The Blue Streak

Not quite a bird. But we do have this Bungarra (Race horse goanna, pop by quite often to drink out of the water that gets put out for the finches and silvereyes that visit our garden

Full moon last night. There seemed to be a lot of owls out and about. Parked up on various lineside scenery. Mostly the large white type as can be found in Western Australia. But the odd tawny frogmouth was floating around too. No pictures sorry, as we were rattling along quite nicely although they dont seem to be perturbed by the presence of the train. However a friend recently found this one near the side of the road. It thankfully survived the night and was dropped off at a wildlife carers the next day. By all accounts its doing quite nicely.

So the count as of today. 2 x Atholl ( one is horse shoe) 1 x montrose 2 x Nigel Gresleys (1 is horseshoe) 1 x silver king 1 x Early motor Bristol Castle 1 x early motor 8F 4 × 4mt tanks ( 1 has a wrenn lms body) 4 x 0-6-2 tanks. About 15 coaches varying from post war Gresley teaks to super detail MK1's. And about 30 various wagons, fuel tankers, vans, horseboxes etc. There is also some dublo platforms, stations, signal cabins, foot bridges, signals and turntable etc. More recent aquisitions are the must have breakdown crane and operating mail coach. Theres a tiny bit of 2 rail stuff and a couple of Wrenns awaiting conversion. Reading through that. Theres seems to be quite a bit in a relatively short time. Whoops. But it was mostly funded through selling off other collections of modern built gear. Yes Id definately say addictive. But a lot of fun too. Its So relaxing to pull one of these apart and get it running. Rather than the hair pulling experience of modern chinese made models. Today we are running tank engines.

Hello all, Bit late to this topic as Im a relative new comer to dublo. Having only been messing about with it for a year or so. I have read through the whole thread now and have found some interesting information. Personally I started into 3 rail with a little 0-6-2 train set. Which I had acquired. I was so impressed with it and the solid nature of the build quality on what was almost 70 years old that it was soon added to with more track and a 4mt with a rake of blood and custard ex lms coaches. I have pretty much sold off most of my modern built model railway collection and built a 50s style dublo trainset. (Definately not a model railway) I keep buying all these non running locos and with a minimum of fuss and a quick zap with the re magnetiser. Theyve nearly all turned into wonderful runners. Its a little addictive. 😂

What a fascinating topic. It's really interesting to hear different views and opinions. I have been down that path where Ive owned all the latest and greatest ultra detailed models from all the manufacturers. Strived to build the perfect model railway. Where every detail is as good as I could make it. Been down the DCC route and it just didnt feel like I was enjoying it anymore. I drive on the 1 to 1 scale railway and I could never quite get it to feel quite right for my tastes. A little while ago, I found an old Dublo 3 rail set kicking around. I set her up and ran it around and enjoyed it so much that I actually started selling off all my newer models, ripped my old layout apart, the funds from which more than paid for a decent sized collection of dublo 3 rail. I built myself a "train set" and just played trains. I keep buying all these non running 3 rail locos for parts, but with a minimum of fuss keep getting them all running. Cosmetically I leave them alone, as I feel the little nicks and bumps give them character and tell a story of their life. They are bullet proof, easy to work on and most of all great fun. The only tools you need are a multimeter, a couple of old meccano spanners and a flat blade screw driver ( I did however invest in one of Mr Dodds excellent re magnetisers). I have a couple of locos dating back to the 40s that run a treat after just a clean and service and Im having fun again. So in my opinion, "were any of them any good?" I think they were and are, bloody marvellous.

Boeing 737 on its way to a new home at White gum Farm in York West Australia as a display. Ozjet was one of the Airlines owned by Paul Stoddart, previous owner of the Minardi Formula 1 Team.

Nearly. 🤣 On the other side of the country. Bullcreek in WA. The Tornado is a new addition kindly donated by the RAF.

Tornado Spitfire and Jag on a recent trip to an Airforce Museum.

Good Afternoon Tony (and everyone else). I just this morning picked up My June copy of Hornby Mag from the newsagent. (Yes it really does take that long to get it, out here in country WA) I have to say it was a smashing read and the text and piccys were very good. I rarely buy magazines anymore as most of what I need to know can be found online, but I had to make an exception for this one (and of course the one with Gilbert's PN in it, earlier on). You should be well pleased with the results. Cheers Ted

Well said Mick. But getting back on to the subject of wings, I like the Idea of wings on an F1 car, it's part of the DNA of them since the early 70's and it's a look that people immediately think of if you mention F1. But I do agree that that should not only be reduced in size but also be restricted to a maximum of two planes front and back, ie a main plane and a gurney flap type smaller plane. As for all the other things you've mentioned, I think many would agree. Lets get back to it being the World Drivers Championship. Not a championship for the having most gizmos that get you to the front but cant run further back than first without losing all the performance

If this is about the cricket, No one in Australia is crying, as a general rule the Australian Public is totally peeved at the antics certain members of the cricket team, Just about everyone I've spoken to, fully support the bans that have been put in place and most of us think they haven't gone far enough. So I don't know where your getting your information from. Crikey talk about drawing a long bow to try and support an argument discussion about F1. (Perhaps your still a little miffed about the Ashes) PS if you learned a bit more about us instead of jumping to conclusions or making decisions on what you may have seen or heard in various Media, You might understand that, Yes We are mad on sport and Yes We like to win, but We don't accept cheating. You can have a look at the reaction from the bulk of Australia when the Essendon Football club got caught up in a drugs scandal a few years back, virtually the whole club (Players, coaches, medical staff and officials) received lengthy suspensions or lifetime bans and the bulk of Australians supported the punishments.

Using that theory, then Persimmon just above must be the Locomotive equivalent of Princess Grace :heart_mini: She's simply stunning.

I don't think I'm too fussed at all if there are close technical tie ups between teams, If it means the same 6 blokes aren't at the front of the grid every race and it brings some unpredictability to the racing with a couple more players elevated from the mid pack to mix it up, then bring it on. Back in the day a new player to F1 could go over and see the blokes from March or whatever and buy parts or even a complete car and go racing, Crikey even Ken Tyrrell and Frank Williams bought March cars from Max Mosley at one point, Graham Hill bought a car off Shadow, Rob walker bought various Lotus' (Loti?) it goes on and on. Williams were selling cars for the likes of Rupert Keegan etc. The same finger pointing was going on at Torro Rosso a few years back, so We all know it happens, I bet by next year there will be more of a technical tie up between Alfa and Ferrari. They should just make it open and transparent and move on, it's already happening. Remember all that time there were officially no team orders between teammates. It still went on but with some Academy award winning performances especially with Shuey and Rubens. So they just made it legal to stop the charades. As long as the parent team aren't seen to be manipulating the efforts of it's customer's and ultimately the results, then bring it on I say. Anyway, the current cars all look so identical to Me that they all seem to have copied someone, If you pained them all matt black, I reckon even the teams would be hard pressed to pick their own cars out of a bunch

Not sure if Jesse would even have been born when "It Aint half hot Mum" aired on the Tele. I doubt that in our PC correct world it will ever air again

Pretty Funny Ian. Geez I laughed.