This channel focuses on videos showing trains operation in N scale, HO and OO scales, building of models and layout modules in N scale as well as prototype railway videos, railway museum videos and occasionally other activities I attend.
It's a very sparkly clean place, but unless there are trains running, there's nothing dynamic. Not even a model train running around, that always attracts visitors.
Never been to Thirlmere, impressed with the clean and shiny locomotives plus the clean and uncluttered yard, a credit to those who volunteer their time...😉
I don’t recall seeing the usual roadside signs like in previous years. There is an exhibition list on the below link which may be of use. www.australianmodelrailwaymagazine.com.au/diary.php
I remember that style of locomotive at the BHP Steelworks at Newcastle NSW in the 1970's as their shunting locomotives, maybe that's where it was rescued from? Great clip.
Always ashame ro see them out in the open, the lack of money always the issue, surely Dorrigo looks like a scrap yard, but at least they aren't cut up having 100 million would be a start. How lovely is the restored sleeping car, built in an age before functionality was God, very elegant and loads of wood panelling.
Thanks for posting. I've visited a number of times. A great place. And as a Super Chief geek, so I'm glad they got 347C inside. (It was in another building that last time I was there.) And it's now close to the Cochiti! Perfect. That cab forward is one incredible choo-choo! Standing next to the driving wheels sure put it in perspective. And as I opined in another video about the museum, it's a place not just for railroad enthusiasts. There's a lot of history there.
I think this is the only museum that has Pacific Electric red cars that are operating.# 498 is over one hundred yrs old and n looks brand new, rides very nice.
Nope I was definitely driving, the Southern California Railroad Museum has a Run One experience where you get to drive the locomotive of your choice under instruction from an engineer socalrailway.org/run-one-program/
For those curious, at 2:22mins a GE 44-ton shunter makes an appearance, decked in New Haven livery. From wikipedia: Built between 1940 and 1956, it was designed for industrial and light switching duties, often replacing steam locomotives that had previously been assigned these chores. A potential project might be to re-detail the loco as an Australian variant, as four of these shunters were exported to Australia. All saw service on the New South Wales Government Railways as the 79 class, before two of them were sold to Commonwealth Railways, becoming the DE class. In Australia, the shunter saw service at the Dunheved munitions factory, BHP in Port Kembla, Sydney Central and the Evaleigh workshops, Woomera Rocket Range, Port Augusta, Port Pirie and even as far as Christmas Island. Examples are preserved at the NSW Rail Museum, Thirlmere, and the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.
Wow i they are all great layouts but the Newcastle layout is a standout for me and the binalong layout with the 42103 loco heading a wheat train was a cracker too. Cheers from John.
very nice .can you tell me what I will need to run marklin gauge1 trains in england central station 3 +60101 power box and what els do I need to get the power to the track? is there a special central station for gauge1? thanks barry
