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BnM tippler in the shed at 0:30. Nice short, enjoyed that after after a crazy work day. Miss the home country

10 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

The Memory Foam Mattresses Stink of fumes when you open them, The wife bought one and it stank so much was getting headaches from it. It is certainly the worst mattress comfort wise I have ever slept on. I wake up worse shape than I went to kip in.  

 

That Memory Foam Smell - Is Memory Foam Toxic? (hullopillow.com)

That's why they call it Memory Foam, George, you can never forget that.....

8 hours ago, connollystn said:

While we're at it, guess what I find more annoying than the local tom urinating on brand new matresses or memory foam matresses? GIFT VOUCHERS

For some reason or other people feel compelled to buy me vouchers. I have a number of gift vouchers staring me in the face wondering when am I going to bring them on a day out shopping. It's enough to drive me to drink. In fact, had I received same value in cash I'd have it drank by now.

I have to agree with you. Pain in the the @$$ all those IRM gift vouchers  I'm gonna PM you my address so you can send them on to me. Hope that helps your liver.  

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

17 hours ago, James Regan said:

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

14 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Wow. Simply wow.

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?

23 hours ago, Garfield said:

This looks more like a case of the part being shaken loose in transit rather than a quality control failing(!).

I'm not sure if UHU glue is available in the USA, but a light dab of a similar tacky glue applied with a cocktail stick/pin should hold the speedo in place, as David suggests above.

 

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?

On 11/10/2021 at 12:43 PM, mmie353 said:

May need to go "sick" for the rest of the day, just arrived while on my lunch A23R, 027, 056 and 036.. Awesome

On 11/10/2021 at 2:46 PM, patrick said:

DHL from Ireland is often faster than shipments within the US. A39r also arrived today with four more on order. 

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. 

On 15/1/2021 at 3:40 AM, NIRCLASS80 said:

https://www.dccconcepts.com/product/zen-black-decoder-universal-easy-to-fit-8-pin-direct-decoder-with-6-functions/

11 hours ago, NIRCLASS80 said:

They work fine for me but light flickering is still an issue 

4 hours ago, Fowler4f said:

From the Top Man  @DCC Concepts ‘use any loco decoder with stay alive but don’t connect the Orange & Grey wires’

 

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

On 16/1/2021 at 1:33 PM, Billycan said:

That video shows 2 barrows that seem like they would be a home on many station platforms.  Does anyone do a model of that or would there be a market in volumes similar to a buffer stop?

Just thinking out loud.

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!

On 6/10/2021 at 4:39 AM, Blaine said:

A very comprehensive range of RTR GNRI stock, produced by IRM. Now long sold out and commanding very high prices. They were produced due to One person said they were leaving the hobby due to a lack of RTR GNRI stock and they obliged that person

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!.... )

23 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Even if we do more A's we'll never do the same numbers / liveries again/ 

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?

2 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Noticing that in the silver livery it doesn't have one of the snails..... in the Limerick Junction shot, he must have about twelve bogies on plus the tin van... the leading carriage is a pre-1910 GSWR one.

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