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Actually I think the shade of orange is wrong, ... the green too actually .....

It's still hard to believe that the iPhone has been around for just over a decade. I was asked by the probably 20 year old in 'customer service' for an email address; " .......@mac.com", I replied. "How do you spell that?" "Ahem, I beg your pardon, young man, I meant @icloud.com" I guess age like all things is relative

It's the one that you want (the one that you want ) Flu, 'flu, 'flu (honey)

There's also an older CIE container unless that is the side of a Scammell mechanical horse, which it might be (between the legs of the crane behind the B+I). and another B+I or Freightliner in the red livery on the top left (unfortunately partly obscured also)

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Its a long time since I looked at these but one of the others has a more sandy/beige/yellow stone but I don't recall exactly

Likely crossing the Rory O' More bridge near Guinness brewery in Dublin ("Robert Daglish Junr. St. Helens Foundry Lancashire")

Same could be said for certain railway models, split decision always on this forum though. Same has happened during genuine natural disasters with people selling $1 bottles of water for $20-40 in a developed and 'civilized' society. Honor, humanity and shame in all in short supply.

It's identical but the stone color and doors might be different...

Drew McDonald et al. book "A Decade of Steam: on CIE in the 1950s" (1974) written 25 years before that official history also refers to the emblem as being 'popularly' known as The Flying Snail

Unfortunately all those lovely pic that used to be on the archive have gone due to Tinypics and Photobucket

More right rudder!! .....come to think of it you didn't actually see it take off, right?

That might not be strictly accurate. The Ammonia trains were hauled by predominantly by A and later 201s but have been also hauled by 141s, 121 pairs, 141/121 pair and 071s 082 Kent Station Cork 2001 082 in Kent with a NET Ammonia set bound for the NET plant on Great Island

Former more usually referred to as the "set of points" logo rather than 4 rails. I'm sure you meant to say 1994-2010 as you referenced in your post prior to that This would seem to make a lot of sense; the idea of a wheel and some variation on a set of wings to indicate strength or speed which is present in so many airline and car manufacturer logos. I never though of the Flying Snail as derogatory but perhaps being a little younger than some but not many on the forum and without the knowledge of the 'flying wheel', that thought never occurred to me until you brought it up. As Old Blarney says it may have been derogatory to some extent in the same way that the Irish in general tend to derogate many things sometimes humorous and maybe sometimes not. I think that criticism of a rather slow system in general may be fair but the Ireland of 70 years ago was also very much a different place at a different pace. The railway served many functions that fostering community, social networks and a sense of unity and nationalism, many of which seem to have declined somewhat in recent decades To that end, regardless of the logos description in the vernacular I think the railway was treasured overall and that embodiment was the flying snail. Now I shudder to think what offense we may have caused in (nick)naming the 'broken wheel' logo And despite a decade and a half of a 'Celtic Tiger' economy never will ....

An Avro Anson EI-AGW (privately owned) for anyone interested in that aircraft that would have accompanied our railway prototypes

Just thought I'd update this one month on for those that opined on Co-2019n (now renamed SARS - CoViD -2) These are official WHO stats on CONFIRMED cases only and the number of deaths since YESTERDAY (61 deaths/24hrs ........ from a population of 7.7Bn of course) We're way beyond the number of SARS and MERS fatalities combined SITUATION IN NUMBERS total and new cases in last 24 hours Globally 81 109 confirmed (871 new) China 78 191 confirmed (412 new) 2718 deaths (52 new) Outside of China 2918 confirmed (459 new) in 37 countries (4 new) 43 deaths (9 new) WHO RISK ASSESSMENT China VERY HIGH Regional Level HIGH Global Level HIGH

You mean Moth-eaten-in Laws, don't you, luv? .....(local accent required) If it's wrinkled, that's no fun .... but if it's not pink, well you're really in trouble

Depends on the missus really ..... As long as she's wrapped nicely she'll be good for Wrenneire, she'll never be out of the wrapper

Didn't receive a reply to me PM @LostCarPark

2 or 3 varieties of laminates / 1950s CIE coaches AEC cars in GNR and CIE styles 2548/2549- full luggage/parcels Early CIE TPO w BnT without equipment for 70s version(yea, I know, don't say it) I'd take steam to go with the AECs and ooworks J15s and Cs if they came. Hoping for a little variety from 70s freights (but fully understand P42 in terms of models and finances)

I suppose you'd only have to do the one door .......and chop off the rest (at least on one side) as they would have been fully recessed for loading!

I have seen this video may time and its a great one. Some of the most interesting rolling stock although sadly at the time it was shot I was not. More the pity. I do remember this rolling stock a little later on school trips etc. The C Class is nearest the train and would have been the loco in need of a heart transplant which happened to all A and C class in the very late 60s/early 70s if it is not being doubled headed. The Sulzer would have been the stronger and more reliable locomotive at that time. I don't believe that those two could work in multiple however? It's odd that I seem to associate that luggage/parcel van (probably a 2549, or earlier series) with passenger stock. Was it there for parcels or additional bake capacity on such a heavy freight?

Wait, what? The doors don't open on the models?

Quick version (sorry) This was discussed somewhere maybe earlier on this thread (I don't recall off hand). Started with mesh doors which proved (more) problematic than the final doors. There was some debate as to whether they only ran that way in trials or in traffic iirc but in any case it was short lived. CIE logos on the mesh. The fertilizer bags themselves were waterproof and they were shrink wrapped in a secondary plastic on 5 sides (I think) while on the pallet. Two centre: load limit momentum arm so far from the bogies

Always good to post a link for those not familiar with the devices This maybe? https://www.westhillwagonworks.co.uk/couplings-new-c-2/hunt-couplings-close-coupling-10-pairs-for-nem-sockets-p-23