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I do like that loco of yours Grant, excellent quality...

I just took the time to read the entire 27 pages of this and I’m in awe! Definitely given me some inspiration for my layout. Your loco shed and pot area is very similar to what I have planned on my head . Hopefully I can do a half decent job to the detail and atmosphere you have captured in yours

Thank you Dan, and welcome again to the forum. Any chance your coming down to the Great Southern Steam up this weekend ?
Good luck with your project, sounds like a 2ft. gauge cane type loco coming up. Be good to see some more colonial flavour.
Grant.

Unfoutanley I wont be Attending the GSSU this year because i am busy that weekend Hopefully next year with a better Loco!,

Mitch

Where is it held?

Hi Dan,
It's held at the Gembrook Community Hall, but I'm afraid you have to register and pay upfront. It is a great three days, closed to the public, a big hall, two large layouts, some commercial stands, lunch morning and afternoon teas included. Didn't know what your situation was up there, perhaps next year. Hopefully it will be covered to some extent on Youtube, last years and others have been.
Grant.
PS just remembered It's run by Argyle Loco Works down here in Victoria and details are on their website.

Sounds great. Might have to make plans for next years event

Steaminnthnsw wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 3:00 am Sounds great. Might have to make plans for next years event

The GSSU website is here. They usually update it a few months before the event.

https://greatsouthernsteamup.com

Other steamups closer to you are GRITH in the Hunter Valley and SHSU in the Southern Highlands. These two alternate, SHSU was on earlier this year, so next year would be GRITH.

http://www.shsteamup.com and http://grithsteamup.blogspot.com

As Grant suggested, there are videos from previous runs on Youtube. Search for GSSU and Great Southern Steamup. Videos from the NSW steamups are on there as well.

Regards,
Graeme

I've just come across your beaut railway. A great read right through the topic.
The only problem is that your modelling is so great that I think I'll give up now.

Greetings all,
Spring has sprung on the LNR, so a few pics. from today's runs showing the winters growth (which won't be around long if forecast temps are right for this coming summer.)
First up that curve over Warringine Creek Drifting into Warringine station Rounding Turpins curve (we lost the bush behind the house this winter, so the backdrop has gone) Pulling out of Warringine on the up. And finally back at Leawarra, with the afternoon goods made up in No. 2 road. Grant.

Lovely as always Grant.
I do like the final, tail end, shot of the goods. One for this quarter's "Freight Train, Freight train..." Gallery perhaps?

Those photos are fantastic - the locos, stock, railway infrastructure and garden just blend together beautifully. I think the second photo in particular is probably one of my all-time favourite, garden railway photos...

Thanks for posting them - looking forward to more over the coming months!

All the best,

Andrew.

Wonderful pictures Grant, so nice to see more of your railway.... inspirational!

Great to see your pics again, Grant. You have a knack of framing your shots so they look realistic.

Rik

Nothing more to say, only blooming fantastic...

A really lovely line.

Don

The new van looks good. The guards will be happy little vegemiters, especially the ones on the goods roster.....

The greenery behind Warringine seems greener and thicker than I remember, has that taken off now it gets more sunlight?

Regards,
Graeme

GTB wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:03 pm The new van looks good. The guards will be happy little vegemiters, especially the ones on the goods roster.....

The greenery behind Warringine seems greener and thicker than I remember, has that taken off now it gets more sunlight?

Regards,
Graeme

I was wondering if that was a new van!


It’s great to see some new pictures of this fantastic line!

Always a joy to see views of this most atmospheric of garden lines. Really do like your rolling stock and structures.

Fantastic pictures