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A very gullible idiot might come along, and make that guys dreams come through.

It most certainly is a bright looking lorry.

My initial impression was that Bell only operated 20' and 40' containers. However, a bit of research has shown that Bell were actually innovators in the whole intermodal area, and are still regarded as such, with patents being lodged for pallet wide container designs and were also one of the first intermodal companies campaigning for the EU to allow the use of 45' containers, so they came up with a specific design of 45' container corner edges to beat the EU legislation then in force. In fact, their patents were later sold onto Cronos, who still use them, amongst others. So far, I have come across evidence that Bell operated 20' tanktainers, 30' bulktainers and 45' containers. However, while the 20' and 40' containers were the most common on Bell liner trains, there was occasionally 20' tanktainers and 30' bulktainers used on these trains too. I don't think that the 45' container was ever used on Bell liner trains though, or at least yet to find evidence of that.

Made a query with Arran from C-Rail, and he has sufficient information to produce transfer sheets for Bell Bulk 30' containers. He envisages enough transfers to do three containers per sheet, and price around £6.50-£7.00 GBP. Only issue is that to make it worthwhile, he would need to sell 70-80 sheets of transfers. If sufficient expressions of interest in ordering is show here, he would be willing to proceed with getting the sheets printed up. I would be willing to take 5 sheets.

Excellent photos Dave.

All the 071s carried the original different shade of tan, as they carried when delivered, until around 84/85, when they started to receive repaints into the normal shade of black/tan livery, so all would have looked similar in that period. Only difference was four of them carried tablet catchers for a period.

If it's as good as Rail Through The West, it will be worth the wait.

Are the wagons in those two photos an early prototype of the ballast wagon, as the design is different to the later wagons?

Resurrecting this old thread as came across a photo of a Bell Bulk 20' tanktainer.

Dave, aka Wrenneire, has this photo on the net, which shows them in colour in the grey livery.

That's great and thanks for the clarification. As far as I'm concerned, any modern Irish RTR wagon or loco is more than a welcome addition, and long may the IMR project list continue.

Does this mean that IMR don't plan on producing, in RTR, any modern type wagon that another producer has already produced a kit for?

That's great to hear.

While there are lots of photos of the cement bubbles on the interweb and drawings aren't that hard to come by, are you guys planning on visiting the remaining bubble wagon for detailed photos and exact measurements as part of the project, similar to what you did with the ballast wagon?

Possibly the only time that the cement bubbles were ever in a clean unweathered condition. http://s612.photobucket.com/user/WRENNEIRE/media/IRM%20Site/No544CementTrainCabraSilo_zpsf8663b69.jpg.html?sort=3&o=346 If Mercig Studios were doing the weathering on the cement bubbles, you would definitely be in for a treat. It would be nice if the bubbles could be released in a well executed weathered version, but not just the usual spray of brown muck. However, I can't wait to see them in an RTR version, weathered or not.

Truly excellent stuff.

Excellent stuff.

IR livery non weathered versions.

Looking for preferably unused examples of these if anyone has any spare that they wish to dispose of for cash. PM me with details if you have some for sale. Thanks.

Allowing for weathering and fading on the MkIII sample, the MM0183 is probably very close to the real thing. Removing factory weathering with wire wool - Interesting technique that looks pretty effective.

Murphy Models factory weathered 181 Class loco for sale. Very lightly used. Mint condition complete with unopened accessories pack. €120 including registered postage to anywhere in Ireland. Other locations at cost. Payment by PayPal only.

Excellent scratch built models. Thought they were Weshtys kits being honest.

Very nice Dave. Yep, I reckon Weshty will need to stock up on these kits alright.