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One of the things that Lima were always well known for was the relative coarseness of their wheels. However, I am pleasantly surprised at how well my two Lima 201's run through Peco code 75 pointwork - no hesitation whatsoever.

 

Stephen

Glad to hear it, Stephen. I am thinking of a layout in Code 75 or 83 (I'm located in the US and that's the 'standard' for north American modelers, and would probably be more readily available for me). I have 141s, 181s, 071s, a Jinty, several N class steam. If you have any experience with these on a finescale rail such as Code 75, I 'd be happy to hear of your experience ot thoughts.

Kevin

When I've used grain of wheat bulbs, I've found that they're very white at 12 volts and don't last too long. I've generally run them in series pairs from a 16 volt supply, so each bulb gets 8 volts, they 'look' much better, not a sharp white, and last for ever. The only down-side is that if one bulb fails the other will go out, too - a sort of mini-Christmas-tree-effect - but, I've never lost one at 8 volts..

 

With tungsten bulbs, you can run them off AC - I've used spare Hornby power supply transformers, so that they're separate from the track supplies.

It seems like there are different LEDS that run within different voltage ranges, 9-12V and 12-16V. DCC track voltage is nearer 16V usually, whereas DC more like 12V. So you'd need to decide if you were going with DCC in advance unless you run them from a separate supply?

'Black Vomit' gets my vote for the dull old super train livery, but at least they served proper food back then. A time long past when CIE catered for Business travellers. Now the 201s and MkIVs have an attractive livery but no proper catering. I guess the IR/IE tipex and black roof era combined decent food with decent livery. The old Galway livery might best be described as 'lego-like'. The flying snail green livery was perhaps the classiest.

Beauty, and the Eye of the Beholder, Noel...

We discussed this model when it was on there.

Look at this thread starting about page 54 with some links on TPO and nice pictures from Glenderg on subsequent pages

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/58-eBay-Watch/page54

I think the guys would probably like a guide. Covering how to open parts of the loco, where to lube with greace and where to lube with oil, gears, shafts, service intervals for motor bushes, how to clean pickups and wheel rims and wheel backs, recommended materials, use of cradle, power clips to run bogies inverted in cradle for lube, cleaning, test, etc, bla, bla

Hi Noel,

If you're doing an internal makeover on one, I think a few of the newbies in this area would appreciate a few photos.

In the middle of servicing my lot , the murphy locos like all locos need a good run in when new and after a service as well. Generally i give the wheels a good clean, i also clear any debris that may be near the pick ups. I also take the bogie covers off and aply a small bit if oil (peco lube). I also give the body a good clean and finally put the loco back together and test run the loco for 30 mins in each direction.

Tom, if you're not finished would you post a couple of photos of the guts of the 141 service when you do the next one please? I have over a dozen of them and it would be better if I became familiar with doing it myself.

Or a woolie if you're servicing any...

Thanks,

Kevin

Tom just outlined what to do above.

Any thoughts on knowing when a service is needed or do the ailments above qualify?

I don't think we've have had a stupid question in a while so rather than y'all nod off with celebratory Christmas grog and nosh, I thought I'd post.

I have bought several of my 141/181s secondhand and although some of them are 'new', they have probably been lying in a box or on display for several years. I noticed that some of my locomotives do not run as smoothly as others. Some are really quiet, begin to crawl at a lower setting and have a greater top speed than the others. I suspect that some need servicing but other than saying that they are a little noisy or something I do not really know why exactly qualifies them for needing a service.

More to the point, I do not really know how to do 'a service'. I know things need to be oiled sparingly but that's about it!

I 'ran in' several of my locomotives and then noticed an eBay listing where the seller had test run the locomotive for only half a circuit of an oval to test "to prevent burning out the motor" as it obviously needed a service. I hope I've not done any damage to my locomotives when running them in if they needed a service and I did not realize!

I also have several Woolies that are obviously noisier than my baby GMs, likely a product of different motors etc.

Any advice on how to optimize my fleet would be appreciated so that I don't have a slow-mo in consist with a hard working engine or derailments in a push-pull setting.

Thanks,

Kevin

Nothing in the closets, but several items located from BosKonay's ATTIC:-bd and on their way to me!

Thanks

Ger,

I have no idea what they're worth but this is on eBay as a BIN with 4 watchers

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hornby-Thomas-R9750-Stepney-No-55-Locomotive-Limited-Edition-OO-Scale-New-/231409143853?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item35e10f502d

I'm not even sure if it's what you're after for certain

EDIT:

Last one, less than eBay, 10% off

http://www.petersspares.com/hornby-r9750-stepney-thomas-and-friends-060-steam-loco.ir

RE-EDIT: IN STOCK

http://www.bourtonmodelrailway.co.uk/hornby-r9750-stepney-limited-production.ir?cName=railways-hornby-thomas-friends

Can add to cart, seems to be in stock

http://www.ttcdiecast.com/hornby-r9750-stepney---limited-production-27427-p.asp

Scahalane, that's seriously good stuff. Really, really impressed by the buildings! God almighty, if you wanna come over here and do a few for me, there's good weather, water sports, barbecue, ...

