Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 02/03/20

2020/02/03

2020_02_02 Procrastination!!

2020_02_02 I need to wire the old helix :(

Instead I find lots to do, but the layout is finally back together and working better than it ever has, except for the helix which was stripped and never rewired.

In the last week....

Al finished the track work at old Bullarto

And I rewired it and fitted the point motors.

ALLANDALE

OOPS!! I had not noticed that the backdrop had fallen in. Better fix that today :(

Al refurbished his namesake station that was suffering. He did such a good job, I think I might have to move the track and turn the building to face the aisle :)

AND I PROCRASTINATED!!

I guess I cleared the table. Its a big table and it accumulates a lot of stuff. It gets in the way and has never worked out for me.

But what am I going to do with all those unfinished jobs sitting on the layout?

They certainly will not fit here, which was found under years of collected rubbish which was sorted and mostly thrown out.

So this is my work station. To use it, I am just going to haveto learn to store stuff between jobs.
I think I will move the storage boxes on the left and build some shelves to hold all the unfinished stuff to keep it off this very small work place, to enable me to get some projects finished.

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!

2020/02/03

2020_02_02 Procrastination!!

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