Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2015 i Australian Model Railway Magazine

Where are the Modern Era Modellers? Readers of AMRM could be forgiven for thinking that we only cover the ‘historical’ eras of Australian railway equipment and operation in our printed articles. However, this is not deliberate policy on our part, but forced upon us by the fact that the vast majority of our volunteer authors submit articles on historical subjects. This was not always the case, as perusal of our back issues from the early days of the magazine (now conveniently available on CD!) will soon reveal. In the 1960s and 1970s, most modelling articles were about contemporary subjects, because that is what most people modelled at the time. With the huge difficulties in sourcing archival information back then, it was not surprising that most modelled what they could see…

Auscision have released their range of HO scale r-t-r NSW 86 class Co-Co electric locomotives. Along with the ‘candy’ SRA of NSW version (which has already sold out), there were locos available sporting the SRA ‘Bicentennial’ colour scheme, FreightRail ‘stealth’ and standard blue, plus the FreightCorp-logoed blue version. A previously unannounced variation is 8601 in FreightCorp blue with the Silverton company logo, illustrated here. Marbelup Models has released kits for the WAGR/Westrail D and DA class diesels in Sn3½ scale. Each kit consists of a 3D printed body, underframe, fuel tank and cosmetic bogie frames. The underframe is designed to accept a custom-built drive unit from Hollywood Foundry with correct-sized wheels from Northyard. The bodies can be customised to include raised numbers on the cab sides…

Ken Cranfield was born on 1 September 1917 at Manly in Sydney, where he lived until shortly after the first of his two sisters, my mother, was born. Shortly after that, the family moved to Banksia where Ken grew up, being educated at Arncliffe Primary School and later at Sydney Technical High School, which was at that time on Albion Street, Paddington. Upon leaving school Ken was apprenticed as a fitter and turner, learning his trade at Sydney Technical College (now UTS). Work in the 1930s was difficult to obtain. However, at the outbreak of World War Two, Ken was employed at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory manufacturing Enfield rifles for the troops. At first he stayed at the Mt Victoria Hotel during the week, travelling to and from Lithgow…

Quite a few years ago I went through an intensive period where I was involved in the design and construction of several layouts, both on my own and as a member of a model railway club. At the time I was a voracious reader of anything I could get my hands on about layout design and, while I was influenced by a wide range of writers, probably the two biggest influences on me were Ron Cunningham in his Branchline Ramblings column in AMRM and the US Model Railroader’s Tony Koester in his Trains of Thought column. These writers both offered a wealth of thoughtful, practical ideas based on hard-won experience. They not only influenced the way I designed and constructed layouts, they transformed my understanding of the hobby by revealing…

Wallerawang Scale: HO Location: Wallerawang, NSW Main Western line Period: Layout modelled on Wallerawang in the mid-1990s, trains represent any era from steam to present day Layout type: Continuous double-track main line with fourteen-track fiddle yard at rear. Layout size: 6.5m (22') by 2.7m (9') Baseboard: 12mm plywood framing with plywood top and aluminium A-frame legs Track: Peco code 100 points and flexible track, minimum radius 750mm Control: Home-made DC controllers based on the CoolerCrawler design Lighting: Fluorescent ‘daylight’ tubes Scenery: Plaster over lightweight foam and topped with coloured scatter material, static grass, trees home made from twigs with filter wool and ground foam, plus pine trees from Woodlands Scenics Structures: Scratchbuilt and kitbashed Locomotives and rolling stock: Scratchbuilt, modified r-t-r and kit-built NSW and other Australian prototypes Builder: Guildford…

When our family moved to Greensborough in the early 1950s, there was no supermarket and we knew from the types of stores in the area what we could expect to buy there. The grocery store sold groceries (from a kid’s point of view this meant biscuits and lollies), the butcher sold meat, and so on. If you wanted to buy milk you didn’t go to a milk bar, but went to the dairy. Our milk usually got delivered, so mum only went to the dairy to pay the weekly milk bill. This all leads us to the building shown here, the Jersey Dairy in Mont Albert, established in 1901. My recollection is that dairies rarely looked like shops. They were utilitarian buildings with no need for a large front window.…

Byways of Steam 30 , published By Eveleigh Press/SCR Publications, PO Box 345, Matraville 2036. Website: www. australianmodelrailways.com . Price: $45.00 (plus postage). If you are a regular purchaser of the Byways of Steam books you were probably eagerly awaiting the publication of the latest volume in the series. Perhaps you have already read your copy or at the very least had a quick look at it before placing it on the bookshelf alongside the other 30 books in the series. Yes that is correct; this is actually the 31st book, as one issue which appeared after volume 15 was entitled Byways of Steam Encore. The following volume, when published, reverted to the original numbering scheme. This latest volume has 176 pages and conforms…

EXHIBITIONS CORIO – VIC. January 24-25, 2015, Geelong West Town Hall, Pakington St, Geelong West. (cnr Albert St) 10am-5pm (Sat), 10am-4pm (Sun). Frazer Williams (03) 5281 5342 THIRLMERE – NSW. March 1, 2015 at Thirlmere Public School Hall. SHMR Inc Model Railway Exhibition in conjunction with Thirlmere Steam Festival 9am-5pm (Sun) $2/$1/$5. FORESTVILLE – NSW. March 7-8, 2015. NSRMA Forestville Exhibition, Forestville Memorial Hall, Cnr. Warringah Rd & Starkey St, Forestville, NSW. 9am-5pm (Sat), 9am-4pm (Sun). Adult $12, Child $6, Concession $8, Family $28 Andrew King 0412447743 exhibition@nsrma.com.au, www.nsrma.com.au KYNETON – VIC. March 7-9, 2015 at Sacred Heart College Auditorium. Entry via New & Begg Sts, Kyneton. 10am-5pm (Sat & Sun), 10am-4pm (Mon). Enquiries: 0408 996 541 Macedon Ranges Model Railway Club Inc. BUNDABERG – QLD. March 21-22, 2015. Bundaberg…

Bailey Thorpe – Apprentice I reckon it’s great to see youngsters like Bailey Thorpe [‘Bailey Thorpe – Apprentice,’ AMRM Issue 308, October 2014 – Ed] get into the hobby at such an early age. So, if he is still interested by the time he is a teenager/young dude, maybe Pacific National, etc. could use him. Jason Richardson Largs Bay SA 5016 [Assuming that PN hasn’t gone the way of the NSWGR and its successors, hence its only relevance is to modellers of past eras!– Editor] MAILBAG Australian MODEL RAILWAY Magazine welcomes letters on any pertinent model railway subject for inclusion in Mailbag. Letters should be sent to Mailbag, SCR Publications, PO Box 345, Matraville 2036, emailed to amrmagzn@tpg. com.au or faxed to (02) 9661 4323. All Mailbag contributions must include…