Prototype for Everything

[Mol_PMB]

Recently while looking through archives on Flickr, I've found several photos of Irish railways that surprised me - "I never knew that happened".

So I thought I'd start a thread to share a few of them, in case anyone would like to justify some unusual moves on their layout.

Feel free to add examples you've found too.

 

Here's a nice starting point given the forthcoming release of the Park Royal coaches from IRM, but the current absence of a BGSV to heat and light them.

From Colm O'Callaghan on Flickr, a Connolly-Drogheda service formed of an A class and three Park Royals. Only.

The date is 3rd September 1988. There is guard's accommodation in the last vehicle, but I don't see any battery boxes on the underframes so there wouldn't be any light or heat. Perhaps in early September they could manage without? I'm pretty sure I can make out some passengers inside so it's not an empty stock move.

[Mol_PMB]

If you missed out on IRM's cement bubbles and have since discovered that they never/rarely come up on eBay, then rest assured you don't need many for a realistic train. In fact your loco lash-up can be longer than the wagons they're hauling:

A Waterford-Limerick empty cement passing Tipperary in 2007, by Colm O'Callaghan on Flickr.

Edited January 23 by Mol_PMB
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[Mol_PMB]

Did you get half-way through painting a carriage, and then realise you had run out of masking tape? No problem!

A Connolly-Sligo train in 1989 with the EGV in plain orange. No doubt it went back to the paintshop later to get finished off.

From Colm O'Callaghan on Flickr

[mphoey]

28 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Did you get half-way through painting a carriage, and then realise you had run out of masking tape? No problem!

A Connolly-Sligo train in 1989 with the EGV in plain orange. No doubt it went back to the paintshop later to get finished off.

From Colm O'Callaghan on Flickr

niles on here has a pic of a craven 1541 in grey on an rpsi trip