North East Victoria Railway

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:43 am

Cant disagree with you there Rod! It wont enter traffic for quite a while theres quite the backlog of RC installations before it gets it spot in the queue.

yeah funny that :lol: if you can lift the 7 1/4 one i tip my hat to you, it'd weigh almost as much as the pig I reckon...
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Mitch stack » Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:54 am

Great photos mate !, about time we did a run at my place now that the trackwork upgrades for the mainline are done!.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:30 am

Tropic Blunder wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:43 am Cant disagree with you there Rod! It wont enter traffic for quite a while theres quite the backlog of RC installations before it gets it spot in the queue.

I know what you mean about queues Jake. I have so much to do. Think that's the main problem with our scale of modelling, there's always something to do.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Just Julie » Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:13 pm

Great line and photos, :)

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:54 pm

There hasnt been much news on the garden railway lately, shortly after I made my last post I was involved in a 5 car accident and thus chasing insurance has become my new hobby :roll: . That said I came across a pair of large Radius LGB points which has given me a nice long storage siding near the balcony and a new 7 car long passing loop at the top of the line which will complete trackwork for the time being. Next I'll be focusing on buildings and rebuilding the elevated section of line with actual trestle bents instead of the current arrangement which was just so I could get some operation happening. I'm looking forward to the classic Melbourne weather settling in over the next few months it usually proves to be quite productive being forced into the shed!
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Those hideous passenger cars got a repaint, still lots more to do.
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Originally I bought the Van to build my self a copy of Rurr Valley Railways EEP8 (An absolutely incredible garden railway that used to exist in Sydney, protofreelanced based on the mount Lyell railway. Very much a ground breaking line and a big influence on my interests growing up) but I decided I'd be better off scratch building as barely anything survives of the original van in the bash
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TGR Y class print, this thing has been a nightmare but it keeps inching forward.
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The Y class again and the DH in the initial stages of being filled and primed. Im hoping to have pics of the mk2 W6 Melbourne Tram this weekend but we'll see!
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Mitch stack » Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:44 am

great work mate, looking great, thinking about printing a Thingyverse NSWGR signal box like the one you did soon if i can scale it up to 1:19 for my tramway to act as another building on my platform.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:53 am

Impressive build that Jake.. :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:37 am

The much needed track modification has finally happened! Quite a bit of earthworks has been done which means ill need to replant and start building buildings but progress is progress.
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The bottom shelf has been cleaned up and skips have been spotted ready to start fill works, the W&W managers new Ford can be seen parked on the right overseeing operations
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The railways D8H has been railed in sans blade ready for work
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A few days later and filling operations have been successful. The dozer is tidying up the last bits of ground ready for the station platform and buildings to be constructed
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A final view of the new upper terminus
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by philipy » Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:53 am

Looking good so far, Jake. Looking forward to seing the station with buildings now. :)
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Andrew » Mon Apr 29, 2019 10:36 am

That's looking very good - I like the work in progress shots with works trains and tippers etc too.

Those chunky diesels from your previous post too, very impressive!

It was nice to be reminded of the Rurr Valley line as well, thank you. I'd forgotten all about it, but I used to follow its progress regularly via the builder's excellent blog posts, and I liked it very much. I can really see the influence in your line, from the sense of purpose in operations to look and construction of the locos and stock...

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by jim@NAL » Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:03 pm

Looking good lovely pictures

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Sun May 05, 2019 11:33 am

Thanks guys for the lovely words, Im hoping it comes out as well as it looks in my head. The next challenge is finding some time to finish it.
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Mitch stack » Sun May 05, 2019 11:35 am

Lovely work on leveling out the yard jake! Looking forward to seeing more progress on your lovely line and maybe with one of my locos on it soon!

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Wed Jul 24, 2019 12:50 pm

Big update but dont let that fool you. Nothing has really been happening here! After 3 months of slog my car has finally been sorted so I can return to the Garden
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Apologies for the mess, there were some concerns raised about the MK2 W class print (modified from Mk1 to have the correct number of windows) being too narrow, this was correct, the extra 2mm in width makes quite a difference in length and height!
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the only train to run apart from the odd test, the MM is ready to depart the top station with its new timber wagons in tow
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seen here rounding the horseshoe past the new lawn ornament...
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My latest design successfully printed, the side for a SAR V class van. Victoria and South Australia shared a lot of designs and this seems to be a narrow gauge version of a common wagon
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apart from gluing some more details on the Mt Lyell conversion of the LGB box van is now complete
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Deja Vu! Dads #9 meets a friends #9 that was in for RC installation
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Not my railway or my model but i did knock up the axle box/springs for these bogies (any guesses as to what theyre for?) on the printer and Im extremely proud of how well they turned out! Should be a superb model when its finished.

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by philipy » Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:15 pm

All looking good Jake. Those axlebox units are superb, you have every right to be proud of them
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:45 am

Great update Jake. Agree with those bogies, they are brilliant. :thumbright: :thumbright:

Can you do a powered bogie? :roll: :roll:

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Post by Tropic Blunder » Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:25 am

Alexander (Melbournesparks) has used an axle hung 12v motor bought off ebay and ive been slowly developing a 3d printed mount for that purpose so the answer is yes, hopefully soon!

Thanks for the kind words gents
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:10 am

Tropic Blunder wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:25 am Alexander (Melbournesparks) has used an axle hung 12v motor bought off ebay and ive been slowly developing a 3d printed mount for that purpose so the answer is yes, hopefully soon!

Thanks for the kind words gents
Great to know Jake, thanks.... :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by Tropic Blunder » Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:08 am

Some random photos of the NEVR, Past and present...
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Re: North East Victoria Railway

Post by FWLR » Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:28 am

Big change there Jake. It looks great... :thumbright:

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