The Inland Rail project between Melbourne and Brisbane has stalled with just 17 per cent complete, and insiders say it is unlikely it will ever reach the end of the line.
Category: track laying
Sticking with my plan
Finally the track for my small OO9 Christmas layout has been laid. The day after Christmas! Still, I was thankful for the few spare hours on Boxing Day to glue the final sections of track in place that had been teasing me over the course of the pa…
Removing the tram tracks
One of the trickier tasks I faced with transforming the setting of my inner-Melbourne HO Scale shelf layout to the NSW North Coast, was removing the tram tracks that once ran down the middle of the Philden Street overpass. They were anchored down to th…
Sacrificing length for functionality
For a small and simple layout such as this, it wasn’t really necessary to draw a track plan on paper before I started constructing the layout. All I needed to do was draw the track plan directly onto the sheet of 596 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm plywood, and ma…
Keeping within 1st Radius
For some modellers the sight of a 600 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm sheet of plywood isn’t going to do much to excite the senses or go too far towards completing the benchwork in your walk around model railway plans. So when the sheet measured only 596 mm wide x…