tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44452396384370666232024-03-05T09:06:58.596-08:00Billabong MarinaAn HO scale micro layout based in New South Wales, Australia.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-74915402532573831122022-03-30T01:20:00.002-07:002022-03-30T01:20:50.246-07:00Not Quite 'The End'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVpsoPPfRdY4wJHX4e4x71SIJREG9HzdoJSOXaksjXcuF-5N_QSpfUz68Del2ieIMxFGmddFlChbLcTfx2EiIjzApLY9glzaduRHyjpXvZwa7D-ero4-kiSCAKASxM6x8xh6z9tdguJG92VsNdsL0chEfLxHn5bLWy3kIHHTCRmCBToAGx9YSSp6z/s2048/IMG_7618.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVpsoPPfRdY4wJHX4e4x71SIJREG9HzdoJSOXaksjXcuF-5N_QSpfUz68Del2ieIMxFGmddFlChbLcTfx2EiIjzApLY9glzaduRHyjpXvZwa7D-ero4-kiSCAKASxM6x8xh6z9tdguJG92VsNdsL0chEfLxHn5bLWy3kIHHTCRmCBToAGx9YSSp6z/w640-h480/IMG_7618.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> The saying goes "All good things come to an end." Sadly that is the case for Billabong Marina.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In February 2019 we had a storm which flooded the train room. Not a big flood, just enough to cover the floor, ruin the carpet and most of the furniture. A month later and the main layout was covered in mould. Nasty green grey mould in places that I could see but not clean. Billabong Marina survived and it was used as a temporary train running layout while its extension was rebuilt. Then it lived under the new layout - there would be no place to attach it to the new layout as more space for people was required.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mould was found in January 2022 and cleaned off. People reading this in Sydney in March 2022 would not be surprised to find the mould back. The room hasn't flooded but every bit of unpainted plywood in the room showed mould. All of the ply was bought in October 2020 to January 2021. Except for the little layout. I haven't had a good look but the old school desk it is resting on is green instead of brown.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As I'm allergic to mould, (found this out twelve months ago) its time is up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The new layout has no space for it. It's included most of the elements of the original large layout but no spot for an add on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, there is a harbour area - no room for water or boats as I have crammed in as much as I can for operators - an I can put a little station in. The dairy can be a cold store. I won't need to make another crane. The fish wharf already has a new place. The harbour has a different name based on a south coast location but I like Billabong Marina so I'll change the name of the town on the layout.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have really loved the little layout. It gave me some respite with my 15 minutes a day mantra during a really stressful period of work. I am grateful to James McInerney for asking me to write articles for the Australian Model Railway Magazine and I hope that I have encouraged others in the hobby.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you're new to the blog, check out the older posts as the little layout developed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It will be a while before the new Billabong Marina has scenery. But I'll keep posting things that happen every now and then. Most of the new stuff will go on my other and older blog: <a href="https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/">https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/</a> as the new Billabong Marina is part of the larger layout but anything for this section will be posted here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thanks for coming along for the ride.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tom</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-87001490636318427292020-01-03T20:32:00.000-08:002020-01-03T20:32:49.686-08:00Still Riding Trains<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December is busy with the business end of the year at work. This year there was a race to look forward to at the start of the Christmas break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What type of race? A race around the Sydney Trains network stopping at all the stations.</span><br />
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-90764126686163091332019-10-13T04:25:00.001-07:002019-10-13T04:25:57.739-07:00The Carlingford Line<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you live in Sydney, you have probably seen the T6 Carlingford Line on Sydney Trains maps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You've most likely not had a reason to use the line. There are around 1474 passenger journeys on the line daily. These figures come from Sydney Trains annual numbers for the year and was then divided by 365 for days in the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The line was never supported by the colonial government of the time but they were happy to have private enterprise have a go. Have a go they did and the line opened in April 1896. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It didn't last long. It didn't even see out the end of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government paid about 1/3 of the total construction cost spent by investors - they got it at a comparable bargain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The line was reopened on 1st August, 1901. There was lots of cheering and speeches and state and federal members arguing over which level of government should be in charge of the railways. After all of this banter, (or maybe before) all were driven to Dobinson's Hall for a banquet provided by Mrs Lockwood. This was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald of 2nd August, 1901.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something interesting about the article - the newspaper claimed that the line had never been opened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't just the Carlingford Line, the Sandown line came with it. If you travelled on trains in the 90s, you might remember seeing the line on Cityrail maps. It disappeared in 2002.