37 minutes ago, Lantavian said:

Very nice. Or, as Google Translate tells, "muito agradável" in Portuguese. 

I to, have no knowledge of Portuguese! I’m fact I no very little about the area.

11 hours ago, Lantavian said:

Which raises the question, why did you choose this to model (it does look interesting)?

Well a few years ago I discovered a website called http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/internat.htm which is basically a catalog of all the working and preserved steam engines in underdeveloped countries, including a large section on java sugar mills. Then in November I got a book on John Fowler and Co, Leeds, who built ploughing engines and locomotives for the Sena Sugar estates. I googled the estates because I hadn’t heard of them, and found this Flickr account https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff-cooke/albums/72157627510045128/. I’ll link a video of a mill in Bengal to show what it would be like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJS14S8uV0
 

9 hours ago, Mikkel said:

A great choice for a layout. I've sometimes looked at those paddle steamers and thought it was worth doing the model just for those! I assume you are aware of the Facebook page.

 

Are you modelling any particular period? 

Indeed I have seen the Facebook page. I thought about doing a paddle steamer in the foreground but didn’t for the sake of space accuracy. I’m thinking it’s going to be 1924-1925ish, do to the more attractive liveries. (Gloss black tanks boiler and cab, gloss red frames and everything else, with bits of brass, seem here on the preserved Fowler “Zambezi”)

24 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

That's a striking livery. For the 1920s, you could even do this 

That might be possible...

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Interesting stuff. I knew about the Sena Sugar Co. Peckett locomotives - the very last built - now at Sandstone. Friends of mine lived in Marromeu from the early 90s until about 6 or 7 years ago when they moved to Britain for their children's education - he's Zimbabwean - Shona - and she's Mancunian. One of their daughters changed her name from Kudzai to Sinead, thinking it would be easier for her new friends to spell. (Well, they are living in Liverpool.)

I think only a few of the Pecketts were preserved at Sandstone. I remember reading something on http://internationalsteam.co.uk about them, and spent some ridiculous amount of time last night looking for it.( its not on their Africa page) And if I remember correctly, around 6 of them are kept in a shed at another mill in Mozambique, to act as reserve engines and are supposedly in running order. Nice engines though, I think someone makes one in oo9.

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Interesting stuff. I knew about the Sena Sugar Co. Peckett locomotives - the very last built - now at Sandstone. Friends of mine lived in Marromeu from the early 90s until about 6 or 7 years ago when they moved to Britain for their children's education - he's Zimbabwean - Shona - and she's Mancunian. One of their daughters changed her name from Kudzai to Sinead, thinking it would be easier for her new friends to spell. (Well, they are living in Liverpool.)

Found it, at least I think, might be in part 1, http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/sena01.htm

The Fowler at the bottom has been bought by a young guy in California I believe and is being restored very slowly.

(if it is in part 1 and it doesn't show pictures change link to http)