Photo Thread.

How many times have IE put the SDO system for the ICRs out to tender? It was an oversight when they ordered them in the first place.

end of the road wrote: »

good to hear ICRS being used on the limerick waterford route which is technically an intercity route but one wouldn't know or realize it the way it has been neglected over the years, 50 people off at waterford, good? bad? don't know, but i think this line could be saved if a real go of it was made, it should have got whatever investment it needed during the good times but whatever.

IMO 50 is an very good number for a Saturday in Jan, there would be many other services on main routes which wouldn't achieve that. The best business would of being the 07.20 up service mainly from Clonmel to the junction.

How many times have IE put the SDO system for the ICRs out to tender? It was an oversight when they ordered them in the first place.

I think its being out at least twice if not more but again yes it may of being an oversight but when they were ordered majority of the network could easily cope with 7 piece. It's only Kilkenny that doesn't have at least one platform to take one and the regional lines so its not a major issue

7 piece sets are only scheduled on Westport, Galway (selected weekend services) and a more regularly on Sligo so not causing major problems and those rosters were before the FC were put back into 5 so they will likely be removed from Galway services as has happened a few days.

BowWow wrote: »

cough:mad:

PHOTO Thread

That is a beautiful photo you posted there :rolleyes:

PHOTO Thread.....

Morning all,

I've uploaded a few updates to my Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

Includes:
- Shannonvale Mill on the Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway (taken by my brother)
- Kilcummer Viaduct near Fermoy on the Mallow to Waterford Line (taken by my brother)
- San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni) modes of transport taken in April 2013
- Stuttgart Main Station in January 2014
- Cork Area photos in January 2014

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

Enjoy,

This morning was the dullest morning of winter, dark and wet, a term used years ago, ''you wouldn't take a camera out of a bag'' but digital photography has changed all that. It maybe dark and wet, there is no light for the eye to see, so the digital camera creates an illusion, giving light and brightness that's not there, on film, what you see is what you get, but digital photos, what's real and what isn't, who cares if there's a result so they say, Iv my own opinion.
079 shunting HOBS into the stonebank taken at 3200 ISO 1/250sec F5.6
078 shunting IWT LXs taken at 6400 ISO 1/250sec F5.6
Them ISO readings are absolutely daft, they do certainly create an illusion with light that doesn't exist, photos attached.
Regards
hg

metrovick001 wrote: »

Nice shots h.gricer.
Looking a bit more like a freight yard.

Never mind the flattery Metrovick;), your opinion on all this digital stuff, if only the camera had legs, then I could stay in bed, I may as well do that, because these digital cameras do all the work, what would the late Joe St Leger make of it all.
Regards
hg

H Gricer....the sun can stay behind the clouds 365 days of the year now and you still get a decent shot...thanks to the wonders of the digital age.

Even this morning...dull and dark at 0840 hrs. I wanted to get a photo of one of the final unloved 4 car Premier Class sets, 22033 passing Portlaoise with the 0800 Heuston - Cork and I was happy with the result.

Plus other pictures from:

- Limerick Jct.
- Limerick.
- Mallow.

The pictures begin at http://smu.gs/1fiDPLk

The Wanderer.

h.gricer wrote: »

Just out of interest Wanderer, what was the ISO and other info on your Portlaoise photo, it certainly show the weather on the day, cold, dark, damp, wet and windy, Id say it was the darkest week of winter so far.
Kind Regards
hg

hg,

If you click the little (i) icon to the bottom right of the pics, you can see the EXIF data. In the case of the Portlaoise shot, it's:

Camera NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D90
ISO 1600
Focal Length 35mm (52mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/2
Exposure Time 0.0025s (1/400)
Name DSC_2388.JPG
Size 1600 x 1063
Date Taken 2014-01-31 08:46:32
Date Modified 2014-01-31 17:57:42

File Size 1.25 MB
JPEG Quality fine
Flash flash did not fire
Metering pattern
Exposure Program manual
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Exposure Mode manual
Light Source unknown
White Balance auto
Digital Zoom 1.0x
Contrast 0
Saturation 0
Sharpness 0
Subject Distance Range unknown
Sensing Method one-chip color sensor
Color Space sRGB

/csd

csd wrote: »

hg,

If you click the little (i) icon to the bottom right of the pics, you can see the EXIF data. In the case of the Portlaoise shot, it's:

Camera NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D90
ISO 1600
Focal Length 35mm (52mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/2
Exposure Time 0.0025s (1/400)
Name DSC_2388.JPG
Size 1600 x 1063
Date Taken 2014-01-31 08:46:32
Date Modified 2014-01-31 17:57:42

File Size 1.25 MB
JPEG Quality fine
Flash flash did not fire
Metering pattern
Exposure Program manual
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Exposure Mode manual
Light Source unknown
White Balance auto
Digital Zoom 1.0x
Contrast 0
Saturation 0
Sharpness 0
Subject Distance Range unknown
Sensing Method one-chip color sensor
Color Space sRGB

/csd

Thanks for the info csd i cannot ever understand modern day camera's my old Fuji Finepix only cranked up to 800 ISO that was way back in 2002, very old in digital terms, the modern camera to has a range of 100 ISO up to a high 3200, I find it's a personnel preference I usually keep at a low 400 IS0 when there is good light sunny days. In the photo H Gricer submitted you are talking about 1500 ISO or more depends on camera make.

In my case it's a Nikon D5200 a mighty little camera, and a small pocket camera model called a Sony RX100M2 which is able to shoot Raw, the digital negative in relation to film terms I'm not a expert but its hit and miss some of the time.

Looks like all the questions for me have already been answered. Cheers folks.

Wanderer 2603+2604 arrived at Ocean Pier 14th February 1994, locomotive 167 hauled them from Alexandra rd to NW.

jhnn wrote: »

Thanks for the info csd i cannot ever understand modern day camera's my old Fuji Finepix only cranked up to 800 ISO that was way back in 2002, very old in digital terms, the modern camera to has a range of 100 ISO up to a high 3200, .

Technology certainly moves, my father used a Drepy 120 film camera which shutter speed only cranked up to 1/250sec max, he used a seperate Yashica light meter, I really thought I was the ''bee's knees'' when I bought a bran new SLR Yashica FX-D in 1987, it cranked up to 1/1000sec, but more modern SLR cameras went up to 1/4000sec.
The digital nonsense camera I got last year goes up to 6400ISO, but goes higher under an ''Hi'' setting, but I still think the colours are much deeper on film.
I still have my Father's contraption, it only has sentimental value, photo below.
Regards
h.gricer

I have the ICR's being deliveried.

North Wall & Belview Port (22001 - 22046)
http://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/Official-Events/2008/IEs-new-22000-Class-DMUs

North Wall (22047 - 22063)
http://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/Official-Events/2012/IEs-new-22000-Class-DMUs-2011

CaptainSkidmark wrote: »

Anyone have photos of Rolling stock or Loco's being delivered from ships or aircraft in Ireland?

Its not something you see online very often

231 being unloaded North Wall Quay Extension, I took the photo Friday 24th March 1995, 228, 229 230 where unloaded the same day.
The Enterprise locomotives 206, 207, 208 and 209 where unloaded the next day.
Regards
h.gricer