DiveController

In practice not unless you were planning 2 or 3 coaches only.

 

From testing I did a few years back only heavy modern diesels could manage 4% gradients. Go with 2% if you want most things to manage it will decent length trains.

 

2% means that you will climb 2 inches every 100 inches or eight feet will clear about a two inch climb.

 

So you'd need a 16 foot climb to get 4 inches off the baseboard.

Yup. Dave got in there before me. If you have space for a loop in the layout or a helix, that will keep your gradient lower. Alternatively, If you can drop the thing you wish to climb over, you can effectively half the gradient/length you need to climb (one climbs 2 inches, one drops two inches= 4 inches clearance)

Just remember you need to pay postage from the US plus import duty when it arrives. The transformer is probably 110V. The others on eBay are ridiculously priced however which is why they haven't sold. They've been up there for months.

EDIT: Just had a chance to read this. If any of you want to bid on this, the quoted post if for US GROUND. You will need Intl. AIRMAIL which is more expensive FROM the USA then in the reverse direction. This is an outsize item, so to avoid coronary occlusion you should get a shipping qoute from the seller BEFORE you bid, not after as suggested by the seller!!

You need closed cell foam, cut it to width you can taper the edges by cutting a block of wood at a 45 degree angle and screw on a blade works a treat. The preformed foam breaks down over time so stick with the closed cell pu foam.

I buy from here

Thanks, Dave! Good tips

Yes, once ballasted the sound deadening properties of the foam is lost. But there is a way around it, if you cut the foam much wider than normal then ballast without the ballast touching the baseboard that reduces the sound considerably.

I guess I was thinking of the preformed foam that fits between the sleepers, so do you use just a sheet of foam that is cut to width and do you taper off the edges eventually wide of the ballast? and how do you taper that edge, and what foam would you recommend?

Questions, questions.....

this is an interesting topic that has come up before,. My vested interest is that I am trying to design a layout and will inevitably have to ballast it. Foam insulates well against sound but I think that someone stated (probably on a previous thread) that this sound-proofing effect is lost once the PVA glue on the ballast dries and establishes a rigid layer that transmits the sound back to the baseboard (now, I don't know if anyone has stuck an audiometer on there and measured the noise in decibels so it probably worse to some extent but maybe not as good as before ballasting)

Not this particular coach. More here Dive ... http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/793-Travelling-Post-Office

Interesting thread, Glenderg. I knew there were TPO's but have never really seen many pictures of them. Not sure that the model on eBay looks much like this, sprayed green with the flying snail stuck instead of a P&T. Seems like the catchers were not a big feature on the Irish TPOs. I wonder if they stop took most of the main stations to let passengers on and off and collected that way instead of by catcher on an express, even though I know would've been all sorted en route. I wonder if anyone on the site has modeled some more authentic versions of the Irish TPOs?

Did this ever actually run in Ireland or even up north?:confused:I thought this was a UK only coach?

Hi lads,

Would anyone of ye have a reasonably priced donor chassis for the Silver Fox A Class Locomotive? Despite many mods to the original supplied chassis (with pancake motor), the loco is still running erratically, a Hornby railroad Deltic might do the trick if anyone has one to sell.

 

Thanks in advance, Tommy.

Cosmetic defect will not affect the chassis you need on this one

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Bachmann-32-525A-Class-55-Deltic-The-Kings-Own-Yorkshire-Light-Infantry-/390965704761?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item5b075f3839

Could this traffic be enough to warrant the reopening of the Waterford - Wexford line? It would open up a scenic corner of the country without having to travel back up the East coast line to Dublin, or having to bus the passengers between Wexford and Waterford.......

I doubt they'd maintain the line for just one train…… there reason it's shut is they don't want to run anything else on it, if you se my point.

:SORRY:Shattered dream, I know

The UK authorities take great care to move trespassers off the rails including stopping trains where necessary to avoid fatalities. The French authorities seemingly issue warnings not to trespass and then do not chase trespassers or stop trains...

