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6. Presidents Report (Brent Smith)7. Teditorial8. On The Footplate8. Steam Driven Quad (www)9. Annual General Meeting Notice10. Modelling Tips & Tricks (Walthers)11. 2017 AGM12. QR QFX/C Wagons (Arthur Hayes)16. A Small Train to Model (Bil l Waterhouse)17. Carnival of Trains18. Sale & Display Day19. Canberra Railway Museum20. Railway Pics (Kent Wagner)22. Graveyard Trains (Robert Moreton) 24. Jamestown News (Gary Sardoni)27. CruzN’ Aust (Rusty Smith)

28. Modellers Corner (Adelaide MRC)29. Clubhouse Ditties31. Splitters Swamp Creek (Geoff Burns)33. The Dunlop Way (Ben Dunlop)35. OOPS! (www)36. Brisbane Express (Arthur Hayes)38. Railway Timetable40. Backpage Photo (Geoff Evans)

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‘Train Talk’ Volume 29 No 03 (issue #315)September 2017

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ON THE COVER: “Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 No. 746 “Pendragon” hauls a Pullman train through Roundmore station in the late afternoon sun on Gary Sardoni’s tail-chaser home layout.” Photo; Gary Sardoni.

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THE PROTOTYPE:The 1720 locomotives were the most common diesel locomotives ever to run on the Queensland system whilst being one of the most fondly remembered due to the sheer volume of units in traffic and the fact that they could run on ALL lines. As such, they hold a special place in the memories of most QR enthusiasts.Class leader 1720 first made an appearance in Queensland in 1966 and were a higher-powered version of the 1700 class. These units quickly proved themselves in all forms of traffic from branch line mixed goods services, suburban services through to general freight and livestock trains. Most of the class members are still in traffic today as the last 60 tonne locomotives operating regularly on the Queensland Network. Due to being a branch line locomotive, they could run on all lines. These units frequently ran double headed with 1550 and 2400 class locomotives on the “mail” trains, such as the Sunlander, Queenslander and Westlander as well as general freight.

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Well, People, we are just about to start the AGM process for the 2017-2018 period.

Don’t forget to attend the meeting and have your say in the election of Officials for the Club.

Unfortunately, I will be overseas during the time of the AGM, so I will not be attending.

There are plenty of candidates for positions, except for that of Treasurer. I know that it may seem a daunting task but I feel confident that training for this position will be provided by the current Treasurer, if someone wants to have a go at it.

I wish everyone the best of luck with the elections and all the best for the coming year.

I also wish to thank the current committee for making the Club what it is, a success!

All the best and cheers for now,

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Tune in for the best of sounds for everyone’s likes 4AK and 4WK - Your stations! 2017 4AK/4WK TOOWOOMBA MODEL TRAINS, CRAFT & HOBBY EXPO

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The incident with the Santa Fe F3, number 15 or 16 can't remember which, and its nose over the railing was because the driver failed to set the brakes and unbeknown to him the throttle was cracked open.

When he walked from the cab at the front to get to the cab at the back he didn't realise that the loco was slowly creeping forward and you can see the result.

Happened at Los Angeles Union Station I think sometime in the late 40's if you want more information I can probably find it. Regards and thanks for the Train Talk. Rob McLear. This of course relates to the OOPS! on page 35 of the August Train Talk, many thanks to Rob for the insight as to what happened. At the recent committee meeting, the issue of Train Talk’s photo quality came up, as you are all aware, I am no computer guru, so my method of producing Train Talk may possibly not be the best way. On average, the Corel Draw file ranges from 150meg to 400meg depending on the number and resolution of the photos used, for the emailed version, I then convert to a Web PDF which automatically reduces the file to around 2-2½meg. If anyone is able to lead me in a direction that improves on this method, I am happy to listen. With the AGM just about to occur, we need members to attend or lodge proxy forms, it has become apparent that there will be quite a few members away, so remember, the AGM is next Saturday the 9th September at the club rooms in Toowoomba Showgrounds commencing at 2pm, if you have anything for the agenda for the AGM, please advise me ASAP. Our next major event is the Carnival of Trains, we have been included in the official Carnival of Flowers guide, fliers and posters will be available at the AGM, if you are able to place these somewhere, please do, we also have a Sale Day incorporated with Carnival of Trains on Saturday the 23rd September, we can only make these events as good as the effort we put in.

