Train porn

ardmacha

When steam was in Tyrone (PA that is).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVeuudxzg4

dowlingm

topnotch wrote: »

Another one of those close call videos.
You get a great sense of the height of the american locos. (Skip to 1:05

Living in a country with mostly low floor platforms now, I feel dwarfed by P42s and F40s and F59s in a way I never did by 071s and 201s... on Irish high platforms that is

flyingsnail

dowlingm wrote: »

Living in a country with mostly low floor platforms now, I feel dwarfed by P42s and F40s and F59s in a way I never did by 071s and 201s... on Irish high platforms that is

I seem to remember a picture of a US loco hauling some UK locos (think they were class 66) before delivery and it clearly showed the size difference, but I cant find it now. If you are at track level beside a 071 or 201 you certainly feel as if they tower over you.

101sean

The most recent pictures in the press was Class 70s and they were on flat wagons. Still gives some idea in the difference in loading gauges! They've changed the delivery method now, they go on to Ro-ro ships on transporter trailers after they dropped one at Newport as it was being craned off, broke it's back and it was a write off!



Some Class 66 pics dwarfed by their cousins here - http://www.meaker.me.uk/Rail/Class/66/Canada.htm

Losty Dublin

They didn't call it the Dublin Slow and Easy for nothing, you know:D

461 makes her return home to Wexford...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0Q1PkVbI8

lord lucan

Steam and Diesel on the Howth branch (and a bit of comedy at the end!)

CIE

Union Pacific's 844 (4-8-4) going through Jack London Square (you'll have to go three minutes in to actually see the engine)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5JMcKyS4_c

Did we have anything from the San Francisco Municipal Railway's cable car system yet? I didn't see it. (1067 mm gauge, BTW.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXcA0-1A5q8

Wanted to throw in a short vid of a former Blackpool boat tram running in San Francisco, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqzWEXhK2IQ

ardmacha

Inner Mongolia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHT4yYX38tE

Itssoeasy

flyingsnail

Itssoeasy wrote: »

And people wonder why you tell them to stay behind the yellow line.

LLU

A collection of train near misses. Some toe curling moments in there!

newcavanman

lord lucan wrote: »

Steam and Diesel on the Howth branch (and a bit of comedy at the end!)

My cousins were driving the 461 that day . First time in 32 years that a steam loco had been down the Howth branch . Last time one did, the current fireman was helping to man the level crossing at Claremont on the way into Howth.

highlydebased

Network rail have uploaded a few interesting enough videos to youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4q3i5aw6XQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0R84COUj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPjdg1BIVtc

LEIN

Dart from Greystones heading to Bray in the snow.

highlydebased

shameless plug...I may aswell photograph em before they go



http://www.flickr.com/photos/39896705@N05/6892707952/in/photostream

lord lucan

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That sort of porn leaves me cold.:o

lord lucan

Cookie_Monster

highlydebased wrote: »

shameless plug...I may aswell photograph em before they go

I'd forgotten all that money spent recently on repaints and gangway replacement. Only to be scrapped shortly after yet again. One wonders how they manage it really?!

end of the road

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I'd forgotten all that money spent recently on repaints and gangway replacement. Only to be scrapped shortly after yet again. One wonders how they manage it really?!

its irish rail, they can manage and do anything they want, and get away with it. the 2700s will never be seen or run on our railways again. off to the gass torch (sorry storage) they go.

LEIN

Found these on the Wicklow forum and on flicker. Link

Bray to Geystones


Greystones


Greystones


Bray


Bray


Cork

cml387

From RTE this film from As The Crow Flies about 2:50 in shows lovely shots of Limerick Junction from 1976.
All Metrovicks from what I can see and a direct service it seems from Limerick to Cork.

lord lucan

Lovely bit of GM music in this one.

Judgement Day

A33 at Connolly - negative currently for sale on eBay - posted here primarily to show the footbridge which formerly linked all the platforms at Amiens Street/Connolly. Anybody remember it - seems like an awfully long time ago now.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Larger-Negative-CIE-Irish-Railways-Diesel-Loco-A33-1960-Original-Ireland-/370604308331?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RL&hash=item5649bcf76b#ht_962wt_952

steamengine

Judgement Day wrote: »

A33 at Connolly - negative currently for sale on eBay - posted here primarily to show the footbridge which formerly linked all the platforms at Amiens Street/Connolly. Anybody remember it - seems like an awfully long time ago now.

