Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

2018/05/25

2018_05_19 Albury Model Exhibition

2018_05_19 A little bit of our show.

Pictures?

PETERSVILLE
HO DCC
Canberra model Railway Club LTD

AUSTRAINS AND SDS

ROAD and RAIL

WALLIPS JUNCTION HO
Phillip Waller

UNTEN IM TAL AND MANTOUR MINE No.4

RAYS REDEEMED RAILWAY
O SCALE tin plate

EZ TRACK TABLE TOP

TRACKRITE J&K HOBBIES

SRJ PUBLISHING RAILWAY HOTELS

THE BRIDGEMAN all scales

ALCO WORLD

BRING AND SELL

With so much high end merchandise for sale, we were gob smacked when we totaled the till here this year.

BRICKS ON THE BORDER

ETTAMOGAH 2

WOLFE STORE

CULCAIRN n scale

IRON HORSE HOBBIES

2018/05/14

2018_05_13 Albury Model Railway Show

2018_05_13 Murray Railway Modellers

Murray Railway Modellers Exhibition

As well as Austrains we have SDS joining our Trade Stands this year!
Our regulars J&K Trackrite Iron Horse and AlcoWorld

2018/05/02

2018_05_02 Update on Rogers Wodonga Station build

2018_05_02 Update of Wodonga Station build

Dimensions are pretty accurate, but model has been adjusted slightly to fit between BG and SG lines at Melbourne end. A future kit could be provided by Stuart at Coolum Design using accurate measurements. stuart@modeltrainbuildings.com.au

Now for the skin Ha Ha. Thanks Roger I am truly blessed with the friends I have.
Cheers
Rod

2018/04/21

2018_04_20 Update on Wodonga Building

2018_04_20 Wodonga Station building update

Text as supplied by Roger,,,,

"Attached are two photos of the corbel strip sitting on a brickwork pattern. The material is translucent and I will need to airbrush it white. Then it will be very effective. Sorry the second photo is a bit out of focus. However, you can still see the shape of the corbel.the detail is very fine. Each corbel is only spaced 6mm apart."

This photo shows a strip of corbels which go under the eaves of Wodonga Station. They were 3D printed by Shapeways using "Frosted Ultra Detail"
material. The initial design was by Roger using CAD software . Ray Pilgrim then converted the CAD design into software that Shapeways can use. The corbels could be useful for any modeller constructing late Victorian era homes.

You can purchase them from Ray Pilgrim (Signals Branch) through the Shapeways web site at

https://www.shapeways.com/product/5Q9Y3LGC5/ho-wodonga-station-corbel-strip-269mm-long?optionId=65198156

The strip is 270mm long and each corbel is at 6mm spacing.

Our order took just 14 days from the order being placed until airmail delivery from the USA."

Lighting the building
"Here are two views of Wodonga Station, one of the platform side and one of the road side. The glazed windows are now in place and some of the internal partitions have been added.

Some of the windows and doors are not complete as extra detail needs to be added, particularly under the long windows which have brick infill."

This photo shows a strip of corbels which go under the eaves of Wodonga Station. They were 3D printed by Shapeways using "Frosted Ultra Detail"

If you want to use our corbels for your new project, Ray Pi;grim has them here :)

https://www.shapeways.com/product/5Q9Y3LGC5/ho-wodonga-station-corbel-strip-269mm-long?optionId=65198156

Cheers
Rod

About my Railway

The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well.
Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)
And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)
Rod Young