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I very much doubt it, Adolf didn't drink alcohol at all.

Is this a bog standard loco whistle, or did the TB have a special 'voice' I wonder?

They used have a branded road transport service, haven't seen an IE liveried lorry (apart from per way ones) for quite a while.

I'd say go and have a rummage for a pic of the loco you want to model. I would think not all of them got a snail, judging by their hit and miss application elsewhere. Battleship grey when freshly applied, prob turned to black or near black due to lack of cleaning or 'cleaning' with oily rags. Refer to JB's notes on livery.

Usually see them on light mixed trains on former Midland branches, but they could pop up randomly elsewhere.

Spotted this on fleabay a while back....something looks not quite right....

Thanks for posting those, pics of tank wagons in anything but plain black don't seem to crop up all that much. When you say 'commandeered', does that mean the wagons were property of the oil companies?

The Toucan Has Landed.

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/guinness-posters-nazi-germany-1275814-Jan2014/

I suppose kids of that era were easily pleased! There used be a glass case full of those Lima models in the late 80s in a furniture store in Tralee. Don't know what became of them, they were display only, not for sale.

That was 'Pat', worked an elevated coal gantry on its lonesome. Built by the GS&WR out of an old loco tender and odds and sods withdrawn by CIE in the 1960s. You can just make out the lining from the time it was a tender.

Wonder did any of the Shannon Hydro Scheme locos survive into preservation? There was enough of them knocking around.

A 'Baby Ford' Garda car from an earlier era, might have scraped into the 50s in an outlying area though...apart from the enormous PA system (prob fitted for a special event?) no obvious signs of ownership. https://www.flickr.com/groups/policehistory/pool/with/5625492939/lightbox/

Lledo did a Garda set a few years ago, can't vouch for their authenticity, sometimes they can use their imagination. Not so sure about the breakdown truck, not many US marques to be found in ireland. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lledo-An-Garda-Siochana-Collection-5-Piece-Set-Police-Model-T-Ford-Van-/321138076605?nma=true&si=qsEwQjqhjQAnJGI%252FvqAr%252BlwL%252BHw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 LP006 1016 Model T Ford Van LP027 1003 Mack Breakdown Truck LP071 1003 Morris LD150 Van LP127 1005 Morris Minor Van PM100 1002 Ford Transit Mini Bus

Probably was dark that night they gave you a lift!

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P12243.jpg Ford Consul?

https://www.esforum.org/printthread.php?tid=2130 http://admin2.clikpic.com/paulakavanagh/images/GardaCar20101065.jpg think this is a Ford Zephyr, about the right era for you? Seems to be rather understated, no logos or no rooftop GARDA sign. Prob. either navy or black.

Weirdly, some quite large industries were slap bang next to a railway line or within spitting distance, but carted everything laboriously to and from the nearest station. Like they were allergic to them or something.

Fenit Harbour Commisioners had a privately owned loco for a bit.

Strange that (GSR) Sentinels only lasted in active service up to 1940, considering their modernity, doing much the same kind of work the G class would do later on. The railcar version was known to be loathed by crews.

Must be the one that's in Dromod, in a very poor state now. Come to think of it, think CIE had a few converted farm tractors as shunters in various places. Don't think they had flanged wheels though.

That stretch of road was built after the West Cork closed, maybe mid-late 60s completed. Hell of a lot of suburbs and industrial units have been built in the area and landscaping done since. Plus there were flyovers built around the Sarsfield roundabout recently, covering even more of the area with asphalt. Assuming there is 'something' buried thereabouts, you would want to narrow the search area down first, else it's just needle in a haystack territory. Let's just say if (and it's a big IF) a loco was lost in the area, there should be supporting evidence...correspondance by the GSR relating to the incident, possibly a newspaper report and photos taken.

There was only one 0-6-2T, the Barclay one, it didn't make it into CIE days...withdrawn sometime around '35 I think. http://www.spellerweb.net/rhindex/Ireland/GreatSouthern/MacroomLoco.jpg Sounds too good to be true, I don't doubt JSL took a pic of a wheel, would love to see it, but was the wheel attached to anything? Or just lineside debris? There was a similar story told in the uk, derailment...loco couldn't be recovered and left be and a chimney protruding out of the ground was pointed to as hard evidence that the loco was still there...but the chimney wasn't attached to anything. It had broken off and was left there after the loco was recovered. A loco, even as scrap, is worth big money. I don't see how a railway company would just leave something that valuable even if it had to be cut up in pieces and carted out by hand. There was one well-known case of a Furness loco that fell into a large hole and that is still there, there is written proof the company just filled in the hole after it exhausted all options at getting it out. Maybe this is worth a thread in its own right.

There was another tale, in the Turfburner book, don't know if there's anything to back it up....that CIE were mulling over the purchase of the frames for the unfinished Leaders...

I'm 99.9% sure that a pic taken of a G at Thurles for sugar work in Maher's book had 'on hire from CIE' in the caption. Maybe CSE hired them when their own stud were under pressure at peak times and offered to buy when CIE had no more use for them, the branches they were designed to serve being closed down for the most part.