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  1. Garfield
    Superb work, Bren... it looks fantastic!
  2. Garfield
    I pointed that out above and Junctionmad clarified...
  3. Garfield
    You'll have to provide more information than that - there's no user here by that name.
  4. Garfield
    The biggest stumbling block facing Irish preservation is a lack of manpower. Everyone wants to see the likes of A3R, C226, 124, etc. in working order. Everyone wants to see facilities like Moyasts open regularly and manned. Very few are willing to put in the effort to make it happen, though, and those that do end up being judged unfairly as a result.
  5. Garfield
    Well we're not changing the forum title to Irish Battleship Modeller! (PS: stats show forum usership has been steady for this time of year... )
  6. Garfield
    Both those wagons are in the white/ivory livery so both have a heavy coating of dirt. The grey livery was worn by the first batches of bubbles when they first entered traffic in the 1960s. Re. The coupling, as we explained when the swan neck coupling solution was announced for the ballast, it will also apply to the bubbles because the chassis is of the same design.
  7. Garfield
    Hi Noel, Both logos will be represented in the production run.
  8. Garfield
    Hi George, Just to clarify, Mercig would be creating 'master' samples which the factory in China would replicate. Standard factory weathering doesn't float my boat either, but I know the factory can faithfully reproduce weathering samples that are supplied to them, which is something I think many manufacturers don't actually bother doing.
  9. Garfield
    The handiest way of doing it is to upload to YouTube and embed the videos into your forum posts.
  10. Garfield
    Welcome to the forum, Ewan. You don't have to make wild excuses to have NIR's 112 on your layout... it spent a while on loan to Irish Rail in the mid '00s. Pic here: http://briansolomon.com/trackingthelight/2012/12/12/out-on-the-beet-turning-muck-into-gold/nir-112-with-laden-beet-tay/ (The date in the copyright notice is way later...)
  11. Garfield
    Dave is a retailer...
  12. Garfield
    Not really addressing the OP's issue there, Noel...
  13. Garfield
    Not sure if it's down to settings that can be changed, but in real life the cab lights would be switched off while the loco is moving...
  14. Garfield
    Further to Richie's post on the ballast wagon pre-production photos thread, we've posted a blog on the website explaining why we had to place the NEM coupling pockets higher than normal on the ballast and bubble wagons, and the workarounds we've devised to ensure these products are compatible with the couplings on your other rolling stock... https://irishrailwaymodels.com/index.php/2016/09/12/ballast-bubble-differences-in-coupling-height-and-solutions/
  15. Garfield
    Not a bad rate of acceleration at all. Having studied the video, the train was already travelling at 0.7mph after one second. In your video of the models at the top of the thread, the 071 is travelling at a steady scale 0.29mph. There should be a law against doing maths on a Sunday...
  16. Garfield
    These old girls had a lively rate of acceleration with a seven-coach rake (speed limited by the limit on the curve heading west out of Mullingar...):
  17. Garfield
    Paraphrasing, Noel!
  18. Garfield
    The chassis, while similar, has enough differences to warrant an entirely new tooling. And to paraphrase Scotty... "We can'nae go any faster"
  19. Garfield
    There's a misconception that locos crawl along at that speed in reality. They generally don't, unless they're fitted with slow speed control (used with auto-discharging hoppers, etc.). An 071 and a rake of Mk2s would have accelerated quite a bit by the time the last coaches reached the end of the platform...
  20. Garfield
    Hope her stabilisers are working!
  21. Garfield
    Looking forward to watching this when it's released next month... It's a story that deserves to be told.
  22. Garfield
    Yep... project #3.
  23. Garfield
    We'll be unveiling the identity of Project #3 on Saturday morning at the October show. Project #4 is still a closely guarded secret in development at IRM's Skunk Works...
  24. Garfield
    You still see the odd one in everyday use. This one is parked outside the office most days...
  25. Garfield
    Some images can be found in the National Library of Ireland collection: http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000303534/Flickr http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000049995 http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000049998
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