Noel

The loads above look superb. I'm sure many folk are interested in this PW train and will delight in same. Class again. http://silverfoxmodels.co.uk/ir-ie-weed-van/ The lack of satisfaction some special people experienced with this SF van may have been responsible for triggering and inspiring far more than we'll ever know nor appreciate. The 3 chemical tanker wagons above looks superb and will enable folks who acquire, build, or kit bash the actual weed spray van to run an interesting PW train. Totally understand the numbers issue surrounding the practicality of producing the weed spray part of this train. The tanker loads produced above for the 42ft flat wagons look superb and sit well with the CIE container. What next from this stable now that project 42 has been completed? B101 Sulzer, Park Royals, mk3s, CAF mk4 sets??? Looking forward in due course to announcements about future plans. SF coach below looks rather fisher price and toy plastikie.

A brace of Dutch in progress Keen systems sprung gangways

Such a shame, John Wayne may have travelled in one of those

@Junctionmad is the resident forum expert on LJ signalling.

Recently arrived should be enough for future yard settings Quick delivery from Accurascale web site.

Enough fertiliser there to prevent a war, and enough Guinness to keep the troops well oiled for years of a long campaign.

Agree 100%. That was the first thing that struck me when I accidentally discovered Bachmann/MM locos on sale at Malahide Castle back in 2007. Bought 182 on the spot, brought it home and popped it on the layout which as still DC then. Could not believe the running quality. Was staggered at its precision running. Prototypical driving characteristics are as important to me as the visual look of a model, no use being ultra scale if a model doesn't run at scale speeds and scale acceleration and braking speeds. The 141/181s are fab at simulating heavy trains starting off and also stopping. None of this fisher price toy starting off at scale speeds of 25mph business. Hoping 121 is following in the running tracks of the Bachmann/MM 141/181s and may probable exceed it in a number of areas.

What nightmare problems indeed we have in the first world. Other option is to commission a respray of an orange livery 071 into freight grey, or NIR blue. While the 141/181 running quality has never been equaled by any manufacturer, the 071s are not bad, just can't go quite as slow as 141s. The motor characteristics of a decoder on DCC can also have a huge impact on how smooth a loco can run at ultra low speed. Nothing wrong with 071 in this clip smooth as a ball bearing made in Schweinfurt before it was hit

Wow, no wonder some folks missed out! You could stock a yard full of sheds with that lot

Only 18 packs of Fertiliser pallets left

And fertiliser bags and keg loads available over on Accurascale. https://accurascale.co.uk/collections/loads

RPSI Dutch GSV is progressing. Chassis test run and she's running friction free, a gentle shove and she'll roll on for a good few feet. Couplings and corridor connectors are aligning correctly with Bachmann/MM RPSI Mk2a coaches. Ready for final decoration, varnishing, glazing and very light weathering. Might put some innards inside if I can find the right diameter tubing out in the toolshed.

Not on DCC surely? I treat my 121s as if the cab end is the front end, its the first bit on CV29 that controls direction. Few seconds to configure on most DCC controllers on the main or test track. When I press FWD on my cab my 121s start off cab first direction

Yea even chemo TCS and Lenz decoder have all manner of weird and wonderful light options, mars lights, etc.

Check the dip switches under the loco are set to factory default positions. They are meant for DC use, but may affect the way the decoder interacts with the Loco's own PCB

That happened to me once, Once mapping is messed up its a nightmare to sort out. I did CV8=8 reset and all back to normal, but recommend you do the motor speed autotune calibration again afterwords (ie CV54=0 procedure allowing the loco to hare off at speed for 2 meters to self calibrate).

150mph 201s impressive road holding. Super layout btw. Love the station scenes and canopies.

The biggest visual difference to my eyes is the coach ends are completely different. BR mk3 have curvey corners, whereas the IR CAF mk4 have abrupt flat ends at right angles to the body sides. Please forgive the visual blasphemy and modernity of this These were resprays sourced from Chris Dyre, I think resprayed by Tony Mirolo. The bogies and underside aren't bad but the coach ends and corridor connectors scream difference. I quite like the look of these as possible respray donors, the coach ends are right, but the underside doesn't match up much. The mk5 DVT looks a lot closer to the CAF Mk4 DVT than any other BR version.

WheelTappers used V5 for my 121s and recent 141/181s, they sound and drive great. The only thing those early Bachmann/MM 141/181s really lacked for me personally was independent control of the headlamp, and perhaps an easier way of getting inside to install a decoder. The imminent 121s rectify all of that and come with built in speaker.

Now Fran would IRM consider a production run of groups of LLPs? (little layout people). PW staff, station staff, drivers for locos, guards, especially a Noel Enright for RPSI models?

Looks like six of them in Ivory, but could that be as early as 1964. Thought the early bubbles were grey? Notice a rake of brake vans at the end of that formation with about 6 of them including an exGSWR one. Great clip. Was the 121 on the turn table powering the turntable itself using the connected hose line? Couldn't see any men pushing the usual turntable lever lever?

Your layout is a wonderful testament to that absorbing era. We were born in a similar era that was magical, diverse, and interesting. Travelling on a train in that period was an assault on the senses as well as a visual feast. Intricate sidings and track work even at small stations, active goods sheds, always shunting going on somewhere, amazing rakes of stock in sidings, no passenger train had uniform rakes, nor goods trains before the ugly word 'freight' was invented. There was an interesting overlap between the loose coupled pick up, drop off goods trains and the beginning of containerisation with CIE's 1974 modernisation programme that saw modern era 42ft bogie stock. I remember travelling on trains that had a mix of green coaches, silver vans, and black and tan, laminates, park royals, before those modern Cravens with their plastic interiors and modern curved ends arrived. Watching goods trains being marshalled in Galway marshalling yard was a memory still etched in my brain, aside from the visual, the clanking, banging, buffering and banter between shunting men and drivers, the noise of marshalling conveyed activity, goods being transported, loaded and unloaded, passenger trains stopping in stations, people getting in and out followed by coach door slams progressively down the train, followed by a guards whistle and a green flag wave, the horn and EMD notching up like a jet engine as the train slowly started to move off, followed by the resonant rail clank as each axle crossed a rail joint. Compare that to the dull hum of todays plastic toy DMU yo-yo ICRs with nothing to see out of the window except overgrown greenery where once were busy marshalling yards, sidings and head shunts, goods sheds bricked up with dilapidated guttering falling victim to weather ingress, mould and uncontrolled vegetation on the roofs slowly ebbing away our disappearing built railway heritage. Hey ho, progress I suppose, but boy travelling on trains nowadays your more likely to see something of interest on netflix on an iPad than out the wind even passing through a large station complex.

Welcome to the world of function mapping. LokProgrammer is not actually needed for this, it can be done with complex series of CV settings, JMRI may make this slightly less tedious, but there is a very steep learning curve and a lot of time needed to experiment with all of this function mapping of lights. I gave up years ago, it was just too much hassle. Good luck though sounds like a challenge you might like.

A 101 Sulzer loco would be nice to see from one of the manufacturers. Personally the Black'n'Tan original 141 with the tablet catchers is the best model loco ever produced, probably until the imminent 121. Certainly the best chassis and smoothest runner.

Got the lights fixed in the spray booth. This thing is very hand when damp or cold weather forces one to paint indoors, sends smells and vapours out the window through the fan hose, so spraying inside the house becomes safe and possible. When airbrushing at the workbench my Covid-19 Darth Spray gear comes in handy