Drink Drive world tour 2014 part 3

Hi All

After the Sydney exhibition we went north, it had been a long time between drinks, checking out the coal roads.  Wow things have really changed, QRN is here to stay!

 90 class locomotives now only seem to come in threes, I guess you can only buy them pre weathered and in a 3 pack?

 All I can say is QRN is everywhere up here.

 crew self portrait!

 And Glen has his own train, Glencore!  No Scottcore, Davecore or Dougcore, just Glencore.

 Blue or black?

 Desert runners, now working a Pelton Coal job, as the crew accept the modern version of NSW train control operations. Oh the indignity!

 If you weathered this in model form like this, people would say you have gone too far!

 TTs off the Mt Thorley branch.

 TT double cross?

 Interesting QRN cross over livery on this one.

 I am guessing the fiddle yard is just around the corner, and it is filling up, the join in the photo backdrop is well hidden!

 QRN job has an audience.

Too bloody hot to bother taking shots of three TTs I sort of agree with Dave, you can see Doug on the other abutment!  Glen we should have been in the Pub!

Enjoy Scott

2014 drink drive world discovery tour part 2

Hi All

Here are some more shots from the trip.

SCT015 and SCT007 on MP9 swings through an s curve created by the addition of the NG to Port Augusta

 Interesting container placement!

 Couple of GWA006 and GWA007 locomotives at the south end of Spencer Junction yard.

 GWA003 heading towards Whyalla

 The first PHAY.

 Dave notices that NR14 and NR24 on PM7s, NR24 has sticking brakes, we did the right thing and called control.

 Gladstone, grain train loading. 2216 GM42 and 2214

 Shadows of Commonwealth Railways, inside Peterborough round house.

 All gauges anyone?

 532 with the wrong sound chip fitted (EMD)

 Two lost 45 class locomotives

 looks like gemco still have some work.

 Next morning we found that the IP has beat us into Broken Hill. NR18 and DL50

 GM10 S302 B61 GM27 on the Kelso job.

 Check out the mods on GM10

more to come

Scott

the 2014 drink drive world discovery tour part 1

Hi All

Here is some selected pix from the 2014 drink drive world discovery tour.  With thanks to Dave, Doug and Glen.

 Three old war horses still giving it their all, up for a crew change.

Possible home for my Westrail P class in S Scale

Hi All

Need help, I have a Westrail P class in S scale that needs a prototype home, think I have found one, in the branch for the Swan Brewery in Canning Vale. 
The hardest thing is finding a location that could be used in dual gauge without stacks of work.  There are some obvious areas such as the Cockburn Cement plant.

The advantage of the Swan Brewery is that both NG and SG shunt movements occured during the one day.  I had a chat to Kieran, and he had shunted the joint a couple of times, and they used what ever locomotive that was shunting Forrestfield, so could be an L class on standard gauge. R class on Narrow Gauge.
If you have any additional shots of the branch or area, what wagons were used or how the area was shunted, would be real help. could you email me at scott.barcoola@hotmail.com?

 Here is what I have on the branch so far.
the track plan. looks like most of the trackage was dual gauge, at least two standard gauge only sidings on the branch. 

 What the branch looked like in 2002, most of the track is pulled up but you can see where it went.

Here is the trackage in the Brewery.

Obviously you could model this in HO using the new WBAXs!

Enjoy

Scott

Exhibit B shabby locomotive BNSF Dash8-40CW #874

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A quick look at Delta Yard yesterday afternoon, resulted in capturing BNSF Dash8-40CW #874
As you can see very shabby condition. May push the CP AC4400CW of the contender list.

I remember getting #812 crashing over the diamonds at Jolliet Ill, brand new running York Canyon coal trains, back in 1992.  Just goes to show what 20 odd years of grime and punishment can do to a locomotive.

exhibit A the winner of the most shabby locomotive in Washington state Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 9509

Hi All

While checking out the south end of Delta Yard, I found Canadian Pacific AC4400CW number 9509 thus I reckon this exhibit A the winner of the most shabby locomotive in Washington state.

 Looks like burn marks, a great weathering challenge

Here is the other side of 9509 from RRpictures.

I have a KATO CP AC4400CW that will be sacrificed in the name of replicating this locomotive.

enjoy

Scott

Paine Field shunter, I finally gotya!

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Finally after 4 years of trying, just before lunch I managed to snaffle the Paine Field shunter working up to Paine Field from Mukilteo.
I went down there on spec and then, there she was.

Enjoy

Scott