Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 04/14/16

2016/04/14

2016_04_14 Benchwork starts!

2016_04_14 Al and I started the new benches.

We had a couple of L girders from elsewhere, and built these up into a solid bench. Cut out three more benches and assembled one of them. Not a bad days work :)

When we finish the wall, on Saturday, I will remove the legs against the wall and fix the L Girder to the noggins behind the plaster.
The out rigger supports will be cut shorter after the top level roadbed is fixed. This will not happen till the 5 ply tops are fixed on the bottom, and the track is installed, wired in and sceniced.

Cheers
Rod

2016_04_13 A new model arrives

2016_04_13 My mate from Dynon sold me some nicely detailed weathered goofeys!

Thanks Steve Bucton. All I need to do is weather up another 36 to match them :D

Some friends have recently been robbed.

This shot shows two high definition cameras installed in my shed. They are wiFi connected to the modem in the shed which all runs off a battery backed up power supply. If you activate the cameras a message goes to my i-phone asking me if I would like to cycle through the 8 cameras. only fitting 5 at this time to watch trains out of sight and make this layout operable by one person. But a nice security feature was found when I started to look into it. 1080 HD is recorded to an 8 track video recorder fitted with a terabyte HD to store images.

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

Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

2016/04/14

2016_04_14 Benchwork starts!

2016_04_13 A new model arrives

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