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the modern age of Sydney Trains, the Carlingford Line is an anomaly. Trains are only four cars long. Some T5 trains between Leppington and Bankstown or Schofields are four car Millennium trains but others are the full 8 car trains. And four car trains are used on the T7 Olympic Park Line as well. However, on the Carlingford Line, the platforms are only four cars long - except the racecourse platform at Rosehill, which can hold two 8 car trains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trains run at half hour intervals during weekdays but every 45 minutes on weekends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have a huge history with the line. I once proposed a layout based on Carlingford Station. (I built a layout based on the end of the line but added a goods yard to provide operating interest - but that's another story.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My history began last year, in April 2018. I was taking part in the Sydney Train Race Challenge - the idea is that you have to be on trains that stop at every station in the fastest time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I arrived at Clyde on an evening commuter train from Lidcombe. It was a cold April evening and I joined a number of commuters rushing from Platform 5 to Platform 1 for the Carlingford train.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The resting S-set seemed happy to wait for all of its passengers before it trundled across a congested Parramatta Road between the anxious cars which were shining their headlights to illuminate the delay to their urgent journeys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me the scene was a modern day version one of those old English branch lines that you read about - the ones where the express stops, people clamber out of one train and into the smaller and probably older train for the last and slow leg of their journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of images from that first encounter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't the last time I rode the line but there won't be too many more. The line is scheduled to close on 5th January, 2020 to be converted into light rail as part of the Parramatta Light Rail network.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took a trip on the line in the first week of October to film it. I figured that someone should. The S-sets are gone but the K-sets aren't too different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've stuck with me this far, click on the link to the video. I hope you enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-14817608447453445922019-08-31T06:40:00.001-07:002019-08-31T06:40:35.084-07:00Ski Tubing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wrote about the Ski Tube a couple of years ago. You can find the previous post <a href="https://billabongmarina.blogspot.com/2017/08/another-layout-idea-and-update.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every day it takes skiers from a carpark at Bullocks Flat to the resort and ski fields at Perisher in a four car train. If you want to venture to Blue Cow and ski to Guthega, you need to change to a three car train at Perisher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From what I can gather, the platforms at all the stations can take four car trains. I saw one at Blue Cow when I was there this year. However, I don't think four car trains will always fit. At Blue Cow is the freight car. It is an old cut down guards van - so cut down that it is the chassis and bogies only. It is used to get stuff up the mountain and rubbish down the mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The four car trains don't seem to fit when this wagon is in position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1:42 pm service from Perisher to Blue Cow (I'm not sure what time from Bullocks Flat) brought the wagon from Bullocks Flat and the 1:42 pm from Perisher down the mountain came from Blue Cow. They both seemed to be two car services. The trains run every half hour at that time of day as well in stead of the 20 minute peak services. I'm not sure if this happens at the same time everyday. To be honest, I was there for the skiing and the trains were just an added bonus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still reckon it could make an excellent model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-60630998508930584522019-03-25T01:42:00.000-07:002019-03-25T01:42:38.607-07:00Not Much Modelling<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went on another trip around the Sydney Trains network recently. Here are some images of the trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-54605312969975331162019-03-09T21:10:00.000-08:002019-03-09T21:10:23.524-08:00Getting Out and About<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a clip from a running night at the Gosford City Model Railroad Club from Friday night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The layout cost $50 to build using recycled stuff and offcuts. The buildings are all made from cardboard and printed textures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The builder, Chris, is a big fan of letting people know that model railways doesn't have to be expensive and he has built some excellent layouts in the past. This one is sort of S scale using HO track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nine and a half inch radius of the HO track. Brilliant! It's hidden in the big blue building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris found out that the extra half inch gives him just that little bit more freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love Billabong Marina, but an extra half an inch radius could have given me a little more flexibility.</span></div>
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-49831938692921850902019-02-11T23:41:00.000-08:002019-03-10T03:11:22.579-07:00Stories from Billabong Marina<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we are on a shunting trip from Boydtown Yard to Billabong Wharf. Trains to the Wharf are short but today’s trip train is even shorter. It’s just two wagons and a guard's van.<br /><br />Unlike other trips which require the crew to actually shunt their train, the Billabong Wharf trip is a little more relaxing. The train crew drops off the train and lets the local shunters do all the work.<br /><br />After checking the paperwork, we walk to our loco 4711 in the Boydtown Yard Loco Sidings. We move forward, change the points and roll back into Siding 5 to pick up our train. The load is for Billabong Marina. The first wagon is a tank car for the oil depot, the second is an ice chilled van (TRC) for Fine Fish, the fish co-op.