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There was a silver livery alright, but if I may be a tad pedantic, it's not accurate to state that carriages where painted in it. They were in fact finished in bare metal. The diesel locos that accompanied were however painted in their iteration of silver.

Heard The Flying Snot as well

Have also heard a slight expansion on this, "The Flying Snotsman", I thought that was quite good

Thanks Mogul, unfortunately I won't be there long enough to see that working!

Thanks ttc, that's exactly what I needed!

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone can help me out with rough times of timber and liner workings in and out of Ballina/Westport? Heading out that way next week for a few days and hope to photograph some workings.

Thanks in advance!

James

I think there's some confusion going on here. The Steam Dreams operation, the "Emerald Isle Explorer" is indeed kettle haulage, but the rail tours Ireland "Emerald Isle Express" is 071 hauled. Both have cravens stock.

At least that's my understanding of the matter!

I think there's an HO model of a thing very like it from Kibri. Not the cheapest though!

Just however many were needed Dave, and they would often be seen in consist with other types of wagon, kegs, ferts, etc

That van is vacuum braked, but has through piping for air brakes. This stems from its days in use on the Cork Postal liner, which was formed of TPO and BR van, plus 60' air braked flats loaded with containers. The coaches were marshalled at the front, and the loco would have both air and vac brake connections hooked up.

I'm a volunteer at DCDR and we have one of these vans in regular use. I'll sort you out with interior layout shots on thursday!

Tremendous work! You've really captured the look of these vehicles so far.

Ok so maybe I'm being unrealistic, but given the level of detail you've put it into the exterior, you should give doing a basic interior a go!

Dive, most probably because the railway then with extensive goods traffic, as well as a large stock of passenger carriages with life left in them, was geared towards loco hauled. Also, there was no Celtic Tiger to fund wholesale fleet replacement like seen in the 2000s!

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been known to happen but wasnt the red buffer beam applied by one depot? Grand canal dock maybe? So it's possible that the lining was done by depots, rather than centrally at Inchicore, with the resultant variation in choice of white/black?

The idea behind creep control, was that the loco didn't slow or gain speed irrespective of load ( a kind o flow speed cruise control ) , the tendency for diesel electrics is that that they slowly build up sped, requiring constant throttle adjustments other wise.

I agree, and I think creep control is a good idea in many cases, but in the case of the 141s, working in and out of idle and notch 1 will have them creeping along anyway. You're correct, a DE does continue to load up when power is on

141s are very controllable at slow speeds anyway, without any extra gubbins. They make excellent shunting locos.

???. what did that do, to prevent them running into pw bogies !!!

 

 

I was wondering , did the single brake cylinder act on both wheels or was only one wheel/axle braked ?

It made it easier for drivers to hear detonators exploding, thus warning them of the presence of a bogie.

Maybe a laminate, as I'm near sure 1916 is in the number series for laminate brakes! I may just be being silly. Alas this probably isn't the place for speculation.

Great news about the 121s!

Just something that occurred to me, for the lads that build aircraft. Do you put pilot figures in the cockpit? Personally I've always done, but in an aviation modelling forum that I browse, I notice a lot of people don't. Thoughts?

Get yourself a Southern Pacific SW1500, the trucks the Espee specced look a good bit more like the export trucks under a 121 than do the standard EMD switcher truck.

On behalf of DCDR I'd just like to stress that this thread isn't an official advertising channel, and would draw your attention to our website, and our Facebook and Twitter presence for up to date news on our operations.

Thanks!

FlyingScotsman4472 of this parish definitely used to, not sure if he still does or now focuses on weathering, but if he does it he's your man. I've had stuff done for me by him and the results are fabulous. Get it weathered while your at it!

Short of space - a prototype of the Waterford & Tramore would be an interesting one. Go for really obscure? Dublin & Blessington's Terenure terminus - tram engines, goods wagons and small Ford railcars.....

To link to your earlier musing on C and G classes, Loughrea!

Joe, feel free to disregard. At this point JB and I may just be getting into things we want to model hahah!

In all seriousness, the G class locos worked passenger services with one coach on the Loughrea branch, and so would be very convincing on a shortish end to end. Just throwing ideas out there

Welcome to the forum,

Joe!

In my opinion, you'd be better off building an end to end layout in that sort of space. It'll be more realistic, both in terms of the scene portrayed and the geometry of the track involved.

If you're doing Irish outline, as I'm assuming (and we all know what assume does!) from you posting on this forum, there are some very nice terminal stations you could pick for a prototypical model, should you choose to go that route.

Painting a Budd car really is sacrilege! They look too damn good in their natural metal, especially with the fluted sides. They look the best thing on rails behind a warbonnet F unit, or 4

That brake is a beauty. I always hoped an old full brake could run on the DCDR....

I suppose if you count the BR van, its happening literally today. However perhaps more in the spirit of your post, 69 is coming along rightly from what I've seen of it lately.