Yes indeed ! It was there up until the early sixties at any rate, and possibly later. There were some really well known railway enthusiasts who used to hang out on that platform, around that time. One of them knew all the time-tables and platform departure numbers off by heart, and relished imparting his railway knowledge to all those 'lost' looking passengers one finds at railway stations. The bit they didn't seem to grasp was a full run down on the locomotive hauling their particular trains though.

CIE

Judgement Day wrote: »

A33 at Connolly - negative currently for sale on eBay - posted here primarily to show the footbridge which formerly linked all the platforms at Amiens Street/Connolly. Anybody remember it - seems like an awfully long time ago now.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Larger-Negative-CIE-Irish-Railways-Diesel-Loco-A33-1960-Original-Ireland-/370604308331?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RL&hash=item5649bcf76b#ht_962wt_952

Yes, I remember the footbridge. I even remember when they demolished the part that led to Platforms 6 and 7; they were finishing up the subway that led from Platform 5 to that island platform. The original track adjacent to Platform 7 was taken up and the platform widened to reach the former runaround track (for allowing engines to change ends on suburban trains) in order to make things wide enough for the subway to emerge onto the platforms. Later on, that subway connected to the (now-defunct) suburban ticket office across from Buckingham Street, just under the Amiens Street bridge. The remainder of the footbridge that connected Platforms 1, 2, 3 and 4 stayed open until the "new" Platform 3 was built and the old inset Platform 4 was filled in, IINM. Great place to view the trains from, even when one wasn't tall enough to look out of the windows (I usually had my dad with me to help with that).

Itssoeasy

Had a half day in work(3pm) so went to cobh and filmed the north esk site coming back from Cobh.

Run_to_da_hills

DD9090 wrote: »

Bray to Geystones

Were the short lived converted AEC railcar to DVT sets ever hauled by 141's?

I can remember them with C Class Metrovic.

It would be interesting if Marks Models will ever come up with these butchered trains.

Losty Dublin

Only the C and 121s worked on the AEC push pull links from Greystones; the 141's were never fitted with PP control kit.

topnotch

two interesting american documentaries i came across recently. The first is about articulated steam locos and the second is about the 5mile long hoosac tunnel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt00jwsYqh8&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYOlx9wIw0&feature=relmfu

Itssoeasy

Losty Dublin

079 arriving at Cork yesterday....

Losty Dublin

And leaving Cork yesterday. Excuse the audio being ropey but the train was, ahem, moving into the wind and blowing all over the place

Ronnie Binge

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Only the C and 121s worked on the AEC push pull links from Greystones; the 141's were never fitted with PP control kit.

Anyone got photos of the pre-1984 interiors of the push pulls? That was a distinctive fit out all right. :rolleyes: I used to wonder was it a deliberate policy of CIÉ's to have the worst rolling stock interior in the western world?

Losty Dublin

I've seen pics online somewhere, not that it makes for pleasant viewing. I was in them as a kid and they were depressing to be sure. From what I remember being told, the budget was zilch as the country was skint and the 2600's were due for scrapping once the Dart came into service. There was meant to be seats fitted from Park Royals to get them by but they didn't fit and with leaking roofs on many of the carriages, the plastic seats were fitted as they wouldn't get water damaged.

These day's you'd be lynched for the state of them and rightly so

Losty Dublin

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I've seen pics online somewhere, not that it makes for pleasant viewing. I was in them as a kid and they were depressing to be sure. From what I remember being told, the budget was zilch as the country was skint and the 2600's were due for scrapping once the Dart came into service. There was meant to be seats fitted from Park Royals to get them by but they didn't fit and with leaking roofs on many of the carriages, the plastic seats were fitted as they wouldn't get water damaged.

These day's you'd be lynched for the state of them and rightly so

I'm too young to remember them, being born shortly after the DART started. I have read that the push-pulls were bad, but whoa, that sounds scary.

Eiretrains

Ronnie Binge wrote: »

Anyone got photos of the pre-1984 interiors of the push pulls? That was a distinctive fit out all right. :rolleyes: I used to wonder was it a deliberate policy of CIÉ's to have the worst rolling stock interior in the western world?