<br /><br />We’re given the green light and whistle out of the yard and onto the mainline. We trundle along the middle road of the main station between Platforms 1 and 2. It’s getting late in the afternoon and a couple of the commuter trains stand in these platforms behind 46 class locos. From here the line loops around and we head back towards the yard we just left but sticking to the mainline, we avoid the yard and rumble through Boydtown Station and in the the tunnel.<br /><br />Just before we reach Eden, we need to slow down for the turn out onto Platform 3. There is a suburban electric set in Platform 2 waiting for its path back to town. There are a lot of tunnels on this line and we plunge into another one.<br /><br />Before too long we reach Billabong Junction. Here, a single line leaves for our waterside destination.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />We pull into Billabong Wharf station, cut off from the train and edge forward to the cattle siding. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />An X200 rail tractor and its crew couple up to the rear of the train and pulls it back away from the mainline. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />When the train is clear, we move 4711 onto the mainline, just clear of the points. We secure the loco and chat to the crew of X210 as they move the train back to the station.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />There is a bit of discussion about shunting movements, but more importantly, a discussion of giving us a ride over to the Marina so that we can grab some fish and chips.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />The train is propelled on the bridge where the guard’s van, an MHG, is placed into the cattle siding. It can be added to the rear of the train when the shunting is finished.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />After recoupling to the train, the TRC is the first wagon to be spotted into place but not before we get off at the Marina platform. The oil tank is pushed to the side of the Fine Fish building, out of the way so that the TRC can be placed on the track inside the building. When that job is done, X210 leaves the oil tank so that it can run around it. This involves a lap of the dockside complex.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />The oil tank is pushed to the depot. The empty tank car currently in the depot is removed first and placed on the line near the coolibah tree. The full tank is placed in the depot confines. The empty tank is left where it is. It will be picked up later.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />X210 runs back pasts Fine Fish, the bakery and Billabong Shipping to Billabong Wharf. It’s next pick up is a VLX on the kick back siding on the waterfront. To get this van, the crew need to clear an MLV louvre van out of the way first to create enough space to pull the VLX from the siding. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />From the other side of the water, munching on hot chips, we can see that the MLV is placed in the platform temporarily. Pulling the VLX out, X210 reverses out of the wharf sidings pushing the van. Then it moves forward to couple up to the MLV on the other side of it. Pulling and pushing, the rail tractor returns the MLV to its spot.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />The crew of X210 propel the VLX onto the empty tank car and carry onto the Marina platform to pick us up. Sharing the odd chip or two, we make our way back to the Wharf. As the shunters reverse to collect the guard’s van, we walk over to our loco, 4711, which has been sitting patiently for us. <br /><br />X210 places the train in the platform and moves away. We move onto the train, check the paperwork, complete a brake test and when we are given the road, blow the horn before leaving. It is a short journey back to the mainline to Boydtown Yard and soon enough we are clattering over the points and on our way home.<br /></span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Eden, the line to Boydtown Yard leaves the mainline on the down side of Platform 1. We take the fork and arrive in Siding 5. We leave the train here and run 4711 to the loco sidings. It’s time for a coffee before we’re given another short trip train to run. That’s a story for another day.<br /><br />Until next time.</span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merry Christmas from Billabong Marina. Thanks for looking at my blog this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-67713216113782589702018-11-29T02:57:00.000-08:002018-11-29T02:57:18.264-08:00I've got a mate...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was looking for some figures to paint for another project online and I found one that looks a lot like a colleague. So I bought it. It is one of the Preiser Deluxe range. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It arrived yesterday and I showed it to a number of people at work. I didn't say anything, I just showed it to people and they all said his name. There were a few chuckles as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He went for a trip to Billabong Marina this evening for some fish and chips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-41261693282653301862018-11-17T20:36:00.000-08:002018-11-17T20:36:34.997-08:00Scene of the Crime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something odd going on? I picked up some forensic crime scene investigators from Preiser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to check out my other blog <a href="https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/">https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-74328382030422849202018-10-20T01:04:00.003-07:002018-10-22T23:54:58.339-07:00A Day Out<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a great day at the Hornsby Heights Bush Fair. Thanks to those who came and had a chat about the layout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took some photos from a different side of the layout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't forget to check out my other blog at <a href="https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/">https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com</a> for the building of the extension.</span></div>
