Upon the rerelaunch of this blog, the focus is now on HOn3½ using 12mm gauge track, with prototype inspiration from the Emu Bay Railway, North Mt Lyell Railway, Mt Lyell (the Abt railway) and the Tasmanian Government Railways.
A room 3.0m by 3.0m is available, though with renovations impending filling the room is not a priority. Space for an L shaped layout3.0x2.6m is set aside with baseboards under construction.
Now modelling Tasmanian is hard work. Until recently there was no such thing as RTR in any scale. SDS have recently announced the Y class ready to run in HOn3½, an absolute boon to the TGR/AN (Tas) modeller. Alas a bit too modern for me!
Which brings me to unicorn poo and hen's teeth.
Way back around 2007, Andrew Collier built a small number of Emu Bay Railway models in HOn3½. You should check out his blog! I have recently traded the last of my O14 for some of Andrew's models. This gives me a jumpstart to actually having something to run!
Thanks to Brodie for trading with me, and to Andrew for building them.
The loco, known as PVH and numbered 21 was the Emu Bay Railway's first mainline diesel internal combustion locomotive. An ugly duckling for sure, but very important historically. It is preserved at the Derwent Valley Railway.
The first task is fine tune the PVH's Hollywood Foundry mechanism (at a minimum, the side rods on the other side are loose) and then to decide upon couplers and coupler height!
