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245 seems to be very similar to this one which still retained its retrieval/delivery apparatus in Athenry c. 1961. I think this is 2954 from this site before, different roof vents etc

The Fantuzzi reach stack is a pretty impressive piece of equipment but the body alone is almost 30 feet long and close to 50ft if you drop the boom

Maybe take the prototype through security at the airport (whenever that will happen again!) and get your hands on that backscatter image for your CAD guy?

@Georgeconna The original post indicates that some of the production run was given over to this model (so just another variant) rather than an extension of the run

Some very interesting stuff Jon, thanks for posting!

Sounds like it would be an Irish livery version of something from the bigger companies then. @WRENNEIRE showed a very passable IE liveried version of a eurostar, maybe a 201 and a single/double coach and a 2nd radius track and a few straights?

They seem more heavily built than the 22000s, you get the impression there's a pretty heavy engine in the front rather than some hamsters being overworked the underfloor

@burntheboxThanks for posting

Some of the Canadian Stuff is nice. I have only one Canadian loco but HO. No intention of getting into N unfortunately

Hi Dave, May I ask what you're using to deaden the sun under the track work? How did you deal with the electrics of the reversing loop? Track design is very American. Lovely job

Sort of a shame to see another resource closing as the modeller/retailer approaches advanced age. A shame there seems to be no-one to take it on. It would be nice if they had an irish range of course, maybe too few kits to have it as anything other tan a part f a greater enterprise producing for the UK. I do like their idea of a transitional curve which is something you don't get if you use set track rather than flexitrack. The transition from the straight to a fixed radius is very severe on the eye and in running as the rolling stock are thrown into the curve rather than transitioning from straight to large radius curve continually reducing to the true radius of the turn, same at the exit from the curve. Of course you can offset this in set track by transitioning from straight to a larger radius curve then to the smaller radius curve (and same exiting the curve to straight) but few people ever do as it takes a bit more space etc. It looks more prototypical for the track work and running

My daughter has outgrown Thomas but is allowed to play with 'Dad's trains' as she's very respectful of their fragility and can shunt a 141 class very nicely. I think K801's point is that there is no starter set currently for that older child that is no longer a toddler

Fine as long as you don't have to change ends too often. The engineer reversed her out towards the LC. She sounds like the 071 class when you listen to her. I was just wondering A diesel electric attached to an electric loco with the pantograph raised?

Interesting read and always welcome

So there was an accident or someone noticed it just had a wrap frame one day? And 224 did have a bent frame presumably due to fatigue but iirc wasn't 143 the result of an accident and thereafter it was speed restricted. Shows that there was a need for 141s at that time but not much traffic for so many 201s now

The models produced by IRM or ECM Trains aren't really toys (for kids), are probably out of the average price range for kids toys, and add-on rolling stock isn't readily available. You're right that a starter kit would be good to promote interest. My previous post was somewhat in jest. Older rolling stock isn't necessarily not of interest. How many of us were given a steam train set as kids after the age of steam had passed? But the comments regarding kids being interested in the modern rolling stock may be correct as this is what they now see. Maybe these will form their nostalgic childhood memories when trains of the future hover and no longer need a permanent way.

Looks like the 6402's door is IP68 rated (with the window up)

Maybe a Green A class, some laminates and a circle of 21mm track? So the 'kids' get their math correct from the start?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/39199847555/in/photolist-22HXsYB 224s was scheduled to be the original NIR 105 but had a bent frame when it arrived in NI and was replaced by 218. 224s languished about York Road for years before being finally scrapped with the others in the mid-90s

Some of the guys in the US run some on battery under RC control in S gauge I think, they turn up at exhibitions now and again and it cuts out a lot of problems with multi-track wyes and reverse loops

True if you're modeling a more recent era but they were the brand spanking new stuff in their own time. For me, it's hard to know what exactly was prevalent on Irish roads further back in time

Code 75 looks nice. wish we had a 21mm equivalent

Y' know when some people say they don't really have the skills to build or weather models .... that sometimes really is true rather than 'laziness'. Maybe better he had been lazier maybe but many of us have urged people 'to have a go' well you're looking at the results

Actually they they are all electrofrog except the single SL-194 but as Dhu Varren says it easy enough to wire the entire frog to switch polarity to avoid any issues with bulky metal wheels. They're compatible of course and pretty decent price for the buyer so everyone should be pretty happy