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Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-57013689763433196282018-10-15T02:54:00.001-07:002018-10-15T02:54:28.017-07:00A Bit of Protection<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been asked to show my layout at the Hornsby Heights Bushland Fair on Saturday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There will be a couple of layouts but the main idea is raising money for a public school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get ready for the first outing, I've installed some perspex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm hoping that it will protect some of the details from transit and little fingers. If it does a good job, I might leave it attached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-27297063791324483772018-10-12T00:00:00.000-07:002018-10-12T00:00:09.893-07:00Time For a Beer Part 2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe, the layout isn't finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blokes at The Tower Ale House have been thirsty for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now they've had a couple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The people eating fish and chips have something too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These bottles come from Walthers Scenemaster Beverage Crates & Bottles pack. They are tiny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are really hard to place and it took a while to get them in the right spot. I may have lost one or two as I went. However they are a nice tiny little detail to bring the layout to life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I picked this up from a hobbyshop in Ronks, Pensylvania. I've already talked about buying little kits or people as souvenirs and this is another example of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ronks is an amazing place for rail enthusiasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stayed at the Red Caboose Motel in a caboose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was right next door to the <a href="https://www.strasburgrailroad.com/" target="_blank">Strasburg Railroad</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a short line which still uses steam power for freight services. While we were there one morning we saw the loco shunting its train of grain hoppers for its trip to Paradise where the railroad has an interchange siding with the Norfolk and Southern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photo was hurriedly taken as my phone was in our room and it was taken through a diner window on my wife's phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right next to the Red Caboose Motel is the National Toy Train Museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, walk into town and you come to the <a href="https://rrmuseumpa.org/" target="_blank">Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a fantastic museum and well worth a visit. It is also right across the road from the Strasburg Railroad station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can hop on a train for the short return trip to Paradise. On the way there is a stop for a corn maze. It wasn't open when we were there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep going down the road and you come to a group of shops. Here you'll find the <a href="https://www.choochoobarn.com/" target="_blank">ChooChoo Barn</a>, a large O scale layout. You'll need to go around it a couple of times to see all of the details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next door from that you'll find the Strasburg Train Shop - where I purchased the Beverage Crates and Bottles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a top railway themed day, we walked back to our accomodation and a locally brewed Red Caboose Ale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IDR Models 70 Class arrived in the mail today. Mine is fitted with a TCS DP5-KA and a KA3. It won't make it around the really tight curves unfortunately so it won't see much use at Billabong Marina. However, there are a couple other places on the 'extension' where it can be put to good use. These bits don't have scenery though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The loco ran smoothly and quietly as it pottered about the Peco Set Track points and then went for a spin around the layout and the extension. It's a good little unit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-72311041073182862932018-08-18T06:19:00.001-07:002018-08-18T06:19:13.561-07:00Finished?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is a layout ever finished?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask any railway modeller and the answer is, "No."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There will always be something to add, a new kit or bit of rolling stock. I could add to my fleet of boats. I might need to repurpose an industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After gluing down a few people and little bits here and there, I stood back this afternoon and thought that my work here is done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a couple of things to finish off - such as a station building for a club layout. However, it's time to start on the rest of the layout. The blog for the rest of the layout can be found here: <a href="https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/">https://sapphirecoastline.blogspot.com/</a>. Why not check it out? The content is about 18 months old at the moment but something new should be added in the next couple of days. In the meantime, have a look at the old posts to find the back story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our final stop was Caboose Hobbies, not too far out of the way back to Denver. It was a nice way to end the day. While I was there, I considered buying a couple of items as a way of a souvenir of the trip. Something which I could stick on my layout to remind me of a good day out on the other side of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After checking out the different possibilities, I found a small scene of a boy holding up a fish walking to his proud mum, with his dad walking behind him after tying up the boat. I knew a good spot at the marina for this scene. Here it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had built a narrow gauge layout for our club's annual exhibition and it was designed in such a way that it could fit at an angle into his Toyota Camry, with some good padding around the sides. As our club's exhibition had spotter questions for kids to find stuff on layouts, Lindsay decided to hide a pig under a goods platform on his layout, he'd even asked his daughter for advice. His spotter question was, "Where is the pink pig?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can probably work out from the past tense used above, things don't end well for Lindsay. He came home from work one afternoon feeling tired and had a sit down on the couch. He nodded off and never woke up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At his funeral, his story of the pink pig was told. Lindsay was working on his layout in the garage of his house. He had just placed the pink pig into position and called out to his daughter in the house urgently. Thinking something was horribly wrong she raced out to help, expecting the worst. Lindsay was looking at his layout and asked if she thought the pink pig was too hard to find. Words were had but it was agreed that the pig could be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years I've displayed a number of layouts at our club's exhibitions and all of them have had a pink pig on them somewhere. It's just a small thing to remember an old mate. It just seemed right to put a pig on this layout as well. If you see him in some of the photos in future posts, you'll know why he is there.</span></div>
