The New Toronto an update

 
 

A Pictorial update

Toronto yard with catch points , run around loop and small goods shed by the road corner Wharf rd and and Victory Pde.

Longer shot showing where Toronto Station will be situated

Starting to add scenery this is where the old Toronto Station and yard was situated, you can see where the old track has been lifted.Behind the trees is where the crossover at Fassifern is on the Sydney end.

HUB car Buffet /Second RFH 2233

For this shade of tint I used a "Tudor" green document folder bought at office supplies stripped using a Tracksetta gauge and glued onto the existing windows with kwik grip .

HUB car Tinted windows

Tinted on left clear on the right

I think the one on the right ???below

Tinted Windows experiment for HUB cars

I went up to the shops with one of my daughters to buy her School books for the year and helping her choose what she needed i saw green see through soft plastic covers. I bought 3 different shades of green and I already think the lightest green will do the job as once both sides are done it will seem darker.Here is what I bought as well as tamiya translucent green .I will post pics soon experiment

Eureka HUB Car PFH2217

Hi All Happy New year !!

Here is a series of pictures of Eureka models HUB car PFH2217. I dont know anything about the car so I wont compare it to the real thing . Well worth the wait I might have to add 2 more cars to make up the Flyer later on . Place it on the track and the interior light comes on as well as rear red markers. Windows are clear . Now need to buy some passengers and fill the seats.

The End

Hi All my layout has been asked to move so as it sits now its the end. I always new it was going to happen thats why nothing has been glued down. My orignal plan was to do Cockle creek but to do it justice 4.8metres was not long enough. Then I stumbled on and old track plan of Fassifern and it worked in 4.8 metres with  modellers licence. But I wanted to do an Exibition layout(not anymore) of it ,but i need another 2metres of straight line track before it returned to a fiddle yard. I made the end curves very sharp about 18". Well fingers crossed my new trainroom/garage is about 8-9 steps long so ill be able to have Wakefield Rd bridge and the start of Fassibank on the straight and not curved. I also hope to move Toronto away from the main module as it is now to the proper track plan of a station and on to the yard. Well time will tell , im dredding the move at least i wont have any fish tanks to move!!!

Out of at Toronto

I've researched and asked on forums, but havent been able to get close up picture of Toronto's goods shed.In the Byways 20 states that the shed measures 16'x20' and from long shot pictures of it show it has an "A" frame roof. At Loftus Convention at Bergs stand I saw the little "Out of shed" so I purchased one at the Liverpool show and in the notes it states it has a footprint of 13" x 20" and has an A frame roof close enough for me. Started construction and the main building is 1/2 finished here is picture of the progress so far.

Info needed !

1Im after front on pictures or info of the down Fassifern station timber buildings of the 60s .The closest room to the walkway appeared to be a standard NSWGR waiting room but the other building is not known can anybody help.
use this link to view buildings
http://westonlangford.com/media/photos/109009.jpg
2.A picture of the inside of the signalbox on the main Fassifern station and what colour was it painted and what were the internal walls made of lined timber or brick?
.3 Also was the Toronto goods shed an "out of" shed ? Close picture needed.
Thanks Peter

SDS ATLANTIC Tulloch 10,000 gallon Rail Tank Car

@$44 whats wrong ??? a great model at a great price

Out of the box

Weathered with Floquil paint straight out of the bottle grimy black and then mixed with rail brown

Southern Highlander Steam tour

Now for something different.As a kid growing up I lived in Ashfield our Town house complex backed onto the Railway line next to the Telecom complex so i didnt have very far to watch trains go past. We moved there from Fairy Meadow and our house also backed onto the railway line there so a slight interest started there.Our next door neighbour at Ashfield, was a keen Steam enthusist and he introducd me to the Rail Transport Museam at Enfield in 1971 .Steam was well and truly being withdrawn enmass ,and being delivered to the Bullring at Enfield.I had a job as a paperboy around Ashfield as spent most of my wages on RTM tours and developing pictures taken on tours and at Enfield.Whats this got to do with the "Southern Highlander" then,well 39 years after my last steam tour which was proberly the 6042 goodbye trip to Bargo and Glenlee coaliery my wife bought me/us a ticket on that tour,and what a day it turned out to be. When she bought the tickets the tour was to leave Central and go via Campbelltown and onto Robertson we would get on at Campbelltown as we live on the Narellan side of the M5 ,do the tour return to Central and then cityrail train back to the car at Campbelltown. A couple of weeks later Heritage Express sent us a letter stating that their was a change in direction of the tour,going via Sutherland and up the Illawarra escarpment, that little piece of info just save us 3 hours at the end of the day!!yes. I rang the RTM and requested seats facing forward we booked very early and the response was "how do I know which direction the carriages will be facing once at Central" Ok thanks. We arrived at Central 40mins before the tour was due to depart and one thing I could not believe was both ARHS and RTM bookshops were closed and with 400 odd passengers??? (so I heard on the train) and no bookshop open. Ok grab a cappicino and on to our carriage "D" .I saw that there were 2 diesels on the rear and then 2 old HUB set cars ,generator terminal car and the Diner car that was decked out for a function as it seemed, why they were on their i dont know. Found our seats and guess what we are sitting in reverse in a "CN car" oh #hit we said to each other. By the time the train departed Central no one had emerged to fill the seat,yes!, next pickup stop was Hurstville and the Sutherland . As the carriage attendant informed us they were a no show so we could not only sit forward but also able to strech out. Passed the old primary school Towradgi Public and also the old house at Fairy Meadow its now 2 story.

Enter the climb up the Illawarra escarpment ,ive never been on this line before and here is a 5 minute video of the climb.Hope you enjoy ,sorry about the wind noise . The tour was great my wife enjoyed it and we had lunch at Burrawang at our stop at Robertson. Then to top the day off we got off at Campbelltown picked up something for dinner arrived home and the tour train was still 10mins out from Central via the timetable, and to top the day off my Rugby League team had a good win.