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I'm inclined to agree with you @Westcorkrailwayand several others on here. I was surprised that IRM did not do the lined light green livery, although with so many CIE liveries I certainly can't complain. I looked at this even though I had seen the photo by Major Calloway above at Carlisle pier and while I'm sure you're correct, it's hard to say from the photo alone that A42 is in dark green from Barry Carse's photo. It may well be correct but he doesn't specifically state that, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that A4 on the following page of the Metrovick's book is in dark green when it's apparently it's not.

Knowing that IRM have done considerable research on the development of the A class model I wondered why one of their team would have been disinclined to accept the 1969 IRN article regarding the prevalence of the dark green A livery that was written less than 10 years after the livery in question when neither he (nor I) was old enough to remember any of that from personal experience. The O' Dea collection in B&W is not the best source to contribute to a solution to the problem so I went initially to Flickr for color photos of the specific locos mentioned in the IRN article as being in traffic in the dark green livery and most photos were from a member of this parish who does not I'm sure photoshop any of the photos or slides. I purchased a second IRM A46 so I wanted to settle this for my own reasons. I could not find any photos of some of these locos in any green livery but of those that I could most appear to be in a light green. I selected what I think are the most relevant, looking for a reference green in the photos, similarly lit and therein lies the problem. The top front and sides of the loco are in varying degrees of light and reflected light so it's easy to convince yourself that the second, A57, is light green in front and dark on the side (put your hand on the screen) but the shot of A45 is probably better. The rearward cab appears to be similar in color to the following coaching stock and certainly not darker than it or the 'unsmoked' portion of the covered footbridge above although I'm not sure what color green the latter would be, no doubt @jhb171achill could confirm. I'm not making any comment on how this matches IRM's light green model just greens referenced to others within the photo itself. So it seemed difficult to find anything in dark green on Flickr at least, except, of all things A42 in what appears to be a dark unlined livery at Carlisle dated c. 1965-7 (I'll check). Seems she had been out of commission for some time and had 'remained' in that livery. It's possible that he saturation is wildly off in that photo I suppose as there is not another reference green in that BnT era photo. that is about 1965 and the high waisted BnT A Class in the 'background' (far right) has sandboxes

Categorical evidence I think of Garfields claim about sandboxes being correct. Present until (at least) 1965 on the green A32 and the BnT A class in this photo of Ernies' which I noticed some time back

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She was probably hoping your awareness had also gone

Yes, one of the first things is notice on my silver A class is that the tolerances are so tight that the bogie hits the detail. Was kinda disappointed at first but have got used to it, sort of. Another kicks out the side panel on the bogey Really nice to see some older stock such as then clerestory coaches. Badly needed but I'd settle for proper laminate stock right now

Holy Moly that's a proper, Irish loco. Fantastic in the green livery, great change from the grey-black locos and the GSRs answer to the lovely blue of the GNR. Fantastic raised logos and all.

OK, it's tomorrow for some .....

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Same here Book Dep.

To each his own, I would say but I doubt that would be universally liked. Thank Christ! I doubt that with all the 201s out of service and railcars on secondary lines. Good way to burn her out and not so many spares left now even if IE did the maintenance. She could be pair with a 141 That variant is hideous although it could be modernized a bit to look all right. Honestly I hate these fictitious liveries though

I was wondering if anyone knew what the green van with Snail logo coupled to the luggage van behind the bottom of the water towers would be? Ex-GNR?

Coming on late on this conversation but I agree with George and Connolly that this is a 'lever' or some part of the loco with the wall in the background and the rear bottom of the flue is broken creating the illusion of something curving up in to the pipe

Depends on what might currently be languishing in the region of the Limerick depot

You'd probably be narrowing your modeling era to a single day

Most of the latticed ones I have seen in photos tend t one silver/galvanised but that may be more recent than the B& W version

Actually one per month and there's always an April 1st announcement Will I need a flashlight? I'm more worried about the chip being ejected during use

022s in Supertrain hauling a Cravens rake in older thick white band and newer double striped at Farranfore 1989 https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/40841553461/in/album-72157719987514018/ 027s herself in Supertrain at Killarney 1989 hauling what appears to be a Mk1 GSV and a rake of Cravens(judging by the tumblehome) I don't know of any A class that did not have the IR logo by 1990 and 027 was in full IR livery by at least early 1991

Time to vote with your feet as they say. Companies will eventually get the message that a lot of goodwill (and quarterly targets) is lost this way

I was referring to IRM doing a little steam engine and the poke at the Royal Mail was just an aside. Apologies the confusion

I've been shipping then 4 at a time and now I have a larger package but reassured by what you've experienced. Just received a small package from the UK today also. USPS guy knows all the international packages are model trains and often squirrel it away safely behind a pot in view of the video doorbell. Needed s signature and there was a new guy on the route so has to go to the post office to retrieve it. A little OOworks but they don't come cheap when you factor in currency exchange and Royal(ly shafted) Mail rates for a small item. Wish IRM would do something like that. Need to do some testing od the As I received over the weekend. All IR so far and A1.

I usually ship them in 3-4s. Customs don't seem to bother with them too much that way. Stephen @BosKonaysays they're not subject to US customs charges. If correct, that would be great. It would certainly cost me less if they shipped together and were arrive undamaged.

Good luck with the surgery

You do but no need for this to be on thread. I'll PM if that's ok

Actually I now have the opposite problem. Several of my orders have been combined under one tracking number but were specifically ordered separately and a shipping fee paid for each separate order to avoid any customs issues. In my experience this many locomotives in a box also don't do well and have never been packed in the very nice fashion as the single locomotive previously shown on this thread. If this is the case, I am not very happy with that an dI will need to reach out to you guys @BosKonay