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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    When steam was in Tyrone (PA that is).


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,312 ✭✭✭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 :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭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 :D

    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭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!

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,006 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


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

    461 makes her return home to Wexford...



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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


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



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭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)...

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

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha




  • Registered Users Posts: 39,625 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    Itssoeasy wrote: »

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭LLU


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



  • Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Network rail have uploaded a few interesting enough videos to youtube





  • Moderators Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Dart from Greystones heading to Bray in the snow.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭highlydebased


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

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


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

    That sort of porn leaves me cold.:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • Registered Users Posts: 24,475 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


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

    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?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,997 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    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.

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



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  • Moderators Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Found these on the Wicklow forum and on flicker. Link

    Bray to Geystones
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    Greystones
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    Greystones
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    Bray
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    Bray
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    Cork
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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,380 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Lovely bit of GM music in this one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭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.

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    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    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. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    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.
    A33%2BAT%2BCONNOLLY.JPG

    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).


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,625 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy




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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    DD9090 wrote: »

    Bray to Geystones
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    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. :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,006 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭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


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