Noel

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.

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.

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

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).

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. Early 1980s 30+ wagons, and the braked double beets got close to 50. So H-VANs next - hooray.

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

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

Perhaps another announcement about an announcement.

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

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.

Cheers - Why can't you buy decoders?

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

No probs logging in, hoping my class 37 D6704 is eventually delivered in next few days.

On the subject of baseboard materials FYI, Woodworkers supplied precision pre-cut to your spec high quality birch ply sheets in 6mm and 12mm suitable for rapid modular baseboard construction. Ideal for constructing WMRC standard 4ft or 5ft baseboard modules. Glue with hot gun in 15mins, then paint 2" fibreglass tape across the joints with PVA, and seal the entire module top and bottom with domestic grey primer paint for permanent moisture resistance and stability free from warping. Lightweight board modules, easy to work on and transport. Grey paint also handy for gluing track bed materials, and scenics to the baseboard double sided tape for temporarily http://www.woodworkers.ie 2" fiberglass tape PVA painted over glue joints for added strength and bonding Primed for life Sits on Plastic folding trestles Using back scene boards as a support the baseboard can sit on its side at 90º for easy access and working on wiring, point motors, etc, rather than crawling under baseboards with tools and soldering irons. Wiring becomes more comfortable when you can stand up and work on the underside of a baseboard vertically. The 6mm backscene board acts as a stand to sit the baseboard vertically on its side. PS: From past experience the material to avoid if at all possible for layout baseboard is chip board, absorbs moisture, unstable, sags when damp, and ridiculously hard to get track pins into. Not an easy materials to work with.

Fabulous. It could be a miniature for a period drama movie. Stunning.

Cheers so no combustion, no cylinders therefore no noise, just a near silent generator. Might sound a bit like the dart. Few mechanical moving parts in power plant so less maintenance cycle costs and better reliability.

She's very quiet, must be a HFC powered rather than HCE

Yip consumer devices don't have the sort of sophisticated battery management (BMS) and thermal management that BEVs have (except Nissan Leafs that still have clock work analog batteries that cook themselves). There's an average of 800 batteries on board every flight and yet air liners are not falling out of the skies in flames regularly, but OPEC news channels would have us believe its not safe to leave a car in an underground car park, or parked outside a house. There's lots of reasons cars catch fire from overheating catalytic converters, broken exhausts, to engine over heats melting wiring, 12v system fails, poor maintenance, crashes, stolen cars/arson, collisions shorting 12v wiring, ruptured fuel/oil lines etc. Everything can burn. Think about the risk a model layout possesses 3 or 5amps of a DCC controller is enough to set fire to 16v wiring, all that wiring that could become damaged or shorted, even a loco decoder frying could potentially set a layout on fire if adequate short circuit protection is not available. Think of all the lighting on a layout. I keep a smoke detector in the layout room and never leak the electronics switched on unless I'm in the room. I'm sure many of us have electric heaters in layout sheds and rooms during winter, and all manner of solvents and combustable paints, thinners and primers in sheds. Life has risks, once we mitigate enough we can live without stressing over it.

A local told me it was an old diesel merc. Dunno for certain. New definition of French fries that's for sure. Thank God nobody hurt in that incident.

Yes OPEC's brilliant BEV's burst into flames myths, BEVS banned from car parks, there was a famous fire 3 years ago with a Kona Electric on fire in a US homes garage, it turned out that the cause was a faulty tumble dryer in the garage rather than the Kona's battery. 12 Kona's world wide out of 80,000 had LG battery issues, all 80,000 were recalled and given new complete HV battery packs under warranty. Hyundai realised this could be their 'diesel gate' equivalent moment so they spend $2bn replacing all the batteries as they sought to be leaders in the world BEV market. Approx 3000 ICE cars a year catch fire in Ireland for a variety of reasons, Zero BEVs so far (source Fire Service). The media who earn substationial advert revenue from legacy auto and indirectly OPEC, peddle many of these EV myths cause they make sensational stories and nobody fact checks any more. Ultimately it'll be the consumer who decides how fast the current transition era proceeds. Big Oil now seems like its a sunset industry. Every govt in developed world has lead the charge to dump diesel asap, decarbonise and move to alt energy. No sign yet of useable fusion, but that will be cracked one day, and that will change everything when grids become 100% fossil free.