Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2020_07

2020/07/27

2020_07_27 New PL Cars!

2020_07_27 Mailman delivers if Exhibitions fail to :D

Not happy with my Neo Austrains carriages!!
WHY? Because they make my 6 old PL cars look so bad :) Ha Ha.

Very Happy with the upgrades. WoW check out the roof vents. Who would have thought the old ones were so oversized.

Nice safe packaging and no loose bits either.

Very crisp accurate production with very good lettering as expected from SDS

Close coupling without special couplers. So far they perform nicely around my tightest curves on the branch.

Nice detailing better than my pictures show.

They are nice reproductions of the older VR passenger carrages we all caught to outer suburban schools.

The guards compartment

And marker lights (sadly unlit)

Nice rake of 4 carriages, looks about right :)

Full under body detail. Almost want you to put strategic mirrors, perhaps a bridge over a river?

Sitting nicely behind a single T. Will look lovely behind a D3 with an AW mixed in among them :)

Set up in the late afternoon for an early morning departure.

And as soon as the crew arrive to light it up, T408 will take the PL's to the end of the line.

Pretty happy with these little cars. Must do a video of them on the branch.

Cheers
Rod

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DavidV4/8/20 9:58 am
You made a good point about the better RTR models making older models look bad. I have always thought it a good aim to have some consistency but that seems to be getting harder! (No ultimate S trucks for me :) )
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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!

2020/07/27

2020_07_27 New PL Cars!

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