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    #782
    metrovick001
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    Regrettably I didnt travel on the railbus to Kingscourt!
    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    Thanks, I knew it was around the same time.


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    #783
    MGWR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭MGWR


    Three VIA Renaissance trains (originally Nightstar, so they're Mark 4s) at Drummond, Quebec in December of 2009. Low-platform boarding shown, featuring the rather odd pop-out steps. Third train is so long that it had to stop twice at the platform; it also features a Budd dome/observation car.

    According to the Canadian Rail wiki, not all of the cars were converted to have AAR couplers; only a few do, and these are called "transition" cars. The rest retain European couplers.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5FY5mxNS4Y


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    #784
    Fred Swanson
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    #785
    MGWR
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    Aside from Ireland not having passenger trains anywhere near as long as that Canadian one (although short platforms at certain stations are not out of the ordinary), the main thing that would impede walking towards forward or rearward cars to exit the train is full-width cabs (such as on certain DMUs and EMUs) being in the way.


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    #786
    end of the road
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    some asorted stuff

    here we have footage of the last ever time tabled class 117
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE1YboHJlAc


    if one has any interest at all in the railway they will love these
    first of all a real hellfire machine, a warship
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuAT4vBNJSY


    and this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuW6X3SP_YE


    i'm certain i uploaded this before but its so good i'l do it again, boy that was some music, fair well to the class 25 rat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlvE-Iysxkk

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #787
    101sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    I can still recall the Maybach music from Westerns and Warships when trainspotting in Exeter with my cousin in the early 70s.


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    #788
    MGWR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭MGWR


    In Oakland, California, the Jack London Square tramway was not the only one (i.e. not for local trams or interurbans that used to cross the Oakland Bay Bridge like the East Bay Electric/Southern Pacific and Key Line interurban trams). Western Pacific used to have its own tramway on Third Street. This pic is of the California Zephyr, from 2 August 1968; boarding and alighting was on the street like with trams.
    1889.1392486349.jpg

    The tramway remained until some time into the 1990s (around 1996 IINM); this vid is of a National Railway Historical Society train operated by Union Pacific (date is 23/07/1992), featuring 4-6-6-4 #3985. (The Western Pacific station building survives, with no tracks on Third Street now.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLhf4C8nGw


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    #789
    afatbollix
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    #790
    Fred Swanson
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    #791
    dowlingm
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    Imagine if IE would run the Wexford tramway this quick? Would chop a few minutes out of Rosslare rotations! South Shore Line, Michigan City, Indiana.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3Yebv70YY


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    #792
    MGWR
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    Speaking of "chopping", isn't the line to Rosslare one of the ones that IE has considered giving the chop of late?


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    Fred Swanson
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    #794
    MGWR
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    That'll render it useless and impractical. Make Enniscorthy, Wexford Town and Rosslare utterly dependent on the roadways and leave no rail option; contribute to further downgrading the "Europort".

    But then again, this is the same kind of thinking out of people that wanted to de-electrify Bray-Greystones not too long after electrifying it.


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    #795
    end of the road
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    MGWR wrote: »
    That'll render it useless and impractical. Make Enniscorthy, Wexford Town and Rosslare utterly dependent on the roadways and leave no rail option; contribute to further downgrading the "Europort".

    But then again, this is the same kind of thinking out of people that wanted to de-electrify Bray-Greystones not too long after electrifying it.
    i'd go further and say that if some had their way wexford would have nothing, we are the runt of the litter

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #796
    dowlingm
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    Videos people, not moaning.

    Incidentally the SSL and Metra Electric trains are DART spec - 1500VDC. I don't think anywhere else in the US has that scheme at the moment, with the east coast systems being AC overhead and DC third rail. In Chicago proper there is some urban 3rd rail.


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    #797
    GBOA
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    After being withdrawn over 30 years ago, and the engine not having been started for almost 12 years, this happened at around 16:10 on 8th June.




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    #798
    end of the road
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    she sounds fantastic, would have liked more reving, but one can't have it all, i take it thats her original GM engine? (well not original as they were re-engined to GM engines)

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #799
    GBOA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭GBOA


    Don't worry, I know what you mean. The engine works. Plenty more to check before it moves but it's a good start.


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    #800
    metrovick001
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    Fantastic - one more. Fair play to all involved. Thanks for posting the video.


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    #801
    topnotch
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭topnotch


    There is a upcoming programme on RTE1 that may be of interest to some. Tuesday July 8th at 7pm called Building Ireland.
    The first episode features the West Cork Railway. It will mainly focus on the engineering feats of Goggins Hill Tunnel and Chetwynd Viaduct.


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    #802
    GBOA
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    Some more good news from Downpatrick. : D

    There's nothing to indicate this has happened in at least 30 years!




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    #803
    [Deleted User]
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    Good stuff! :D


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    #804
    metrovick001
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5FkB42AU0


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    #805
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭Eiretrains


    Random mix of vintage CIE traction (+NIR railbus) courtesy of the ITG/DCDR.:cool:


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    #806
    end of the road
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    here you go Itssoeasy, fixed the tags for you.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO427yQ1gQs

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #807
    Judgement Day
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    Where did this come out of? I seem to remember at the time of delivery it was front page stuff in Canada but as usual CIE ****ed up on maximising the publicity here. Note how the engineer referred to 30 years life expectancy - how many 201s are OOU now? :rolleyes:


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    #808
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,442 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    end of the road wrote: »
    here you go Itssoeasy, fixed the tags for you.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO427yQ1gQs

    thanks end of the road. I wasn't even looking for it and JD It's the first time I've seen it.


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    #809
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Note how the engineer referred to 30 years life expectancy - how many 201s are OOU now? :rolleyes:

    Yeah, that line hit me the most when you look now, 20 years later and there are 13 out of 34 locos out of use/damaged/surplus to requirements.


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    #810
    Markcheese
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    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    Yeah, that line hit me the most when you look now, 20 years later and there are 13 out of 34 locos out of use/damaged/surplus to requirements.
    How many of the 13 are the fault of IE and how many down to design or accidents...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #811
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    Markcheese wrote: »
    How many of the 13 are the fault of IE and how many down to design or accidents...

    11 were withdrawn as surplus to requirements. (201-205,210-214,216). All except 216 were not certified for push-pull. 225 was damaged in a level crossing accident, while 230 was badly damaged in a fire on the Enterprise.


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