Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 12/07/20

2020/12/07

2020_12_07 Work continues.

2020_12_07 Posty arrived!

Black Friday Sales! This year I was not ill, and I scored a nice haul!

A great product and I wish it was around 10 years ago :( See them here Click on blue :)

No discount apart from the normal quantity one. Nick is a friendly helpful guy.

This one was a black Friday sale and set me back $78 Au. It is a usb charged compressor with a 30 minute or more battery.

I am a lazy painter, maybe this little spray system will help?

Auscision had a great 20% off sale and it helped a lot to make my mind up with this purchase. I did not have a pudding bowl N set.

Nor did I have a V/line First Series X.

So I am still aiming to die with the biggest number of locomotives. Ha Ha

Cheers

Rod

ps the helix continues only 10 m of double track, a pair of points to fill the hole and lay the golden spike.

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!

2020/12/07

2020_12_07 Work continues.

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