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<br />Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-28133135435242220432018-06-29T22:38:00.001-07:002018-06-29T22:38:28.255-07:00Up Rode the Squatter<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of days of painting and more gluing and the squatter is mounted on his thoroughbred.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, he is a bit close to the fence but I haven't much room to work with. He needs to be here to sneak up on the jolly swagman waiting for his billy to boil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until next time.</span>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488786080242716051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445239638437066623.post-45019021141107533172018-06-25T03:16:00.000-07:002018-06-25T03:16:24.686-07:00Swanning About<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have to admit that I was wondering what happened to May, that I nearly missed June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here’s what has been happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I added swans. Being a Swans fan, it seemed appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Modpodge which I used wasn’t too kind to me and you can see the bit that was added on top of the previous layer. I had. Some bubbles form as well. I think that the Modpodge became a bit thicker as I kept using it for the water. I have put another layer around to soften the difference but it is still noticeable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another thing which I thought that I should add were some troopers - or policemen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I looked around for some suitable boys in blue and found a set of Austrian Policemen. They look a bit Victorian but with a bit of blue paint on their hats, they look more New South Wales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also painted some paramedics. The printed detail on them was fantastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now they look blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They will need a silver reflective stripe on the legs and a couple of badges but that's a job for another day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is just a thin coat. When it dries, I put another over the top and build it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Went on a bit of a tour of the Sydney Trains network yesterday. Here are some photos from the day. I enjoyed riding on the S-sets. The trip to Carlingford reminded me of the old days when the lights trip and the carriage goes dark for a little while. They're not long for the network now. I think they run on weekdays only as the TripView app had Millenium sets on the weekends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy the pictures. Until next time.</span><br />
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Now I feel the need to somehow block the bits of wall where the light is coming through at different strengths. Hopefully this would make it look prettier as well. The solution is a garden.</div>
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Using some scrap Wills stone wall left over from the wharf walls, I fashioned two garden beds. You can see them in the image above.</div>
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I painted them and then filled them with some foamy stuff which came with the plants. See below.</div>
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The garden beds are about 2mm high and 2mm wide. The next step after painting the foam brown, was to attach them to the building and fill them with flowers.</div>
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The plants are a mix of Noch laser cut plants and plants from MP Scenery Products. I bought up big during the Liverpool Exhibition a few years ago and like most kits we think we will need one day, the end up sitting in a box somewhere.</div>
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Now the front of the station building looks like this.</div>
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If you look inside the station master's office you can see a couple of posters, a set of drawers and a fire extinguisher. Leaning up against the toilets to the right is a green bike. The hedges were glued down as well.</div>
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Another thing that you can't see is the paint on the wood on the side of the layout. It's a bit of an Indian red shade of brown.</div>
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The final thing to comment on today is my swaggy. He now has a jumbuck in his tucker bag.</div>
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The tucker bag is a Model Scenes mail bag which was give a quick coat of Model Master wood paint. I have to say that I am loving my conversion from enamel paint to acrylic paint. It dries so quickly. Some other bags were painted a light shade of brown for the station.</div>
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Can I fit in a squatter mounted on his thoroughbred or troopers one, two, three? I don't think that I have enough room in this part of the layout.</div>
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Want to know the real story behind Waltzing Matilda? Check out this episode of Richard Fidler's Conversations from ABC Radio. I heard it a couple of years ago and found it fascinating. Find it here: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/waltzing-matilda-the-story-behind-the-song/7754384">http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/waltzing-matilda-the-story-behind-the-song/7754384</a></div>
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