Noel

Had my road to Damascus conversion from a super sceptic to a cautious EV driver this time last year. A talk given at a presentation by Richard Branson and others pushed me over the edge a year ago with no brainer numbers and stats, which gave me the courage to try it after some detailed research. Got fed up of listening to annoying EV taliban evangelists, kept telling them its not there yet, too many scare stores, too much inconvenience, etc. Well the end result was €8/week to fuel on night rate electricity at home, instead of €85/week on diesel. Just back from Donegal in one leg, no stopping so I guess it does what it says on the tin. Just curious if there were any other EVers on this forum. PS: One thing, I wondered why there isn't a market for Sound packages for EVs as they are too bloody quiet, sounds like V8 engines roaring with simulated exhaust roar, etc. There has to be an aftermarket for that. (ie instead of the silent egg whisk noise).

Impressive, is it still in service? How do they stabilise it laterally? I had one of these as a kid http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=2769

And they are a great bunch of lads

Hi Fran et al, Yea no problem with the delay. MRSI show will be bursting with Irish locos. Thanks for the flow of information guys, really appreciate it, and it helps with planning. Will be worth the wait. Nice also to have a gap between it and the MM121 expenditure. Do you mind me enquiring what are the date plans for the Deltic and BR Class 37 (both of which I've pre-ordered)? Thanks. Noel

Hi Gerry, I've used 2mm masking tape for CIE era coaches and 1mm for tippex coaches (ie when reverse masking)

The old CIE era was 6 inch single stripe. I understood the tippex dual stripes were 3 inch.

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.