The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a Norwegian Garden Railway

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Post by philipy » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:06 pm

I agree with Peter, and the loco looks MUCH better now that when it was shiny green!
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Post by KjellAn » Mon May 04, 2015 8:47 pm

My Little John is back from a sound conversion done by Locoworks.

Here is a video. Listen, look and enjoy it ... :D
(Please ignore the shaking video - it was difficult to operate both camera and r/c-transmitter at same time)

http://youtu.be/zeWFFC5cMBE
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Post by KjellAn » Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:31 pm

Here is a new wagon for the PHRy - a Roundhouse "Three Plank Coal Wagon".

Heavy weathering:
The wood is stained with acrylic paint mixed with isopropanol. The brass was painted with rust colors and powder.
I also did change to IP Engineering 20mm wheels instead of those plastic wheels who came with the kit.

This wagon will probably end up on a siding filled up with scrap and junk.

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Post by philipy » Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:28 pm

Kjell,
That finish is so realistic, well done.
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Post by IrishPeter » Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:55 am

Like it! Suitably, and realistically grotty. Good job there, sir!

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Traffic Pattern? What pattern? Spuds out; grain in, but cattle, sheep and passengers are a lot less predictable.

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Post by Andrew » Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:27 am

That's superb! I'm inspired to return to grotty truck building...

Thanks for the photos,

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Post by Peter Butler » Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:37 am

I'm very impressed with the truck, but equally with the scenic work you have done on your railway which I have previously overlooked because of concentrating on your stock. Well done for a great job all round.
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Post by KjellAn » Thu Mar 24, 2016 4:32 pm

A little engine and tipper wagons has arrived at the Pine Hill Railway (PHRy). :D
The engine is a IP Engineering Orenstein & Koppel kit, and the tipper wagons are from Slaters.

This little train will soon run on a new line - from a copper mine to a loading silo.


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Post by IrishPeter » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:06 pm

I have he SM45 version of the IP O&K loco, and really like it. It can handle either a single coach or a couple of vans, so it handles an awful lot of the winter traffic.

Looking good as always!

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Traffic Pattern? What pattern? Spuds out; grain in, but cattle, sheep and passengers are a lot less predictable.

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Post by LNR » Thu Mar 24, 2016 11:19 pm

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!

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Post by ge_rik » Sat Mar 26, 2016 7:51 am

Great work, Kjell. Really impressed with the way you've represented rust on the tipplers and on that open wagon. I've never been happy with my weathered wood finish but the effect on that open wagon is great. I must give it a try.

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Post by KjellAn » Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:39 pm

Hello again ...

It's a long time since I have posted any news from my garden railway - due to work and other activities. Since my pictures at dropbox can't be seen here anymore, I will have to reload all the pics in this tread. This will take some time - but they will be here in some time.

Here are my latest updates from my norwegian garden railway - "The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy)".
New coaches and waggons. And new structures around a coming coppermine. Enjoy it ...


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Now I have 2 Brandbright coaches - I like them very much - next will be a Directors Salon.

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The last coach on the line is a kitbashed coach of a norwegian style. Second and third compartment (actually first and second in UK-term)

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A heavy weathered hopper - a Piko waggon given a lot of heart ... :P

Structures and lineside pics

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A silo made of acrylic and wood. The concrete look is plaster on the acrylic-boards - and weathered to look like old and stained concrete.
The building on top is made of wood and stained with some powder pigments and white spirit.


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Mickey got a lovely visitor at the workshop - Betty Bop ... :lol:

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The Minions at the gas-pump.

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Passengers at the station waiting for the afternoon-train.
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Post by Peter Butler » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:27 pm

Brilliant!!! love the coach stock and the hopper is superb... great work there.
Buildings look great too, worth waiting for, thanks for showing.
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Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:45 pm

I like the hopper as well!

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Post by invicta280 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:56 pm

I really like the purple colour of your coaches. What paint did you use? They look very smart.

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Post by IrishPeter » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:57 pm

Actually, both Great Britain and Norway had three classes of travel, it is just that you all had very little first, and after about 1910, we had very little second. If I remember correctly, the last 2nd class compartments on British Railways disappeared in 1954 when 2nd class travel was abolished on the boat trains. In Norway I seem to think the few first class vehicles were confined to the Oslo-Stockholm, and Oslo-Bergen routes. They may have made it onto the Oslo-Trondheim route, but I am not sure. Only one or two of A class carriages were built for the narrow gauge, and they were back in the 1870s! There were a few batches of Ao and ABo carriages built for the standard gauge side of NSB, but they were not exactly numerous - a few dozen at most. I think a couple of them have been preserved.

I love the kit bash into a Tertitten BCo!

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Traffic Pattern? What pattern? Spuds out; grain in, but cattle, sheep and passengers are a lot less predictable.

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Post by KjellAn » Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:20 pm

invicta280 wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:56 pm I really like the purple colour of your coaches. What paint did you use? They look very smart.
The colour is near «Victorian Maroon», bought in a housepaint shop (solvent-based paint).
I think the colour is very much like the coaches at the Brandbright web-site.
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Post by LNR » Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:09 pm

I too like the coach pics. particularly the Norwegian one. Buildings look good too, I like the rusty corrugated iron above the hopper.
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Post by ge_rik » Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:52 am

Welcome back Kjell, and what a comeback!! Those coach liveries are really great - a real contrast to the weathered buildings. I love the effect you've created on the concrete, and the rusted corrugated iron is brilliant! You must give us a master class in your weathering techniques.

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Post by KjellAn » Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:04 am

Thanks for all nice feedbacks. :lol:
The corrugated iron are actually tinplates from tincanes cut in pieces with a metal scissors. Drilled some 0,6 mm holes and nailed them to the framework with small metal nails. The roof is grey painted plasticsheets from Plastruct.
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