Installing benchwork for Shepherds SidingShepherds Siding is the first section of scenery for the layout’s mainline. It will include the wheat silo for operational interest. The benchwork has taken me longer to install, as other non-r…
The long ramp installation After my ramp testing, it was time to install.Still wearing reminents of Genesee & Wyoming livery, SSR CLF2 awaits in Junee for its next assignment – probably a grain trainThe ramp is to go behind the future Bo…
Experimentations for model trains climbing gradesI am at the stage of adding the ramp behind my staging yard to climb to the lower scenery level. This ramp will be hidden, and hard to access, so I thought I would check that my longest train…
Yard construction with Fasttracks turnoutsFinally, after 161 blog posts, I lay some track!!4836 accompanied the Picnic Train to Junee earlier this month. Not sure I like the new livery, but the engine was looking very smart. Roof mounted A/…
My experience with Fast Tracks.A “down” QUBE steel train approaches Shepherds on Jan 30, 2025 at around 80-90Kph. This snapshot through the car windscreen. Of note is the lack of wires on the lineside poles – these copper wires have b…
Adding Plywood to the staging yard benchwork I had designed the staging yard benchwork to be either 400mm, or 600mm wide. That would allow the 1200×2400 mm plywood sheets to be cut lengthwise into 2 or 3 strips.Last weekend, I had a ru…
Benchwork begins for Junee staging yards. The other end of my layout is Junee, which like Albury, will exist solely as a hidden staging yard.Graeme Dodds took this picture in 1979. X212 has just removed a louvre van off a northbound tr…
Benchwork progress for Albury Staging A short post this time. PN 48144 waits in Junee yard for its next assignment Oct 30, 2024Since the last blog post, I regret that I have not progressed the layout benchwork as quickly as I would like…
Benchwork – finally a startParalysis by Analysis is a trap. And I have been caught for too long. The design of the Wagga layout has been in development for the best part of 9 years, and whilst there is certainly an advantage with care…
Albury staging yard -or- chicken scratchings on the floor6029 visited Junee in June 2019. This image of the engine being prepared outside the roundhouse has nothing to do with this blogpost, just thought I would share a happy memorySt…