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5 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

there is already a reason to re-run the 121s. What a fantastic looking livery on the locomotive

To each his own, I would say but I doubt that would be universally liked. 

5 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

it will be put onto original 1961 spec grey and yellow once trials are completed

Thank Christ!

5 hours ago, murphaph said:

 I am kind of wondering is there some intention to run her in IE revenue service somehow?

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

5 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

although I’m not sure I like it as much on the 201

https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/12975381494/in/album-72157636435273666/

 

That variant is hideous although it could be modernized a bit to look all right. Honestly I hate these fictitious liveries though

On 9/11/2021 at 3:27 AM, Irishswissernie said:

 

 

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?

On 7/11/2021 at 11:52 AM, Irishswissernie said:

I've been catching up on the scanning today and in the batch is this neg at Guinness Brewery with a rather odd attachment on the loco !

A small pipe at the far end which has been inserted into a kind of 'drain pipe' on the wall. Why? It could be a water column but is somewhat over-sized for the locos water capacity and you would think if water is coming down the pipe then  the connection should be the other way round with the 'down' pipe inside the 'up ' pipe.

I'm not holding out much hope of an answer but you never know!

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

On 11/11/2021 at 7:35 AM, DJ Dangerous said:

203 and 220 in the original livery, then 201 and 210 in the yellow-face livery.

One of these would go really well with a '94 livery 201:

https://www.amazon.com/ANTONOV-124-100-RUSLAN-AIRCRAFT-MODELSVIT/dp/B010SVO1DW

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

14 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

That’s more then 1 announcement per month!

Actually one per month and there's always an April 1st announcement  

9 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Guess where we'd have to insert the DCC chip on Dick the Horse!

Will I need a flashlight? I'm more worried about the chip being ejected during use

On 16/8/2021 at 8:23 AM, johnfromoz said:

In the spirit of nailing down livery info that may be of use to others in the future, I have answered my own question through further digging and research.   A class in CIE roundel Supertrain livery recorded on camera in 1989 (ironically, hauling ‘Tippex’ Intercity Mark 2s).  Tippex livery cravens on film in 1989.  Therefore, 1989 will do for me as having credibility in running these two liveries together.

Thanks to all who contributed.

John

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

On 30/10/2021 at 4:44 AM, DJ Dangerous said:

Same!

Received a few tracking numbers, all GLS.

Can't believe it, finally, only another month or two and they'll be here, in my hands!

 

 

To DHL Express, I wish nothing but famine, pestilence and death, and the same to their families, friends and friends' families.

Had a call from DHL Express the other day...

€45 EURO parcel from Amazon, €3.15 IGIC due, €35 DHL Express handling fee...

And, that €45 included an extra €6 that Amazon had charged to cover possible import charges, ie the €3.15 IGIC.

Needless to say, I said no thanks!

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

On 29/10/2021 at 5:30 PM, BosKonay said:

If you have specific carrier preferences just let us know! We can certainly spend a little less and not use DHl on a per customer basis if you have a strong preference just drop us a line. 

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.

1 hour ago, Georgeconna said:

must cost you a bit extra on clearances etc if shipped seperately. I would not fear on these babies coming undone on the way over.

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

9 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

We have yet to have any feedback of locomotives damaged in transit from a multiple loco dispatch. I understand you have been in contact with Stephen regarding your other query.

Cheers!

Fran 

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

3 hours ago, murphaph said:

I'm sure everything will be fine, but you can understand a few of us who haven't yet heard anything might be getting a little jittery. Fran did say if we hadn't heard anything and might have expected to have heard something by (I believe) the end of last week, it would be ok to reach out and ask for a status update  Kevin got his answer above (7xxx series orders are likely shipping today) but my order is in the 4xxx range, hence my concern.

 

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

Neodymium magnets under the track. Avoid wagons with ferromagnetic wheels and wagon weights that extend near the end of the vehicles that tend to produce inadvertent uncoupling 

Thanks Fran!

5 hours ago, Warbonnet said:

Should be, with A3R landing with everyone from next week. 

Seeing as we are effectively at the end of the business week and approaching 'Winter Time', may I ask what order numbers are being dispatched at the moment?

I have four sequentially numbered A class pre-orders (trying to be fair with postage costs) in the mid 7000s.

One has been dispatched and was received in 2 weeks ago in the USA. The other three orders have not even been dispatched as far as I can tell, not to mention the one I placed before the ITG 

12 hours ago, skinner75 said:

I was reading an article on EV in the States. I can't remember which State it was, but the author of the article mentioned in his cost breakdown, that there was a yearly tax on the EV 'for not using petrol/diesel'!

The way it brokedown, was that it actually cost more to run the EV than the traditional 'ICE' car. That being said, he gave the cost of fuel as $2.80/gal - now, if you convert what we/most of Europe pay for fuel, it'd be around $7.50/gal - that would change the balance to the EVs favour!!

European petrol costs no more than in the US, Brent crude etc (and OPEC)  govern the price. Refining and transport may vary a little but the difference between US and European prices is purely taxation.

This begs the question what have all this billions of euros been spent on? Certainly not on railways in Ireland and certainly not on regional roads to alleviate traffic. Europe has made a lot more progress than the US and unfortunately, as a generalization, I don't see that changing with a partisan congress, divided democratic party, poor general level of education and an amoral fragmented and dysfunctional society. The US uses about four times as much energy capita than most other developed nations and consumes energy like a nation as large as China. The gas and oil lobby will ensure that does not change any time soon, back to corruption and deep pockets .....

Nine left . ,these have been selling at 3-4 locomotives/hour so do the math

That's very impressive! Super job!!

The very real problem here is the unfettered world population explosion consuming all known mineral and natural resources but as nobody wants to go there (except the Chinese), I'm not going to either.

I'll let a certain Mr Smith explain

This is just another example of large faceless deep pocketed multinational companies with an in-house legal department exploiting third world nations where environmental and worker protections are far poorer than in (some) developed nations.

These governments are (even more) corrupt than in developed nations, life expectancy is lower, occupational safety, medical access and medical treatments virtually non-existent. The multinational actually could do this well but that choice is dictated by economics and the prevailing regulations (none there).

Then there is the local gombeen ready to exploit their own countrymen (and women and children) to the same end while some in the first world experience some guilt about 'our' treatment of these nations.

Some time spent volunteering in an eastern African country for a few months a couple of decades ago instilled a deeper understanding of all this.

This is not a new phenomenon. Every empire, Roman, Spanish, British has done this through the millennia. Civilization has merely renamed things, multinational corporations etc.

The funny thing is that these undeveloped nations should be holding the first world nations to ransom for these lithium, cobalt and silver ores (et. al.)

Despite all this , I have ordered a hybrid vehicle to replace our aging 150K+ miles fossil engined vehicle as probably the lesser evil.

If I don't stop now the fireman will never get that head of steam up to pressure again ......

1 hour ago, connollystn said:

I should have been there to see all of that. Did I.R.M. make a new announcement?

200 piece Limited edition A Class A3R in BnT dipped band identical (as far as I can tell) to sold out A23R to support the ITG (only 88 pieces left, so get your skates on if of interest to you)

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I don't think that it's as-preserved. It's as it was in traffic. The blog article says that it ran like this "later" in the mid nineties, albeit with toughened windscreens.

That was a little confusing but rereading that it seems the blog is merely stating that it ran later in the nineties in this livery after the Inchicore 150 where it was reliveried into A3R