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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!

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

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.

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?

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!

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

Oh, I guess it's gone then!

How did you get on with this for signaling the layout?

You mean the toll plaza that was supposed to be removed when the M50 had been paid for? The toll plaza is still there, right?

BosKonay, PM sent

My Black Friday order going in shortly!

I'm probably going to us the Carlow station as both a station and a free standing house/country house with a little change in colour to disguise that its the same model. Similarly with the pub when I individualize it a little… but will only be used as a pub as three would scarcely be enough for one small Irish outline layout! Signal cabins, always needed I like the stone building as I always liked stone/limestone architecture. Thanks, BK! PS, while the rest of you are rummaging in the attic to see where your Christmas gifts have been hidden (I mean, looking to get the tree down, ahem), if you come across any more 44-251 and 44-252, I'm in the market for morePIMP

Great to have them, and to know that something changes in Ireland every 30-40 years:rolleyes: Noel I know you like a little Tipp-ex in your livery but I have a few little beauties waiting on these:D

Thanks, josefstadt! So the Marks Models green CIE Dapol coaches would go well with I presume N class woollies and black and tans with the early diesels like A class?

Nice shots David, Downloading these:cheers:

Thanks, John:tumbsup:

RTR, pre-weathered?

Yup, hence a very timely thread and the question above. Incidentally, the Marks Models green CIE would then obviously be the previous livery of the same coaches. So these are laminate stock in the photo?

What are these, Seamus? Suburban non-gangway laminates?

I do not want to get too off thread here but since it was brought up above, can someone tell me what is the difference between a standard and a super standard? Does this refer to the physical make up of a coach or livery as I thought was maybe suggested earlier in the thread? Some nice shots of Kent station there, Glenderg!

I don't think that bus is an acronym or abbreviation but basically it refers to the main length of wire running beneath the baseboard that supplies current to the track. There will be two buses usually one red, the live, or right hand rail, and a black or neutral, attached to the left hand rail. Never the twain shall meet except by placing a locomotive or something else that you want to power across the tracks, or wired from them such as turnout motors, etc! The droppers refer to the smaller wires that attach from the main bus wires to each individual piece of rail. You would want to attach a dropper from each rail to the main bus because the rails do not conduct electricity all that well nor do the joiners between the rails leading to substantial drops in voltage and current over longer lengths, unless each rail is individually fed from the bus so that all the individual rails are effectively at the correct track voltage that is required for DCC running. Each of the buses will be a larger diameter wire on the droppers because even the buses them selves can have a voltage or current drop along their length if they are long particularly in large layouts.