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Some more pretty pictures…

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October 5, 2012
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I’ve been pretty slack lately with updating the blog, but I have been doing a little modelling… (a certain magazine does take up a lot of my time). I’ve mainly been weathering wagons (my favourite modelling activity!).

I’ll say more about t…

A Visitor to Lambing Flat…

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June 22, 2012
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While it has been a while since my last post, I haven’t been completely idle. Hopefully I will ‘catch up’ with events in due course, but in the meantime, here are a couple of photos of a recent visitor to Lambing Flat.

My good mate, Chris Sim, has …

Pretty pictures…

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November 11, 2011
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Was playing around with the camera recently and took these shots…
This shows my Classic brass 3324 drifting through the station after her recent ‘tone up’ to the weathering. Originally painted in the mid-1980s, the paint had become a little ‘tired’ a…

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Found on Youtube…

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November 9, 2011
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A link was posted in one of the Facebook groups to which I belong to this fantastic ‘from the cab’ video of a trip from Acacia Ridge to Taree in the NSW North Coast line.There is quite a lot of stuff on Youtube that is entertaining, but this video…

To good not to share…

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October 29, 2011
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Mike McCormac came over a couple of days ago with an (almost ;o) completed sample of one of the variations of his HO scale NSWGR LFX ‘dogbox’ kits for photographing for the ‘Recent Releases’ section of the December issue of AMRM.
It really is a mo…

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She’s baaacckkk…

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October 17, 2011
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After some 15 years ‘out of service’ with a crook chassis, 5303 re-entered service on Lambing Flat this evening, after I finished fitting a Tsunami DCC chip. She runs like a dream, thanks to the excellent chassis constructed for me by Hollywo…

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The (almost) return of 5303

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October 7, 2011
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Some months ago I finally got tired of having my favourite locomotive not working, (see previous post (5303, a frail favourite… ) and sent it off the Geoff Baxter at Hollywood Foundry for a new chassis. His custom mechanisms have a jus…

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Progress on the Rurr Valley

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September 26, 2011
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Progress on the Rurr Valley continues.
Not only have I been clearing the layout and making it trafficable again, I have also revived a locomotive construction project that has sat on the workbench, untouched, since late 2005. Here is a photo of showing…

Another day workin’ on the railway…

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September 16, 2011
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Got in an hour or so of track clearance on the garden railway this evening. The line is now open from Devlins all the way down the hill to Bottom Points. The track is in remarkably good condition, considering the neglect the railway has suffered over t…