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Have you had one of those days where everything just goes right! Well I've just had one :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I've been experimenting with the front end of my Bagnall. I'ts always been a wet engine, so I decided to experiment with a chuffer, not to make the chuff louder, but more to re-direct the ...

At the rate your moving ahead, I expected a shot of a loco and trucks any time now. Looks really good Dwayne, I'm sure you will have a lot of fun just pushing wagons around the Mags area. I am envious of your soil type, how does it go when it gets wet? Looks like it might stay where you put it, unli...

Yes Ric, raised them by about 15mm if I remember correctly. Many of our pass cars were repaired along the bottom edges with tin sheathing (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!) also lengthened the end platforms and new railings, cut the clerestory short, and changed bogie spacing and end do...

The Morning Passenger Service Hunslet in charge, pulling away from Leawarra in greener times.

Your track gang has been busy!

As those above have said, that little three plank wagon is superbly weathered. Hard to believe the metal work is actually brass. The sound unit in the Little John sounds just right too, very impressive!

Thank you Phil.   The hole is simply done with the appropriate sized drill, diameter of the rivet die plus thickness of metal times two plus a smidgeon (ancient engineering term). Your really only using the top corner of the hole to restrict and form a crisp outline of the rivet head, and of course ...

Don't know if this is the right place for this, but as Graeme mentioned riveting and the question of how to is raised many times, I thought I would explain my method. You will note the very expensive and engineering like equipment I have built! Firstly riveting requires bringing a tool and die toget...

You must have a fairly long goods consist that needs testing by now.
So when the rain and the heat abate?

I guess that explains it Peter, of course our cattle are out all year round. I have memories as a youngster, sitting in the milking shed yarning with old Pat, blue smoke haze from the Villiers portable milking machine roaring away beside us, all of a sudden he would leap up grab a square mouth shove...

Dwayne, you're sure getting stuck into it.
Does the lack of a hinge in the point blades require much extra pressure on the change lever, which would be manual I presume?

Hah! Peter, your pic. is the reason I chose mine. I wanted to get into an in depth discussion on the colour of cow pats. Please, I'm not criticising, but noticed the colour of yours and wondered are cattle brought into barns during winter in England, and fed on hay. Jim, the tractor a Fordson F, is ...

Dappled Shade.
A shortcoming of having a cow in the home paddock, walking between the cow pats.

 

Your Regner has quite a colonial look with the cowcatcher, and cab, particularly the shot coming out of the shadows. I hope the MOTTLITT's are feeling better having seen some daylight recently.

Well the local shire council resurfaced the main road through Nayook today, still got the road down to the mill to do. Should knock that over tomorrow. Also Ways & Works oiled the bridge with sump oil for the winter. Both Depts. are well satisfied!.

Thanks for your comments, and if it's inspiring that's great, but Graeme (GTB of this forum) is the one for museum quality detail in my book. Mind you Peter, those log bogies you did back on page 40 of your railway were a superb weathering effort. Weathered timber is made up of many colours, and you...

The goods stock and guards van are all scratch built, mostly on fox truck type bogies, with chopper couplings. The bogie log trucks have silver soldered steel archbars, and timber frames.  My early builds in this scale tended to be belts and braces style. I had doubts (soon dispelled) about whitemet...

If operating is your thing, it does allow a lot of moves. Once you get the loco at the right end, one leg of the "Loop" can be a siding, either temporary or not.  And here's me suggesting you build more points( Switches) something I would shy away from ha! ha!,  but full credit to your swi...

Ah! different countries, different interpretations of a loop. I was thinking two parallel pieces of track, points (switches) at each end. My mistake, a run around loop might have been clearer. As below.



Grant.

Just a thought. Would a loop be out of the question at Mags, to allow running round the train to steam back the other way.