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Just Tara and timber, lowest point ever for rail freight

Should have gone to see the IL-62 George, banned from EU airspace now! Although the depth charges look spot on so a morning we’ll spent

When I lived down in Killorglin as a child, there was a tracked excavator similar to the CIE Priestman crane just over the bridge near to the now Astellas plant.. I wonder now if it was used for lifting the tracks and then forgotten about or not worth recovering after the lifting work was finished.. The land is sat on is no longer accessible from the walk over the bridge, but I would imagine it is long gone by now..

The one in Ballina this week is actually a different unit..

Mallow beet factory would be a good example

Will check with an post tomorrow and pm you over a price

Pictures attached, as per the subject both free to take.. Based in Dublin area, can post at cost if needed

One of the IRRS journals about 2 years ago had an article titled Waterford as a railway centre that had some pics of a train servicing the siding

Great pics, but with the two wagons added in the train would only be 20 wagons.. Likely two of the wagons that arrived from Ballina were "red-cards" and needed to be brought back empty to NW for maintenance or an exam.. The Max in Ocean Pier is about 22 wagons, otherwise the train would block access to some facilities in the port(green building in the background)

Diageo have a bottling/canning plant close to Adelaide yard in Belfast, so would think that was a possible destination.. There was also a bottling plant in Dundalk, but I am unsure if this is still in operation.. Any pics I have seen of likely tanks seem to be on the Belfast line..

Leaving at 09:35.. And I nearly turned down the booking

There will be a 30ft Bell bulk on tomorrow's down IWT liner for anyone track side..

Missed out on a Jinty also.. but could be worse, could have paid £170 plus P&P for one on fleabay https://www.ebay.ie/itm/202221216889?ViewItem=&item=202221216889

Pretty good summary of it.. Started in the automotive industry, and has moved to some similar industries(Aerospace etc) but is still fairly niche..

Sorry, I didn't want to dismiss you in anyway.. It's just the old JIT seems to have crept out of somewhere to become a reason why rail freight can't be done.. When in fact, true JIT is used by very few companies, and in Ireland would mostly rely on air freight and involve very small quantities of freight(less than 1% of total tonnage) To give an anecdote on why it's irrelevant, in a past job on of my accounts was to handle the sea freight imports for a large US owned pharma company in the west of Ireland.. One of the products we imported was vacuum salt from the US mid west to the west of Ireland plant which was worth about $12K a load. Some exec had decided that if this was made part of their lean supply chain employing JIT they would save x amount of money by reducing their stock holdings/warehouse space etc.. So for 40 weeks of the year, we had 1 container per week from the US to Ireland that was bang on time, and the production team had their salt as needed.. But for the other 12 weeks of the year during winter, there was constant delays due to storms, ice on the St.Lawrence river etc etc.. At one point it got so bad, that if they didn't get some salt in to Ireland ASAP they would have to stop production at a cost of hundreds of thousands of euros.. To solve this issue, they had to airfreight 20 tonnes of salt from Chicago to Ireland at a cost of about €100k, thus wiping out any potential savings from their lean/JIT supply chain initiative.. Needless to say, after than they dropped JIT and increased their stock holding of salt to avoid any repeats..

Maybe, or you could just stick said pallets in a container and put them onto a train to a port.. hmm why does that sound familiar.... Also, lose the JIT, it is constantly blown out of proportion in debates on rail freight in this country for some reason.. A lot of freight is a trade of between speed, price, reliability, and increasingly sustainability.. And all the trends are going against JIT as it is expensive, not very sustainable and you are very prone to impact by outside events such as bad weather, COVID, supply chain congestion, strikes etc

For me no 1 missing item in OO gauge is a container skelly(chassis).. No one does a RTR version that is right

Not sure what you mean by rule one.. But as a suggested above, apply a bit of modeller's licence and they are ideal for a Waterford originating flow

It seems not, there was no rail service from Waterford to Dublin during the time the Fyffes ship called to Waterford, and the contract switched to Maersk around 2012.. The only reefers in the C-rail range that travelled by rail are: 20ft CMA, regularly on IWT https://www.c-rail-intermodal.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_28&product_id=101 40ft Maersk, on Cork-Dublin liner https://www.c-rail-intermodal.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_28&product_id=214 40ft Safmarine, rarely on IWT https://www.c-rail-intermodal.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_28&product_id=197

Generally European focused shipping lines(Eucon, CLDN, Samskip, DFDS,ECS etc) operate 45ft HC which are the same dims as a road trailer(13.6m).. these are longer and slightly wider and basically are the max size that is legal in the countries they are used in.. And ones between Europe and the rest of world or outside Europe operate 20fts or 40fts.. But there are exceptions to every rule..

45ft HC= inter-Europe= 47ft flat 40ft DV(8ft 6in) or 40ft HC(9ft 6in)= rest of world= 47ft or 42ft flat

I think yang Ming was parts for dell

The sea wheel boxes are 40ft Pallet wides so different to Arrans tooling unfortunately.. But would be a good model for Limerick to Waterford baby powder liners

No, still travelling Dublin to Ballina.. about 8 tanks one week per month

The Dana tanks around since the early 2000s when Ballina Beverages opened.. The used to run Cork-North Wall, North Wall-Ballina before IE ended the unit load service.. The traffic then transferred to Norfolk line Waterford to Ballina and was on it till the end.. the Dana tanks also appear on IWT liners but from the Uk rather than Cork