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New members Welcome to Lisa, Jack, Eamon & Evelyn Walsh from Warwick , also welcome to David Crews from Oakey. There is a policy at the TMRC Inc. You , say g’day to “MUST HAVE FUN”everyone and invite them to ‘get involved’, we are all in this hobby for the same reason - “To have fun” Model Railroading ‘IS’ The World’s Greatest

Hobby.Member participation is an important part of the clubs success, become involved and reap the benefits.

The production of Train Talk and Construction of the Showgrounds Museum & Display Centre has been m a d e p o s s i b l e t h r o u g h t h e generosity of the

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It's For You!Getting messages to train crews was once a daunting task, made even more important as soon as a second train began operating.

ATSF Standard Telephone Booth

Comp l i ca ted schedu les and operating rules were later simplified using the telegraph, but this required trained operators. As telephones b e c a m e c o m m o n t h e y w e r e gradually installed at stations, but train crews could also access them at remote locations.

Passing sidings and similar busy spots often had a phone in a shanty to protect it from weather and vandalism.

These tiny wood or concrete structures had just enough room to stand in, and were later replaced by cheaper wood or steel phone boxes on trackside poles.

Telephone Shanty & Pole

These tiny but important details add a lot to your right-of-way, and are offered in various scales.

Many modelers use them to mark under track uncoupling magnets and similar “hidden” items.

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The Annual general Meeting of the Toowoomba Model Railway Club Inc. is to be held on Saturday the 9th September 2017 at the club rooms in the Toowoomba Showgrounds commencing at 2pm. As has been stated many times, we need at least 17 members names to be able to go ahead with the AGM, this can comprise of members in attendance and proxy voting forms lodged. At this stage, voting will be required for the position of President (Mike Prowse & Brent Smith), Vice-president (David Cook, Barry Freeman & Gary Sardoni) and dependant on the outcome of the Vice-president voting, the committee (David Cook, Jessica Briggs, Benjamin Martin & Gary Sardoni). The position of secretary is surprisingly uncontested with Ted Freeman being the only nominee. Treasurer will be a position that will require a call for nominee’s from the floor as there have been no nominations lodged for this very important position. There are numerous non (sub) committee positions to be filled also, these will take place at the first committee meeting of the newly elected committee, we will be looking for: Editor, Public Relations, layout coordinators, event coordinator/s, and any other positions deemed necessary for the efficient running of the club. These additional positions will be requested to submit reports to the Train Talk editor on a monthly basis to keep the general member population informed as to just what is happening. The AGM will also see setting of membership fees for the 2018-2019 period, the general consensus of the outgoing committee is that the club is financially stable and that a motion will be presented indicating continuation of current fees with out alteration. One aspect that will be subject to a recommended change is the cost of Train Talk in hard copy format to those requiring it in that manner, cost for twelve issues picked up from the club will go from the current $10 to $12, while mailed out copies will go from $20 to $36, the latter figure derived from the postage costs which the club currently loses out on. Committee meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month and are held at McDonald’s Margaret Street Store, this is an arrangement we have with club member Mark Ward, the venue gives us a secure easy to get at venue that is relatively central to everyone. On occasion there can be variations to the dates due to public holiday’s, our Annual Expo etc, the dates are always advised in advance. Please keep in mind that any club member is welcome to attend a committee meeting, you are welcome to address the meeting but do not have the position of voting on subjects that are discussed at a committee meeting. Many thanks are expressed to the outgoing committee members, some of who will ultimately serve another term, for those that do come back on board for another year, our thanks for your devotion to the club and its aims.

