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Good stuff , Ben! enjoyed the first of those. Looking forward to the rest:trains:

The 201s are not my favorite locomotive and this color scheme doesn't look bad overall. I don't mean to get too nostalgic, and I know those with 201s will love this either now or eventually, but it does't remind me of anything remotely Irish either by color or design. The color scheme is like something more typical of post-privatization in the UK. That logo reminds me of something I did in art class may moons ago although they at least didn't drop every upper case letter! Having griped about all that, I'm not really a fan of the silver/green DMU livery either, so maybe there's is just no pleasing me….. Change is good at least for modelers and certainly for the vendors so that is probably no bad thing and whether it's my cup of tea or not, it's something new for the The Irish "Railway Modeller" or The "Irish Railway" Modeller, but let's not get onto that again…..

Fantastic work, David.

So.... I decided to find out........ Noel's right. This is a "wholly IFM product" per Tom but is not on their website and is "a special order only". I'm not sure who special ordered it on eBay but it's a nice GSV and there if anyone needs one right now. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Irish-Rail-CIE-Dutch-steam-heating-van-ideal-for-murphy-models-etc-New-/261767106946?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cf2891182

Behold some of the dumbest f**** in the world. If they were smart enough to put the flag up correctly they might have the bare minimum IQ to be gainfully employed as unskilled labour, at fast food restaurant etc. instead of stealing every tyre and pallet for weeks on end to disrespect the flag of a sovereign nation they know little or nothing about. Only citizens of that nation have the right to burn that flag under the gravest circumstance of civil peaceful protest against a government democratically elected to represent their interests. If these individuals are unhappy with their lot they should burn the Union Jack and deliver a letter to Stormont (assuming they have gained sufficiency literacy skills while building bonfires) I witnessed one of things fall over and melt the asphalt on the road once. Needless to say, that community didn't contribute to the resurfacing, which is why I am wondering if these guys live in that caravan to the left (I can only hope)

Directly from the SilverFox website ( to save me typing it) The C (201) Class was manufactured by Metropolitan Vickers as less powerful versons of the 001 Class locomotives for mixed traffic use on branch lines. Unfortunately, they suffered badly from the unreliability of their Crossley engines, which were also underpowered. The entire class we re-engined with General Motors engines. Originally, these locomotives were numbered C201-C234. As the locomotives were re-engined (rebuilt), they were renumbered B201-B234 to reflect their increased power. The prefix letter was later dropped. Hope this helps IR/IE 201 Class Orange, Black Band, after rebuild B230, later just "230"

JHC, jhb! I was thinking of buying some of the them. Now you're forcing me to save all my money! Care to elaborate, maybe a photo or two as you go……? Eh, do we need a new thread for that?

Interesting….. "To seat 25 Passengers" "26 Seats Down Stairs" Presumably the driver is allowed to be seated

I know that's their eBay handle but I don't see a kit or rtr on their website. Wouldn't they be selling it from their online store if that was the case......? They don't say it's IFM (or SF for that matter)

Nice one Nelson=D Magnificent layouts!

Sorry, Paul!

No, presumably the photo is in your personal Google mail or somewhere so I just ended up on the Google main page This is the unrebuilt version from SF website which is what I think you got

Finally got this straight thanks to all of you. Nice video and good little layout, Eamonn. Must be the sunny south-east to have it outside. Thanks, David for your input. Noel, is your center car the power car for your DMU? Have you triple headed anything with your DCC, it's NCE? If so, it's odd looking brown hose-pipes versus the cost of two lighting decoders one for each end car. Might be better in the long run? One more question folks… If I were to install something like Enniscorthyman's setup and later wished to have cab lighting for the cars and/or lighting for the passenger compartment, what would I need in terms of a decoder. I presume the TCS light decoder is good for maybe two functions (red and white marker nights, respectively). Do I need one to handle four functions (i.e.cab, and passenger comp lights)

Wait away, Paul. We don't seem to have (m)any other options right now. MM models might never even put out an A class. The only thing that PM has 'committed to' right now is the 121 and that won't happen until enough capital investment has been recouped form all of the stock out there still on the shelves. To boot, there has been a lot of concern and discussion regarding the Supertrain liveried MK2ds which might not fly off the shelves as had been stated prior to release. tic-toc……….

Noel has one by the sound of it. I know he has an A for sure. Noel have you DCC'd yours yet? I think Noel was asking what livery, silver, green, black, black/orange, supertrain? Paul, any chance of a photo, btw?

OMG! It's fixed. It used to be that we could only see one page followed by C++ or something. That is SO much better!! Well done. Thanks:tumbsup:

Yes, sorry, but I'm with Irishthump on this. Life's way too short for that but until we have alternatives… which we don't. You have ZERO chance of EVER seeing this produced by MM. At 4-5 years per model he'll have long retired by the time you get to the J15. If you can get 189 others interested you could do a limited run of 300 yourself:D

Doubt it, nothing new on their website. Pretty sure they'd have made a big deal of it. Looks very similar to me except for better lighting and maybe more cleanly painted grills. What did you think was different? At STG100 (E135, USD153, in real money)………. would expect a huge improvement versus SF

Thanks, Stephen. THis looks good. Need to read this:tumbsup:

Hi David, Is the DBSO powered or its a true push/pull? You must at least have a second speaker in the DBSO for sound? THe DBSo pickups are for sound/light but are not connected back to the motor, correct?

Any idea if this US loco is in any way related to them? I pass these most days (short-cutting) my way to work. They're frequently shunting oils or hoppers usually singly or occasionally in consists bonnet to bonnet. BNSF owns the track but other than a passing resemblance to the the 121s (they're on rails with a single cab!) I've no idea if they're even a GM. Pardon my ignorance on US outline, hence they question….

Why hypothetically or otherwise would you be sitting in the middle of a track at night unless you'd fallen over the first rail on the way from the pub:cheers: and thankfully landed on a track without a third rail=))

I think they looked great in this livery, not sure how well that might have weathered though! Shows the snail to great effect on the bonnet. I think it not just the single cab which makes it look a little odd (at least to our minds, having seen the double cabbed GMs for so long) but also the height of he cab which looks a little awkward even now. Obviously it was this tall to allow it to run bonnet first. I think this is taller than the coaches it pulls. I wonder if the US loading gauge is taller in general the in Ireland. Any US outline enthusiasts?

I think you are right, Tony. It certainly looks that way from the above.