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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:28 am

Very nice models Jake. You have a real talent there. :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Andrew » Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:48 pm

Wow, that was quite an update!

It's all very impressive (I DO like that 4-wheeled brake van...) BUT that big diesel is just phenomenal, what a beast! Incredible detail too - it must have taken about a week to print?!!

Thanks for the update - I look forward to seeing the stock in action out on the layout...

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by invicta280 » Mon Oct 26, 2020 9:47 pm

Lots of interesting rolling stock there. Particularly impressed with X class diesel.
I like the idea of the aluminium container flats too.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:13 am

Thanks gents! Its very generous and humbling given the incredible work you all do.

I certainly don't include as much detail as I'd like but I'm very conscious of large holes in the roster that prevent me from running full running sessions with all Australian stock so I've definitely made a choice to only model the stuff that will provide a good foundation for detailing later. Its a pain and I have to do more work long term but its worth it. When I finished the first lot of Australian wagons off I towed them around with the DH and just watched them going around and around for a few hours, I never really believed I'd make it this far!

The DE is 58cm long so shes definitely on the larger size but not as long as some 1:29 scale diesels I think. The second one is half assembled on the table now I'm hoping to have both assembled and in running condition by the end of next month as we have a live steam meet and as I'm the only person who likes diesels I need to bring my A game!
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Mitch stack » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:59 am

Good work Jake!, Like the MA a lot!, got any plans to do a h class 2-8-2? id love one of those if i can get one!.

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:50 pm

Hi Mitch no plans for a H, Ive never been a big fan of the cabs on those locos.

The other "big" locos I have chassies/parts for are the; Silverton A, WAGR S, TGR Q, TGR CC, Fyansford #2 and Fyansford #3 (the ASG)

Years ago I made a big list of engines I was interested in that had commonly available wheel sizes and took advantage of having a bit of disposable income and Bachmanns dirt cheap pricing on their big haulers to acquire enough parts for the rest of my modelling career. Its something thats definitely been worthwhile for figuring out headshunts and minimum radius etc but once I use the stuff I have in stock that'll be it. Cant rush these things but its been quite therapeutic to start ticking locos off the list.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Old Man Aaron » Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:07 am

A good approach to building a large fleet, for sure. They're certainly coming up well.
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Post by Tropic Blunder » Sun Nov 01, 2020 9:55 am

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.

Being faced with a long weekend and some upcoming steamups I decided I'd put the foot down and start pushing some stuff out the door. Late this afternoon NEVR's DE5 made its first steps across the yard. Also running today was the Barclay on the weed train after the DH failed (forgot to charge the batteries!) the lines now serviceable again
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The DE and the DH
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still very early days for paint and detailing but for a quick and dirty its ok. it'll be getting a coat of Caterpillar undercoat as a final colour and it will receive the BHP Whyalla blue stripe
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Shunting the weed train after its return. It has no problems with moving a large rake and i havent even put any lead in it yet!
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Some of the Rollingstock got some very rough lettering. Im still waiting on the local decal man to get back to me about transfers so i may get vinyl ones cut instead. This wagon lives outside and it shows. Its in line for a roof repaint in the very near future and a replacement door for the other side.
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VR BV class car coming along (and what will now be D1 in the background)
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The Barclay preparing to climb around the horseshoe after crossing over the walkway

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:44 am

Just love your rolling stock Jake.. :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Melbournesparks » Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:45 pm

The Melbourne suburban area is slowly starting to come back to life, including rail operations. The ESET diesel electric ventured out for the first time in a while to the North East Victoria Railway.

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The hiss of the porter's blower is drowned out by the whine of dynamic brakes as the ESET diesel electric slows down for a cross. Part of the goods is a new hydro electric turbine, destined for the mountains.


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For the tramway crew used to electric operation this is a different world, with big heavy trains and more power than we ever normally handle. Here is the first test run of the DH and DE in multiple unit. Despite their slightly different running gear they ran fine together.


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That is not all though, the first running prototype of another locomotive has recently emerged from the NEVR's workshops.


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It is of course an EMD G8, a locomotive that changed the nature of many rail operations forever.