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Loading prestressed concrete girders on QFX/C wagons. This will offer something different to model. Perhaps I may enlarge slightly and that is the use of QFC wagons for long prestressed concrete (PSC) girders. As PSC girders entered the world of bridge construction they brought many advantages over steel in bridge building but their transport brought far more problems than steel girders. The real strength of PSC girders is in the heavy steel cables within the concrete. These cables were highly stretched and provided the hidden strength. Because of the stresses in the steel cable these girders must only be supported at or within one metre of each end. QFC wagons were 15.2 metres long so the max length of a PSC girder could not exceed 17 metres in overall length on a QFC when the supports were positioned at each end of the wagon. Obviously QR, was soon asked to convey longer lengths. It appeared the only method was to mount swivel bolsters, one on each of two QFCs. We had moved long logs in the past using swivel bolsters. See General Appendix 1950 pages 211-215. These swivel bolsters were far simpler than the sophisticated method required to move long and very fragile PSC girders. While both bolsters obviously had to swivel on curves, one also had to slide longitudinally so that when the train was reversed the draft gear between the two QFCs compressed and one swivel slid along a flat slotted plate to allow for this. The next problem was the twisting effect when the leading wagon of the pair of carrying wagon entered the cant ramp at the beginning of a curve and the following wagon was still level then a twisting reaction would twist the girder and destroy the concrete. To overcome this one end of the girder had to sit on a rocking base plate located within the swivel bolster. To secure the girders to the wagon the only place to chain down the load was to chain the girder to the swivel bolster only to allow free movement of the girder/s. We believed this was not sufficient as we carried single girders up to 52 ton each or 3 girders at 21 ton each. To adequately secure the girders vertical steel rods 1.5 inches in dia were screwed into the swivel bolsters and a heavy timber placed atop the

girder/s and bolted down using the vertical rods. When more than one girder was carried on a pair of swivelled bolsters on QFCs then each girder sat on its own rocker plate. While "I” Beam PSC girders have a high level of strength vertically they have little strength laterally and it was necessary to place some form of lateral stiffening to overcome lateral deflection in transit in the form of a timber or steel truss.

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Care had to be taken with the positioning of the swivel bolsters on the QFC wagons to ensure that the bogie at either end of the wagon were not overloaded. The amount of centre throw was also calculated to ensure the outside edge of girder at the centre stayed within the width limits for loading on sharp curves. To stay wi th in the width and axleload limits of very long girders a PE wagon was sometimes necessary placed between the QFC's as a runner. At the busiest times up to 9 sets of swivel bolsters using 18 QFC wagons were in use, in slack times they were unbolted from the QFCs and the wagons returned to normal traffic. The conveyance of long PSC girders was planned conjointly by QR special loads section, the Rollingstock design staff of the C.M.E branch and the PSC bridge design Engineer from the Main roads Dept. and the makers of the early girders, ''Dowstress'' at Wacol. All this may be too much for some readers but perhaps a challenge to the serious model maker to produce a model of two QFC wagons fitted with the above described gear carrying a long large PSC girder.

Roadside, Tranship Wagons and Shunts. To understand these three railway activities lets first look at QR business. Before the mid-1980s, QR was a common carrier, in other words in short it was to convey freight to all locations on the network. QR operated two business arms under two by-laws. Goods and Livestock Rates Book, By-Law No. 1109 (Goods Trains) and Coaching Rates and Passenger Fares Book, By-Law No, 1139 (Passenger Trains),

both carried freight items. Most stations did some form of both. Roma Street in the sixties has a Goods Yard on one side of the main line and the Parcels shed was on the other. Acacia Ridge, Clapham, Moo lab in , Newstead, Bulimba, New Farm and Fishermans Island were Goods Only stat ions. Mayne was a marshalling Yard wi th no loading facilities.

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Passenger Trains conveyed small freight referred to as parcel traffic. The rate schedule covered charges from 1 to 112 lbs, plus extra for each pound over 112 lb. Sending customers paying in cash were issued with stamps' It was cheaper than paying at the other end. In 1970 a 1 lb parcel from Brisbane to Cairns cost 11cents, when stamped, and 16cents if sent To Pay. All parcels were recorded on Waybills (PWB). This freight was conveyed on Passenger Trains in the Guards Vans and Baggage Cars. Station Staff and Guard performed loading and unloading duties en-route. Brisbane suburban trains even conveyed this traffic, at times the front van was used. Goods and Livestock Book covers the big stuff. There were various charges for various types of goods which were charged for by the ton or part thereof. This freight was handled in the Goods Shed / Yards. Smaller stations without sheds conducted this business for the station office. Goods were presented on consignment notes, staff would rate the consignment and made out an invoice to go with the goods. With computers, both became one. As much as possible, goods was conveyed by the wagon load. Generally customers would ring their local station and order a wagon or wagons. Empty wagons on hand were held and used to supply the orders, if the wagon was not on hand it would be placed on orders. Not all orders were for full wagon loads, this was handled in various ways subject

to location. In big yards l ike Roma S t r e e t , t r a i n s / w a g o n s w e r e placed for loading in a set road, some trains had a set of wagons for each destination. Some trains had a van attached, others did not. A number of suburban stations l o a d e d s m a l l consignments on a d a i l y b a s i s , Strathpine, Zillmere,

