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I remember the Olympians replacing the KDs. Man that was an improvement, no longer half suffocating to death from the diesel fumes in the lower saloon.

Notwithstanding the excellent track work, fitting of the front skirt also contributes hugely to the overall impression. I have already planned in my head how I will allow my locos to be turned at each end of my layout so that I can achieve the same look, with just the "rear" Kadee coupling fitted. This is really inspiring stuff John! Love it.

Wonder does it retain the black and white bilingual warnings and notices.

Cast Cuts Costs.....unless you can't stop buying them lol.

Yeah that video is great. The green containers scattered among the Bell unit trains were Consent Leasing. I guess leased from them by Bell due to a shortage of their own boxes at the time.

Extremely useful for many I would have thought JB, and as this era becomes more popular, even more useful. Many thanks for taking the time to write that up.

It's a great way to add significant variety and colour to a layout. I'm looking forward to the 47' and 62' flats some day to justify buying even more containers lol.

I think the P&O, LYS-LINE, Evergreen and Nedlloyd ones are definitely ok on a 1995 layout, which is what I'm aiming for. I am pretty sure I've seen all of these in photos or videos of Irish Rail liners from the period too.

Hi all, I just thought I'd post about my purchase of some of the Hornby 1:76 containers I picked up in Mark's while back home recently. They are a spot on fit on the IRM P42 flats and a perfect match size-wise to the excellent c-rail range. I found I couldn't get these containers (currently) from c-rail so took the opportunity to grab these Hornby ones. Might be of interest to anyone looking for these specific container liveries in 8'6 boxes. They have a few more due to come out in Spring I believe. Not pictured are the P&O ones, which are also nice. For comparison the last 20' box on the right is from c-rail, the other three are Hornby. A very good match I think. The holes even line up with the IRM yellow lugs on the wagons! They come in packs of 1x20' + 1x40' for example: http://www.marksmodels.com/?pid=41605

Yep. Loads of us have returned to the hobby after decades long hiatuses only to realise that Irish stuff was actually available! I got my Cravens "at the last minute" so to speak from Chris Dyer in the summer of 2020 still at the normal RRP. They were no longer to be found anywhere else at that stage so I was delighted to get them. I'm even more delighted now!

They had other teething problems like squeaky bogies. You can here the squeak in some cab ride videos. It must have been really annoying as a driver but I think it was also addressed by EMD. It would be fabulous to see the whole fleet back in service on freight duties over the coming years. More potential than ever thanks to Brexit.

Agreed. 218 looks especially powerful sitting on it's big wide bogies. Impressive beasts.

Same. I've been trying to figure out if there's any chance they passed through Kildare on the way to Limerick at the end to somehow justify buying at least one pack lol. Doesn't look like it unfortunately.

Anyone have more details about the dates at the end? Were they cut up in Enniscorthy or were they moved to somewhere else for scrapping?

Thanks be to God I had reserved myself to my fate of regauging the gypsums, ballasts and bubbles. The magnesites are way out of era for me but as the only remaining wagon based on that chassis I can understand the economics of sticking with the original tooling. Thanks for the prompt answers chaps That's good news.

You've lost me now lol. I'm not familiar with any 4 wheel hopper wagons (bar the bubbles) which ran as late as 1995, or is that perhaps the reference I'm not getting

Hi all, I note that the new and very handsome magnesite wagons are going to use the ballast wagon chassis. I'm guessing that means future wagons based on this chassis are also going to use this chassis. Which other wagons that were still running in 1995 are based on this same chassis? Cheers all.

Not a Hino as it's unpowered. It could be a lifeboat accessory for the upcoming B&I ferry of course.

I knew I'd be wrong

I'm gonna go with the footbridge as well, so it won't be that lol.

Is this the most paid for a MM 111? https://www.ebay.ie/itm/175115249790 €517 + shipping from the UK. An 8208 in Enterprise livery went for €408 as well. All those baby GMs at €300 buy it now seem to be gone. Prices just keep going up and up.

I'm waiting for the punchline Connolly! Ah Noel it's not fair to lay into stuff you personally don't find interesting, just because. Let's look at the 201 for a second. You said it is like a peat briquette because it's not an interesting shape like the other GMs but the Sulzers, A and C classes were also flat sided locos but I know you love the A's and would presumably buy a Sulzer in B&T if one was available. I think you just don't find these things aesthetically appealing but it seems it's mostly to do with age and your associated memories. But you need to appreciate that you are laying into the memories of the 15 year old modeller on here who doesn't remember a 121 or a Craven in service nevermind an A Class and I'm too young to remember anything much before IR and I'm "only" 43. I think we should count our lucky stars we still have a railway. Freight might just make a comeback due to the green agenda coming to the fore and as freight virtually disappeared from most of the network in the mid 2000's it's the yo yo passenger yokes that have effectively kept the remaining network operational due to being reasonably cost effective to operate, so let's not be too hard on them eh?

Same operations as a modern railcar. Forward and back. No running around. No shunting. No releasing the loco etc. I see no difference between them and a 22k set operationally...do you?

Super, thanks @warb

Any pics anyone? I'd love to see one.