Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: September 2018

2018/09/10

2018_09_10 (forgotten pics from 2018_08_18)

2018_09_10 (2018_08_18)
Trainbuilder Brass Bogies

Insulating brass bogies and fitting pick ups (Harris car lighting)

Replace brass plate with styrene plate. Bogie held apart by cast bolster.

This is how it left factory

Connect bogie with 2mm nylon screws
Noticed that it is difficult to align side frames, but discovered after pic was taken, that I can glue top plate on with frames squared.
I have some Blacksmith brand phosphor wipers that will be held in place by nylon screws. I put them in a safe place........
I guess I will continue when I remember where that is :(

Cheers
Rod

2018/09/08

2018_09_08-Dragged out of sick bed to do some scenery.....

2018_09_08 adding to Allansvale.

Graeme arrived this morning, and got me out of bed to work on scenery. Thank God for that as I was drowning in a lethargic mood, and needed to get back into it.
Had a cateract removed and a replacement lenses with a second one to be done next week. Already my long distance vision is clear. But as I do a fair bit of night driving, I elected to forgo the multi focal lenses and use glasses for close up work. Enough of that.

Graeme is a bit of a genius, and look what we changed here, and see how well we changed this scene.

The Apex corner.

We blocked out the facia about 70mm which allowed the embankment on edge. looks good, I think

Thank you Graeme, my wounds are healing, and after I returned to shed, I covered the repaired eye and found I could actually use the screw driver once again Ha Ha.
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!

2018/09/10

2018_09_10 (forgotten pics from 2018_08_18)

2018/09/08

2018_09_08-Dragged out of sick bed to do some scenery.....

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