Coorparoo, Beenleigh, Sunnybank (Plants), Rocklea, Dinmore to name a few. These wagons were sent to Roma Street and transhipped. Even at Landsborough it was quicker to send north freight back to Roma Street. To accommodate small consignments, most large and regional stations loaded road wagons for set trains, in short wagon sharing. Train 483 (Mayne to Yandina) each night conveyed a Roma Street - Palmwoods Road Wagon. One end of the wagon was Palmwoods, the other end conveyed Mooloolah and Eudlo freight. The Mooloolah and Eudlo freight was unloaded by the guard and station staff as the train waited, approximately five minute and it was all over.

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The wagon would be marshalled with other Palmwoods wagons and would be detached at Palmwoods. The train also conveyed a Roma Street - Yandina "Poison" Road wagon. The wagon contained pesticides for stations Landsborough to Yandina, this kept pesticides away from food stuff. At first this wagon was an FJS covered with a tarp on a tarp support frame. Not the best idea, try getting a 44 gallon of pesticide out at 2 o'clock in the morning. Undo the trap, pull it back to clear your freight, move the support frame back off the door, drop the door, move the drum out onto a platform barrow, close door, drag the support frame back into place and re trap the wagon. The train lost a lot of time due to the arrangement, the FJS was replaced with an ALJ which was much better. A number of ALY were also stencilled for poison traffic on other lines. Trains heading west from Rockhampton and Townsville had various road wagons. Mixed Trains from Townsville 44 (Mon & Thur, 60 km/h runner), 42 (Tues & Fri, 60 km/h runner) with Winton connection including an extra van) and 30D (Wed, 80 km/h runner) had 5 road wagons marshalled at the rear in front of the van and sleeping car. Working at Homestead in the late 60's after the train left you had the barrow full of parcels and mail and five heaps of goods along the main line down through the yard. The makeup was as follows, Van - roadside from Charters Towers for stations to Hughenden. This could be rations for railway workers camped in town. There was only one small general store come Post Office in town, thus workers were allowed free freight on food stuffs. Given the location had a Fettering Gang and a railway sawmill, there was quite a bit of tucker came off the train. I had a standing order with the Butcher and Baker in Charter Towers on Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Small parcels, various forms of railway mail (including PWB's, Goods Invoices, head office correspondence for the various gangs/employees, Train Notices, Valubles (signature required between parties, could by your yearly issue of six biros, much the same as registered post etc.), once a fortnight employees pay to name a few. The van would be a larger CLV with passenger accommodation. In front of the sleeping car (KCS) was the Townsville - Mt Isa parcels wagon, the class of wagon would very subject to train. (Train 30D it need to be an 80 K runner, QLX, BLC, CLC, CJFF) (44/42 could be a CLF/CJF or a red spot/diamond wagon). Second wagon was the Townsville - Mt Isa (Goods) Road wagon (mainly small

amount of freight of smaller stations), same w a g o n t y p e a s t h e Parcels wagon. The third w a g o n w a s t h e Townsv i l l e - M t I sa "perishable" cool road wagon, CMIS wagon was the norm for all trains.

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AK Track Inspection Train -11/09/2015. North of Werris Creek.

