Sandstone & Termite

A few of us local GR addicts get together on most Wednesdays.  Everyone brings their own RC loco and we try to avoid any head-on meetings on the long single line.  Then we ajourn for coffee.
 
Here's a 5 minute video of yesterday's running day with 3 mates. Always makes for a busy time.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IJO5zG62E

Some very nice models there Greg. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic sequence on a line that really looks as if it works for a living. If I had a slight winge (well, I am a Pom!) it would be that some shots cut away just as the brake van goes by - usually a vehicle of as much interest as the loco and the rest of the train.
 
Please can you say what the square grey tank car (seen behind the weathered tank engine in one sequence) is for?  Perhaps an auxiliary water tender for the locomotive or a wayside station, or else for fuel oil/petrol?

C&S


Fantastic sequence on a line that really looks as if it works for a living. If I had a slight winge (well, I am a Pom!) it would be that some shots cut away just as the brake van goes by - usually a vehicle of as much interest as the loco and the rest of the train.

Please can you say what the square grey tank car (seen behind the weathered tank engine in one sequence) is for?  Perhaps an auxiliary water tender for the locomotive or a wayside station, or else for fuel oil/petrol?

I'll try to remember to include the guards vans from now on.
The grey tank is known as a water gin in Australia.  As you guessed it is used for extra water for the loco (usually tender locos on long dry lines of which there were plenty in Oz) or for supplying fettlers camps along the line.

Great vid Greg.  I particularly liked '#14'  2-8-0, it's an excellent looking and sounding loco.  I've never seen one before - what is it?  

Brilliant Greg always a pleasure to see your line and locos

Thanks for the promise of more brake van shots, Greg Also for the info on the water wagon.  great garden line - always a pleasure to see it in action.

The water gin in the video belongs to Geof. Here's a link to his website showing the prototype and his model:
http://www.trainweb.org/btr/W%20Class.pdf
 
He has a great website - worth spending some time there!

Old Tom


Great vid Greg.  I particularly liked '#14'  2-8-0, it's an excellent looking and sounding loco.  I've never seen one before - what is it?  

First I have to correct myself - it's a 4-8-0  not a 2-8-0.
I thought I'd written an article on building it, but must have been in GscaleMad days.  Anyhow, it's a scratchbuilt copy of a Dubs loco that ran on the Emu Bay line in Tasmania.  I built it on an Aristo  8 wheel motor block  #ART29357  from wholesaletrains.com   Not sure if you can still get them.  The rest is just styrene.  My own RC and sound system which turned out to be the best I have ever made.  Pity the loco is not the greatest - see this thread.....
 
http://www.gscalecentral.co.uk/f/m108449.aspx
 
 

Another running day with 3 mates around and great weather.
I had only expected 1 other guy so only cleaned up about half my layout. As a result, with 4 of us, (and me trying to run 3 trains just as a 'test' of my multi-tasking abilities)  we really had a busy time. This 5 minute video, captures some of the running.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sandstonetermite
 
(the video is named Grass run day 28-11-11.    for some reason I can't get the direct link to work here.  )

 Also running but not on the video, was Bryan's new purchase.  I think it's a Newqida (sp), but for sale here in Oz at $90 including RC !  It's all plastic, but looks pretty good.

 
 
 

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Nice one! Enjoyed (always like the rock overhang)

Always enjoyable.  Only sorry we didn't get to see the backwoods passenger stock behind the Climax.

GRASS is an informal gathering of five GR addicts in southern Sydney.  Today was a glorious summer's day and declared a 'big diesel' running day at Keith's Bottle Creek Railway.  I decided to just let the movie run instead of concentrating on filming trains.  So the first 4 minutes shows the operators sorting out single line working.  Even though there are 3 major stations, it's amazing how often all the trains finish up crowding just one of them.
It's not the most interesting 7 minutes, but does show us all having lots of fun.

Most of the trains are scratchbuilt, or heavily kitbashed. All are battery powered and controlled by Hobbyking  2.4GHz  'model plane' type transmitters.
Greg has the bright orange loco with the old time coal hoppers.  Geof's is the yellow loco marked BTR  for his Barron Tableland Rly,  Bryan has the black one and Keith has the green  'RS3' with passenger train, and black centre cab.  Mark's is the tuscan red  Alco with the modern coal hoppers.
 
 
http://youtu.be/sOhgcYkL67Y

 
The Sandstone and Termite has to climb part of a 5m high sandstone ridge in my backyard. This requires 15m of 1:25 grade, then a 1m radius reversing curve to change direction (on the level) then another 10m of 1:25 climb.  It's my favourite place for photos and for running big trains (well big in my terms) . The grade is not so much the limiting factor as the reverse curve.

This video shows a few trains on the scenic part of the line (Some of the line is next to the house and not photogenic, so never appears in my videos.)  Here's my latest - I felt the need to run a double head diesel today - it's the 2nd half of the video.
 
http://youtu.be/wTtQ0ZBp3Ss

Neat Gregh.  Sure is very photogenic up the sandstone ridge.

Just catching up from the weekend, thanks for the vid
That overhang looks great, love the twin diesels coming
out that rock face