DiveController

While JHB is trying to corner the "For Sale or Wanted" market, I thought I'd blow the dust of this ad in case anyone has 187 surplus to requirements?

So, a lesson in axle-loading to be learned here?

Thanks, Heirflick for asking that! Is this the same situation, Tom? Looks like the rails here may be 'spliced' together and clamped with some additional supporting sleepers?

Seriously?............ all of us?

Not necessarily. It depends on what the remainder would buy. If you intend to buy one, that speaks for itself, and "3-5 "being AT LEAST 3 and 'more than 5' being at least 6 these are the 'orders' from the survey 121s 320 As 231 071s 192 Cs 177 141s 155 201s 131 Nothing being certain in life but the 121 is on the way at some point "next up" A's are also highly desirable which is interesting since at least some are available from SF, so either people want more of them or better ones. The 071's are also highly sought after and presently on the market so will be purchased from existing stock unless modellers want even more diversity in the existing liveries/numbers. C's are also fairly desirable just pipping more 141s. 141s are still sought after judging by this and since the are effectively sold out now there are likely to be modellers that will want to add to existing stocks or new modellers that will likely want them. 201s lowest on the diesel list but still available. Worth remembering that they are the only model that HAS had a new run after the old Limas. Looking at the numbers in the survey, not one model up there would be worth producing due to insufficient numbers. These are responses from only 150 modellers and it's hard to know how far to extrapolate this data. Depending on that, there could well be an additional market for many of the models up there although the 121 and A are clear leaders.

No photoshopped fakes please.......... you know Ireland CANNOT be seen from space due to the permanent cumulonimbus coverage! John, I am exactly 23 hours behind you, right now, so I'll be celebrating long after you're done!

Their vision for the future might have benefitted from a trip to specsavers!

Incompetence reigns supreme again. No timetables but resources to lift the track. Astounding mismanagement

Eh......... NO!

Some recent discussion on deficiencies of a 4 function decoder with a 071 class that amounts to the same problem you're having http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/4357-4-function-decoder

Well, 800 is named for the warrior Queen of Connaught and so would your daughter, so no lie! My niece is Maedhbh...... they do love Irish names at passport control, y'know... Aoife, Siobhan etc.

=)) Very good, definitely worthy of 9" News

No, it's west, to be sure, but …..further than you think http://www.villageofinnisfree.ca

It's a long time since I heard that, Dave. Still good.

It was definitely not a local problem yesterday. Had to email BK to let him know. Working well today though

Ah sure, 'twas only the wan time. Ne'r to be repeated. I'm sure……... Money wasted and not invested

Fantastic if it comes to fruition! Models have been produced by other preservation societies like GWR, although i Can;t comment on whether they are a significant source of income http://www.easycatalog.net/home/steamshop/

That's a very late start to the day, Jim!………. well, I suppose you're on GMT so you're getting up with the rest of us here

I'm pretty sure that Apple's voice recognition software (which requires a radiotelephony signal, it's not on the phone) is located at the NSA central server:rolleyes:

Noel, you really need to think about making the jump to DCC on the old chronograph there;)

And it still looks good!

The subtlety of the various liveries is still a process in evolution let alone introducing more fictitious liveries:o

John, something similar was done with the crowd-funding poll and not a lot of punters prepared to buy for sure. Many argued that thread was not that useful as it did not attempt to quantify how many of each loco people would buy, which is what Noel is trying to do here, I think. Many suggested starting with a small crowd-fuinded wagon as an alternative but I'm not sure that anyone has been willing/able to take that on. I think this thread has merit as it attempts to quantify the degree of interest in popular diesels. Some have declared it invalid as a market research tool and they may be right. However, no one has stated how SF or MM do their market research (I know no-one polled me). I am glad so many have taken the 5 minutes it takes to fill it out. However, I think we are dependent on the whim of one of two of the larger vendors of Irish outline as what comes on the market, if at all.

They're a great job, David. You've really outdone yourself with them

I think you hit the nail on the head. If you were to think of think of prototypical running would you really hear the loco more than 400ft away except the maybe the horn or on high rpm output when on a grade etc?