Rob

Great idea-  l know l will be in the minority but l am a big fan of anything 201-related!!

I like the fact they are still around hauling passenger trains, aswell as the freight and you can see them 'up close' everyday.

The 201 'yellow faces' began in the orange livery in 2005 and the Green/Silver 'Intercity' livery began (with the same 'yellow faces') in mid 2006.   

Very impressive! The oily, dirty look under the shed looks very lifelike!

They look very impressive

I always am impressed by quality modelling done a long time ago. 

It must have been so much harder to do anything 'back then' such as getting or sourcing materials or equipment, no quick 'googling' of an image if you were trying to recreate something and the costs must have been proportionately so much more expensive than today.

Fair play on this-  looks great!

Cheers!  Most of all that weathering on the wagons, containers etc was thanks to Irrailways Weathering Services from @Dempsey here!

Love the power washer!!!

Yes, echoing the other comments here, it's really impressive.   Very authentic-  the viaduct looks great.

They look excellent to me-  not an expert on things steam but those photos look excellent

5 hours ago, ttc0169 said:

Here you go Rob….

I was in Ballina freight yard to see the XPO liner arrive from Waterford and got took these photos before the rain started. 
It’s great to see another container freight flow alongside the existing IWT liner. 
 

Great shots-  good to capture the debut!

Nice to see the old reliable DANA tankers too at the start.

Thanks for the pics-  hope to see more in the future!!

http://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2021/0929/1249615-freight-railway/

Good to see-  wondering are there any decent photos of the debut today?

I see the coloured springs on the bogies of the Mark 3 Executive-  very topical !

They were around by April 1998- see photo from Colm O'Callaghan's excellent book 'lrish Traction Iarnród Éireann'.

I never saw more than one in a single train but may have been, given the amount of Bells that must have been around when they finished.

Bell 40's would have been well gone by then-  some lingered on in a 'fallen flag' status for a while after ('Bell' wording painted out but rest of the container still the same). See Ernie's photo from Limerick 2000.

Amazing quality- brilliant detail!  

Brilliant-  scenery is very impressive in particular

Great news-     If only it led to a move back to evening movements down Alexandra Road instead of night time....!!

4 hours ago, MOGUL said:

I intend to do a thread on containers at some stage

 

Now, THAT would be great.

Look forward to that for sure

Yes John- from regularly stalking the IWT liner at North Wall for years, coupled with hours of watching videos of lrish container trains on-line going back a decade or so (l need to get out more), l too previously tried to piece together what available containers would suit a modern liner.

CAI / CRONOS / EVERGREEN / GENSTAR / HAPAG LLOYD / K LINE / MSC / MAERSK / OOCL / ONE OCEAN / CMA CGM/ HAMBURG SUD / KYK LOGISTICS / TIPHOOK.

20 ft Tankers:  BRUHN / GCA TAINER / DANA / EUROTAINER / HOYER

Hope it helps.

1 hour ago, murphaph said:

Deffo a 40' as the 45's have the inboard anchor points (to allow stacking with 40s) as can be seen on the third container which is a 45' Hi Cube in the same pic. Don't think the pic is correctly captioned however. That's surely the retro livery with those leds I would have thought.

Agreed- Definitely not 1987- with the 45' Cobelfret, it looks recent enough from the last few years at most, but shows the Evergreen does appear.

Looks very impressive!  I know nothing about US stock but it looks great.   

7 hours ago, MOGUL said:

The Murphy's tanks are on hire to replace some of the older DCIU tanks I believe, some of the DCIU tanks are at least 18 years old

 

...and they look every day of it too!     

Just 20ft Tankers on the liner this evening in North Wall- no 20 / 40 / 45 ft containers which is rare.

Never saw 'Murphy Transport Ltd' tanker before either-  too far away to take photo but they were like the one below, alongwith the usual 'DANA' and 'GCA'.

Maybe a new one for C Rail??

Since the moving of the IWT Liner down to Ocean Pier from North Wall to nighttime, there seems to be a lot less containers on it when it is parked up after arriving from Ballina.

Maybe just coincidence with a quieter time or is there some reason?

Great videos- definitely a great era just slightly too early for me.  Push forward just one decade and you have the greatest era in lrish Railways!!!!!  (Am sure l will be in minority though )