Sandstone & Termite

Some very nice models there Greg. Thanks for sharing.
 
Fantastic sequence on a line that really looks as if it works for a living. If I had a slight winge (well, I am a Pom!) it would be that some shots cut away just as the brake van goes by - usually a vehicle of as much interest as the loco and the rest of the train.

Please can you say what the square grey tank car (seen behind the weathered tank engine in one sequence) is for? Perhaps an auxiliary water tender for the locomotive or a wayside station, or else for fuel oil/petrol?
 
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Fantastic sequence on a line that really looks as if it works for a living. If I had a slight winge (well, I am a Pom!) it would be that some shots cut away just as the brake van goes by - usually a vehicle of as much interest as the loco and the rest of the train.

Please can you say what the square grey tank car (seen behind the weathered tank engine in one sequence) is for? Perhaps an auxiliary water tender for the locomotive or a wayside station, or else for fuel oil/petrol?
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I'll try to remember to include the guards vans from now on.
The grey tank is known as a water gin in Australia. As you guessed it is used for extra water for the loco (usually tender locos on long dry lines of which there were plenty in Oz) or for supplying fettlers camps along the line.
 
Great vid Greg. I particularly liked '#14' 2-8-0, it's an excellent looking and sounding loco. I've never seen one before - what is it?
 
Brilliant Greg always a pleasure to see your line and locos :thumbup:
 
Thanks for the promise of more brake van shots, Greg :) Also for the info on the water wagon. great garden line - always a pleasure to see it in action.
 
The water gin in the video belongs to Geof. Here's a link to his website showing the prototype and his model:
http://www.trainweb.org/btr/W Class...eat website - worth spending some time there!
 
Old Tom said:
Great vid Greg. I particularly liked '#14' 2-8-0, it's an excellent looking and sounding loco. I've never seen one before - what is it?
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First I have to correct myself - it's a 4-8-0 not a 2-8-0.
I thought I'd written an article on building it, but must have been in GscaleMad days. Anyhow, it's a scratchbuilt copy of a Dubs loco that ran on the Emu Bay line in Tasmania. I built it on an Aristo 8 wheel motor block #ART29357 from wholesaletrains.com Not sure if you can still get them. The rest is just styrene. My own RC and sound system which turned out to be the best I have ever made. Pity the loco is not the greatest - see this thread.....

http://www.gscalecentral.net/m108449
 
Another running day with 3 mates around and great weather.
I had only expected 1 other guy so only cleaned up about half my layout. As a result, with 4 of us, (and me trying to run 3 trains just as a 'test' of my multi-tasking abilities) we really had a busy time. This 5 minute video, captures some of the running.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sandsto...46/d4d085a29a85427893079498c53b7d1d.jpg[/IMG]
 
Nice one! Enjoyed (always like the rock overhang):thumbup:
 
Always enjoyable. Only sorry we didn't get to see the backwoods passenger stock behind the Climax.
 
GRASS is an informal gathering of five GR addicts in southern Sydney. Today was a glorious summer's day and declared a 'big diesel' running day at Keith's Bottle Creek Railway. I decided to just let the movie run instead of concentrating on filming trains. So the first 4 minutes shows the operators sorting out single line working. Even though there are 3 major stations, it's amazing how often all the trains finish up crowding just one of them.
It's not the most interesting 7 minutes, but does show us all having lots of fun.

Most of the trains are scratchbuilt, or heavily kitbashed. All are battery powered and controlled by Hobbyking 2.4GHz 'model plane' type transmitters.
Greg has the bright orange loco with the old time coal hoppers. Geof's is the yellow loco marked BTR for his Barron Tableland Rly, Bryan has the black one and Keith has the green 'RS3' with passenger train, and black centre cab. Mark's is the tuscan red Alco with the modern coal hoppers.


http://youtu.be/sOhgcYkL67Y
 
The Sandstone and Termite has to climb part of a 5m high sandstone ridge in my backyard. This requires 15m of 1:25 grade, then a 1m radius reversing curve to change direction (on the level) then another 10m of 1:25 climb. It's my favourite place for photos and for running big trains (well big in my terms) . The grade is not so much the limiting factor as the reverse curve.

This video shows a few trains on the scenic part of the line (Some of the line is next to the house and not photogenic, so never appears in my videos.) Here's my latest - I felt the need to run a double head diesel today - it's the 2nd half of the video.

http://youtu.be/wTtQ0ZBp3Ss
 
Just catching up from the weekend, thanks for the vid
That overhang looks great, love the twin diesels coming
out that rock face :thumbup:
 
The last day of 2012 was hot and sunny in Sydney. Five of us gathered to get in the last running of the year.
As always, all locos are RC/battery, mostly using Hobbking 2.4GHz. And as always that usually results in operational difficulties on the single line. I do not record these slight mishaps!

Geof's Stainz and green 0-6-2 tank (LGB) have MyLocoSound units that sound perfect.
Mark's maroon Commonwealth Rlys GM diesel and my similar unit in orange (USAT) both have Talking Electronics sound systems.

here's 7 minutes of the fun. The bright sun and dark shadows don't make for great photography.
http://youtu.be/u7eC6NSdJb0
 
Another good session Greg with plenty of interesting freight - some of those passengers must have a long wait between trains :D

All that slow-running has given me even more incentive to go battery powered. Just wondered how long the Stainz runs between charges as most of my locos are small 0-4-0s and I don't want to use a battery trail car

Rik
 
Great video Greg. Looks like it was anice day for running. I felt the warm sun in the video as i look out my artic landscape. I love how you have the tracks cutting through all that sandstone. Really adds to the RR.
Its too bad we were not able to meet up when you were out this way. That storm really messed things up. But all that overtime I did at work allowed me to buy two live steamers. Hopefully next time.
 
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