Probably what I'm going to do . I was just wondering if this was glued on in the first instance or just press fit?

Well, after criticizing DHL on another thread, the shipment came through Cincinatti this time, might not have even landed and headed south. DHL surprised me by landing 4 IRM IR Class As on the door step tonight. Well packed, the IRM green packaging, not the parcel, more on that later. Took me about 5 minute to get it out of the packaging, nearly as Long as Sam's trains! lol No sooner out of the box than a tiny shepherd's crook of plastic falls to the floor from the leading axle of the bogie on the left side. Wondering if this is press fit or should have been glued on? Using the other cab as a comparison and trying to carefully avoid the adjacent steps (and the ones on the opposite side to avoid breakage), I tried to fit it back firstly with finger and then a tiny flat head screwdriver to no avail. Anyone know how to reattach this piece?

MY last shipment of IRM buses was a doozy, the packet stayed in Miami for almost 2 weeks waiting for a driver to ship it onward. Finally arrived with minimal damage. My signed for delivery came with multiple notices on my DHL app to change the delivery especially an option to cancel the signature. It didn't even come on the day it was finally out for delivery but did finally come the day after that. They just threw it at my door in any case, no signature required I guess but they did have a photograph of 'proof of placement' to absolve themselves of any liability. I did actually pay them for that in the order, its not Freepost I was glad to see DHL is routing my IR A classes via Ohio this time, so fingers crossed. Oddly my Silver As were ordered well in advance of anything else (order number in the 2000s, we're hitting 10K at the moment) and they have not yet shipped. Don't care honestly which order they come in but it would be nice if DHL got its act together this time. New set of notices to change delivery even before it has left Ireland, customer service right there....not

The technology will improve with time. The problems are the algorithm which is incorrect and will be improved upon. The other is the actual quality of the B&W image itself because of the camera itself, and the processing methods. Let’s face it the film used is an interpretation of light and records contrast and little more. Colorization is frustrating work but not as frustrating and people putting NIR color schemes on A class and the like which drives me demented.

Easy for the vendor to say but NIrClass80 used one of theirs but still has flickering. I wonder if IRM has a recommendation for flicker free direct plug DCC chip in the ploughs? @BosKonay

So the emails were fitted before or shortly after going into traffic an remain there until the black livery? Seen pretty well on A33 in Ernie's photos at Limerick above

I'd say there would be room for a whole set of line side things like the extra containers and fertilizer. 2 and 4 wheeled, scales, signage, porter (the fellow, not the drink), station master, driver, guard, signalman passing token, staff snatcher, passengers attired in yesteryear, woman pushing old style pram, typical Irish cart (donkey include, all the better), 1970s passengers for lighted coaches (ahem), the list is endless, but a representative assortment from that would not go astray at all. We all need to think out louder (telepathy server ON... Check!)

Actually, that's not that bad. Usually a railway book is like £5 and shipping to US is something like £24.89!

OK, THAT's IT! I'VE HAD ENOUGH!! I'M LEAVING THIS SITE IF WE DON'T GET SOME CIE BUILT STOCK TO GO WITH THE EARLY A CLASS (God knows how many likes this is going to get, what HAVE I done!.... )

Excellent! Now about that rolling stock, strike while the irons hot and all that .... (milk gets sour you know, unless its non-IRM, but there's no demand for that cause it's 5h!t3)

maybe post one or two if there is anything interesting in there? How did you resolve the scanning issue in the end?

So when did they get the snails again. In photos it looks like the were more than paint, more like fitted to the side of the loco but I might be wrong since they would likely have remained there if so

A23R and A39R both gone now, that's the last of them until the rerun

You have got to be kidding me, Noel! it's barely been commissioned and so much other stuff to do. There's the MV Hibernia and a lineside model of Carlisle pier first surely! Sure, you'll have no room for it on Tara Junction anyway