Noel

Superb models

Well done that's a great job on the bridge. Innovative thinking and execution

@DJ Dangerous David, perhaps you have a lot of spare time on your hands.

On 1/11/2023 at 6:49 PM, Ironroad said:

Please, I think you have posted negatively on this subject before and it's disappointing to have cold water being thrown on the possibility or in fact now the probability, that such a model will be announced in the near future. I understood IRM were to announce a steamer this year. Why would you want to deter them? , Not that I think you will.

I don't want to deter. It just seemed unlikely. The well is only so deep, so many models hitting the market these 24months. I'd love an Irish GSWR 0-6-4T or a GSWR 400 class, or GSWR Class 500 with DCC sound.  Would be delighted to be surprised, just not optimistic based on the economics. There's few still living who travelled on steam hauled trains here in Ireland so not much in the way of nostalgia memory. RPSI locos more exposed to the public. Great if it happens. Only time will tell.

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

I’m thinking a useful, common 0.6.0 maybe, but not the J15. Many possibilities.

Yes, Anything but 4-4-0 as they are generally awful runners. No 4 or x60 tender locos

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

The RPSI released them as a three coach set about five years ago.

Took delivery of my blue'n'cream coach set on on Sat 14th October 2017 on board the RPSI diesel double rail tour to kerry and back (071+073 both in retro liveries). They were delivered on board to customers.

PS: These were the wobbly wonders when running due a defective bogie mount. Needed correction using a shim.

5 minutes ago, Georgeconna said:

Wonder would PM do another release of those at some stage. 

Doubt there is enough demand for an Irish Steam loco to make a production run of sufficient size to be economic and profitable.  Perhaps folks buy a current DCC ready bachmann in one of the BR liveries and respray to GSWR/CIE grey. Its an easy paint job, there is no lining needed just logo transfers.

Flying snail steam era. Murphy Models/Bachmann Mogul N class. DCC'd some time ago. Looking forward to the IRM green Park Royals to run with GSWR Irish steam loco models.

The new mk2s have the correct shade of orange unlike the original ones which were almost yellow. The new orange is more correct and much deeper (ie more red and less yellow in the mix). The galway liveries seem to have the original orange with too much yellow as per the photos above.

Popped into the show for a quick hour today

Not as many layouts as former years but some really nice ones. These two in particular caught my eye

A feast of Murphy Model Baby GMs due to hit the shelves very soon will make many happy as they missed the first batch of 141/181s released back in 2007/2008. MM also have a plentiful supply of rereleased 071s due soon including NIR Blue IR freight grey. MM mk2 stock soon to be released looked fab, same tooling as last time except for updated bogies and the orange paint colour is the right shade. They look fab. Mk3 stock including push pull commuter trains with DVT also well in the pipeline.

Relative new comers will also be pleased to hear about the forthcoming releases of 071s and 201s in various liveries

IRM 22k DMU (ICR) samples looked well. Interesting design with the removable window panels. Hope the production versions are easy to open for the placement of seated and standing passengers. The IRM Park Royal coaches were the pick of the day for me, they just looked superb. The PRs looked the bees knees and the cats whiskers squared.

Well done SDMRC with the cafe and snack food eating area. Visitor catering at last at the Dublin show. Met some old acquaintances and WMRC pals. Witnessed only one horrific derailment but thankfully not fatalities and no LLPs (little layout people) were harmed. Only had an hour but it was enough. Purchased some PW wagons from Leslie.

Your end results make it work the cutting and filling and cutting and filling  and cutting and filling  and cutting and filling and the sanding.

1 hour ago, murphaph said:

These terms (flying snail and cie roundel) are used in the descriptions of the wagon packs according to IRM. 

Yip probably indicating the era they belonged to. I never saw a CIE roundel or a Flying Snail logo on the side of any bulleid open wagons. The only thing I'm wondering is did some era of wagons have the lighter buffer arrangements.

1 hour ago, murphaph said:

These terms (flying snail and cie roundel) are used in the descriptions of the wagon packs according to IRM. 

Logo was probably the manufacturer plate under the door. The letters CIE were on some of these plates.

11 minutes ago, derek said:

30  to 50 per train? Mother of God! That other kidney of mine is toast

10-15 would look just right on any layout. Long enough to snake around bends and through siding crossovers and won't break the bank. These are great value compared to the ballast wagons. If I hadn't already built so many PW kits and 3D print kit bashed versions I might have ordered 25+ of these stunning diminutive wagons that were the essence of Irish goods traffic with beet and also mixed formations of general merchandise and agri produce. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, every station you passed through had these in sidings and loops.

This really is great news. Unbraked 2 axle wagons are ideal for Irish layouts and look well on typical layout sizes. I gave up waiting for IMP beet wagons years ago, but so glad they've arrived now, they'll suit the new layout perfectly, otherwise I'd have ordered even more. Hanging on to the PW wagons and the 3D versions for now, every siding needs a few of these rusting in the briars. Did any of the prototypical wagons have smaller buffers, as used on some older H-Vans? The new IRM wagons will go well with my existing PW kit built wagons (sample below).

2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Litterally forgot that beet wagons could be announced. An essential wagon to have rocking about in a siding or for full rakes, traveled over a huge veriety of railway lines by all sorts of locos from steam (hint hint) and diesel. Not to mention it’s a very uniquely Irish wagons…and the tri-angulated chassis will be “handy” for other models 

Yes and widely used as a general open wagon for general merchandise and agri products. Essentially made planked open wagons unnecessary on CIE network.

Order placed for a rake of them.

19 minutes ago, Wexford70 said:

How many were in a typical beet train in the 80s?

Early 1980s 30+ wagons, and the braked double beets got close to 50.

So H-VANs next - hooray.

46 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I wonder whether the couplings are functional or just decorative?

The NEM pockets look to have a little of the dapol droop in some of the photo samples, hope the Kadee's are ok with them. The NEM pockets which appear to be at the correct height. Bravo IRM. These should sell like wildfire.

Wow 

16 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Or a countdown to a countdown, but in that case, how do we know that it's not a countdown to a countdown to a countdown?

And how do we know when it's...

 

 

I won't make it to the trade show, so will have to read about it next week.

Perhaps another announcement about an announcement.

5 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Anything that I ordered before the cyber attack shipped from Dublin, the 37 being pretty recent, no problems at all. One or two went back and forth a few times due to missing CN23's but they still got here in the end.

It's just the newer AS stuff tends not to be listed on the IRM site, only on the AS site. Just to be transparent, we've been in touch several times since the attack, and the lads are working on making Royal Mail services available again.

Probably no impact on Ireland as there are lots of Anglo-Irish shipping options, but it's different down here. Unique situation I guess.

Ah yes, sorry I forgot you'r down in the Atlantic so GB->EU So RM (far far away rather than very small)

15 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Accurascale have temporarily stopped posting here since the Royal Mail cyber attack, so I can't buy from them directly.

It's only temporary, not permanent, so I'll be able to buy from them again in the future.

Oh I didn't realise RM were hit, that cyber attack was over 10 months ago.   Perhaps address pal would be an option. So my AS orders may not arrive until RM sorted out, unless IRM/AS ship Irish orders from Dublin.                                                                                   

19 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Accurascale not using Royal Mail since the cyber attack so can't buy decoders or anything.

Cheers - Why can't you buy decoders?

22 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

You're going to love it. The 37's are probably the best AS loco... So far!

Cheers. Which 37s did you get? Any videos or photos of them running? I liked the deltic.