Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2017 i Australian Model Railway Magazine

This accident train is made up from several components that were to hand. The old SAR M van is a modified American box car that has had the roof covered with scribed aluminum foil and the pressed rib ends filed smooth then strips of 0.020" styrene glued on to represent the SAR-style ends. The whole unit was then painted SAR grey. The brake van is a modified Dapol BR standard brake van that has been fitted with two bogies in place of the standard four-wheel underframe. The crane is an old Hornby Dublo breakdown crane, with the associated support vehicles replaced with a single bogie flat, itself converted from an old Hornby Dublo bogie bolster wagon. To upgrade the lifting apparatus of the crane I fabricated the pulley blocks and…

I am a natural collector and have in the past acquired collections of Matchbox Yesteryear commercial vehicles and 1:72 scale World War One aircraft kits. I still have Trax 1:43 scale diecast Holdens and Fords; not to mention Australian stamps; stamps featuring railways; forty years worth of railway books, magazines and photographs and more recently die-cast vehicles from the first Cars movie! The first two groups have been sold off to buy brass locomotives – a Broad Gauge Models K class and an Alco 153 hp Walker and trailer – a good swap. I also have a model railway museum. It contains items similar to those where my interest in model railways first started, for example Hornby Dublo A4 Sir Nigel Gresley, Coronation Duchess of Montrose, four-wheel tank cars and…

EXHIBITIONS ALBION – VIC. May 20 – 21, 2017. All American Model Railroad Show, Maltese Cultural Association Building, 27 Talmage St Albion Melway 27 (F10). 9.30am-5.00pm (Sat), 9.30am-4.00pm (Sun). Adults 8.00 Children under 16 free with paying adult. Martin (after 5.00pm) mobile 0432 407 502 or bigb4884@gmail.com www.facebook.com/usmrca ALBURY – NSW. May 20-21, 2017. Murray Railway Modellers Annual Model Railway Show. Mirambeena Community Centre, 19 Martha Mews, Lavington. 9.00am-5.00pm (Sat), 10.00am-4.00pm (Sun). Phone (03) 5728 2023 mrmshow@gmail.com murrayrailwaymodellers.com RICHMOND VALE – NSW. May 20-21, 2017. Richmond Vale Railway Museum Model Exhibition, Richmond Vale Railway Museum, Leggetts Drive in the Hunter Valley. 10.00am to 4.30pm (Sat & Sun). Adults $16; Concession $11, Children (5-15 Years) $7.50 Children under 5 are free. www.richmondvalerailwaymuseum.org ANGLE PARK – SA. June 10-12, 2017. Adelaide Model…

Reminiscences of the Prototype I decided to base my tramway layout on the area of Sydney near where my twin sister and I grew up, Maroubra Beach. Born in March 1953, I was almost eight when the last tram, R1 2083, ran down our street, Fenton Ave. So I just caught the tail end of an era. As well, I remember seeing steam trains at ‘Central’ (Sydney Terminal). The smell of the burning coal remains with me. Our mother used to take us to ‘town’, i.e. the city, by tram to see movies at the large cinemas. In those days everyone stood to attention when God Save the Queen was played prior to the movie starting. She also took me shopping at ‘The Jungo’ i.e. Maroubra Junction and to the…

The late Ford Niquet, VMRS member and prolific Victorian Railways scratchbuilder, had the most profound effect on my modelling aspirations. On Saturday afternoons in the early 1960s, a friend and I would ride our bikes up to Jack Rd, Highett, and play trains on the huge layout in his attic [Photo 1]. And what trains they were! A full Spirit of Progress set with S class Pacific steam locomotive, sets of E cars, W Cars, PLs, goods wagons galore and just about every VR steam loco of the then ‘modern era’; all scratchbuilt in O (1:48) scale! That was it for me, there was no way then I could ever buy anything off the shelf. In fact, you couldn’t buy much off the shelf at all then; I think the…

It is the early 1950s, just before 4002 was repainted Royal blue for Royal Train duties in 1954, and the locomotive has been rostered to haul a down relief Werris Creek Day Train, formed from R car Set 108, which was once painted blue and cream and allocated to the ‘Caves Express’ during the 1930s. The train is crossing Sandy Creek, near Aberdeen on Ron Cunningham’s HO scale ‘Werris Creek’ layout. The locomotive is a pre-production factory-painted sample of the Eureka Models 40 class and the carriage set is a pre-production factory-painted sample of Casula Hobbies’ Set 108 in Tuscan and russet.…

