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Love what you're doing with that Stainz, and that rarely-modelled Qunaba livery. Another funny coincidence, I've a Stainz here waiting to receive a similar rebuild. Looking forward to seeing yours complete at the head of that rake.

Regards,
Aaron

Always nice to see more cane modelling. They've come up real nice - though you needn't I to tell you that! Are you going to permanently couple them as a rake? It's surprising how expensive millet brooms usually are. But shop around and you may be surprised at how cheap they can be, too. Incidentally...

No suggestions come to mind, but that lamp is a nice touch.

I'd forgotten how steep and varying that yard is. Nice job on building a workable line through it - I'd have just given up!

Thanks again, fellas. High praise indeed, coming from you lot. :) According to the current Rota, Ben is on as guard 29th November and I am on the loco (967) and we have a cab rider booked as well. Cheers, Darryl. Unfortunately, looking at the short and medium-term weather forecast, I'm not surprised...

Thanks Aaron. Love your line, Buildings and infrastructure is something I've been putting off far too long but you've absolutely nailed the Queensland tramway look. Cheers Jake, I've been pleasantly surprised with it myself. Similar boat here, regarding buildings - Got a couple half-finished, but I...

The I-beam is for 5" and boilers and it was used to lift the mill and lathe off the crates or off the ute out side. The beam runs outside to the carport. One can unload and load under cover, rain or sun, night or day. For more pics of the workshop and stuff going go here https://gardenrails.org/for...

A good approach to building a large fleet, for sure. They're certainly coming up well.

Coming up extremely well, that is. Few examples of a first railway come up that well, or at the very least mine certainly didn't. I must agree on the workshop front - It ought be clean, tidy and well-organised at all times. Will have to return to this thread to take notes, when I get to build my own...

Certainly beats hauling those lumps around by hand. Nice filming work as always.

Cheers, gents! Excellent work Aaron! I've used ball races on two locos :thumbup: Oh that's right, I forgot you've used almost identical bearings in your Fowler. What was the other loco? You've not had any issues with the bearings so far? Super stuff, keep the progress reports coming. Do you ever go ...

Good to see "Robin" back in steam. How does "Goblin" run? I had an MSS years ago, but gave up on getting it to work and sold it on.
Love the running shed too. One of these days I'll have to build one like it.

When I finished my Fowler "Victoria" in late 2018, the intention was to weather it and add a crew. But as I'd never weathered a live steam loco, and had a lot of other things going at the time, I simply didn't have the time or energy to finish this loco quite the way I wanted. The intention was to g...

Certainly interesting, nevertheless. I'm looking forward to seeing more, as and when it happens. It's a bit like seeing those videos on Youtube, wherein some old object, tool or machine is fully restored - we get to see the repairs and improvements, without the chore and drudgery of actually doing t...

Thanks Peter, it was a good and very busy day, due to earlier train shows in 2020 being cancelled. The Baldwin managed alright with the wholestick trucks at home, but it struggled and slipped very badly at Zillmere. I'll put this down to oily residue, but even so, these trucks are far heavier than t...