Noel

Fran, apologies but I find it rather condescending and insulting that you as a moderator paste laugh emojis on some of the contributions made by members of this forum on this thread, and customers of yours, customers of IRM. Fair enough folk may have different views on the rationalisation of the passenger railways over that past two decades, but there seems no call for sarcastic emojis, especially directed at your own customers. There was nothing whatsoever funny in the relevant posts. The good spirit of the forum and respectful manners should apply to all.

Perhaps with smaller locos one at each end of a rake of coaches (one pushing, one pulling). We will eventually end up electrifying one way or another. It's just a matter of time. Once the french nuclear electric interconnected is operational and Ireland hits 70% wind generation it will become a no brainer, especially with carbon taxes. Get rid of your diesel lads, the govt are likely to attempt to repeat the Norway experience and tax diesels off the roads within a decade or less. So with 'plenty of money floating around' why not 'extensive refurbishments'? Wasting hundreds of millions of tax payers money is not a trivial matter. Even IR insiders have told me it was viewed as bonkers internally by some. One could ask if there was a fear of deregulated competition?

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Sorry guys posted the survey result screen grabs below so they can be viewed here without need to access the FaceBook Model Railway group

Survey results posted here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1111393745593442/ Thanks to all who participated

Yes the squandering of the mk3 coaches because mr NWSE thought DMUs could run the world was almost criminally negligent. Sweat your assets. BR were able to operate their mk3s for an extra 15 years, ours got chopped up for scrap.

Thanks for taking the time. It will be interesting to see what the results are. OK, just not sure what a 'Great Sambo' Saddle tank is, but assume it might be an 0-4-0. As for 'little mention' of steam era traction apologies if I appear to have got the balance wrong, however there are 5 steam era coach types, four steam era wagons types and four steam loco classes listed (ie along with the 7 diesels). Thank you to the many who have already completed this brief wishlist survey. It will be open until sunday.

These look the best yet from Murphy Models. Love the iconic see through side grills like the prototype. MM have raised the bar yet again. Really looking forward to these. Like the user friendly pop off top plate for fitting DCC chips. Difficult to be sure but those axle covers look like they may even rotate! Will be off to Marks models as soon as these hit the shelves to acquire some of these.

Below just for fun is a very quick simple 'wishlist survey' for 00 gauge RTR Irish models. Forgive as I'm sure I've probably ommitted some obvious prototypes. Existing RTR stock have not been included for obvious reasons. There's only few questions which you can rank in order of your preferences and to speed up answers you can drag or slide answers vertically. It should only take a few mins to complete. Poll will remain open until Sunday night. Survey results will be published on FaceBook and here. Have fun. Thanks. Noel https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DQZHN3M?fbclid=IwAR2dIMbyrhy00IBajKwJjsKyw91fL3vNWTes2hVl2wZuC30iRWIR7W83dMs

Sublime result. Looks like the real thing. Congrats

Until yesterday I hadn't bought a paper magazine for 10 years, only bought it then because a pal of mine wrote an article in it (MBY). While looking for the specific mag I stumbled across various attractive looking model railway magazines, picked up a few and thought, no, samey, samey, dust collectors, that have little of interest for me compared to www and put them back down on the shelf. Its probably 15 years since I bought a copy of railway modeller (ie when it was white with a photo and blue lettering, before graphic designers threw away their former unique brand image). When I think of the money I wasted on hobby magazines all those years ago.

First thing is see if the two locos are running smoothly and freely and if necessary lube them. You can check this by running them a few feet apart on DC without decoders. If you cannot mechanically speed match them then its extremely difficult to do it with decoder CV values later. The second thing is to use the same decoders or very similar in both locos. In your case a LokSound in 111 and what sounds like a LokPilot in 088. These two decoders have similar motor CVs and both can be auto calibrated using the LokSound/LokPilot calibration procedure. After that you can experiment with CV3, 4, and 6 values (ie assuming speed curves are not set up). Some DCC controllers have a specific speed matching procedure for consists (ie when locos and decoders are different). This allows you to match the speed curve of the secondary loco to that of the primary in a consist pair. But as Dave explained above its fairly easy to experiment with CV3,4, & 6 by setting the two locos a few feet apart and running them adjusting the CVs in one loco only until the gap remains consistent through different speeds and acceleration/decelaration modes. Have fun it may be time consuming but at least you have two identical locos to start out with (ie assuming both lubed and running freely)

No EV users on here? There must be at least one Leaf driver?

East meets west. Modern era Intercity meets the 1960s B&T Era.

I think he might be a german exclaiming "I'm Thinking, I'm thinking"

That interesting photo of mixed freight traffic formation has given me the inspiration to order a single pair of fertiliser wagons when they become available. Photos like this just go to show that not everything was made up of uniform rakes of the same wagon. A pair of ferts plus a pair of Bell 42s and six existing bubbles would make up that interesting formation. Modern era but interesting.

Ah none of you grew up on a farm so if 10-10-20 doesn’t ring any bells

. . . and so it continues. Another class and detailed model to fine scale precision. Congrats on another superb looking product. Will the bags be 10-10-20 Net Nitrate?

Hi Guys, any approx date for the liner wagons (ie 40ft container wagons and load)?

Oh yea sure - Evidence removed from the scene of the utterances?

It's a good thing this is not the 1970s or the then Archbishop of Dublin could have be writing to the moderators complaining of 'see through' anything being discussed anywhere in holy Roman Ireland. A Lexdysic might have read that 'Girls will be see through'. Shocking Kit Form??? No wonder the response.

Oops - That’s just about every club in the country insulted Preproduction prototype looks well running.

Presume the NEM pocket access slot in the valance will be fillable like the Bachmann/MM 141/181s, especially the cab end as it is unlikely to need a model coupling at that end of the loco unless operating in pairs. Agree with others it would be fabulous if you can see through the front grills.

As a matter of interest are there any full electric vehicle users on the forum? (BEV=Battery electric vehicle, as opposed to hybrids or plug-in Hybrids). Lots happening in the EV area in Ireland during 2019. As opposed to BEV=Beverage which I know has been naturally active amongst modellers.