DiveController

Bide your time, I'm sure you'll get a chance. In the meantime IRM have the plough vans of your chosen era still available

Yes, And we saw this and agree with you Yes, and you're not the only one who spotted that, and it's of little consequence really. The packs are nice at least we all agree on that I suspect

@Noel, it spans the Bann at Coleraine, bascule type. A bit like this one standing on its head, the mechanism being under the wheelhouse

Any representative photo of the side boxes? What were they for?

Lots of word salad to say that a fault was found ..... hopefully some updates after the investigations has concluded

I think this is the container on a 4w flat wagon at Limerick 1970 (compliments of Ernie again)

Exactly, anything like Eoin's in BnT or earlier. Anything in ST would already have been re-engined. @popeye Thanks for that drawing, very helpful indeed. C233 & C234 got Maybach engines (initially) in '65/'66? They kept these until they finally got GM engine in '79/'80, most of the rest of the C class having received theirs by '72. Wonder what that looked like?

Those photos really tell the story for the original and re-engined versions. No question your smoke is black with the Crossley engined one, I think, which says a lot about the heavy weathering on the roof and even sides

I thought that all the MM spares were long sold out. I haven't been able to get a little 'bag of bits' in years

Hmm, that would seem to make sense why the ITG have those areas covered. Don't know too much about the innards of the A or C classes at all. What area the various vents & grilles for?

This thread is becoming a catacomb in itself, now up to 21 pages

I was looking for a decent picture of the roof of a C class which proved difficult. They may have differed after they were re-engined of course but this was the best I could do with the fan end rightly protected from the elements. I'm not seeing much in the way of exhaust ports at all tbh

Cool, dude! If I ever get round to commissioning something you're the man. Cracking little job this.

Shame to lose that nifty fan but c'est la vie

Ah yes, I agree, I have seen that many times and should have remembered it. The bus version of the livery from an old advertising poster, wasn't around to photograph one of these

@Arran of this forum owns C-rail. Maybe send him a PM for possible options?

Maybe we'll see a 'project 61' but I won't built up my hopes. In the initial 1951-5 rolling stock building programme under CIE the first several composite coaches were built on the 60' chassis then in use for many years following the 57' chassis for bogie stock. Thereafter almost every coach built by CIE was in the new 61'6"" chassis, even the second 5 composites following the initial batch. The originals had 3F 4T compartment while they second batch had 4F and 3T compartments due to the longer chassis. Almost every CIE coach, thereafter, brakes, composites, compartment thirds, open thirds, were built on that chassis. Commonwealth bogies although some GSR style bogies seem to have been re-used. Is there a link to the photo you posted or its your own @Wexford70 I just wanted to zoom in on the stock to see if possible to identify them better.

Great resource

Lovely work on the cab. Thank God they can stand on their own two feet, rather than a huge plastic base.

Agree, C-rail is the way to go. As Blaine says they will just not look right https://www.c-rail-intermodal.co.uk

So I was looking for a dirty 121 class but to no avail, so instead (zoom in on) B134 running bonnet first in original livery http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000305313

I'm actually inclined to agree with Noel as all the pictures of the 121 in the original livery that I've see (and they're not as numerous as later of course), seem to show it overall in good condition or at least not in a completely dilapidated state that many locos seemed to be in (at times) in the 70s and later. Now silver A class and green A class is another thing entirely, I agree. Lots of photos of them seemingly in a very poor state. I wonder if the Crossley-engined locos were dirty in terms of exhaust emissions or whether it was because they ran alongside some not yet replaced steam, which died in the republic anyway within a couple of years after the introduction of the 121 Class?

I don't think all of the lamps were red. My recollection is that in the past they were black but some were red, maybe in more recent times. The lenses on the LC were red I think as the burner would be clear but I suspect the lenses on a signal lamp were clear as they semaphore red & green lenses need to show the correct color aspect. There was a thread on the site before with some additional detail. I'll post a link IF I can find it. Recent, Buttevant LC, 2012 Again, Black LC lamp with red (definitely not clear versus red on gate) lens This looks like your cutout on the back of your lamp. Possibly to aid lighting while on the ladder? Some signal lamps definitely had a lens on the opposite white side of the semaphore. I ind; know if the lens was white or red (probably) but it was visible with the signal at danger and occluded by a backing plate on the semaphore when clear

It's up there and now a better shot for you. Of course, the bags and outer pallet wraps may have changed somewhat over the years. Maybe someone with a more intimate knowledge of production or farming might advise if different

Thanks for posting that. I was looking to post that with the above. I think you'd have to spray that pallet contents yellow first followed by the transfers. Gouldings, Askeaton, on road transport but I believe that this went by rail also These are the larger bags, I think Maybe a better shot to suit the existing IRM pallets