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I managed to get to the storage unit earlier this week and clear it out in time for Christmas.. So here is a resprayed dapol KTA wagon.. For me it was promising enough to go ahead and order two more plus the conversion pack and decals from SSM

Depends on the reefer, but those are about right.. Although there are odd balls like the ECS carpet containers, that are 2550mm wide on the hinges.. They all fit in the Irish rail CPWs, but the reefers don’t seat on the pins, so 45ft reefers are no longer allowed to be carried in them..

Never seen a pic of one with that livery, only the Blue.. Was it different liveries for different fuel, or was the Blue a later livery does anyone know?

They are grey, originally a darker shade but this quickly faded.. The wagon in Fred’s pick has a coating of track dirt and brake dust on it which give it a reddish tinge.. They got repainted before returning to service earlier this year and are now dark grey again

Sorry I am on Daddy duty mid house move madness so don’t have time to give this one a full reply, but will try get to this over the weekend.. Can I suggest a perusal of the late Fred Deans Flickr with shots of them in their first life on the Cork line where Hapag Lloyd 40ft HCs(both reefers and dries) and MSC 40ft HCs(mainly dries) were regular loads.. Both of these have been modelled a few times, by C rail, Dapol and I think maybe Hornby.. Second video is an IWT liner, not a DFDS.. Hence the 40ft containers

We can put them all in one big box for you, so you only have to explain yourself once

That would be telling but we do have your coal needs covered https://www.accurascale.com/en-eu/products/real-coal-loads-for-mdo-v-wagons?srsltid=AfmBOor2Iv7Iw7nQ0KqOT1dWgP46fb_akb-G-HM_5qz0JcuxYI-8lNkx

The short lived operation desert storm livery.. And the result of such an easy mix up, if only the nice chap with the U.K. accent who called asking if they could have the tanks back that they had sent over in the 60s had realised he was talking to CIE instead of the FCA!

The magnesite used tank wagons, but the Foynes to Ballina Coal/Oil was actually 20ft tank containers on flat wagons

UN1202 is diesel, UN1203 would be petrol and UN1270 is heating oil/kerosene.. They carried diesel and heating oil for most of their lives, but towards the end were confined to Kero/heating oil only, which may explain the end of the Sligo block train and it being replaced with blocks of tanks on the Sligo liner

2003 was the end of the block train to Sligo, the wagons hung on till mid-2005 on liner trains to Claremorris(via Portarlington obviously) and Sligo.. @Maynerhas some nice shots of them tacked onto the back of a Claremorris liner on this thread Oranmore ended earlier, although I have yet to find an end date, possibly early 90s? Rails though the West has some nice pics of the Oranmore flow, including a picture of the empties returning to Dublin via the WRC, Mullingar and Athlone, but I don’t have a page number handy as it’s packed away with everything else at the moment..

Interestingly the third tank at least seems to be lagged. It looks like the outer shell has cracked, and you can see some of the insulation sticking out. Judging by the angle of the ladder, looks like that one took a knock at some stage.

I have 1 of the Dapol ones that I gave a quick respray with a can of grey paint as a test. It was convincing enough, length issue aside that I went ahead and got 3 more KQAs, transfers and the brass kit from @Weshty to convert a rake of 4 of them. But I have made no progress as yet beyond that, as all of it is currently in a box in a storage unit for a house move. The problem of course, is that for a large part of their life(when in service), they CPWs were loaded with 45ft containers which won't fit in the Dapol wagons for obvious reasons.

These are most likely carrying Bitumen Emulsion or cutback bitumen to Road Binders Ltd in Quartertown mill, which had a siding off the Tralee line. Cold Chon manufactured these at plants in Oranmore and on Sligo Quay but I'm not sure where the Shell branded tanks might have been coming from. I'm guessing that the siding closed some time in the 70s, and these tank containers worked in regular liner trains replaced delivery by Tar wagon direct to the Mill. Road Binders and Cold Chon have both since become Colas, now where have I heard that name

And standard gauge wagons piggybacked on metre gauge carrier wagons in a few instances