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Cheers Darius

@Portadown, Yes they are still available at the moment. Regards, John

Been on the scout on how the old moyasta mk3s are doing at their new home

After a lot of grunts, moans and a lot of sweeping dog hairs The tracks connected gonna click it to the controller and then try think of ways to prevent dust and dog hair getting at it tomorrow

There is a long tradition of (often young) volunteers travelling great distances to work on railway restoration projects. ITG members regularly crossed the Irish Sea from the Midlands and North (of England) to work at their base at Carrick on Suir and no doubt Inchacore and Downpatrick and help out on other Irish perservation projects. Back in the day (30 off years ago) I regularly (fortnightly) made a 440 mile round journey by car from Watford to Portmadoc to Volunteer on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, at one stage I was living in Scotland and made a monthly 672 mile journey from Stirling to Port to carry out substructure work for the RED shed. As shuttering carpenter my job was to set up the shutters and holding down bolts for a pour by our concrete gang who made a 479 mile round trip by car from West London. Sometime I travelled by rail from Stirling to Warrington where I was picked up by a group of volunteers who regularly travelled by car from York to Port, other time I drove. We were mainly single guys with reasonably well paid jobs without family responsibilities, though a younger generation of volunteers teens and 20s had began to become involved, some of whom have become long term volunteers/company officers. One significant differences between the Festiniog, Welsh Highland Heritage and other heritage railways in the UK, is that both the FR & WHHR provide overnight volunteer accommodation, the Festiniog Hostel and the WHHR caravan accomodation owned by volunteer groups. Interestingly vintage carriage restoration/construction is mainly lead by a volunteers of a younger age group focused on the heritage aspect of the railway, while the older generation of volunteers/members were mainly focused on building a narrow gauge modern railway.

Long time since I was in this So long i thought I couldn’t find this About the 2 American locos, I loaned them to try fox but me being an amateur didn’t do too good of a job Wanna post a bit more on this as Connolly for the past while was giving me a headache from my own pressure on myself unsure where to start to balancing time with school So here I am after coming home from the MRSI to see the Christmas decorations starting to be put up So it’s that’s time of the year Out comes the Christmas train

There hasn't many updates lately due to other commitments but I've been managing to snap the odd photo here and there. The November and December galleries have been updated with images from Portlaoise Dublin Heuston Tara Street Dublin Pearse LUAS in Dublin City Centre including images of the new bridge in the IFSC. November gallery latest images - https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2025-Photos/November-2025/i-wDd27tS December gallery latest images - https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2025-Photos/December-2025

Artificial Ignorance - almost as good as the real thing.

Any good doner mk3s that he an identical body to the kit mk3s that ran here?

Day 9 in Japan was mainly getting from Kyoto back to Tokyo and out to Haneda airport via the Tokyo Monorail. Click on the photo below to view them all Regards, Kieran

I'm usually the first to criticise IE's total disinterest in all things railfreight but, in this case, given that this development is primarily for the assembly and transport of offshore turbines, with virtually all of the raw material arriving by ship and the finished product leaving the same way, it's hard to see a justification for a rail connection. Mark

Are these still available? Are these still available?

Excellent. There was a very similar stretch between Eden and Downshire, 4 miles along from Whitehead. Crossing the line here to get to the sea could be rather exciting - what you did NOT want to happen was being trapped between the rails and the sea wall when a train was coming….clearance wasn’t generous!

Will be a very good place for photographs.

Three weeks later, I’ve still four fingers left; three on one hand and one on the other. The house fire wasn’t too bad, got it put out quickly enough.

I often wonder why “artificial intelligence” isn’t called “artificial crassness”!

I wish I was surprised. Never any winning here. DART+ pushed back, Luas Finglas pushed back, Metrolink delayed, 2:1 cut. For a country that has no significant large companies (such as car companies in the US and Germany, Shell in the Netherlands etc) to lobby against public transport, we seem to be doing an incredible job of ruining any hopes of competent public transport. Nothing but despair and fury from me over this.

220 million Euro development by Iarnród Éireann with NO rail facilities!

Wow, super work. There’s no way I can keep up with your pace - I’ve been working on one building for a fortnight.

Funny you should find that - I also had a problem with clearances to masts with my transporters, despite my best efforts to plan it out. Bogie wagons on pairs of transporters have particularly large overthrows on curves.

It's like someone asked AI to design a memorial.

Excellent viewing angle - and the finish of the sea wall is superb too, one can hear the waves......

Hopefully, not the five year old who wrote this poorly constructed sentence!

Sea wall painted and temporarily in place. Cheers Darius

Stupid me! Need stronger coffee.