Easter on Sandstone & Termite

[gregh]

Easter Saturday and three of us (and wives) gathered to eat, drink, talk and run trains. Sydney turned on perfect weather (after being nearly washed away in March.)
So here's a few pics...

Keith had his LGB Spreewald out for a test run before he takes the hacksaw to it to convert to a 4-6-4.




Geof brought his Queensland PB15 class loco (from a Bachmann Big Hauler) and his 'Grasslander' coaches. Arriving at Ti-tree station.


and at Lilyvale, with Ti-tree way in the background


I ran my old #5 0-6-0 with my newest design sound system.



and my #20 tank - sitting on the turntable at Sandstone.


and as the sun set, we all headed home.....
my #24 at Melaleuca with the sun shining on the station roof.



and of course there is a video.....

 

[casey jones snr]

Very nice pictures and video Greg.

 

[dunnyrail]

Very nice Greg, good to see a Railway being runnas a real Railway and at sensible speeds too. Looks like Keiths suffering Spreewald has already had some hacking around. Be interesting to see the final morphing.
JonD

 

[ge_rik]

Great pix and video, Greg. Don't think I've seen the wheat train before. Like the new sound system on #5.

Rik

 

[mike]

Thanks for that

 

[GAP]

Great video Greg I love watching them.

The sound system on #5 sounds really good. Picaxe based?

 

[gregh]

Great video Greg I love watching them.

The sound system on #5 sounds really good. Picaxe based?

No not Picaxe this time. The loco is a Bachmann and has the 'cams' on the drive wheel to drive the chuff. I haven't been able to get a picaxe to trigger reliably from the cam. So this one is an analogue circuit.

 

[Hal Farsed]

Nice set of photos Greg.