Two words to describe the old AEC pushpull converts - bucket seats.:D

CIE

Rare colour photos of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T-1 Duplex (4-4-4-4) type. This one is in the Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) yards, on display; year is 1948.

Judgement Day

Ronnie Binge wrote: »

Anyone got photos of the pre-1984 interiors of the push pulls? That was a distinctive fit out all right. :rolleyes: I used to wonder was it a deliberate policy of CIÉ's to have the worst rolling stock interior in the western world?

Below - AEC railcars in their early years with CIE must have been a thing of beauty after all the 'hand me downs' received from the GSR.



However, it's for the wrong reasons that most of us old enough to experience the Dublin suburban railway pre-DART remember them. The aroma of pre-war plumbing, people using umbrellas inside them. The rush to get a seat that didn't have a pool of condensed steam (water) on it. The external doors, some missing handles, that used to swell in damp weather and render them unopenable....and you tell young people today.




Some more pics and info here: http://irishrailways.blogspot.com/2009/08/greystones-shuttle-25.html

steamengine

Pre push-pull, when CIE operated some of the ex-GNR AEC railcars, the interiors were quite plush, especially First Class. I travelled to school on them for many years in the sixties and the 2nd class seating was comparable to the present day Enterprise standard class. The substantial tables were great for the old 'push-halfpenny' games.

Eiretrains

Strung a few clips of 461 on the Spare Link railtour, featured at various locations on the route.:cool:

The seats in that photo of the push-pull interior remind me of the seats used in primary schools!

Judgement Day

Karsini wrote: »

The seats in that photo of the push-pull interior remind me of the seats used in primary schools!

They were standard school type seats mounted on a heavy frame. Cold, wet and frequently filthy.

lord lucan

This caught my eye on Youtube tonight. I'm more than a little jealous i must admit.

demanufactured

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhwbyybXys

Crazy carry on....

A cousin of the 121 class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjadmylsvjc

Run_to_da_hills

lord lucan wrote: »

This caught my eye on Youtube tonight. I'm more than a little jealous i must admit.

Are they petrol or diesel?

The NIR C series is far too clean, these were in bits by the time they got their hands on them.

lord lucan

CIE

Real oddball this one. Pennsylvania Railroad rubber-tyred shunting engine, for moving freight wagons around on the tramways that used to exist around the docklands in cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore (Maryland) and Jersey City (New Jersey) back when they were the centres of manufacturing for nearly the whole world (China and Germany laugh today because that country gave away all its manufacturing). Quite flexible insofar as these shunters didn't have to go to a passing siding to run around a train of wagons; it could uncouple, drive around the cars on the street, then couple on at the other end, or maybe even assemble/break trains apart in the same manner. Originally battery-powered, then converted to petrol engine power. First ones built 1912.

CIE

Newsreel from 1935 about the New York Central System's 20th Century Limited train (Chicago to New York/Boston). Shows the engine change at Croton-Harmon, some 32 miles away from Manhattan; for most of the journey, the power is a J1a 4-6-4 (with mechanical stokers, so the fireman can sit down and watch the track ahead instead of manually feeding coal; no unnecessary standing for drivers and firemen in US steamers). Back then, the average speed (17-hour journey one way) was 56.5 mph (about 91 km/h) with about six intermediate stops over a 1,547-km route. (Average speed improved to 96.5 km/h by the late 30s.)

Amtrak runs almost the same routing on the Lake Shore Limited (exceptions being New York Penn instead of Grand Central, Rensselaer instead of the now-defunct Albany Union Station, and Depew instead of Buffalo Central Terminal—a station Amtrak closed in 1979), but with 16 intermediate stops and an average speed of 64 km/h if there are no delays (thanks a lot for overregulation out of Washington DC). :rolleyes: Also no all-electric power; it's all diesel power, using dual-mode diesels between New York and Rensselaer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcC9laB3UFU

Mycroft H

lord lucan wrote: »

Lovely bit of GM music in this one.

My local station

Its a long time since I've seen a 071 near enfield, let alone one pulling freight.

I got a "lift" in the cab of a 071 to enfield from Connolly one evening. My uncle was a driver at the time. Nothing more satisfying (to a twelve year old) then blasting through Clonsilla while sounding the horn