Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2022 i Australian Model Railway Magazine

The Epping Model Railway Club held their ‘Great Train Show’ at the Rosehill Racecourse over the weekend of 14 and 15 May 2022. This exhibition was well attended and clearly looks like the ‘go to’ exhibition for Sydney in 2022. Layouts exhibited included: Epping Model Railway Club's Peter Hearsum's spacious branch line terminus of Alex Maljevac's aninspirationalSydneysuburbanterminal station. acanyononthe British Columbia Railway), by Dave Standen, Roger Cole and Scott Fitzgerald. North Shore Railway Modellers Association's Peter Bayer's delightful layout of bytheSydneyModelRailway Society. Georges River Model Railway Club's LoganDistrictModelRailwayClub's Walloon QLD bytheIllawarraModelRailway Association. The ACT Model Railway Society's byScottFitzgerald N scale layouts included NSW N Scale Group's and byRobertPopovski Two impressive O scale layouts attended, byPaulChisolmandfriends. Also, afictitioussmalljunctionstation on the Great Western Railway (GWR)…

Sometimes when you plan a short article, you find that you uncover more information and suddenly the article gets bigger. After submitting my completed research on the New South Wales and Victorian Railways use of tail disks, I thought that I should quit while I was ahead. The AMRM Editor casually replied, “didn't the Commonwealth Railways use tail disks as well?” So as not to let others feel neglected, the research has been enlarged to cover more Australian Railway systems. Tasmanian Government Railways The Tasmanian Government Railways (TGR) used tail disks, and as can be seen from this photo, the round disk on the right can be folded down, displaying a blank disk of the same colour as the body of the van. The following text explains the use of…

Sadly, we record the death of Es, passing away in St George Hospital after a short illness, a few weeks shy of his 84th birthday. Es, a life-long Gymea resident, as with many of us was interested in trains all his life, In his teens he was constructing O gauge models, with weekend visits to O Gauge House at Ashfield getting parts for his 38 or 57. Es was of an age that could remember the 57 class working an Illawarra bound goods up Como bank as he walked home from school. After dabbling with Marklin, in the 1960s his interest turned to HO scale NSW modelling and his Saturday afternoon visits to AMRA's Rockdale clubrooms saw him become a very important member of the Model Workshops group. This group…

One weekend we were travelling to display our previous exhibition layout Wallerawang at an exhibition in Canberra. A stopover at Goulburn gave us some time to have a good look around the station and yard areas. It was also about this time that our Group had been tossing around ideas for a suitable location to model for our next exhibition layout, and so the seeds were sown. We had a few ‘must haves’ for what would become our group's 5th exhibition layout, and Goulburn seemed to tick a lot of the boxes: a double track main line for continuous Up and Down train operation (and easy running at exhibitions) somewhere not ‘under the wires’ extra loops or sidings for additional stabling and shunting interest Goulburn had all this and…

For modellers of South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia, I echo Scott Fitzgerald in the ‘Comment’ of AMRM issue 353 April 2022. Hopefully, this article will encourage others to research and model wagons for transport of Ford, GM-H and other brands of motor cars and trucks and write articles to provide interstate continuations of this article! 5. Framework for (i) Car Bodies (ii) Truck Cabs – i.e. for both Option (a) and Option (b) Car bodies and truck cabs In the absence of the actual Ford diagrams and variances within different models of car bodies carried, the frameworks below have been designed to accommodate HO models of Fairlane 500/ Custom 300, Customline/Mainline, Falcon 1960 XK Sedan & Falcon 1962 XL Wagon and cabs of the Ford…

The Adelaide Model Railway Show was held at Greyhound Park over the Queen's Birthday long weekend 11th to the 13th of June 2022. Layouts displayed included: HOandHOn3, by the Whyalla Model Railway Society. and TscalelayoutbyMartin Kaselis bytheSouthAustralianN Gauge Society Inc. inNscalebyGraham Cocks inHOscalebySouth Australian Railway Modeller's Association inHOscalebuiltby Dan Shephard. BritishRailwayModellersofAustralia OO scale, built by Gavin Thrum inHOscalebyScott Fitzgerald. People's Choice Award winners were: Third place: TscalelayoutbyMartin Kaselis Second place: HOOOscale layout by Joe Saliba First place: BritishRailwayModellersofAustralia OO scale, built by Gavin Thrum. This layout also won the Rob Burford trophy for best layout. Traders and manufactures and kindred organizations included: Aztronics, Broad Gauge Models, Elite Model Services, Junction Models, Orient Express, OzRail Model Trains, SDS Models,…

Orient Express hobby shop is the importer for ‘Ferro Train’ rack railway set in HO scale r-t-r. Included in a starter pack, is 1 × steam locomotive, 1 × two axle open observation coach, 1 × rack rail 1m approximately. Track and points with centre rack are also available separately. This system could be modified by an ingenious modeller to possibly reflect a Tasmanian prototype. Elite Model Services has recently released a four wagon kit of the South Australian Railways CF four-wheel cattle wagon in HO scale. The kit comes partially assembled as show with a 3D printed body and floor. Metal wheels, metal weights, coupler keeper plates and screws, and decals. The kit is marketed in a strong cardboard box with a foam insert that can also be used…

I am a fan of Australian railways living in Japan. I am particularly interested in mining railways in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. I am fascinated by the locomotives with their unique ‘Pilbara Cabs’. I wanted to build a HO scale model of these locomotives. My eyes caught the bright silver ‘Pilbara Rail’ C36-7M locomotive, I felt it looks somehow cool. However, the only available Pilbara cab locomotive was a BHP Iron Ore version by Bachmann as part of a trainset [Editor note: Bachmann Outback Hauler – BHP Iron Ore, HO Train Set No. BAC00802, contains a Bachmann's version of a CM39-8]. So, I tried to build a C36-7M for myself. My adopted method was a modified PNW's C36-7 body shell with a Bowser C636 frame, bogies and fuel…

My Proto Free Lancing journey It all started way back in 1996… The Great Dividing Range Mining Company grew out of a childhood love of railways. My father was, and still is, in the mining industry and we ended up in Charters Towers (Queensland) in the early 90s. A small town roughly 130km from the coastal city of Townsville in North Queensland, Charters Towers at the time was a small yard and station stop for Queensland Railway's (QR) ‘Inlander’ passenger train and near constant parade of mineral freights from Mt Isa to an export port. My parents were friends of the owners of the pub beside the station and I spent many an afternoon with their son Luke sitting by the tracks watching the action unfold in front of us.…

Having realistic loads on our rollingstock makes the railway/layout look more like the prototype. Studying local operations, you will find most loads are directional. A few years ago, a wagon may have carried a load of sawn timber to a local hardware store located in a western town. The wagon's next load would be something completely different, like a load of wool or maybe it went empty to another station to fill orders. AMRM issue No.340 February 2020 published an article on trains worth modelling, Queensland Railways (QR)/ QRNational (QRN) ‘Sweeper’ freight train No. 243 and 752. In this article the author Lincoln Driver describes the trains' operations on the North Coast Line. In short, train No.243 conveyed mostly loaded wagons north and train No.752 returned the empty wagons back…