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FEBUARY
2012
Been
a busy month for the Railway with BBQs & running days. We saw
the New Year in with trains running into 2012 with friends
& family all enjoying the night! We also had 2 families from
Timaru visit with all the kids taking turns at running trains
& of course Thomas was the main attraction! The following day
I had time to myself with F72 having a run, as below & more pictures
of the running day in {Picture
Gallery}. We
were also lucky enough to be included in the layout tours for the
New Zealand Garden Railway Convention 2012 hosted by the
Christchurch Garden Railway Society {Shows
& Events}.
{Ja1268}'s boiler now has a steam
& a sand dome plus boiler bands! So things are starting to
progress there as well. The rock face in the shed has been fine
tuned with bushes being added & they are even appearing in the
ballast {Inside
Layout Construction}.
Above;
Visiting LGB Train from Chch, this is the first time a model of an
electric loco has run on the railway & no I am not going to
put in over-head wires!!!
JANUARY
2012
Well
I hope everyone had a great Christmas & Santa was good to you
all!!!
The
{Yj
Hopper} is finally
finished & has entered service so that brings the Yj
construction technique to a
close. (will have to think of another project now].
Ballast has been graded, layed & glued in place on the inside
main line & loops. Paint has also been splashed around to tidy
things up a bit as well all can be seen here {Inside
Layout Construction}.
Ja 1268's boiler now has a steam dome, this was added after alot
of thinking & measuring as I only had one shot at this to get
it right! Pictures next month. Below; AFRs freelance saddle
tank is on work detail clearing all the old ballast thats been
laying beside the outside loop for years!!!!
Well
I hope everyone has had a great New Years & may 2012 bring
plenty of Running days & may all our modelling time be
plentiful!! Jokes aside may everyone have a safe, healthy &
prosperous 2012, happy modelling.
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