About Me
I was born in New Zealand and emigrated to Australia (the land of the gods) in 1988
am a retired metro bus driver and my family of 3 daughters and the
Benmoor & Waitaki River Railroad are the major foci
of my life.
I would love to do a return trip to the US and possibly
visit the Motherland (United Kingdom) on the way home.
I am building the
Benmoor & Waitaki River Railroad which is a freelance mid-western layout and BTW it is not suited to rivet counters modelers.
This is my second layout, the first died a horrible death but this one I'll finish (providing I live long enough).
I co habitate with Rosslyn (Ros from Oz) who has the
Sandgate & Southern which is built in horibbly oversized (HO gauge) unlike my N Gauge ( Normal Gauge) model railway.
My railroading hobby interests include:
- Modern Freight Deisels particualy ACe herratage units
- I like the following roads NS / Uncle Pete / BNSF and MRL
I like Modern locos and classic American V8 cars(and shoes, at work I was called Emalda Marcos)
Benmoor & Waitaki River Railroad
I want my layout to include:
- Passenger terminal
- Main Yard
- Steel works
- Some industries
- A city scene
- A Staging yard
- Engine repair facilaty
The layout is wired for two cabs as my entire fleet is DC. Ros has devised a method to select a type of decoder (GE, early EMD or Late EMD) where the DCC system will become the alternate DC throttle.
Passenger Terminal
My
Passenger Terminal is stubb ended requiring trains too reverse in, it has 8 tracks and is a ground level design with butterfly platform canopies that service 2nd Generation Passenger Trains.
Trains leave via a loop & pass through the yard and on to the main line
Main Yard
My yard has facilities for parking,servicing and repairing locomotives and rolling stock.
I also have stub tracks for storing rolling stock and some though tracks for the asembling of trains.
Steel Works
I am building 3 Blast Furnaces,a Coke Retort, a Basic Oxygen Furnace an Electric Furnace & a couple of Rolling Mills.
The ore is delivered to the ore pit, the coal to the coke ovens & the limestone to the crusher.
The molten metal is taken from the blastfurnaces in hot metal cars to the rolling mills
I must thank Tom Barbalet from
Model Rail Radio for promoting our efforts down under her in Adelaide South Australia.
That's all for this time - until next time happy modelling.
