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#302 21-03-2012 08:53PM

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When steam was in Tyrone (PA that is).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVeuudxzg4

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#303 21-03-2012 09:16PM

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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

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#304 21-03-2012 10:22PM

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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.

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#305 22-03-2012 12:10AM

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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

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#306 26-03-2012 01:01PM

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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

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#307 26-03-2012 04:17PM

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

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#308 26-03-2012 05:05PM

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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

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#309 27-03-2012 10:42PM

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

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#310 31-03-2012 02:25PM

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#311 31-03-2012 02:28PM

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Itssoeasy wrote: »

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

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#312 31-03-2012 02:41PM

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

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#313 31-03-2012 02:59PM

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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.

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#314 31-03-2012 07:06PM

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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

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#315 01-04-2012 11:10AM

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

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#316 02-04-2012 06:23PM

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Dart from Greystones heading to Bray in the snow.

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#317 03-04-2012 11:09PM

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

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

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#318 03-04-2012 11:15PM

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

That sort of porn leaves me cold.:o

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#319 04-04-2012 12:37AM

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#320 04-04-2012 04:45AM

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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?!

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#321 04-04-2012 05:22PM

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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.

I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.

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#322 12-04-2012 07:34PM

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Found these on the Wicklow forum and on flicker. Link

Bray to Geystones

Greystones

Greystones

Bray

Bray

Cork

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#323 12-04-2012 08:19PM

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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.

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#324 13-04-2012 11:08PM

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Lovely bit of GM music in this one.

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#325 16-04-2012 08:01PM

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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

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#326 16-04-2012 08:26PM

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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.

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#327 16-04-2012 09:54PM

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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).

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#328 19-04-2012 10:08PM

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

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#329 20-04-2012 12:22PM

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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.

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#330 20-04-2012 12:34PM

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

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#331 20-04-2012 08:13PM

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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

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