HO model of the Docker Street gatekeeper cottageMaking models out of styrene is an aspect of the hobby I am finding quite satisfying. Not having a kit, or even plans just adds to the challenge. And selection of prototype specific stru…
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How not to park your grain train
Modelling, NMRA Meeting, and a derailmentAn SSR grain train collided with the rear trailer of a truck at the level crossing near the former Rockview Station west of Junee on March 8th. More pictures laterModellingLadysmith Perway shed gets …
Ladysmith Perway shed
Perway shed at Ladysmith – a “simple” scratchbuilding projectDuring the openday at Ladysmith on February 11th, I took an opportunity over the lunch period to wander down to the perway shed, and measure it for a future model.Ladysmith Perway shedP…
Trike run at Ladysmith
Trike rides at LadysmithFebruary 11th saw the resumption of Trike rides for the public at Ladysmith. The first trike about to depart the loading area after the opening. The goods shed is in the background. The fencing is new, and a req…
Some videos of Lambing Flat
I have very recently acquired a mobile phone that takes very good videos, so I had to try it out on the layout!
The first video shows 5165 exiting the loop with a goods train headed for Demondrille. The train is comprised mostly of loco coal in U…
Some of the new ‘intrastate’ stuff, Pt 1…
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 …
The ‘modern era’ comes to Lambing Flat: Bogie rolling stock
The Indian red diesels need something to haul, so, thanks to all the lovely r-t-r 1960s/1970s bogie rolling stock now available, it is a simple matter of pulling something out of the box, checking the couplings and wheels against the standards gauge, …
Some more activity!
Every now and then I get the yen to actually do something on the layout and, sometimes, I actually get to do it!
The first project to get underway laterly was to superdetail and fit a Tsunami chip to one of the Austrains ’roundtop’ 36 class I have had…
It’s been a while…
Good grief! I’ve managed two posts in the same year!
No particular theme with this one, just a few random shots of models I have completed over the last year or so.
Lambing Flat now has a very modern diesel, an Auscision 422 class. It has b…
Back Creek Junction and the line to Cowra, developments at Lambing Flat, 2012.
Once Lambing Flat was re-erected in its current home in 2003, other than maintenance and the addition of the occasional minor detail, nothing much changed, other than the addition of DCC and more rolling stock. The track plan was as shown belo…