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Let There be Light

  • Guest authors
  • November 19, 2023
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 Progress steps up a notchOver the last 3 weeks (since my last Blog post), quite a lot has occuredDavid’s layout based on Goulburn, was one of the attractions at the NMRA meeting I attended yesterday (Nov 18, 2023) in Canberra. More pictures of th…

Impressionist Scenery…
  • Australia
  • building scenery
  • HO scale
  • Lambing Flat
  • model railway
  • NSWGR 40000 gallon locomotive water tank
  • steam era NSWGR
  • weathering

Impressionist Scenery…

  • Guest authors
  • May 3, 2022
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Well, it’s been about two years since my last post on this blog, so going on my performance over the last ten years or so, it must be time for a new post!As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I was, at the time, about to retire from the edito…

Some of the new ‘intrastate’ stuff, Pt 1…
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  • NSWGR
  • open wagons
  • sheep vans
  • weathering
  • wheat hoppers

Some of the new ‘intrastate’ stuff, Pt 1…

  • Guest authors
  • August 22, 2017
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The constant deluge of r-t-r rolling stock does make it very easy to fill up the yards with lovely models of the delightfully picturesque wagons that kept the intrastate traffic moving back in the steam/early diesel era in which Lambing Flat&nbsp…

That damned ‘Pig’!
  • Austrains roundtop 36 class
  • Lambing Flat
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That damned ‘Pig’!

  • Guest authors
  • August 16, 2017
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When I last mentioned 3607, my modified Austrains roundtop ‘Pig’ back in November 2014, all was not well, a situation that persisted for some time. It had reached the basic painting stage, as shown below:

But try as I might, I could not …

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