DiveController

I’ve never thought that brick built homes from between the wars, nor tidy hedgerowed farm buildings much resembled anything Irish tbh

I have plenty of un run locos out of warranty. My main issues have been with items that have arrived with some damage. A bus, a vehicle, an A class despite the superb packaging, possibly some items that remain unopened as such. To keep this in perspective, given the sheer number of things I have purchased the percentage of items is very low. That said, the ‘resolution’ has been mixed. The vehicle was replaced, was offered a paltry few euro off the bus (didn’t bother to take time to respond to that offer) and was asked to stick the bit back on the A class with a bit of glue. I feel that this side of the business is lacking by comparison with the research and quality that goes into the production. I’m not sure I’d bother with a warranty issue unless a bogie headed down the track by itself or the loco decided to have a BBQ in the engine room. As for spurious claims and chancers, an individual’s account with the company would show the items and cumulative dollar amounts purchased by someone as private purchases (most resellers are known to most of us and certainly to IRM themselves), so a matter for the company to weigh against past and future goodwill.

My buddy, a boats captain, saw all my stock a couple of weeks ago so he’s in when the NIR stock is coming by. Dive team ready to go for boarding

I could certainly do with one, or two or…. just got some 20T from @Mayner but tbh I could even find a use for a 10T for early stuff too. There were many iterations of wooden vertical and horizontal off the top of my head plus various duckets and paneled sheet versions

Hopefully he can now devote himself to a re-run of the Atlantean Ds in navy/cream Tbh received two of these in tans from Derek ( incl. Ringaskiddy) but would love some navy cream especially with Cork routes from schooldays. No 8 or even No5 would be an instant purchase

It would have had a strong freight service to ferry the roads back and forth to the east side of the island for storage in inclement weather, transporting the impermanent way so to speak. A ‘lifting train’ would have been necessary of course

Poetry? Live steam(ed), I’d say

Seems like these always pop up when someone in the know is offloading to make way for newer stock. Rails has never been particularly cheap with used stock either , that’s about $320 at the moment

I konw I know the photo you’re referring to, the color scheme seeming quite out of place with any other opens or flats even as a PWD

It’s actually quite shocking how underutilized Irish railways are

Can anyone shed some light on the nomenclature used by CIE for freight wagons? What does LB mean (actually say LP on that photo, typo I'm sure) And why a H-van? etc.

I bought a substantial number of As based on the variety of liveries making a rerun unlikely in the near term. Unlikely to buy another and would keep further funds for better variety in the forms of B class, the long-lived early CIE stock, early rail cars or a steam locomotive(s)

Sure, you never know what would have been tacked onto the back of a Belfast-Cork Enterprise

Can anyone GSR era identify the vehicles here, Ford Model 78? well before my time for sure

Quite right Its inside the wall rather than outside which would have been flush to the asphalt Yes indeed this is the location I was thinking of but scahalane having modeled this area extensively is quite correct on the previous photo location

Are you able to date these for me? (year) Alright, you're 1/3 of a step ahead as I don't have the red Anglia lol It's outside of Kent Station on the south side, Horgan's Quay. Rails from Cork Yard extended over the Quay road to 2 or three sidings right one the waters edge. If you go to Google Earth, find Kent go south to the key there a big excavator sitting on the rails

It was the last one to bear the name Henry Ford & Son Ltd. rather than Ford Motor Corporation

Wonder if someone could identify as many of the cats from right to left. the Anglia is obvious but I’m not so no so good on Zephyrs, Zodiacs, Prefects and Mk 1 Consuls etc

That would be me! Nabbed the last one thanks to a heads up from some cat lover among the Canaries thanks

John, is there any coach or kit that is currently available that would work well with these, the original 60' kit intended to work with your overlays is OOS

Tornado Reloaded? …. Or would it need and electric motor?

The Magnesites are beautiful wagons, I already have two rakes

If I understood correctly there is rumor of a steam offering from IRM. This will tell you all you need to know about the future of modeling 21mm .

… and by kettles you mean steam powered locomotives, right?

Do you mean ACC-ura-scale versus a-CURE -a-scale? I had assumed the company was named for the accuracy of its models versus being a CURE for model manufacturing. The railway magazine hosts seem to favor the latter pronunciation