Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: February 2018

2018/02/23

2018_02_23 Rail Cleaner

2018_02_23 Rail Cleaner

Just bought this. Hope it works ok. Looks the goods though :D

Rail Cleaner

or if you dont want to visit page ..it looks like this :)

PS still working on reversing tracks. I damaged a three way point and am bogged down with the repair, just now.
Cheers
Rod

2018/02/19

2018_02_19 Gosh nearly a month. Still no air conditioning :(

However the temperature is mild, and so that is not my reason for work slowing down in the shed :(

Have not been well, and not in the mood for it, particularly as the wiring problem did not seem to be improving. One step forward and two steps back.... However!

Here is a thread on Face Book group DCC Downunder which I started

A bit excited to see if this works. I know the boys at DCC Downunder got it right. Just have to double check that the discovered "Gremlin" is truly a reverse loop, and fixing that solves the problem :D

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!

2018/02/23

2018_02_23 Rail Cleaner

2018/02/19

2018_02_19 Lttle update :)

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