Garfield

That depends... If the submarine was moving as fast as that quote suggests, then it's likely the passive sonar would be rendered useless by the sound of water rushing over the hull.

If you scroll down the page in the link below, you'll see one of the completed locos. http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3675-New-Enterprise-Livery?p=63949#post63949

Like this? 8209 passes Portlaoise, 27/7/15 by hurricanemk1c, on Flickr It's an unfinished version of the new Enterprise livery. There should be photos of one of the finished locos in some of the links in the prototype photo section: http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/46-Photographic-Website-Updates?p=68750#post68750

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Donal Murray wrote an article about the proposed GNR diesel locos for the November 2005 edition of 'New Irish Lines'. It includes notes and drawings for each proposed loco. He also wrote about the proposed electric locos in a later issue (can't remember which one). Available to download here: http://newirishlines.org/archive-2/

The 'Severomorsk' and two other warships decided to take a spin through the English Channel yesterday, too...

This line of discussion stops right here. End of.

While personally I'm not pleased to see another BR repaint foisted on the Irish market, this comment is out of line.

The white on the back of the cab on the black version is wrong... should be straight across the top of the windows with black stripes.

Yep, the As retained their original exhausts after the engine transplants.

Cheers.

Site rules, Derailed... you'll have to place a value on it if you want to sell it here.

More low level flying... this time it's France's Armée de l'Air in Chad with one of my favourite aircraft, the Mirage F1:

His layout, his rules at the end of the day, though.

You're welcome!

Hump yards are used to assemble freight trains with wagons/cars from different sources. A shunter will push the wagon over the hump, signalman will select the appropriate track for it, and a pneumatic retarder fitted between the rails will slow it down just enough so that it rolls up to the rest of the wagons and buffers-up (or couples if automatic couplers are used). The retarder was operated by a staff member in a tower overlooking the yard, although I think modern ones are automated. There were none in Ireland but the UK had some, although I'm not sure if any are still operational there. There's quite a few in the US... here's a video of one in operation:

Nice find! The ballast has to be cleaned periodically to remove mud, dirt, and other debris that can prevent water draining down through the stone. Here's a photo of IÉ's ballast cleaner in operation on NIR metals a couple of years ago...

Nice video. Must actually visit Porto again myself... it's a beautiful city. Cheers! We covered a lot of ground there, so it's possible some of those tram pics were taken around Alfama.

Huge potential there... looking forward to seeing the layout develop.

Cheers for that!

Ah ha! Haven't a clue... however, their French cousins (CC 7200) are an extremely endangered species now - only two left in traffic to haul dead TGV sets between depots. Edit: Looks like they may still be in service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_Class_1900

Steady on there, Cool Hand...

I'm not sure, Fran... I don't know an awful lot about Portuguese railways, to be honest. They did have some locos which were based on SNCF's BB 6300 class. Are these the ones you're referring to?

Thanks folks! Yeah, fairly sure the ALCOs are gone now... would love to see one in the flesh. However, it looks like the EE design team took its queue from the RS-2's profile!