Randall Stevens

I regret I never met any of these people, maybe my Dad did, I take it Ciaran Cooney/Eiretrains is your website which has a lot of good information and well reseached, I resently joined a couple of facebook pages but very few with good knowledge, idiots posting nonsense, I may call on you again for some advice, thank you.

Your assistance has been invaluable, it's a hugh task matching details to slides, are you from the Kildare area, thank you for taking the time and sharing your knowledge.

I couldn't agree more, this thread has been of great assistance and solving a few puzzles for me re Curragh siding, the ''top and tail'' operation explains a lot on slides I'm currently working on, cie supertrain did work into the siding, thanks to all the contributors, particularly to Eiretrains, you seem to be quite well informed.

You never assume anything when it comes to livery details, that's why so many books have so many mistakes, people assume without doing reseach, I made a resent discovery when trawling through my Dad's collection, B127 with a red buffer beam on a Belfast train taken in 1965, the collection is being digital enhanced costing me a lot of money and sweat, but will be worth it in the end, people can split hair on what color a strip is, but getting it right or don't bother at all.

Very well said, nothing landmark here at all, nothing we don't know already, the problem arises when people try to profit from others very hard work, when somebody builds up a collection over 40 50 years then somebody else comes along and profits from that without acknowledging the hard work somebody spent years building up, the internet forums is full of ambitious posters anxious to make a name for themselves on the back of other people's work, it's plain to see, you've only to study the forums, which I have done.

Thank you for the welcome DiveController, it's being worked on at the moment.

QUOTE=jhb171achill;86156] It's good to share. All too often, stuff gets squirrelled away by someone, or worse, thrown out. I doubt there's a single photographer in the world that wants that. History is made of such stuff, and I do think it's incumbent of any of us who remember certain things to pass them on to anyone who's interested. I'm late coming to this thread as I've been abroad with work, on your views Jbh171achill about ''sharing'' collections, the words ''squirrelled'' is most unfortunate, I don't know of anybody anywhere who ''squirrell'' away collections with bad or selfish intentions, I can't speak for anybody else, only myself, but I'm not ''squirrelling'' away my Dad's collection of 30,000 photographs, I intend to share them in the right way in the future in book form so that my Dad's 50 years of work is properly acknowledged and credited, there are good valid reasons for not sharing photos on today's internet, where work is not credited and gets taken by 3rd parties to appear on twitter, snapchat and facebook, I don't care what Roger Joanes or anybody else does, that's their business and good luck to them, but my Dad's pictures won't be an internet sensation. My uncle (Dad's brother) was a modeller, my Dad was a photographer, they never got on,I wonder why, now both dead, my brother got all the model trains, I got all the pictures, but I'II do the right thing and do my Dad proud, I'm certainly not ''squirrelling'' them away.

Unknown legends, not the over exposed variety that everybody knows, my late Dad was a unknown legend that stalked the railways for over 50 years, north south east and west, mostly monochrome negatives and kodachrome slides, didn't live to see digital stuff, but his pictures will last longer.