Byways of Steam 31 With the successful release of Mark Langdon’s Shale & Shays, the story of mining and railways in the Wolgan Valley, our book publishing arm, Eveleigh Press, advises that the next volume in the Byways of Steam series is not far away. Following the theme of industry in the Blue Mountains with Shale & Shays, the next volume of Byways of Steam was to cover the rail-serviced industries and railway depots of Lithgow and surrounding areas. However, so much material was supplied by Mark Langdon and Ray Love that it has proven necessary to spread it over two volumes. Despite the split, Byways of Steam 31 will still be the largest volume in the series to date and will cover the rail industries and the 1923-built Lithgow…

Volunteers and the Future of AMRM As a subscriber or casual purchaser of AMRM you would have received Issue 322 (February 2017) and SCMRA members would also have received their copy of their Booster newsletter. Were you alarmed in any way with what you read in Bob’s AMRM Comment (A Case of Relevance) or John R B Parker’s editorial in the Booster? I was, especially when I went back to Issues 299, 300 and 301 (April, June, August 2013) and re-read the three parts of Fifty Years of AMRM. A story with a similarity… what, you may ask? The names of the folk involved. The difference between now and then is four years with this issue, No.323, and the volunteer names listed on p.5 haven’t changed all that much in…

What You Will Need • 1m x 30 gauge 10amp heavy duty wire – makes approx. five trees (I used Altronics wire code: W2278) • 50mm x 24/26 gauge wire (bead or florist wire) for spike • Wire strippers (optional) • Wire cutters • Craft knife • Hobby vice • Pliers • Tweezers (ordinary) • Grip tweezers (ones that open when squeezed) • Soldering iron and solder • PVA glue • (Optional: Selleys No More Gaps) • Plaster of Paris • Paint brush • Acrylic paints: med/dark green, dark brown, black • Air brush (optional) – I don’t have one but it may be quicker • A 50mm thick x 200mm x 200mm piece of Styrofoam for placing trees in while drying As a challenge I wanted to make grass…

This, the final part of the series, reflects on the achievements and lessons from building the layout. In brief, the layout was effectively an exercise in what could be fitted into a modest space. It had a defined life expectancy of five years, so there was also the challenge of completing the process within that timeframe. The space and time limitations influenced some of my decisions and these warrant some review. Space Considerations I had developed a double-level layout plan for the entire loft space (6m x 4.2m) during the house contract settlement period. As I was running modern-era stock, long block trains needed to be accommodated. Long trains require long runs in order to appreciate the visual impact. This was just achievable with a layout 6m in length. When…

Since adopting Digital Command Control (DCC), I’m enjoying the sights and sounds that DCC brings to a layout. But one thing that annoys me a little is how do you address a loco that has an Alpha-numeric locomotive identifier? For example, some of my locos have three digit numbers and in DCC, that is no issue. The road number can become the DCC address. But some of my locos have one or two or three letters plus one or two numbers to identify the loco. For example I have a Budd rail-car numbered CB2. Likewise I have a locomotive numbered CL14. The issue for me is; how do you keep a consistent and logical numbering system when mixing locos with one, two or three numbers? Do I use a short…

These locomotives comprised the most numerous class on the Western Australian Government Railways, the first entering service in 1889, having been purchased second-hand from a construction contractor. Originally a Beyer Peacock design, they were built by a number of companies, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. A comprehensive history of these locomotives in Australia would take a large and well-researched book, as similar locomotives saw service in South Australia (Y class), Tasmania (C class), the North Australia Railway from Darwin, and in Queensland. Furthermore, they were used on many private lines, particularly the timber and wood lines in Western Australia. In fact, from the early twentieth century onwards there were more of these locomotives working on private and industrial railways than on the WAGR! Generally speaking, this type of…

NSWGR BEY Bogie Flat Wagon kit in HO scale by Peter Boorman’s Workshop, 187 Old Ipswich Rd, Riverview 4303. Ph: (07) 3282 3663. Website: www.  peterboormansworkshop.com.au. Price: $100.00 per twin-pack. Peter Boorman’s Workshop have produced two versions of the Thow BEY bogie wagons of the NSWGR in HO scale. There are two types available, the ‘as delivered’ 1892 version with an elaborate ‘kingpost’ truss rod arrangement and the floor timbers laid at an angle across the vehicle, and as rebuilt from 1915 with conventional ‘queenpost’ truss rods and the floor timbers laid at 90° across the vehicle. I have used the following references for the building of both models as they differ significantly during construction: • Peter Boorman’s instructions to build both the BEY angled floor and transverse…