The End of the year 2012

Well its the penultimate day of 2012 and I wonder whether I have finally found a suitable trackplan which I have currently deployed and borrowed heavily from Dimboola in Western Victoria.  I guess time will tell.  Here are some more photos.

Wishing you all a prosperous 2013.

My legs hurt

Spent alot of time today in the shed making some minor changes to the track work which is a continuation of the changes I began last week.  Spent alot of time standing which leads to sore legs!  Anyway, here's hoping the effort is worthwhile.

Here are some photos - hope you enjoy them.

S311 brings in a mixed goods from Melbourne whilst the yard pilot looks on from the Dock Road.

A VLX and GY are shunted to what will be the Goods Shed in "bas relief"

Some Sightings

A Grain train gets marshalled.  This will followed the 'jet' to Melbourne which is expected to arrive shortly.

A few minutes later, an Adelaide to Melbourne 'jet' arrives and stops for a crew change.  Plenty of Horsepower in the form of a C and B class locomotives.  Once the jet has cleared the section, the grain working will follow.

Some Photos

Here are some photos of the new track plan and layout taking shape.  I wont say what location the layout is based on, except to say that it is in Western Victoria and has a branch line.  See if you can guess by looking at the photos what the location the layout is based on.  

Major changes to layout.

Major changes to layout.


Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.  Juvenal

• Undergone some changes to track design and operational elements.  
• Staging yards have been mostly eliminated.  Using said space to add extra scenery and shunting possibilities.
• Layout based on a country station in Victoria.
• Shunting still major focal point.
• Previous layout idea was good but became too repetitious and monotonous,
• Plus lack of scenery added significantly to a mundane look and feel.

Departing Freighter Takes Road 5

Here we see a freighter destined to North East locations take Road 5 of the yard.

Brisbane Show Day Public Holiday

Two ex Victorian locomotives visited Brisbane this morning on train number 2MB7.   Under a beautiful, clear blue-sky Brisbane day, I snapped the following :