Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2018_03_16 Playing with the B.E.

2018/03/16

2018_03_16 Playing with the B.E.

2018_03_16 laying asphalt :)

I got some thin foam from Office Works, and more from a dollar store at Birralea.
Added it on top to see if it looked like bitumen.

So this is what we started with. The white foam is about 2 mm thick and came in 5 sheets, all white.

The black sheet came in a pack of 5 different colours. Only one black sheet :(

It nearly comes up to rail height. So a track cleaner gently rubbed should clean the head of the rail.

Started to chalk and rub with a cloth after white glue set. I will finish this off tomorrow. I am happy it will work. Also finish off covering the white with black.

Got a parcel from States. I just cannot find things like pallets, workshop machinery skips etc here, got them all in one box. A bit pricy though.

The Parcel?

Fork lifts, Elevators Workshop machinery such as drill press and lathes Welders etc.

Skips and pallets and hand held pallet lifts. and milk churns for Depot as well as bicycles and stuff such as that.

Cheers
Rod

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Graeme Schulz17/3/18 3:39 pm
Hmmm we should have weathered the rails
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Rod Young17/3/18 7:32 pm
Ah we still can, but no body will notice, maybe?
Cheers
Rod
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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!

2018/03/16

2018_03_16 Playing with the B.E.

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