November Update

This month activities included building a cement loading facility, wood loads, two ops sessions and that new booster.

Cement Loading Facility

I bought this kit on eBay some time back and finally put it together see the progress pictures below.

I needed to adjust the height above the rails so I made some "Concrete foundations" from balsa wood and glued the structure on them.

Testing for clearance

Time to paint the foundations.

Colour looks about right!

Time for some weathering with a sprayed on india ink wash.

Positioned on the layout for trial loading before fixing permanently

Modelling Wood Loads

I am following Wayne's lead and have been preparing some wood loads using balsa stock and printed sticky labels cut to wrap them.  I need 30 packs to fill the bulkhead flat.

Ops Session at Wayne's

Barry, Chris, Des, Don, Peter S and I joined Wayne for the ops session.  We had a fun time but we had a turn out failure at the entrance to the hidden staging yard which resulted in a blocked approach so three trains were cancelled until maintenance could attend to the problem.

Peter and Wayne

Don at Lowood Crossing

Des at Red Rock

Des and Peter S at Red Rock and Wayne at Waverly

Wayne at Dunkleigh Towers

Chris and Des approaching Valley Junction

Peter S and Barry Shunting at Red Rock

Barry & Peter S at Red Rock and Chris and Des at Dunkleigh Towers

Enjoying afternoon tea after the run

Peter S and Barry

Don, Des and Chris

Barry & Wayne

Ops Session at Ross's

Barry, Chris, Don, Rosslyn and I joined Ross for a running session which lasted for about one and a half hours.  We enjoyed supper afterward.

Don, Barry & Rosslyn

Just where did that train go?

Ross & Chris

New Booster

It is still on back order......   I emailed the Canadian supplier a couple of days ago and have just received a reply that it is still in Germany....

That's it for now so until next time.....

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