Brisbane King

Currently in Canberra for the foreseeable future. Modelling QR in HOn3.5. I dabble in NSW and have a few other odds and ends in the cabinet. No layout as such yet, but one day..

Another positive experience for M.B. Klein. Also have had positive experience with Walthers, although MBK has them beaten on price pretty much all the time.

Well there are plenty of options once you decide to go down that path and indeed freelancing can be just as rewarding as following a prototype location or road. There are a number of quite well known freelanced examples in an Australian setting, such as the Dutton Bay Tramway or Brindabella Railway. The latter using mostly American motive power but Australian rolling-stock in n scale.

Keep an eye on ebay and get to as many local (or indeed interstate if you are serious shows (air fares are cheap) for second hand steam stuff. The Trainorama 32 class is 450 RtR from Tom's at the moment. This is just one of the things we have to deal with when modelling something in Australia. You mean scratchbuild Australian prototypes or model a freelance railway in an Australian setting?

More amateurish collections, this time in motion pictures! Taken on todays ARHS QLD Division steam tour. *warning* don't have the sound up to high..

Took some photos with my phone yesterday. It was a miserable old day here in Brisbane, so the lighting wasn't great. Basically an empty coalie was waiting at Corinda station to head out West again. All coalie's are double headed. Their 2250 HP EMD 12-645E3 sound great. Its great hearing them roar up the flyover that starts at Dutton Park on the way to Fisherman's Island. Next time I'm at Dutton Park (which is every day since I get the train to work!) and one comes past I'll try and get it on camera. 0

Here are the photos I took during the QR steam driver training session. We have a perfectly ordinary suburban station just before 10am. Then this beauty turns up. Running just a "normal" all stations train through the city to Shorncliffe. Anybody could hop on provided they had just a normal ticket. Some people were actually just using to get into the city, it just happened to be pulled by steam! It was all part of a training scheme to bring in a new generation of drivers for QR heritage since many qualified steam drivers are retiring this year. Not the normal wooden heritage set, but the stainless steel SX set. When introduced in the 1960s, these were state of the art (with things like power operated sliding doors!) and were going to be part of an electrification scheme. That fell through and they were hauled by both steam and Diesel traction on suburban work, the latter until the SX set's withdrawal from regular service in 2000. QR sold most of the sets, some going to Thailand, a set ended up in Chile, others to New Zealand (where they are still going, though refurbished), one set was kept for special work with QR and some went into preservation groups (one up in North Queensland, the other at Southern Downs I think). The "swank" interior of the SX set. The seats can be flipped back and forth and they are sprung really well. They are dead comfortable. Taken after leaving Bowen Hills station I think, heading out towards Shorncliffe. Could be a bit hairy nipping between carriages when the trains doing full pace (since the SX tend to roll and jump a bit). During the run, most of the interlocking doors were locked due to OHS reasons. The tail. This was the last photo I could get. The train was running a little late and there was a EMU waiting behind us, so they got everyone out quickly to shunt the train into the loop and turn the loco and water tanker on the triangle. I had to get to work (damn!) so nipped on to the shortly departing EMU. It was such a nice day, and brought back quite a few memories of school trips in them (though they were mostly out of use by my time). Still, it was great to see Queensland Rail maintaining its heritage fleet, both in material and people.

This isn't modern scene, but it is modern heritage... but QR are putting on an all stations training run Mon, Tues and Wed from Ipswich to Shorncliffe. No special tickets or anything, just normal paper or go cards. I'll try and hop on at Oxley or Corinda. Hehe. http://www.translink.com.au/event.php?id=187 Don't know anything much more about it, but I hope to get lots of photos tomorrow or Tuesday.

Took this with my phone the other day while I was waiting for the bus at Corinda station. An empty double headed coalie heading back out West.

I shall have to dig out my photos I took when I visted the museum at Tinterfield in Northern NSW last year. ? They have a pretty good collection up there. ?

The only time it seas any serious use is on race day at the Brisbane Turf Club. ? Even at peak hour, its hardly used. ? I did the last passenger count it had very few people using it. ? Also, given how there is no longer any freight to Pinkenba now (the odd heritage train for Steam Train Sunday the exception), its very low usage. ? It was actually closed in 1993 due to lack of patronage, but was reopened as far as Doomben in 1998. ?

Looking good. ? Just a word up, if anyone is interested in a lot of Queensland pictures, try http://gallery.qrig.org/main.php for plenty of action.

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