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Did any grey 30 ton brake vans have black and yellow stripes on the duckets? On some photos I've found they appear to be painted black but it may just be dirt! I'm planning to  build an SSM kit for mid sixties operations and want to get the livery right. Thanks.

I went to trade school in Berlin in the ninteys and qualified as a carpenter/cabinet maker. Went back to school here in Ohio in 2010 and became a nurse. I haven't met any railway modellers in those fields but met quite a few who are musicians.

A55 passes Glen More on the Waterford goods October 1970 while a Cork bound train shunts the yard.

Waterford bound goods passes through Kelly's Cross in the evening light Autumn 1969.

What's a vacation without a souvenir........

Maureen and I are currently on vacation in St. Johns Newfoundland. The island province once had an extensive three foot six inch guage railway system which at its peak was over 900 miles in length. The system interchanged with parent Canadian National via train ferries at Port Aux Basques on the west side of the island where standard guage cars from the mainland had their trucks exchanged for narrow guage ones to continue their journey. Despite modernization in the seventies, mainly involving the introduction of container service the line was closed completely in 1988 after the completion of the TransCanada Highway and was completely ripped up by the end of 1990.

The old passenger depot at St John's is now a railway museum but was unfortunately not yet open for the season but a locomotive, a NL110 built by GM, a passenger car and mail car are on display outside. 

There are many videos of this fascinating railway in operation on YouTube. 

What scale is it?

It's October 1968 and Cork Waterford goods crosses its counterpart at Glen More.

5 hours ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Fascinating looking book

Allen McClelland's own book, The Virginian & Ohio Story published in the eighties is also well worth checking out. His influence is all over the South Waterford Line.

Latest addition to the library. Sadly Allen passed away last November shortly before this book was published.

We need to see a doctors note.

These are the materials I use. 

All the track on the South Waterford Line is weathered using Woodland Scenics weathering markers. I use rail tie brown for the sleepers and rail brown for the rail. The weathering is done before ballasting. Overall I'm pleased with the result considering how easy it was to do although some grime and oil stains applied with an airbrush would take it to the next level.

165 prepares to leave Glen More with the Cork  Waterford goods after completing its shunting there. This is the same train shown in the last video. The opens were dropped at the loading bank in preperation for the upcoming sugar beet season and three loads of fertilizer from Gouldings in Cork and a load of timber left in the goods yard. Picked up were three loaded cattle wagons for Clover Meats in Waterford, an insulated van from Glen More Co op and an empty bitumen tank both of which will be on the overnight goods to Dublin tonight. 

Conversion to Kadee couplers has made such operations so much more enjoyable. 

Due to issues with my phone the video cut off before the brake van passed but I thought it too nice not to post. 

141 passes Keilys Cross with a Cork bound Bell liner. The presence of two PWD flats In the beet siding suggests some permanent way work in the area.

Goods train passing Grange October 1972.

The second flat fresh from the paintshop.

20' 11'wb flat with sleeper load.

I recall seeing a special train of horses boxes hauled by an A class arrive in Trailer for the September race week some time in the late sixties. 

The solebars started to bother me but this was soon sorted with the help of some filler, a chisel blade and sand paper. 

Having two Dapol cattle wagon kits at hand I decided to have a go at building a representation of a 20' 12' wb flat following John's suggestion. It came out so well I am now sorry I didn't spend more work on the solebars. They will be painted brown as John's photo shows and will receive a load of sleepers. The end stanchions will be applied after the deck is painted in order to make painting easier. 

Great information John. Must dig out the Dapol cattle wagon kits I thought I had no use for!

16 hours ago, bufferstop said:

It' s freezing.

Back in the day, and don't ask me why.....

I was sitting on a 201, heading East and it was so cold with fog, that you could just about see the starting signal. It was horrendously bad, and it never lifted for about 30 miles,

Now I thought I knew the road pretty well, and the driver certainly did, so we took off at line speed. And we never stopped, with a maximum of 300 yards of visibility.

And then I realised about running in the dark, back in the day, when the headlight "failed", which it usually did within a mile of the final station.

Boy, you learn very fast about route knowledge. 

I remember during a nighttime foot plate trip on the Tralee line around 1980 when the driver turned off the headlights in order to show me what what it was like running steam or the early diesels. Hurling through the darkness with the speedometer showing 60mph was quiet unnerving!

3 hours ago, murphaph said:

I think someone on here once said that Tara mines ore went out through Foynes at the very beginning before the tippler in Dublin port was ready?

The traffic went to Arklow for a while in 1992 for some reason. Four wheel flats and open top containers were used. There is a video somewhere on you tube.