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It’s missing the engine cover as well, and I doubt spare parts would be available now

He’s modelling Dublin though, mica is mostly in the North west.. For Dublin it would be either pyrite, or defective insulation/fire proofing for Celtic tiger era buildings! Maybe a ghost estate or two also

Nope, sorry to burst the bubble but they are available to purchase rather than ready to ship.. Current ETA to us is rather fittingly just in time for St. Patricks Day!

I saw this today and for some reason the name Fran popped into my head.. Been a while since we have had an unusual subject turned into an IRM bus, although I think Creative Master rather than Britbus have the tooling for this one

Wasn’t particularly funny the first two times, age hasn’t helped it.. I literally posted a pic of the ship in the other thread on these coaches..

Is this on set for a film or series, maybe hidden assets which was filmed in Shannon I think

Didn’t realise I had been nominated the in house expert on Dongs.. 2005 to present, so too late for IE unit load but they do lease to a good few shipping lines including COSCO who are their parent and CMA.. More widespread around 2015-2020 but still in liners, we just do less 20ft biz now

Interesting thread, although not mentioned was the Ciba Geigy resin which was carried in curtainside containers and then tanks to Stranraer for shipping to NI via Larne..

Picture for context, his name is lumpy and he lives in my garden..

Have a very tasty trunk, including a Mcburney DAF in OO, a silverfox MK3 DVT and PP coach(slightly damaged), a model rail sentinel in GSR livery that’s been chipped and weathered and about 5 packs of Dapol containers(last Cobelfret in stock, dong fang and Hapag, Yang mings and unpainted 45fts) Going to wait till the end of this month to see if there is anything else good to throw in there, maybe a 1:400 747 or something

Not very, zim never had much of a presence in Ireland.. In fact they no longer have an Irish agency, and look after Ireland from their U.K. agency.. I have a pack of the dapol 20fts, I bought after getting 1 booking on the train from the Irish agent to deliver a 20ft to Ballina.. He was a pain in the hole, needed updates every two hours and didn’t understand why a factory that takes a hundred deliveries a week didn’t think his one 20ft container was a priority to offload.. Needless to say that was the only time I know of a Zim box being on the rails since 2005

Now you just have to figure out which box of 9-10000 you are looking for… I’ll give you a clue, it’s reddy brown

You can’t say things like that and no elaborate! any sniff of 071s sets tongues wagging these days

They are in a TEMU container like this one, should be offloaded at Dugort harbours tomorrow morning in time for the up mixed

Its out there somewhere, one of those little dots with COSCO written on the side.. I have a theme song for you and all, enjoy(it was stuck in my head for about 3 months thanks to the 2 year old!).. Beats Barney anyway

Funny you should say that, they passed by you around 9pm last night heading North.. Vessel routed around the cape due to the Houthis, maybe we should have warned the shipping line they were in more danger off the Canaries from a man with a step ladder and army of Felines!

That’s one for the man himself, I am but a small cog!

Yes I arrange the shipping for Paddy, so probably know better than anyone where everything is! The MK2Ds should be here late this week/early next week.. 141/181s, it will be tight if they are ready before Chinese new year in early February, but we should see them by Easter I would imagine

And more importantly, what Calibre is that Barrel?

From where I’m sitting, they are fairly imminent….. Not enough to have a file waiting on my desk for tomorrow morning like the MK2Ds, or a file in the pile like the IRM MK2s but they are in the pipeline

some overlapping Accurascale ranges that will feature IRM elements: This one should get a speculation thread all on it's own.. Here's a stab to get the conversation going: MK2Fs, continuing on the Mk2 theme, although Bachmann and Hornby have both done them already, could give you NIR 904 and the Gatwicks MK3s, done by most UK rail manufacturers by now, maybe something more niche like the MK3 international train which ended up on Irish Rail.. Also, Mk3 EGV would be a unique tooling that could be handy as they survived the scrappers axe Ammonia wagons, yep the IFI wagons had very similar UK cousins(same diagram or similar) BR class 08,09 and derivates, applying the modular accurascale approach and allowing for CIE D class?

Keep it in blue but add an IWT logo and orange cheat line.. 15 years of IWT Dublin-Ballina this August and it will help her blend in

Yes, it took most of a decade to repair 225.. 216 was similar, I think was out from 2010 to 2016.. But they obviously weren't being actively repaired for most of that time! That list seems to cover it.. So 22 locos to cover Enterprise(3 locos on links, plus 1 standby at each end), Cork line(7 locos on links, plus a standby in Cork) plus whatever freight is assigned to them(normally just 1 of the 2 IWT links).. They do seem to be getting more use on PWD work recently however, including mixed 201/071 pairs top and tailing HOBS trains

No sign of 230 coming back yet, she's in fairly bad condition.. I think the plan might have been to use her as the guinea pig for re-engineering/new power pack but that has obviously been cancelled/put on the back burner.. All of 201-205, and 210-214 are stored.. 225 was stored for a good while after colliding with a tractor in 2010, it was back in service late in 2019(nice pic with all those lovely PINK one boxes) http://briansolomon.com/trackingthelight/irish-rail-225-back-on-the-roll/ However, shortly after the fleet gained 225, they lost 224 to the frame cracks. But with the BGH not coming back after COVID, they were up a loco(216) anyway..

I never said this year, haven't even talked to the man with the factory yet! Thought you didn't want my craypola boxes anyway even if I put in all that effort!