Contributed by Bill Waterhouse

AK track recording carsThe AK cars are a set of three specially equipped ex-NSWGR carriages fitted out for track inspection and testing purposes. They are operated by the Australian Rail Track Corporation over their standard gauge lines behind hired motive power on a regular basis

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Canberra's historic railway museum has been forced into liquidation, with many historic train carriages set to go to auction next month. Former museum volunteer and heritage rail enthusiast Garry Reynolds is fearful the city's rail history will be lost with the sale. "We're talking about carriages that took soldiers away down to the docks and the ships in World War I, " They're that old”. The museum was forced to temporarily close its doors last year after falling more than $500,000 into debt. Based at Kingston for 34 years, the museum was home to Australia's oldest and largest steam locomotives. It was a popular attraction, offering trips from Canberra on a century-old steam train. But Mr Reynolds said it cost about $3 million a year to maintain the engines and run the museum. The City of Canberra, a Beyer-Garratt 6029 which was the largest operating steam locomotive in the Southern Hemisphere, was particularly expensive to run. It would consume 18 tonnes of coal and 40,000 litres of water on average each day, costing around $10,000 a day to operate.

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Used with permission from Kent Wagner

Great South Pacific Express

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Contributed by Robert Moreton

Robert Moreton displays his HO Scale layout Morewood at our Annual Expo as well as many other exhibitions around Queensland, NSW and other areas.

Robert submitted the link to these photos, unfortunately there is not much written information, just a host of photos, we hope you are enjoying them. Teditor.

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by Gary Sardoni

Last month I detailed the process of building the new station, and while all the major construction has been completed, there were (and still are) some other peripheral issues in the station precinct that needed (and still need) attention. Firstly, a totally empty station is not very prototypical or visually very exciting, so people were needed. Wherever possible, I reused things from the original station, and there were plenty of people available to recycle. The only problem was that the station is built to OO scale and the recycled people are HO scale. I decided not to place these HO people near the main station building as they appear too small relative to the building right behind them. Instead, I placed them further along the platforms and out in the open, where the scale disparity is not so obvious. For the area close to the station buildings, I found some OO people at home who were surplus to requirements on my home layout, so they were painted up and donated to "Jamestown". These people were part of a "Dapol" kit of platform people, which I suspect originally dates back to the 1960's or thereabouts. These people are all fairly well 'rugged up', so it must be a cold day at "Jamestown". I'm not exactly sure what actual era they represent, but I suspect it's also the 1960's, as the figures probably would have been contemporary when first released onto the market. The issue that always concerns me about fine details on a layout, such as people and signs, is the problem of their breaking off, and creating an obvious unsightly

appearance. For example, with polystyrene figures glued to a polystyrene platform, if a person's body gets broken off, the feet are usually still stuck down and trying to remove them completely w i thout leav ing a ' scar ' i s impossible. Trying to glue things back is equally problematical. With a card platform such as on "Jamestown", gluing figures to the card sur face is potent ia l ly dangerous, as if they break off, the platform surface will probably get torn and could be hard to repair. In the original card platforms on my home layout I created pinholes in set positions on the platform for the people and then, with a pin vice, very fine drill bit and great care, I drilled a cavity through the foot and then up inside one of the legs of each person and then fitted a fine pin into the cavity.

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The person was placed on the platform with the pin in the hole. This was quite a satisfactory arrangement, and lasted for years at home. I decided not to do this on the new "Jamestown" station though, as it would be far more likely that the people could be removed and disappear, leaving an obvious hole. Also, with more people around the club layout than a home layout, it would be more likely that the figures could get pushed over making the holes in the card too big for the figures to stand up correctly. Such an arrangement also means that it's difficult to change one's mind about where people are placed. For the new "Jamestown" station, I came up with a new idea. I don't pretend to be the first person who thought of it, but I do claim it as an original idea. I decided to SuperGlue the feet of the people to a small sheet of clear plastic and then place the sheet on the station platform. When the platforms were built, the platform was surfaced in either tiles or tarmac and then edge tiles were glued over the top. This means that the platform edges sit one sheet of paper higher then the rest of the platform. By cutting the plastic sheet to the right dimensions, and keeping it inside the platform edge tiles, it can be made to sit perfectly in place because the raised edge tiles prevent it from slipping off the platform. Where the platform is tiled, cutting the plastic sheet so the edge lines up with the tiling can also help disguise the plastic sheet. The clear plastic is not a perfect solution to a potential problem, but it's easy to set up. Of course, someone could take away the whole sheet and all the people on it, but at least no damage is done in the process. Also, when trying to take photographs, the clear plastic can produce unwanted reflections.

