Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2023 i Australian Model Railway Magazine

Planning for the scenery Once the track plan was `, my attention was drawn to the scenic aspects that would depict the Western District of Victoria. The topography is undulating, unlike the Mallee further north, that has large tracts of land cleared for grazing. Several large rivers and many smaller waterways traverse the district, with the waters ultimately flowing into the Southern Ocean near the South Australian border. I've spent several weeks observing and photographing the district at different times of the year. To my eyes, the landscape looks the most attractive in spring, when the paddocks are verdant with lush grass, and this is the period (September 1969) that will be modelled. One of the early decisions I made was to keep the track level across the entire layout,…

Reviews In the last article (AMRM No.358 February 2023) I briefly detailed the loss of my layout in a fire and what the aftermath was, both in terms of damage to the layout and dealing with insurance. So now, we are re-established in our house. During the period since the fire, consideration was given to my future in modelling. It didn't seem likely that I would give up modelling. The question was what to model and that didn't seem to extend to other forms of model making. No other form of modelling offers the diversity of model railways. That bought me back to building another layout. Brief consideration was given to modelling in a different scale and/or narrow gauge. I have always liked narrow gauge so that temptation was strong.…

The Tarlee layout was conceived between Elite Model Services (EMS) and a client in the early part of 2021. The idea was for us to build a layout of a show quality level, depicting a town on the now dormant line between Adelaide and Terowie. Many spots were considered, including Riverton and Hamley Bridge, but for the truncated timetable we were given and the real geographies of the areas not being conducive to the space we had in mind, we settled on Tarlee. We found that this location had many benefits, including a quaint small footprint station building, cattle and stock pens, with grain silos. The final decision was to model the station with approximately one third compression. Field trips soon followed and measurements were taken of every structure and…

A LOCATION TO MODEL The Oberon railway line was a short branch line in central western New South Wales. The line branched from the Main Western Line at Tarana and headed in a southerly direction to Oberon. It was proposed as a line from Tarana to Burraga to benefit the Burraga copper mine. The line opened to Oberon on 3 October 1923 and was lightly constructed with steep grades (1 in 25) and tight curves. Plans for the Oberon line began in 1885 with the first move to link the small farming and grazing town to the Main Western Line. The plans included the Jenolan Caves and the copper mining town of Burraga. The Lloyd Copper Company had a private three feet gauge tramway system around the mine to haul…

N Scale Kandu Workshop The first trial print of their N Scale CGAY grain hopper wagon kit is complete. This model is a single piece 3D print. Brilliant Aussie Models Brilliant Aussie Models (BAM) have developed a range of Australian N Scale building kits. These kits cover from the early Federation years (1860s) through to the early 1970s. Their range of kits will include: Traditional Australian dwellings in stone, brick, stucco and weatherboard Queensland Railways (QR) and South Australian Railways (SAR) railway stations and goods sheds Commercial shops, hotels, service stations and community buildings Low relief shops Farm sheds, transport company sheds, utility sheds and grain silos (four and eight cells) Australian scratch building sheets in weatherboard, stone and brick Australian timber and corrugated iron fencing, with or without graffiti.…

I would like to present some of my kitbashing work to recent r-t-r models. On these models, all the detail parts were sourced from the donor models as my goal was to keep them at the same level of detail. This allows these kit-bashed models to blend in with my other rolling stock. The weathering and fading follows the same practice used on my locomotive 4470: lighter base colours with added brush work and washes until I matched the prototype photos.…

Despite having a predilection for British sourced locomotives, New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) commenced importation of some American built locomotives in 1877 under the watch of the NSW Locomotive Engineer Robert Burnett. The first to arrive was a 4–4–0 No. 105 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. Many other models from this manufacturer followed, both in NSW and some of the other states. Since Baldwin built locomotives for a wide range of countries, there was a high degree of standardisation within the various types of locomotives. Frank Kelly wrote an article about the use of Baldwin locomotives throughout Australia (refer AMRM issue February 2000, pp. 33-34). The article featured photographs of some of the models that he had built or sourced, but no details were given about construction…

Most modellers have heard of Arduinos, but many don't know much about them or know how they can use them on their layouts. Many think they are computers, so you need to know how to program them. Arduinos are not computers. They are little circuit boards with a clever microprocessor and a few dozen connections. You don't need to program them. Enthusiasts around the world who can, write programs to get Arduinos to do just about everything, and make their programs freely available on the Internet. All you need is to decide what you want your Arduino to do, then go to the Internet and download a suitable program. You load it into your Arduino and set it up to do what you want. No programming involved. It's like setting…

Reader's Gallery For several years now I have wanted to add a Rio Tinto/Pilbara Rail Dash 9 locomotive to my fleet of Pilbara locomotives. I have always admired the paint scheme that was applied to these locomotives ever since they turned up on site. The scheme of silver, yellow, red, black and grey is a combination of Hamersley Iron and Robe River Iron Associates rail operations when they were amalgamated to form one rail system. At the time, as rail employees we transferred to the new joint rail operation that was called Pilbara Rail (PR). There is a lot more to the history of the amalgamation into today's Rio Tinto rail operations, but that's for another time. The Model With the recent release of Athearn's new Genesis Dash 9 depicting…

Exhibitions & Expos BUNDAERG – QLD. March 25-26, 2023 Bundaberg Model Train & Hobby Expo. 2023. Bundaberg Multiplex Sports & Convention Centre, 1 Civic Avenue, Bundaberg West. 9am–5pm (Sat), 9am–4pm (Sun). Graham Nicholson 0407 559 086. graham@queenslandscalemodels.com.au KALEEN – ACT. March 25-26, 2023. 34th Canberra Model Railway Expo, UC High School 104 Baldwin Drive Kaleen. 9am–5pm (Sat), 9am–3pm (Sun). Adults $20, School age and under free, Concession $10, Family (2 adults plus children) $30. Contact: Andrew (02) 6231 9799. Website: www.cmrci.info DIAMOND CREEK – VIC. April 8-9, 2023. Yarra Valley Model Railway Model Train Exhibition. Community Bank Stadium, 129 Main Rd Diamond Creek 3089. 9.30am– 5pm (Sat), 10am–4pm (Sun). Adults $15, Children $5, Families $30. Tickets only available at the door. BRISBANE – QLD. May 6-7, 2023. AMRA Qld. Inc.…