That's a shame. The 'French method' seems better

Will have to await the outcome of police investigation to establish if this was just darwinian criminal thugs, or a well planned terrorist attack. If the latter the implications are extremely worrying for rail transport.

Too small scale, methinks. If you wanted to do that on a railway, the tonnage/speed of the train would be weaponized in a critical area to create more havoc and loss of adjacent trains, buildings, infrastructure. We've already seen attacks of the Spanish and Japanese rail networks. Individuals have routinely thrown bricks and other objects at trains from elevated positions such as the Glanmire tunnel approaching Kent station and even tied a poor donkey to the rails at one point. Incapacitating the driver of a train approaching a station could have profound consequences although I presume the locomotive still has some form of 'dead man's handle' (pardon the expression)

If you do a conversion on the chassis could you post some pics of the steps, please?

Great series of photos, John. Lovely station building. Great to see these for modeling and even to select preassembled 'look-alikes' for the rest of us!

I have found ESU Lokpilot to be a pretty advanced chip particularly for double-heading 141/181/121s. The CVs are easy to adjust which may be necessary to get all functions working on the 201s which have unusual electronic set-up/architecture.

Think Noel is not into 201s but that's good to know as I also have a rake of 141/181s that will need to be done and I intend to do some consists:)

The video includes earlier CIE publicity material including the Cork Glanmire Road-Alexandra Road B&I liner Irelands 1st company train and footage filmed or the introduction of the Supertrain in 1972.

 

Interesting to see CIE filmed the Supertrain on the South-Eastern, publicity included a poster of an aerial photo of the train passing Avoca village. I always thought 001 looked really well with the roof painted black.

 

The modernisation plan was pared/cut back radically as CIEs financial position worsened, while most of the freight part was implemented, it took another 30 years to upgrade the track and signalling to modern standards.

 

The plan was a lot more wide reaching than just freight and basically involved total route modernisation in addition to the new trains.

 

Push-pull trains were to be used on Dublin-Waterford & Dublin-Limerick passenger services, some freights were planned to go out by one route and return by another. At one stage there were plans to serve Waterford and Wexford with one sundries train serving South Eastern & Kilkenny line depots.

 

The bogie fertiliser wagons with their steel mesh doors were originally nicknamed Long Kesh wagons. Sundries traffic was originally to be carried in block trains of 60' sliding door vans.

 

Some of the H&S stuff is scary, I wonder how may of those Inchacore workers in the video ended up without some form of occupational disease. Internationally railways were never good at looking after their workers health

Probably why it failed, John. Difficult to be competitive without the infrastructure. Wonder how much it would cost now, 23m punts then, billions now. It would be interesting to see if that had been implemented how the network would look now and whether the railways would be in greater usage for both passenger and freight, like European counterparts, not to mention the huge socioeconomic benefits.

There's surprisingly little news attention to this story - http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-11-08/police-investigate-reckless-attempt-to-derail-a-train/ - seems to have been rather a near thing.....

Neanderthals!……….. pity they weren't still driving it on there, a swift buffer up the a*** is what is required there!

Fair play Richie, i'm trying to pluck up the courage to take the plunge, if it goes wrong plan B will be licking white metal dust!

Errr,….. just for those who didn't actually read the thread, that toxic metal dust is not advised:puke:

Great clip Dave!

Really? Can you explain why this item is so valuable or it's just a nice little nostalgic piece?

Anyone know the history of the model? Lovely looking piece

You will have to pick it up in person, because apparently it doesn't post!

Like the spoils, Kirley. Very authentic to the photos. Nice job!

Any luck with the next episodes?

If anyone finds it on youtube, please post a link, thanks to snapper for the last one

Surprising they have managed to maintain those relationships:cheers: Maybe Blaine could be their new public relations officer to foster those:-bd. To be fair, I think that Ed's curtness on a thread about Gatwick gennys just spilled over onto Noel. How do I sign up to join MRSNOD4?

Anyone familiar with the Kemilway brass kit of a footbridge? Know how much they're worth?