Riversuir226

Great news, i'd love to see the bubbles first, definetly interested in the beet wagons double height ones anyway.

After that if you done the fertiliser bogies or any of the other cement wagons id definetly buy a good few off you.

Looking good Boskonay, really like 077 in the new livery. Keep up the good work.

Have to say i'm always amazed at the amount of locos and rolling stock that you have, lide the layout too:tumbsup:

Sources tell me that new management in IE are pushing for more freight for the company to try and make more money. The 071's new paint job are only the start of it.

IE have advertisement boards up in Waterford station for the last few months outlining there freight capabilities bulk, container, timber etc.

223 has been turning up in Waterford quite a lot lately as railer said on freight, 209 was here regulary over the last few months as well.

On the grain, i would have thought Waterford(Belview) would be easier due to the direct transfer of containers from rail to ship whereas Cork doesn t have that option unless they bring back Tivoli plus if the grain was to be exported via Belview they could use the Limerick junction-Waterford line which lets face it needs the business.

I have heard that the new "boss" in IE does want locos divided into pools, passenger, freight and infrastructure & yes the 077 is only the start of it.

Bought this off baby gm the other day, couldn t miss the opportunity to try the marks models version of a 201.

After a little service on the chassis, i turned my attention to the body as i m trying to decide whether i ll put her in NIR livery as 209 or one of the 201 orange ones. I thought a good place to start was to strip the existing paint off and start from bare resin.

After a little bath in brake fluid, this is what emerged.

I have the GW stuff too, and it's dafty expensive, not to mention the powerful stink off it. Those little tubes are €2.75 each, and you'd get enough out of a tube to "wash" Bosko's entire stock and still have leftovers!

You'd need a crate of it to get through Wrenn's collection so!!!!

Cheeky,

 

Rich,

We ve a nack down here for naming bridges after people(albeit with Waterford connections) from across the river, still find that "The cat flap" brings an aul smile to my face when i hear it!!!. Still can t call the "new bridge" rice bridge though(must have been the after effects of the brothers education).

Good man Richie, getting a real urge to try one of those kits after seeing that. Love the weathering on her

I hope your happy with it, glad it got to you safely

Yes delighted with it, its on the workbench while i figure out which 201 she ll become

All sold now now

Thanks

Many thanks the 201 arrived this morning:tumbsup:

Lovely work on Inchicore, uh, I mean Cork. The loop and the headshunt are a great simple addition. Refuelling road is the loop?

Many thanks Richie, i didn t even think i d be able to get even a portion of the great works into my space, good old google earth and eiretrains were very handy to get the plan of that part of the yard and for drawing out the shed plans, hardest part was ignoring the tranverser at the back of the sheds as id love to use the heljan one. Many thanks to boskonay for the suggestions as they make a big

improvement to the general plan.

Any other suggestions are very welcome:tumbsup:

Played around a bit with it, 4m x 1m is the area set aside for the depot area.Total area for the layout will be 5m x 4m. The sheds are based on the southern end of Inchicore's running shed, practically everything else is condensed or remodelled to fit the space. The shed area needs to be big with the "little" loco fleet that i have;).

The buildings will be scratchbuilt, the main 4 road shed will be able to accomadate up to 8 071's, 2 per road, the 2 road shed will be able to accomadate a 201 on each. I ll have various jacks, forklifts around the area and at the back there'll be a car park and a few bits of condemned stock with an excavator doing its evil deeds.

Blame Boskonay for this one:D,

I ve been finalising this for what seems like an age but the loco depot is here at last, well on the screen anyway:p

The depot

I was going to base my loco depot on Cork diesel depot but seen that Mr Scahalane (making a fantastic job of it) has it covered i went for a little part of another depot. I ll be still building Glounthaune on one side and Waterford West on the other side leading into this plan.

I ll be building it in stages starting with the depot, then Glounthaune, countryside and then finally Waterford west.

Nice job Anto:tumbsup:

Came across these beauties earlier

http://www.sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-189.html

http://www.sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-196.html

A class and gm galore:drool:

Something to pull the taras:D

Many thanks to Georgeconna@wonderful weathering for an excellent job:tumbsup:

Seriously tempted to get 113 but apart from the Enterprise, has this been used on any other services with Irish Rail?

Heres one:D

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/csalem_2007/8113Balbriggan060510.jpg

Not mine but csalem's

It probably wont be one of the locos currently in the grey livery seeing as 071, 077 and 078 have already been produced.

Normally id agree but, he has done a duplicate before ex 141 rpsi & black &tan 141.

As for the other 071 im not sayin nothin

Been keeping an eye on this page for a while, lots of railway related pics have appeared since the page started

https://www.facebook.com/oldwaterford

Heard from 2 different sources that there is another 071 surprise:p.

Isn t 230 the other planned Enterprise loco?

Some very interesting photos and a great resource. It's interesting to see the 2 boxes under the chassis on the Craven. The pic of the C class shunting at Waterford East is very nostalgic as I was raised in the houses in Sion Row until I was 3. Thanks for the link.

 

Rich,

Rich, i never realised there was a signal cabin down there, hard to believe there was that much track down there considering now theres only a single line going through.

Many thanks for the link Wiggy:tumbsup:

Riversuir226 very nice photo's, many thanks for sharing them, hope you enjoyed the walk,

No prob, yep i did the auld legs didn t though!!!

One of the old CIE type plated steel and concrete brick style goods sheds that used to be used for Irish Cement bagged cement storage. They were in a number of locations like Tullamore, Cahir, New Ross, Arklow etc and were all similar in design.

Now your talking Noel:tumbsup:

I hope to post up more video of a39 with sound tomorrow.

Nice one:tumbsup:

Good man Eamonn, she sounds really good many thanks for sharing:tumbsup: