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  1. I see a new run of Bachmann 60' "Freightliner" flats have been released. How do they compare to the CIE built 62.5' wagons? Would they pass as Irish? Could they be Irished up with the addition of buffer beams at each end?

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  2. Hey All. I spotted this variation of a BELL container as part of a bigger poster here at a trade fair today, so obviously the image isn't the best. But it is 'BELL EXPRESS', a varient I have never seen before. I believe the location is Rotterdam.

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  3. Good evening all! I'm looking to include some Irish Army vehicles on a diorama, specifically jeeps and vans from the 1990s that would have accompanied cash-in-transit deliveries that was common practice back then. Is there a particular green used? I know they are normally a matt type finish. Also, if anyone can share any refererence photos, please do! 

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  4. A question about creating timetables.... are there any apps or online tools that you could formulate and play around with timetables? Say as an example you wanted to enter the Dublin Cork mainline with 5 stops, and figure out a timetable, to look at the effect of say 100mph versus 130mph running, that sort of thing....

  5. On 19/2/2025 at 11:34 PM, hurricanemk1c said:

    Day 2 in Finland saw me predominately in Kouvola and Tampere, with a trip to Savonlinna to get between the two. Plenty of freight through Kouvola, and Sr1 action on one of the sleepers. Click on the photo below to view them all

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    Regards,

    Kieran

    Hi Kieran,

    Just looking through this album now, great to see the Fenniarail loco's in action. I'm really happy you got to see their loco 102 also. Do you know anything more about this company, as in what they are hauling these days. They were one of the first private operators in Finland, and I know prior to the war that they had been approved (or were close to approval) for cross border mineral flows between Finland and Russia, across one of the more northerly freight only rail crossings. I believe they purchased 6 locomotives like the 102 to.service this flow. 

  6. I was looking at some images of the traversers at Inchicore Works, specifically the longer one at the carriage shops, and that got me wondering if Inchicore had anything like a small roadrailer or locotractor for moving coaches and locos in and out of the sheds onto the traverser? Specifically in the 80s and 90s time period. Anyone can shed some light on this? 

    On another thread on this forum, member @Niles mentions there is a Zephir LOK 1400 at Inchicore. This might be a more recent addition. 

  7. On 30/10/2022 at 3:22 AM, patrick said:

    What traffic is expected on the line and do Irish Rail have rolling stock to handle it?

    As asked originally by Patrick early on in this thread, and again by Mayner, are any viable freight flows identified for this line? 

    Much as I want this line to be successful, I'm struggling to find viable flows. Ore was the original one being mentioned, but with all that has happened with the price of zinc and Bolidon/Tara Mines this past couple or years I can't see that happening.

    Is biomass a consideration? To Edenderry maybe? Like the Drax in the UK? Imported wood pellets from Canada.

    The cement industry has been mentioned too, but what from where would need to go through Foynes Port?

    And the renewables industry keeps getting mentioned. But what rail flows could this actively support? 

    Containers then... I don't believe there is enough import export to the US/South America to support this. 

    My own opinions. If anyone has other reasonable ideas, suggestions or information I'd love to hear your thoughts. 

     

     

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  8. 6 hours ago, murphaph said:

    Relieved to see the IR ones as delivered. The colour looks fine. The early pre-production ones looked very red indeed. Mine are on the way to me as we speak. Got the IRM mail earlier. The Galway livery EGV error is inexplicable really. It's not a minor detail and it was flagged before they went to production it seems. Unless there was some oddball livery on the prototype that we are all unaware of?

    Quick question for those already in possession of theirs....did the bogies end up 21mm friendly in the end? There was some speculation they might and they look different to the original design. Rotating axlebearings?

    Hi @murphaph

    Here is a close up of the bogies. Plastic cast, no rotating bearings. There are plastic brake shoes(?) moulded in the correct position up close to each individual wheel, which might foul a 21mm wheelset. However, they are not visibile through the bogie so I don't think they'd be missed if you were to remove them. I've no first hand experience with 21mm conversions, but I think there is plenty of space within the frame for 21mm wheelsets.

    Edit: bogies rotate independent of couplers

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  9. That's a real shame. I got a set of  the IR ones today and I'm pretty happy with them. I really wanted this run of models to be correct, both for Paddy Murphy and for the Irish modelling scene in general. Interesting to see the feedback over the next few days.

  10. With potentially just a few weeks of Tara Mines trains running, it reminds me that there is precious little video footage of trains shunting and loading from within the mine complex in Navan. Is there anyone in the community that would have the connections (on behalf of all of us in the IRM community) to try and get some footage, in the spirit of recording our industrial railway heritage. Think of how valuable the little footage we have of Ballinacourty is! Do Boliden have a historian/PR person within their vast empire that might support a request like this? Any thoughts?

  11. Finally for now, the whole thing is very loosely based on the wagon shed in North Wall. The shed is scratch built and still needs work. The gantry crane is a 3D print by Owen O'Neill of this parish. I've modified it to fit the location. I found it very hard to work with the print material used on this particular item, but that was mostly my impatience and is no reflection on the kit! 

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  12. I've been wrecking my head for weeks trying to think of something to put behind the yard as low relief. Specifically, something that would at least be a nod to the East Wall location. I've left a strip of 14cm along the back for this. I was thinking low relief houses, or East Wall Church. The church idea would be kinda cool, but might dominate the whole thing.

    Whilst playing around this evening I placed some containers, and it actually looks well, and is a simple enough solution. On on the right hand side I'm playing around with the idea of a concrete mix plant. I remember the orange Readymix trucks and plant on the East Wall road beside the fire station, it used to be terrifying trying to cross the footpath across the front entrance! So I'll build that up and see how it fits.

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  13. Tolka Sidings is set in Dublin in a corner of East Wall, and depicts a small yard as it was in the 90s, primarily used for wagon inspection and light repairs. It also occasionally acts as overflow for the North Wall yards, and for stabling PWD equipment at weekends.

    As I love all things DSER, the back story is that this elevated yard was originally built by the DSER shortly after the Liffey Loop Line was completed, and was their only venture across to the Northside. Thus it is served by a sharp single line siding that heads off East after the wash plant at Connolly Station, crossing over the curves down from the Northern Line. A second track also connects to the Drumcondra line at Ossery Road. That's the theory anyways! 

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    I've made some progress this weekend finally. I've got most of the hardstand in place, and made a start on the ballasting. The layout will be shunted using a sector plate

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  14. Hi All 

    I'm a big fan of plasticard and it's various uses. I try to buy local where I can, but Marks doesn't always have stock, due to his minimum order size, shipping times etc. 

    Anyone can suggest reliable alternative hobby stores, preferable EU based? Besides the Evergreen Styrene range, any other sources or suppliers I should be looking at? Or indeed other materials? 

    Thanks in advance as always. Dave

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