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3901-Murphy-Models-Locos/page3

David, right below you on FOR SALE, ANY GOOD?

MM CLASS 141 CIE BLACK/ORANGE 161SA(WEATHERED BY GEORGE NORMAN) ONE HORN MISSING. BOXED NON DCC 105 EURO

MM0190 CLASS 181 CIE BLACK ORANGE 1905/A FACTORY WEATHERED BOXED MINT ALL THE BITS - NON DCC 105 EURO

MM1042 CLASS 141 CIE BLACK ORANGE 142 NON DCC ONE HORN MISSING BOXED 105 EURO

YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PICK UP A NEW HORN IN A DETAILING PACK FROM MARKS MODELS

Great idea. How easily does the roof come off MM Mk2 coaches?

Somebody did a great workbench thread on this very recently with pictures, maybe Glenderg? I'll look it up later if you don't find it first

EDIT: Nope, I misspoke it was Lima Mk IIIs, so not sure that it translates to Mk2s

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3852-Separating-Lima-Body-from-Undercarriage

Agreed. Email sent. Kevin

I received the two available Irish scene Bachman buildings today from Graham's toy master. It was my first purchase of a resin building. I must say I am very impressed with them. Two lovely buildings, especially when set on the layout. I will make a decent feature out of the Carlow station building.

I have several of them, Rich and they are nice. The Carlow station is going to be just that and also will pass as a nice country house with a few touch ups. Same for the pub. I do nor understand why there is not a lot of demand of them. Shame they can't stay on there shelves. I suppose the retailers need to sell them off for cash-flow but I'll bet there will be some on here in a year or two looking for them after they've gone!!

Some other A's by Silverfox

 

 

Dave,

The B&T A3 has a white CIE roundel whereas the Black A8 has the "correct" orange/tan one.

When I asked about this anomaly on the 071 class (MM088 original versus MM0088 Supertrain) I was told that GM supplied it in the wrong shade of orange and with a white roundel and they were eventually repainted in to Supertrain.

The A's precede the 071, do they not, hence, do the models reflect prototypical A class liveries or this is a 'modeling anomaly'?

CLASS 071CIE SUPERTRAIN 085 NON DCC WEATHERED BY GEORGE NORMAN COMPLETE BOXED ALL THE BITS - 155

 

Is this loco renumbered, or is it actually 086?

New MM 071 Class Locos

MM0085 is an 071 class in IE livery (factory weathered)

MM0086 is in Supertrain livery (unweathered), …..which could be weathered to 086 Supertrain or renumbered and weathered to Supertrain 085

I think the 085 is a typo for 086 unless the loco has been renumbered and weathered, or else it is 085 but in IE (not supertrain) livery

Nice work, Popeye. Very similar to 988. 1001 look alike it has a different support/saddle for the tank

Great article, John!

Seen on ebay:

 

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Horny-R-076-Footbridge-/311196734565?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4874c55465

 

The mind boggles!!!!

I can purchase and ship this from Hattons for less than the eBay GSP shipping charge, or is that what you meant?

The coach behind the Steam Loco is in the pre 1955 dark green livery without any eau de nil lining in the link below

Magpie, that's a great link to Steam locos. I had no idea there were so many and a record of them!

THANKS!

Thanks, Rich. And beautiful babies they are! It seemed logical that they would be orange but was having a hard time finding photos online to clarify that point. They're certainly orange on these IR. What sites do you use? I had looked at the Eire Trains site but obviously these are more modern photos mostly in IE which couldn't help me much for this question.

IE ones have orange horns, Cie & IR have black

That would seem logical. I know the IE had orange horns although they probably looked black most of the time!. The BnT would have obviously would have black horns and I thought the Supertrain and IR liveries had orange horns also, but they were all black until IE livery. Is that correct?

Interesting. All the MM 141/181s I bought new had black horns irrespective of the livery.

You have mostly BnT livery but I know you have some in orange. You got me thinking because I purchased some of these used so I thought the horns might have been embellished by the original owner. So I looked at some of the IR & IE 141s that I bought 'new' and 146 IE has a sealed detailing pack with orange horns!

I read somewhere recently (probably on this forum) that Marks Models has spare detailing packs in stock for the 141/181's. It might be worth a try......

Correct, marks models should have the detailing packs, however, I do not know if they're in stock. I'm not sure of the contents of the packs but there are probably different ones as some of the 141s obviously have black horns and some orange depending on the livery