Noel

15:25 B188 goods prepares to depart after the 15:10 branch service to Tume departs headed by A23r. As B233 C class waits in the loop for the Tuam train to clear. A23r departs for Tuam hauling daily branch passenger working from Limerick to Tuam. She's accelerating now out into the countryside A23r has my all time favourite CIE livery with the stepped orange band. Got the 6 wheel HLV weathered last night (SF). That day glo orange had to go.

Yes its testament to the collective body of work and diverse talents many of the WMRC members brought to bare on its design and construction.

I've two of those but I'd never sell them because they are part of my collection of historic Irish models, same with the Silver Foxes. My IRM 001 is going in a display case and won't run much.

That guy sitting beside the Diesel Depot... Is he plugged into the wall? No nearly all WMRC layouts use tablet and smartphone wireless cabs. LS - Little Siddington is WMRCs large O gauge layout. Probably the largest layout in the country, certainly the largest portable layout in Ireland. I didn't notice any angry people. Was that just a covid mask perception? LS wiring, signalling and control is a master piece. O gauge stock on the move has such presence It is amazing to see how much LS has come on in its finishing and detail since its first outing at Reheny only a few years ago. A testament to great team work and collaboration with different members contributing their own unique talents ensuring all the elements progressed to a high and reliable standard. It amazes me how quickly that layout can be errected and assembled. Testament to great design and robust reliability of the track work, electronics and scenics. Well done to all. And a great club layout for members to run their growing inventory of O gauge models. It's also been great to see private members building their own O gauge shunting layouts some of which can be plugged into LS. An inspiring club with a great active membership. Collaboration at its best. And expansion plans for the club house too.

Gort had a visitor from Ennis today, up afternoon passenger working from Limerick to Athenry. Gorgeous A23r superb precision runner able to crawl super smoothly over points at speed step 1, looks as good as she runs. Kadee No 19 coupling seems the best all round fit to replace the TLC. Light her up. Black'n'Tan heaven. A23r and B188 complete a brace of classic CIE stalwarts on this route. "Rails through the west" recreation with the poetic addition of an A class PS: Aside from the loco itself, Impressed with the packaging, detailing pack, and especially the exploded parts diagram and info leaflet. It was like unpacking an Apple product.

Need to find some ducks and suitable 'pond life' to put in the water

What a fabulous layout. Top drawer, love it.

Thanks Fran, but did I ask for them to be 'held'? On what charges are they being held for pending 'release'?

John, glad to see your model made it halfway around the world all the way to New Zealand so quickly. My loco orders haven't yet made it 20km from Dublin.

This layout is sublime. It transports me to another time before uniform rakes, before fitted goods trains, when shunting was the norm, and railway operations was an assault on the senses.

Yes IMHO the finest livery combination of them all. Looks fab on your layout, right at home in B&T nostalgia gold heaven.

Looking forward to getting my hands on A46 when we get back home next week. Nice track bad and Ballast btw.

Roundup might do the job without risk of proliferation.

Looking forward to seeing videos of one run on Tara Junction, I'd hazard a guess it will be the best running loco to date at crawl speeds over a series of points. No jerking, no stalling, just pure scale precision running.

Superb, love the micro scenes embedded in the overall composition.

Yip glad I’ve two B&T on order. Agree 60/70s were the glory days to this kids nostalgia memory. Away for a break but no doubt will see the new models upon our return home.

Ces’t incredible. Can’t wait to see this evolve. Amazing.

Started wiring some lighting

Nice video clips. Listening to 319 shows how screechey the 071 sound deciders are compared to real 071s that don’t have the annoying high pitched whine we hear on so many models. They are Diesel engines after all not jet turbines. Ps. Looking forward to running IRM A class with EMD and in the future Crossley sound decoders for the silver and green livery models.

Tuesday was perhaps a 30hr day for many, an extra 6hrs of real life.

Got an email this morning to say one of my IRM orders was shipping, heart rate slight rise in excitement, alas it's not any of the A classes, just some vintage vehicles, but that's fine, happy to wait a few days more. Wasn't expecting despatch that soon anyway. Got enough work to be getting on with on the layout in the mean time. I'd moved the NCE DCC system to Gort, so will hook up a Z21 with physical cabs to Kingsbridge ready to run the A classes at the end of the week. Happy to discover the NCE cab bus wiring on Kingsbridge is compatible with the X-Bus on Z21 for remote wired cabs around the layout. Don't like using smartphones as cabs. . . . I digress. All ready for the A's now.

Facesoup is down, red faces in some data centre as somebody rebooted the wrong cisco router or server? Facebook is the greatest human waste of time on the planet - quick sand.

Wow that will be worth the effort. It really will make it look authentic and real. When decorated, get the right camera angles and it will look photo realistic. PS: Going the extra mile is worth the pain. Pure class, well done.