A site for my Model Railway Layouts:
Barcoola. This is take on Tarcoola SA the junction between the Trans Australian Railway and the Central Australian Railway.
A Town like Alice, my take on Alice Springs.
Murray River Bridge, my model of the bridge over the Murray river.
I thought I would put up some pictures from a trip to WA's Goldfields, the aim was to get some footage of the Aurizon and Min Res operations before they become extinct.
We were too late to get Min Res operations as they shut down the month before. But Aurizon did put on a show.
MRL005 and MRL003 stowed in Forrestfield yard.
Some MHPYs two pack hopper cars
Freshly painted DFZ2403
Stored in Avon Yard are some forlaun L classes, L3108 amd L3118
Still in Westrail sorta! L3113
LZ3106 in Aurizon "play scKool" livery.
NR27 rolls through Merredin with Great Southern Railways Indian Pacific passenger service.
6024 ACC6032 in the distance mid train are ACB4402 AC4306, have just swung through the points at Binduli heading for Koolyanobbing
ACB4402 and AC4306 pushing over the grade.
The Cockburn Cement shunt is handled by the lead locomotives off 025, heading to Parkeston is Q4012 and Q4014
6028 AC4307 6027 lead mid train remotes ACC6030 ACB4403
remotes ACC6030 ACB4403
Q4014 returning from the shunt with Cockburn Cement, here is a video of the shunt operations, with their shunter.
6023 crosses empty ACB4402 AC4306 and mid train ACC6031 and AC4301
Here is some video footage of the empty with 6023 on the lead.
With the fuel train from Esperance to Kalgoorlie taken over by PN, its now an awkward shunt movement, that is now too long for the run around, lots of complicated swithc backs now!
Q4001 awating a train order from Redmine, the BHP Nickle refinery to Kambalda
6024 amd ACC6032 lead a pile of Iron Ore dust in the wake.
6026 covered in Iron Ore dust, 26Km from the mine.
Q4017 hauls the remnants for Aurizon's intermodal fleet to Forrestfield for sale and disposal.
In bulk they are fairly cheap, 295mm by 1200mm by 10mm high, they come with a 240vac plug and transformer.
Thus in transit the Transformer can be removed from the light.
To hang the panels over the layout, I did some research on what would be available, I settled n Qubelok, from Aluminium Trade Centre.
I didn't want to spend time cutting up the Aluminium, or trying to figure out how it get it to fit. Qubelok does this for me.
They have offer a length of Aluminium with a 7mm leg, designed for glass inserts, I figured I could use this as a "shelf" to hold the LED light panel in. The Qubelok sections are 25.4mm wide so thick enough to protect the LED light panel inside the frame.
I designed a rectangular top to take the LED light panel, that would reach over the layout by 4ft 4 inches. Qubelok is available in custom lengths and they will cut that quite accurately.
frames can be assembled using leg Joiners, in the Qubelok library.
Thus you can have all this pre cut, with eg Joiners you want, all sent to you as a package.
Another design requirement was that the lights would fit in the back of the truck easily.
Thus had to be able to be easily broken down.
I designed the legs attached to the light panels to be short, and behind the back drop I designed stands with telescoping fittings that would accept the feet for the frames, thus it would be an easy assemble and dis assemble, IE no tools required.
