Sean

I believe at some point in the uk it was normal to keep locos idling 24/7 for the above stated reasons, along with grumblings about the batteries not being too good in the cold weather. i remember being on a GAA special as a child, one of my only loco hauled train trips in Ireland before everything went DMU unfortunately. we were at the back of the train and when it got into the station there was a few more coaches than the lenght of the platform would allow. so everyone in the back coaches simply hopped out and started walking along the trackbed towards the platform! wouldnt see that now lol.

Evergreen container at ballina. That has just tripled the value of those ones

Ill tell you one thing, I had this livery written off as an ugly weird looking and bland shade that looked like it had been delivered to the wrong continent when combined with the yellow from any photos i had seen and because of that i never really had any ambitions to buy the model. after seeing this in the flesh today i am strongly considering the model as it has changed my opinion on it entirely.

Ya, with a nice case full with most of his releases to date. They did unfortunately inform me that the mk3s are not expected till 2023 and no mention of the 201 re run when I asked what's coming out soon. IE even had the full belmond set out on display, however unfortunately behind a barrier. This was a brilliant day out.

New Arduino project; auto reverser for wye. Similar to digitrax ar1

sent those on rob, grabbed an extra set when i seen them readvertised as i wasnt 100% sure the time i could go , knew someone else would grab em off me anyway.

have 2 spare tickets for 16:00 for anybody who didnt manage to get one. message me and i can send them on, ill be there for 14:00. no biters and they are going on fb at 10

theres actually a few spots where i wanted to use flexi but unfortunately due to a certain retailers policy of only selling it by the boxload online i unfortunately could not get a hold of any until i get to there shop in person.

excellent! such news allows me to budget towards ye're other wares and put them on the backburner for a while. out of mind

they have neither confirmed nor denied such things as of yet we can only pray that they have set up infront of 071 for a very specific and subliminal reason............... those videos have me excited now.

Hi railer are these still available

Finally managed to get my hands on a high tech hopper loading machine from 1987 Fuelling area is built, I can paint and detail it at a later time. I've been trying to find an accurate representation of this forklift yoke in oo but to no avail. Everything is just too small or too modern. Or both. Took a punt on this yoke for £10 off hattons and although it's hilariously overscale it does lift to roughly the correct height so once the cage is cut down and a 1/76 cab is sourced and fitted I think it might fit the bill just nicely.

at least the model will be more accurate on oo track now

Freshly laid and almost ready to go, ran out of straights for the last two sidings but that was anticipated. A PILE of new containers. Won't live here permenantly but will be on and off trains.

brilliant never thought of looking here! only want 5-10 cages in total for what im doing so wouldnt be too hard to put those together if nothing is available. are they the exact same keg moulding?

on the lookout for either keg flats or just the keg loads that came on their own. if anybody knows of any let me know. Regards

We are the mods! We are the mods! We are we are we are the mods! A suspicious seargent prepares to take a U turn..........

I would recommend taking a look at google docs, its a fully fledged word processor that lives in the cloud and autosaves, even if the computer ye are writing one spontaneously combusts the work will be in the "cloud" and retrieve-able from anywhere. theres also the advantage of ye both being able to log into the document at once from seperate computers anywhere on the planet and make edits. its literally all i used through 4 years of college and super helpful considering i was a long distance commuter, and then lockdowns happened so it became even more heavily used.

Something completely different has been happening! Why yes, that's a ten foot base board. Nothing special it's literally just some boards that are screwed together in order to let me run round and round trains. It won't be modelled all that much except for placing the odd building around it in due course. A nice branch line track plan has been established as I don't really want a double tracked main line as it would feel a bit too tail chasey and go against everything else I've modelled so far. in practical terms it could be seen as the mother of all fiddle yards. As usual the timber is all scraps that someone was getting rid of so this lot has been done for a grand total of zero, directly mounted onto two old bedroom dressers so I guess that's somewhere to put my growing collection of small green cardboard boxes...... And once this last connecting board is in place I'm ready to lay some track! Loads to come this week. Supplies have been procured for the final phases of the terminus, and all the track for the baseboard is in the post.

I wouldn't call it a security breach per se but I dont think it would be a massive stretch for an employee somewhere along the delivery chain to be casually harvesting data from the outside of envelopes as he goes about his ordinary daily routine handling said envelopes? I too had been bombarded with them daily for a good few months but they had all but stopped until this today, and as i am literally due a delivery today it does make me a little suspicious. I would say i am more tech savvy than most, part of that generation that grew up with computers and the internet. the scams become more and more sophisticated over time and a couple in recent times have had me doing a double take for the real thing. Its probabaly me being a little paranoid too but at the same time it definitely wouldnt surprise me, gonna keep an eye on it for the next order i make from outside the eu zone.

just got one of those scam "click this link and pay 2 euro in VAT" dodgy texts for the first time in a long time, first time in a long time im actually waiting on uk post too so i almost clicked, seems a bit too coincidental if you ask me.

https://www.earthwonders.co/nature/how-hollywood-portrays-other-countries/ might be easier than you think ....

here we go again from hornby 1995 locomotive, 2022 prices. and not even into their budget range.

im thinking the same, it just draws me in a lot more and the right just feels like a twin tail chaser the more i look at it. i think the fact that the wye is flowing rather than being a rigid shape is really helping too.i can already imagine trains snaking through it as another one sits in wait. i see a total of 7 stabling points on that too with plenty of potential to add block detection and train automation so its not really ever going to feel like im running just a single train. My dcc controller only has like 1.5amps of power too so im quite limited in that regard.