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Lisbon's fairly hilly with old narrow streets and trams aren't fazed by it.

Is "Commuter" the navy/white/snot green livery?

Surprisingly decent prices for locos since overtaken by IRM's offerings.

Depending on where placed, the vinyl bleaches in sunlight. The Killarney one has lost its gloss and faded a little, it was only up for a couple of years before being replaced by the current green striped ones.

He's probably still scratching himself on account of it.

Ah the lesser spotted Wuhan, Detroit and Limerick Rly notice.

I'd say they were never installed, if they were repro we would see the same number popping up again and again like the knock off wagonplate below. The weathering is usual filth from stores, where they were likely "acquired"

By ropy you mean stolen? At least they're genuine. Anyone check if the Moyasta coaches still got their doors?

It's a beast of a wagon next to the 4 wheel yokes.

Quite a find. What the yanks would call 'gondola cars' would have been extremely rare here. I'm assuming they had extremely short working lives, not passing to the GS&WR. A few actual US gondolas did actually run here on the self contained 4' 8 1/2" Irish Steel system on Hawlbowline Island, still carrying US RR insignia.

Possibly this.

That last pic is Tralee, the building with the belfry is Latchford's Mill, still standing today. Taken in the North Kerry yard, now covered in a shopping centre and car park.

Not necessarily. The GN did have those in Railway and Tramway versions, one of the Tramway ones is in the IRRS library. Almost certainly Hill of Howth placed where public rights of way and tramway met. The odd, to our eyes, wording probably borrows from 19th century legalese. Original? Yes. Antique? Perhaps not. If you've been wondering where all those IE bridgeplates that have "fallen off" went, look no further than South Dublin Auctions.

Different culture wrt railways here too, loco designers being quite the rockstars in GB, small boys with spotters books etc. Here a new loco was just another lump of steel to take you to the fair or to the port for the emigrant ship. No one cared much if it carried a name or even what it looked like, provided it maintained the advertised schedule.

Era 1 models (Rocket and similar pioneering teakettles no one alive for over a century remembers) are getting popular right now.