Noel

It's great this collection has been preserved and put back on excellent displays, understand why his own models cannot be run. It is a pity the new venue's small size meant it could obviously not accommodate any O gauge track to run some selected castle rolling stock, but at least now there is a fab OO gauge layout to present the hobby to the public and engage the imaginations of youngsters visiting it as the Fry collection is viewed and preserved. Thanks for all the photos above, looks great, will make a trip out that way some day. PS. Glad we got to see the old Castle layout running years ago. It was a stimulating visual experience with movement and lights.

Indeed but Darin But explains genetic dumbness

Darwin?

Bait? Dev walked barefoot to my grandfathers funeral

Love the C class hauling the local train. 3 Laminates + PR + GSV, nice formation. To think trains used to run to Youghal during the busy summer season

Thanks. What is an MPV 790? Is it a self contained dedicated spray vehicle of some kind?

Interesting what will the spray trains be replaced with?

German layouts you mean? from the continental mainland of Europe?

Some of these guys make their profit on excessive postage costs. This one is very high

Super photo. Where is it?

I too really like the re-engined C class. Perfect for 1960s branch traffic, light goods trains and pushing converted AEC sets on suburban (pre dart). MM 141 are the perfect donar chassis for kits. Hopefully at some appropriate future point in time IRM might produce C class (original 201) and/or sulzers (101).

Neil from wheeltappersdccsound has an ESU sound project. I have it on my 3D 121. Not sure if the standard ESU decoder will fit in the new MM 121, so PM may be supplying his own decoders for this loco. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Puka8roWms

Yes good spot. That makes the Lima 201s rather expensive for paper weights or for models of rotting hulks abandoned at Inchicore

Was never a fan of Jouef myself back in the 70s, every kid who got one seemed to almost cry when they realised it wasn't a proper Hornby train set. If you get my drift. Same almost applied to 70s Lima stuff. Hornby seemed to be the choose one back then for lucky kids.

@Warbonnet Is it permissible for anybody to post a graphic or photo of same, given that it was an advert and not article copy?

Just a little comedy to brighten up a dull mid winters day. Who'd have thought Hitler was a keen rail photographer and an 071 fan.

Yum. Ye Gods if they re-produce some of the metal bodied Hornby Dublo steam era locos, i'll be after a few on those like a shot to join my 50yo HD locos. Almost just to get those yellow card boxes too. Iconic and the pinnacle of model fidelity between the 1940s and late 1960s before Tri-ang appeared with their basic plastic stuff and its fisher price coloured plastics, later Hornby with their novelty gymicks like ducking giraffe heads and royal mail coaches with their mail bag collections and drop offs (have two of those in attic somewhere).

Neil from http://www.wheeltappersdccsounds.co.uk/page147/index.html supplied and fitted the lights when fitting the sound decoder which I understand was an ESU.

Sent my J15 to Neil (wheeltappers) who fitted the chip, speaker and lights. It’s very tight for space to fit decoder and speaker so I felt safer sending the loco to the expert. I could have saved a few bob by trying to fit it myself, but in the end opted for certainty. Short clip below.

Or "Jawohl' perhaps I have a set of 1/5 scale Nick Ziroli JU-87B Stuka plans ready to go whenever I get time to get back into that game, to Join a B25 Mitchel 85% completed and an AT6 preped and ready for epoxy painting. Zenoah 60cc for the AT6. This modelling malarkey is a never ending pit of projects. Yes the Bachmann model looks far superior than the Hornby Dublo one. Its amazing how much of the 40s-50s Psuedo Art Deco concrete was at the time hailed as beauty and modern. The original preserved Dublin Airport terminal building and the Irish Sweepstakes building in Ballsbridge were fine examples of that sort of thing, same architect with a navel background. Guten Abend

Love the Hornby Dublo signal box too.

What a superb thread and gold dust quality information on the old goods trains that once dominated all rail traffic in Ireland. The formation below behind B130 about to drop some wagons off at Gort is similar to what you describe above and inspiring for layout operation. A goods train without a brake van at the end was like a sentence without a punctuating full stop. A bunch of fitted wagons behind a baby GM looked deprived and incomplete without a brake/guards van. Thanks for the info @jhb171achill

Yes looks a bit like a BR class 24. The extended buffer beam helps slightly with the illusion. Probably a kit bash of some type

Hope it goes well. Unfortunately you are listed more then once in some categories so that could dilute the vote(ie two listings in 00 wagons). Strategic voting called for perhaps I voted for the 1st item in each case when you have more than one entry per category.

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