Wottamodara NSWGR HO scale layout

Nice carpentry/bench work you have done there, it looks really sturdy.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Good one Robbie,...
That`s very neat joinery and will pay dividends with reliability in the long run.
Is this an exhibition layout or home based.?
Gormo

 

Coming along a treat mate. Nice CPH rail motor... Now I won't say you were pressured into buying that..., will I ??

You got any pics of the prototype your modelling ?

Cheers, Gary.

 

How good did the station look back in 1963 with the pot plants ! I like the lamp at the end of the platform, a nice touch.

Cheers, Gary.

 

It was a great weekend overall. The NMRA meeting was a blast and we all got to meet up with other modellers on the Saturday.
I think the members of the Illawarra club may have been a little concerned as we were the last to leave !

As Robbie has stated, he came up to Sydney and stayed the night so I could assisted him with his build of the station building. It has really come up great. Two more smaller building to be scratch built then onto a unique goods shed.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Looking good mate. I get a feeling you'll have something to post after this coming weekend...

Cheers, Gary.

 

Thanks for the shout out Robbie.

It was a great weekend and it was also good to see that everything we talked about doing, actually got done ! There was one point where it looked like nothing had been completed and this was after the installation of the Control-it pcb sleepers and then the task of adding the missing sleepers where flex track met points etc.

A quick tutorial on using the airbrush and Robbie was on his way, painting the sleepers and rail.

Overall we had a great weekend of modelling, laughs, a few drinks and good food at the pub and over the weekend it was great to watch the layout evolve.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Robbie was back up in Sydney on Friday night attending an NMRA meeting on Saturday and we both worked on scratch building his SO41 Grain Silo on Saturday night to the wee hours of the morning and then today (Sunday).

Robbie had the main structure completed and only needed a hand with the roof and header house.

A tonne of measuring twice, three times, four times and a lot of trimming here and there we finally got to this point in the build. You can see the silo in the photo in post #7 beyond the station and loading bank.

Cheers, Gary.

 

I thought I would share a few update photos of Robbie's Wattamondara layout.

The fiddle yard/staging at the rear of the layout. This allows two Up trains and two Down trains to be stored as well as a through running line...

The curved sections that join the scenic section to the staging.

After some consultation, I and good friend James McInerney suggested that the silo road on the right hand side of the scenic section needed a through road. I sent Robbie a few track templates and during the weekend in October, we installed a curved point and added the extra run around track

This pic shows how a bogie wheat wagon and two smaller four wheel wheat wagons can be stored. Another three can be stpood under the silo as well. Having the space for 6 mixed wheat wagons will certainly make a difference.

Also during the October visit, we got all the wiring sorted out. Robbie decided on Tortoise slo-mo motors for the scenic section and a mix of Peco and Seep solenoids for the staging.
Here is a photo of the two separate panels, foreground is the scenic section, rear panel the staging.

Some nifty plugs were used throughout the layout modules. This made wiring easy, although I did manage to solder one wire onto the wrong tab, but that was immediately fixed.

The railway crossing started to take shape as well...

Between the visit over a few days including New Years, we kicked along with the scenery. Robbie has requested that I do not post any photos of the scenery work as the official unveiling will be at The Murray Railway Modellers Model railway Exhibition in May.

In late January, Robbie had a weathering session with James McInerney and he produced two stunningly weathered locomotives and also a CPH/CTH DMU.

I just returned home on Monday evening after a visit back to Robbie's where we worked on the grain silo, putting up the back scene and I scratch built a couple of water tanks for the station platform. I also scratch built the platform fencing following photos of the prototype.

Robbie painting the silos to replicate the silos at Wattamondara.

Scratch built water tanks. I also soldered some 0.6mm brass wire together for the tanks tap.. The cigarette lighter gives you an idea of the size of these tanks. This unusual figure 8 tank would be approximately 16mm high.

This platform tank is 19mm high, the stand makes it approximately 24mm high...

An overall shot of the platform with all buildings inn place, although not all of the platform fencing.

This second photo shows the rest of the fencing I scratch built on Monday morning. This section was the hardest due to all the different angles.

Anyhow, that's a quick update on the works that have been completed since the previous post from the 15th of July...

cheers, Gary.