D&RGW comes to the Central West

On Sunday, during breaks between ANZAC Day engagements, a few things moved on Brendan's layout for the first time in some months!

 

CPH5 crosses C3214 on set M16. Not quite sure where the traction supply is coming from...

 

1942 (as yet un-numbered) works a short goods.

 

Later, 1942 (having turned somehow) crosses the M set.

 

 

The CPH is a Berg's one from 1988 (my "HSC performance bribe", decaled by me, somewhat poorly, as the film kept breaking). The Z19 is Classic, painted by Tom Pall about 20 years ago. The M set power car is from the original Bergs / Minimodels release, and was modified, painted & decaled by Roy Howarth, also over twenty years ago, and recently (along with the rest of the set) had some more detailing (MUs, targets) and repairs to the mods (bulkheads, H bars) effected at the Miranda Car & Waggon Works. The M set comprises C3214, T4490, T4306 & C3137.

 

Cheers for now.

Another hiatus at Weddin Jct

Since my last post in January, I've lost my Monday & Thursday evening modelling time, as I have been volunteered by SWMBO to play the bass drum with Ingleburn RSL Pipes & Drums - where she plays the tenor, and the kids pipe. As I told them all, the trade off has been that they have now lost their roadie - I refuse to carry a bass drum & bagpipes at the same time!
Anyway, here are the completed TRCs.

Also recently back from the Miranda car & waggon works is my original Berg's / Minimodels four-car single deck set. Roy has been busy with repairs to the interior details he put in for me twenty-odd years ago (bulkheads, H bars etc), as well as adding some brass MU sockets and target plates. I need to finish them off with scale-head Ka-dees, so that they look smaller compared with the non-EMU stock. I'll be sticking to the standard heads on everything else for now, too much to change things over, and I'm told the scale heads are more "track sensitive" in terms of vertical alignment & train separation issues.
Cheers for now.