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I think that IRM should book a venue in Dublin to launch the A class. Most of us railway modellers will be fully vaccinated and there won't be any annoying young people in attendance. Brilliant or what?

Wonder how many days we'll have to wait to see a picture of the other side of the box? There's a feeling of Sam's Trains about it.

@BosKonay - Is there a prize for guessing what's in the box? I'm thinking it's a bottle of Midleton Whiskey. I know it's quite expensive but at least it's a lot easier for me to get my hands on than the IRM As.

Very impressive looking locomotives, certainly much better than the 201s [new].

It'd be more "Very interesting" if the guys at IRM posted more up-to-date pics of the As. Anyway, I'm off to watch France beat Portugal - it should be a very interesting match.

It's not the worst disguise I've seen - the Lima 33 was disguised as an A class, a tad less convincing than that A16 in it's luggage van outfit. Wonder if it got invited to many Hallowe'en parties?

I like your optimism. You should print off some of the pics of the IRM As that are on this thread an place them in the cabinet and replace them with the actual models when they arrive before Christmas 20........

How did you manage to find that treasure trove? Will head down on Saturday morning to take a look - have never been to Wicklow Town. The railway station is miles from the town so I'll get the bus.

That won't be filled anytime soon.

@Wrenneire - If the vultures on here get a sniff that you might have to get rid of your stuff they'll start circulating your house. Where exactly do you live? 

The wait continues...........

Just having a rough guess but I've a feeling that today isn't one of those days also!

@Warbonnet - Yesterday you said; Look out for more pics in the coming days... [sic] - is today not one of those days?

PS. Not being impatient or anything like that but I am in the twilight years of my life and I've little else to get up for.

Remember the good old days when you could walk into your local model railway shop and couldn't find what you were looking for? That's the reason many of us resorted to purchasing on-line and, it certainly has it's pitfalls. Has it's advantages also.

The buffers are separately applied (I think).

The one good thing about my Lima 'A' class is that you can drop kick it from here to eternity and none of the separately applied parts will fall off.

I think Sam will be delighted that each of the locomotives come with a 'Very good box'

@wrenneire - Thanks very much for those Fleischmann container wagons - really delighted with my purchases. They've saved a few of my locomotives from being culled. If you ever come across similar or other Fleischmann items which you think might be of interest to me just let me know. Thanks again.

Don't forget to add postage and customs duty.

Ah guys! I was looking forward to looking at this thread and all I see is a re-jig of an old model. Just not good enough.

I spoke too soon.......................

@Garfield - If you'd posted that link 24 hours ago it would have answered a lot of questions. Think this thread will be a lot quieter now. Anyway, back to the As' thread for me.

@wrenneire - thanks for posting the list. Have sent you a private message regarding some of the container wagons. The later models of the 40' container bogie wagons [DB AG era] are hard to come by - think it's been over ten years since Fleischmann last produced them.

At the rate the IRM As are selling Wrenneire will soon have a buyer for his Q-Kits version.

Hi Wrenneire, I'm culling my Fleischmann collection but, don't want to rid myself of all of it as it's nice to switch from Irish models to German [DB AG] stock. I am low on container wagons, P&O, DHL, ECS, K-Line, Norasia, NOL and one or two others - these are a mix of two axle and bogie wagons. If you have a list of your Fleischmann stock there might be other bits that I'd be interested in.

I think that selling anything other than Irish models on here would be hard as a lot of people might think this site is solely for people who model Irish rather than Irish people who are railway modellers.

PS. Where can I get an e-postcard so I can put my answers on it?