Garfield

Nice-looking build, Kirley!

Rhymes with 'height'?

Ah, Marco Ramius... the Rushin shubmarine captain wish the Shcottish achshent.

The debate on the livery already took place here: http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3675-New-Enterprise-Livery/page7

Of course. That's why I started the sentence with 'if'... Good point, Broithe.

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

And the purpose of that post was to point out the inappropriate nature of the comment. This is further dragging the thread off topic. If you still have an issue, contact either myself or one of the other moderators via private message.

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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.