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#92 22-12-2011 9:43pm
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IINM, the street came first in most cases.

Amtrak used to run on a tramway in Lafayette, Indiana as well, which was part of the former Monon railroad's main line once; on 5th Street, and there was far less clearance for road traffic to get around the train. These tracks are now gone, and Amtrak has been re-routed onto the former Wabash main line. (Trivia: this is Axl Rose's birthplace.)

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

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#93 23-12-2011 12:05am
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I find street running fascinating.

For tight clearances you should watch this video of the Weymouth Quay tramway in Dorset that served cross channel ferries up to the 90s, now disused.

They even resort to towing cars or bouncing them out of the way

http://youtu.be/x6XEVvVRB_4

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#94 23-12-2011 1:04am
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Yes, now that's a tramway. Pity that video didn't show the train going under the Lower St. Edmund's Street bridge over Custom House Quay, though.

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#95 23-12-2011 11:50am
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Now that WAS a tramway you mean. Sadly now abadoned.

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#96 24-12-2011 9:51pm
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Back to some Irish material, these recently uploaded might be of interest, the freight wagons featured in both have been consigned to history, as well as the locos!

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#97 25-12-2011 1:02am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuYVV3-00Qw

you will love this then!

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#98 25-12-2011 11:19am
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That is mental!! :pac:

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#99 25-12-2011 2:02pm
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Some lovely footage in this,especially 186 giving it socks.:)

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#100 26-12-2011 2:14pm
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CIE wrote: »

Don't think we've seen Jack London Square in Oakland, California yet. A multi-track tramway that has Amtrak double-deckers and freight trains on it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M5jd634r-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3QCZhacHY

FANTASTIC STUFF CIE....

Can you just imagine the amount of extra Knickers Pennys would sell in order for them to be gotten in a twist by An Taisce,Friends of the Earth,the RSA,NTA,Red Cross and the Uninterrupted Nights Sleep associations across Ireland :eek:

It also underlines,I suppose, just why the U.S. got to the Moon and actually still manages to "Do Stuff" whilst we see more benefit in thinking long and hard about ways n means NOT to do the same stuff.

Stonewolf : The mandatory horn blasts must be irritating for the locals in such places.

Oddly enough,having spent a goodly part of my early life close to Railway sounds,the reverse tends to be the case,as such regular everyday backgrounds tend to be absorbed by the brain and filtered accordingly...it's when they STOP that one feels the effects.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)

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#101 27-12-2011 9:53pm
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There are fewer tramways for the big trains nowadays, at least as part of main lines. Fresno, California used to have a rather long tramway along Q Street and Diana Street; the railway still runs along those streets, but now in its own reservation along the side of the street rather than as a tramway in the middle as shown here (from 1987).

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#102 28-12-2011 9:21pm
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I believe Wexford Quay has a 5mph speed limit. Jack London Square has 15mph. Makes you wonder if IE couldn't squeeze a bit more speed out of the Quay.

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#103 29-12-2011 12:12am
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Is the Wexford Quays the only street running tracks in Ireland? I've never noticed another on my travels!

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#104 29-12-2011 12:14am
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purplepanda wrote: »

Is the Wexford Quays the only street running tracks in Ireland? I've never noticed another on my travels!

Alexandra Road near Dublin Port would be another, the Tara trains still go along there.

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#105 29-12-2011 12:29am
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Those two sections had 5MPH limits imposed as they both initially required flagmen to walk the train through. While this was dropped at Wexford, North Wall still requires same to this day.

A quick look at this video shows us how open the section of line is, albeit 20 years ago. The jury is out if it's safe to take a speed limit of even 10MPH given the ease people and cars have to cross the line.

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#106 29-12-2011 1:35am
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A long gone on street scene - C209 is seen here on the Lower Glanmire Road on the Cork City Railway en route from Glanmire Road station to Albert Quay station. Photo from Colourail.

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#107 29-12-2011 1:49am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkEtjzCATEs
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Painful watching a 100mph set crawl like this, and seeing an IE worker paid to raise barriers to facilitate a feckin car park. At least you could understand when there was an active quay alongside that there would be limits to how much of a barrier could be imposed.

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#108 29-12-2011 4:04pm
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Found this wonderful photo site of CIE in 1984 by accident just now - you genuine enthusiasts probably know of it already but here it is: http://steverabone.com/RailwayPhotographs/ireland_1984.htm

Sligo MPD before it was 'rationalised'.

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#109 29-12-2011 4:15pm
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SLNCR B looked in about as bolloxed condition then as it does now...

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#110 29-12-2011 4:20pm
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MYOB wrote: »

SLNCR B looked in about as bolloxed condition then as it does now...

Funny that you should say that, as I have been telling people the very same for more than 20 years. It arrived at Mallow wrecked and left for NI little worse for its time spent in the GSRPS depot.

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#111 29-12-2011 6:36pm
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Judgement Day wrote: »

Found this wonderful photo site of CIE in 1984 by accident just now - you genuine enthusiasts probably know of it already but here it is: http://steverabone.com/RailwayPhotographs/ireland_1984.htm

Sligo MPD before it was 'rationalised'.

Nice find. Good to see a collection that includes individual shots of carriages and not just locos, the former seem to have been neglected by many photographers.

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Nice find indeed. Loving the photos of the Mark 3s, which were brand new at that time.

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#113 29-12-2011 9:59pm
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Excellent find JD.

I have some slides from the 70s taken at Goolds Cross pre CTC but they've deteriorated badly, will see if I can do anything with them.

On the subject of street running, I hope to visit the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway next time I'm seeing my sister in NZ. Recently reopened after being shut down in 2000 after various factions fell out (sound familiar? :rolleyes:)

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#114 29-12-2011 10:12pm
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8mm cine film of Cork City Railway taken in 1976, don't know if it's been linked to before.

I was in Cork in 1978 and remember following the tramway, no camera though :rolleyes:

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#115 29-12-2011 11:45pm
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Now that's a gem of footage there, never seen it before, the mind bobbles at the thought of running such a train nowadays (or even back then!)

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#116 30-12-2011 12:26am
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edit: ignore this.

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#117 30-12-2011 12:30am
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It was only put up a month ago, I just entered a search after finding the NZ video and was surprised to see it. Interesting comment on there from the uploader, CIE man who was goods messenger in Cork and had a cine camera with him.

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#118 30-12-2011 12:43am
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It's one of my lasting regrets that I never travelled on, or saw, a train crossing the Cork City Railway despite being in the area a number of times in the early 1970s. I always thought that as long as the line still crossed the river that there was a chance of some rebirth of the railway in West Cork but alas...

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#119 30-12-2011 4:52am
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All: Thanks for all the Cork City Railway stuff. Rare stuff that IMHO ought to have lasted longer.

Change of pace: This is perhaps one of the oddest things one might see in terms of North American passenger rail...carriages intended originally for the Nightstar service (through the Eurotunnel Channel Tunnel), VIA Rail bought these Alstom-built cars built to British loading gauge and renamed them the "Renaissance" fleet. This video shows them on the "Ocean" service between Montreal and Halifax in Nova Scotia, passing Painsec Junction in Moncton, New Brunswick; the Renaissance cars are contrasted size-wise with both the F40PH locomotives and the Budd dome/observation car at the rear.

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

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#120 30-12-2011 11:14am
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They are tiny in comparison to the locos! Wondererd what happened to the Nightstar coaches.

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#121 30-12-2011 12:48pm
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101sean just made my day....:D:D

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