Westcorkrailway

A slightly different story An interesting discovery Kevin meany posted recently on the GSRPS Facebook group about some of the loco plates he has as decoration on his layout. Upon posting the sulzer plates, the group realised these plates were not like the ones off the B101 class Well upon further investigation by myself, @jhb171achill and kevin, between us we found out that these plates belonged to none other then CIE Diesel Pioneer B113. Kevin has had them for years and has never once thought about where they actually came from! So have a look at your layout bits….you never know what you might find!

Yup, sounds identical to what happened to mine. And Rodrick had it repair d free of charge including the postage to get it there and back but alas it still isint working right. I love 00 works and I without them there is no way in hell I would have ever gotten a RTR CBSCR loco (the most unlikely thing ever) but it’s purley for stationary use nowadays. I remember attending the Blackrock show in 2022 and a J15 was working Castletown/ballygluin. I went there around midday and watched the J-15 completely fail meaning a deisal sun had to come in. The lads were not pleased and I explained to one of them my issues with my loco. I think one of them offered to fix mine free of change, but that was too generous an offer for me so I refused. I think they eventually managed to fix it (posted in this thread somehere)

That’s it! I remember the owner numbered is 213 because that was the one named river not that flowed through foxford and ballina, where he was hoping this livery would by applied to 201s!

A silver 201 is a flying snail on the side like A30 with a couple of these mark 3s

Hate to be pessimistic but. Wouldn’t be suprised if pre orders were cancelled and everyone having to pre-order again via rails system. Credit card information is one of things that those pre-orders hinged on from memory

Oh….I though the 201s would have the new liveries like badger, 2015 enteprise and new IE logo cork mainline green

Yup. The reason they were got rid of them was a slightly non standard design next to something like a J26 the model itself just does not work. For all me and Rodrick attempts to make it work. The gears just wear themselves to naff. I suspect it’s something to do with the wheels as a pose to the worm and wheel like I previously suspected. I’ll still keep it because these locos often worked Cork-Kinsale. I don’t run models all that often anyway. It’s just a shame this model will likely never run again unless I paid for serious surgery

will be replicating that with the earlier flying snail types

I will be aiming for a Green one.

From what I have heard it is indeed possible to do this as long as you have somone on the other side of the cab. of course maintaining a turntable is much cheaper then paying for a 2nd man to be there (remember these were the days where they were trying to bring costs down) to get rid of the fireman and the driver to just the driver. And it’s not like all of the cravens have to be in use either. I know that effects finances but my interpretation is diesel is cheaper to run then steam!

Not new but they are still around on the net

There is lots of stuff at moyasta. Off the top of my head there is A3r A15 124 152 190 Mk 3 dvt mk 3 (maybe 2) C227 (disguised as C202) bullied corrugated open wagon 30 ton break van X3 Ballast wagons plough van Inchicore fire engines. a few bord NA mona types

I think talk to Chris dier on Facebook. I don’t know if anyone on this parish off the top of my head who has done it but good luck

I hear there allowed to run bonnet first…..won’t that be something

I always though 1 Black and Tan 071 (lol) and one arrow 2600 would do nicely along with an orange 201

Ironically lilt and the last commuter liveried 29k both went extinct around the same time I think Fanta cans compared to “cattle trucks” which is what Wikipedia said there nickname was, is slightly more humerus and I’ve actually heard people call it Fanta cans in the wild even 15 or so years after they last wore orange. Maybe one day there will be another Fanta can

I’ll always recomend this thread which has not quite those things, but pretty close (I think if you click on the image it brings to northern blue 109s flickr with some fun and some serious “what ifs” in Ireland and beyond)

What I meant by bad record was just LOOK at how many failures there was in 2022. I was not commenting on your book keeping in fact, this is a good easy way to keep track (infact it should be plugged into Excel to make pie charts and the like) what I’m saying is the DD’s look great, have. Lovely GM at the head, but with a record like that it’s getting easy to justify a replacement

Where did the footbridge come from?

I’m no expert but that’s not a great record. even with my Mark 4 bias the DDs deffinetly have a better ride and I’ll miss them when there gone. But you can’t overlook a reliability record like that….and that was in 2022, there not getting any younger!

Tasty work!

I think these locos were not copies but pulled out of the reject bin. So these models could be decective hence he wants them out of circulation same when a bad batch of currency gets out of the mint

This one always seemed like an open goal for a 3D print project or a kit.

good to hear....ive heard fanta cans and buiscuit tins purley in a saterical fashion but never cattle cars.... a thread uncovering the falsities in irish railway wikipedia would be good!

Oh yeah the point of my previous post was a “wouldn’t it be nice if” fever dream….one could say an April fools.