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Running in multiple unit these two locomotives have a very impressive amount of power, even the longest train that could be assembled was easily managed on the 1:30 grade.


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The two locos shunt the train for the return trip.


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Back on the wharf at Hastings the little Malcom Moore diesel mechanical is assembling the next train of outwards traffic.


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The ESET DE couples to its assembled train for the return trip.


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Heading home the driver swings the throttle to notch 8 for the grade ahead.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:29 am

Just superb photos of your locos and rolling stock Jake. Great to see them doing hard work and for one it looked very easy on that gradient... :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Old Man Aaron » Sat Nov 07, 2020 8:35 am

Tropic Blunder wrote: Sun Nov 01, 2020 9:55 am 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 really should be building up a big stock of them now, ready for when I'm able to build the "permanent" tramway in 18 months or so. Looking forward to seeing what you do about buildings, when the time comes.

Love the idea of a weed train. Better than traipsing around the yard filling up an old washing powder bucket. Will have to do as you are, on the next tramway, when I can just have a weed train on standby in a shed storage siding.

Also particularly like the shot of the lonely wagon in the siding as the heavy goods rumbles past.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by ge_rik » Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:25 am

A great set of photos. Really like the weathering on the yellow loco. Looks like it's had a hard life 😏

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Sun Nov 08, 2020 12:17 am

Ive got a fair sized stock now of buildings from Tod but I havent really got anywhere to put them which is annoying maybe under the freshly planted banksia a little town will emerge. The main focus of late has been on building passenger cars which hopefully ill be able to post photos of in the next week or two. The bachmann cars are nice but they just arent distinctive enough for me to suspend my reality

Thanks Rik, Alexander did an incredible job building that loco, being an LGB White pass its running is imaculate and the detail hes added is complete down to a roll of toilet paper and graffiti in the compartment behind the cab!

As for weed collection it'd be best to have to build a set of containers like Alexander has done, hes got the right idea with bulk loading size
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Post by ge_rik » Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:07 am

I hadn't realised how long your railway was until I watched the videos. Thanks, I enjoyed the ride.

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:13 am

Hi Rik sorry thats not mine! Thats Alexander (User Melbournesparks) hes another G scaler that lives around two streets from me and also models 1/24th scale Australian prototype, what are the odds!

There are a few early videos of the railway here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0VV24u ... riaRailway but none of them show the latest two yards or terraforming thats happened in the last few months. Ill try and make a new video to show it in the next week or two.
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Post by Tropic Blunder » Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:39 am

I realised its been quite a long time since I updated youtube so I cut together a couple of short clips of rollingstock from the weekend.

Every engine thats RC controlled was running (though not all in the video) which is a first for the railway. This did bring about some other problems as a lot of my older models use the supposed 3000mah NIMH available from but I've found that to be an extremely optimistic valuation. New batteries are in the post especially for the battery pack that I swap between engines as its cells have now gone into the DH. A big batch of LED's also arrived as I got sick of shunting in the dark with no headlights so the next few weeks will be spent retrofitting those and also working on a few of the works in progress that you can see in the video.

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(also please forgive me for not putting the buildings out)
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Old Man Aaron » Fri Nov 13, 2020 11:20 pm

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!
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Andrew » Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:10 am

I really enjoyed that, thank you! I particularly liked the scene approaching the new yard at about 4 mins.

A really nice variety of locos and stock - and was that lovely 12-wheeled clerestory-roofed carriage your new one? Looks great.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Mon Nov 16, 2020 11:18 am

yeah its quite the slope I really didn't want to have to build it the way it is but much like a real railway the land dictated the alignment. The exit to the yard is on the to do list of things to fix its gotten taller near the top and sunk at the switch so the DH's pilot gets snagged on the frog, a very frustrating reminder of how bad my tracklaying is.

Thanks Andrew, Where the small yellow diesel is a where two track saw tooth engine shed will be sited and an island platform will separate the two lines. Im still figuring out how to make a 8m long sheet of 1:24 bricks so it takes on the appearance of a VR station similar to Jolimont but we'll see how it turns out. The carriage is new as well but it seems none of the VR modellers on here have spotted it yet :D
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