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The one on the right with the spade looks like Kenny ('They've killed Kenny. You B.....ds') from Southpark.

Patrick, I can't view your video, as it is blocked due to content from WMG and NBC. On a positive note your layout is excellent. As others have already said, the end-to-end American style set up provides a change from the usual type of layout (that's not to denigrate other people's efforts). I've noticed from reading Model Railroader that a lot of American layouts are use foamboard as a baseboard. Have you used this material or did you lay the track on a wooden baseboard?

Going back to HF's original post - will Des be producing snatchers to suit his wonderful 101 class loco? Also, does anyone have details of which of the 12 locos, apart from B107, was fitted with snatchers and when were they removed?

Great video Lukas. I see your video camera has the same problem as mine - a rapid clicking noise as trains approach !!!!

There's a b&w pic of the Enterprise with locos top & tail in Michael Baker's book 'Irish Railways Since 1916'. Its in the photographic inserts between text pages 48 and 49.

Some of the B101 class were fitted with snatchers for working the Cork-Rosslare expresses. The picture below is from the IRRS Journal No. 20 (Spring 1957) and is of B107 at Glanmire Road shed in Cork with snatchers fitted. As can be seen, the B101s had the snatchers fitted the opposite way round to normal - i.e. the snatcher would be operated from the rear cab of the locomotive and they did indeed fit into the bodyside recesses. I don't know how many of the class were fitted with snatchers. Neither of the 1100 / B113 class ever had snatchers as, as far as I'm aware, they only worked on the Dublin-Cork line and thus did not need them.

The model in this link is of the unconverted Dutch Steam Heating Van/Generating Steam Van, which operated with Cravens, Park Royals, Laminates etc. This version doesn't have the built-up ends and the MkII/MkIII gangways. They were numbered 3157 - 3166 The model in the #5 post by Garfield http://www.dckits-devideos.co.uk/img/gi_14_7_700_466.jpg shows the rebuilt version for use with the MkII air braked stock. The numbers of these vans after conversion were as listed in Rich's post.

And some 'teaser trailers' for the viaduct.... [ATTACH=CONFIG]4656[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]4657[/ATTACH]

Welcome on board Ken. The locos look great, keep up the good work and more pics please.

Having missed Part 1 of this two-part series last week I got to see tonight's edition. Compared to the rubbish put ot on RTÉ recently in '21st Century Railway' this show was excellent. It covered the end of steam on BR and the start of the preservation movement on standard gauge branch lines. Concentrating on the Severn Valley Railway and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, the programme contained lots of great archival footage and was well put together and presented.

£28.49 = €35 - a good bit less than MM's version which, as RedRich says, seem to have some problems. Hattons have the First class version at £22 (= €27), so hopefully they will do the standards at a lower price also.

Nice to see the MkIId standard class coach (ex-Airfix tooling) back in production. £28.49 not a bad price either.

Anthony, please accept my deepest condolences on your sad loss.

Hi Gerhard, The term GSV (Generating Steam Van) applied to all vans which had both boilers, for steam heating, and generators, to provide electrical power to the train - sometimes called 'hotel power', not just the vans converted from ex-British Rail stock. Thus the Dutch Vans (3157-66*), the BR Vans (3171-76 and 3177-92) and three series of vans converted at Inchicore from earlier stock (3201-12**, 3213-18 and 3219-24**) were all classified as GSVs (* the Dutch Vans were originally delivered as steam heating vans and were later converted to GSVs; **3201-12 and 3219-24 also had passenger accommodation and were Brake Standard GSVs). The GSVs did indeed operate with coaching stock that was not fitted with dynamos or batteries. With the exception of the 113-class, CIÉ / IÉ locomotives are not fitted with train heating boilers. There was no difference it the type of stock that the various types of GSV operated with, though generally the 3201 and 3219 types were to be found on suburban services. This was not a technical consideration but rather a means of increasing train capacity by replacing a full van with one that had passenger accommodation. GSVs were used on trains during the summer months to provide power for lighting, catering cars (fridges etc.) and any other requirement for an electric supply. There was also the need to have a brake van on the train for parcels traffic, luggage, bikes etc and also to provide accommodation for the guard. I don't think that the G-class ever ran with just one Craven coach. There would have had to have been a brake van on the train and this would have supplied heat and power to the coach. However, on the Loughrea branch the normal carriage used with the G-class locomotives was brake composite No. 1910 (Inchicore 1959). Power for lighting was supplied by batteries, charged by a belt-driven dynamo. Heating was provided in a novel way - a storage heater which was plugged into a socket fitted under the edge of the platform at Loughrea at night. They just had to remember to unplug it before the first departure in the morning!

I see the current issue of Model Rail (Jan '13) has a very complimentary review by Ben Jones of the 071 / 111 models.

Presumably: 'Ho S**t'.

I'd fully agree. An excellent production. Well worth getting one (or more!) of these.

The modern day MTA, the MBTA, has a contactless smart card called the 'CharlieCard ' named after the hero of the song.

'The City of New Orleans' by Steve Goodman. This version by Willie Nelson, but numerous other artists also preformed it.

Didn't think to check the 'Letting off Steam' section! Perhaps a moderator could delete this thread.

When logging in to the internet tonight, I saw this on the msn homepage: http://www.news.msn.ie/worlds-longest-toy-train-track-693268-Dec2012/ It will take them ages to ballast all those tracks!

Hope to be able to make it in.

Sorry about delay in replying BosKo, I'd hoped that someone with photos might have come in. The only photo that I can find at the moment is a rather poor b&w one in the October 1970 IRRS Journal - page 254 - showing the summer set at Connolly. The same article has other pictures of the set but these don't show the full train. The summer set consisted of seven of the eight carriages bought by NIR for the Enterprise: locomotive; first 801; grill/bar 547; standards 821, 822, 823, 824; and driving trailer brake standard 811 or 812; locomotive. The second driving trailer brake standard was spare. The winter set consisted of five coaches (two of the standards 821-4 being omitted) and a single locomotive, which if I remember correctly was at the Dublin end of the set.

Brawa also do models both as the 232 class of private operators and DBAG (post German re-unification) and also as the class 132 of DR (East German railways.