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Despite these negatives, I'm pleased with the outcome. Everything I've said about model people glued to a clear plastic sheet applies equally to the various fittings and structures on the station platforms. I was able to recycle some signs and a newsagent 'hut' from the original island platform and these are now in place on the new island platform. Also, the area immediately behind the main platform has got some attention. On the northern side of the main station building there were two smaller buildings, which appear to be a bar/café and a small hotel. These buildings originally faced the street with their backs to the railway lines.

There was originally no station platform between them and the railway lines, just a fence. However, with the new station there is a platform there now and this reduces the space for these buildings. I have managed to fit them in by turning them at right angles to their original orientation, so that their side walls are now parallel to the street and their entrances face toward the main station entrance and exit. There is also a bus stop and shelter there, and the ground in the vicinity has now been paved. The general idea is that people can get off the train, leave the station and go to the nearby bus stop to continue their journey. In the same area they could also call into the bar/café for some refreshment or perhaps check into the hotel if they need accommodation.

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Barry Freeman got himself into a tight spot while working on trackwork on the HO

layout, Grant Hirning can see the funny side of it, but was wondering if emergency services were going to be needed to extract Baz.

The Museum side of the club is developing nicely with more shelving units installed and a very nice display laid out by Jess Gibbs including some train theme curtains

to hide the DVD’s etc, the plastic covering has been obtained and will be the next project to be tackled.

Once that’s done the lighting will be worked out as will painting of the walls.

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Gary Sardoni has been very active with refurbishing Jamestown, the layout is being updated with many new detail

items as well as a great deal of track work, Ben Martin has found the layout to his liking and can be seen running his British outline trains on a regular basis. The Aldi vacuum cleaner is getting a workout as is Gary with the under layout work creating a fair amount of sawdust, Gary has a small table available under the layout that slides out for use. David Cook looks like an alien in the Optivisor as he works on fixing an N scale loco during a recent adhock clinic.

Aaron Durkin has a guilty look on his face as Jess snaps him operating on Byers Junction.

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Loco shed for Evans Gap The process of constructing and landscaping a layout, I've found, can be quite a fluid thing. When I was putting together the original ideas for Splitters Swamp Creek, I had fairly lofty ideas of what I could include in the design. As time has gone on I've changed some ideas and tweaked a few others, but overall I've stuck to the original concept. Due to space restrictions I've had to alter some ideas, but I have found a little more room than I originally thought I had. In a previous post I put together some buildings with some new weathering ideas with the idea of creating a scene at the end of the layout. This was a complete departure from the original plan. The picture I had in my head for this area was well and truly out of scale. So it now resides elsewhere on a mates layout. I reverted to the original plan that included some basic loco facilities. Those being a loco shed, coal stage, and a second goods shed. Once I'd made the decision to revert to the original idea things have started to move forward nicely. I've begun with the locomotive shed. The area that the shed occupies has meant that the baseboard has had to be altered to how I'd finished it for scenery work. That’s ok as like I said I need to keep the process fluid. I have worked out the footprint of the loco shed and the coal stage and they work in well. The coal stage has been finished and the scenery will be added to the base before adding it into the environment. The loco shed has been a bit of a process to construct. I like to try and keep the timber to the scale sizes that were used in the original building, and also I like to try to copy my impression of how it would have been constructed in the real. I decided to build individual frames for each 'bay' of the shed, and then use a jig to hold each frame to then allow the studded walls to be added. In theory this would work. In practice it proved very challenging. A couple of photos here to illustrate.

This first one shows the frame that I made up sited in the jig. These worked ok, but when added to the jig in the photo above and the wall detail added, they just weren't strong enough.

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The individual noggins ( I hope that's the right term) had to be cut up in matching parts for bay 1,2,3, and 4. As you can see from the numbers on the plan. It seems I'd forgotten a rule that I'd made up myself. That being that the model construction had to be as close to the original as possible, only as far as the resulting structure has to be strong and rigid enough to be self supporting. The building in the photos was not. So what now? Well I actually went back to online photos, whether they were from facebook or other sources. The result was an idea to construct the walls differently, and it seemed, closer to how they were, rather than the written plan. I need to be ready to restart something that just isn't working. Instead of flogging a dead horse.

A bove you can see that I've constructed a whole side of the building over the plan. I did the same for the other three walls. I haven't discussed windows, so here's a photo update. I chose one as close as possible, however they are not perfect, but close enough I think.

With all four sides completed I joined them together and placed them on the layout for a mockup of that area of the layout. The coal stage is in the shot also. The base board has been trimmed since then to fit the space available on the layout.

Next has been the construction of the roof. I kept the original frames and removed the 'legs' to just have the truss. The jig is a simple one, but serves its purpose well.Next is the addition of the smoke hood that goes down the centre of the building. This has been a little bit of a steep learning curve also, with a change of process on this as well. Basically it will be board by board.

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It's been a long time coming I decided to get a bit more of my scenery completed.

This time it was a cutting through some stone.

The stones were cast with plaster cast from Woodlands Scenics rock moulds.

After shaping the polystyrene, it was coated with plaster cloth.

Next the precast rocks were attached to the plaster cast with extra plaster.Then they were painted flat black all over.

Then washed with a diluted grey, not as diluted as water but quite runny so it would only sit in the cracks.

This process was repeated several times until I was happy with the result.At this stage it has had some light brown dry brushed into areas to break up the colour a little.

The finished result.

Add a bit of d i r t , s o m e bushes, rocks and trees to complete the scene.

I got a bit excited and painted the backdrops. I was amazed how much difference painting the entire back scene in the room made the entire place light up!

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On this occasion I was travelling as a paying passenger as it was prior to me joining the Victorian Railways and later becoming entitled to interstate holiday passes. His call was unique in all my travels. We departed Wallangarra for Brisbane just before 9.10 am behind green steam locomotive BB18¼ 1042 hauling 7 vehicles for a low 167 tons. The first two vehicles were for small freight, they were followed by 4 passenger cars and the brakevan. Passenger loadings from Wallangarra were very light so we had no trouble getting good seats near the loco. It was a cold but sunny morning so verandah sitting was out of the question until it warmed up.

There were many small stations passed en route to Toowoomba and we stopped at 18 of them, the major ones being Stanthorpe and Warwick. 3 goods trains were passed on the way to Toowoomba, two of which were steam hauled. Toowoomba was reached late at 2.43 pm. From Toowoomba, the line drops down a range to the town of Helidon. The distance by rail is around 45 kilometres whereas that by road is about 15 km. A connecting bus service was operated from Toowoomba to Helidon for passengers wishing to visit the refreshment facilities whilst the train made its much slower way there. Due to our late running, another diesel hauled passenger train had been despatched to Helidon ahead of our arrival. We were forced to take the bus this time and beat the other train to Helidon. We left there at 4.15 pm and reached Brisbane's Roma Street Station at 6.35 pm. A very long day.

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B18 866 passing AC16 227A at Mill Hill

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My mate and I spent the next 11 days travelling as far north as Townsville before it was time to head south again from Brisbane. I opted to return the inland way we had come whilst my mate wanted to go via the normal coastal route. Steam locomotive haulage on the Wallangarra bound train from Brisbane to Toowoomba was very rare, but Saturday 24 July 1965 was to be my lucky day. Upon arrival at Roma Street Station I was greeted by the sight of green steam loco B18¼ 904 at the head of 7 vehicles for 170 tonnes. Not only was I going to have steam haulage all the way to Wallangarra, but the first carriage that I rode in was a very special vehicle. Carriage 990 was originally a Travelling Post Office carriage that was converted to an inspection car in the 1930s. It was finally converted to a second class sitting car in 1942. There was a glassed in saloon at one end of the carriage that just happened to be facing forward immediately behind the tender of the steam loco. A cross bench seat was set back facing forward and I had that saloon to myself for the whole trip. Climbing the range from Helidon to Toowoomba was particularly pleasant as I travelled in my own little 'Palace on Wheels'. B18¼ 866 took over at Toowoomba and Wallangarra was reached at 6.5 pm that evening. Another long day, but what a way to enjoy steam, sunshine and lovely scenery. By the way, side windows could be opened for sound effects and fresh air.

I transferred to the New South Wales train for the return to Sydney, departing an hour later. Being Saturday night and Sunday morning travel with little demand for locos to haul goods trains, the 8 car train was diesel hauled all the way to Gosford where an electric loco took over to Sydney. Never mind, the trip from Brisbane to Wallangarra more than made up for that.

Bb18 1042 at Warwick

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