I have lost contact with Brian Suddens in Ashburton. I am not getting responses to emails. I know Brian was unwell late last year. Brian, if you are on this...
Great find. The bonsai have great potential as bushes/small trees when you pluck the vegetation off and dip it on ground foam. Paul Napier 1a. Silver Fern...
Well spotted, Chris. I'd just like to point out that a much more discreet modification that should work just as well would be to embed some steel wire in the...
NEW Book: WOW! Just picked up a copy of "Whites Aviation" at 'Paper Plus' and what a classic it is. 290 full page aerial plates from North Cape to Stewart...
... That's a good thought, Peter. Much more discreet than the 'wire loop'. If I have occasion to use the RJ couplers on On30 models again I will build in the...
Hi John, Have a question has it got photos of Tokoroa Yards, I have come to a proplem with the scant material of what tokoroa yards looked like in the...
2 pics of Tokoroa & Kinleith but no yards. Rgds John A . Hi John, Have a question has it got photos of Tokoroa Yards, I have come to a problem with the scant...
Hi John Anything on the Woodville yard? Regards Gary ... From: John Agnew To: nz_railchat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:56 PM Subject:...
Sorry nada Gary. Folks I am away to USA now, back 23 Nov so sorry can't answer any more queries. Just go buy it, you will thank me. My wife is chuffed, she...
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I have an original published in 1952. The population at the time was 1,914,117. We had 3500 miles of State-owned railways and although air transportation by...
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Hi There while I was thinking about frieght in and out of a Paper mill, I was wondering what type of wagon would be used for Pulp transportation if the mill...
Pulp did get carted around the countryside in New Zealand, but not as you would expect it to be. It was made into a type of very rough brown cardboard and...
Hi Evan Thanks for that it helps me alot, I was thinking the pulp would have been in tank wagons as a slurrey, so with me modelling the Kinlieth Branchline, Z...
Im hoping someone may be able to help me with a Cedric Green drawing for an unrebuilt WW class ( See locomotives of Nz part two, page 147 )Am seaking that...
I don't recall seeing any four wheeled tank wagons on the Kinleith branch in the 13 years I was at Tokoroa other than on the weed spray trains. The special...
Hi Even I got it wrong thinking the 4 wheel tank was a turpintine wagon after finding the winter /spring isssue 14 1998 NZR Modellers Digest editored by Dave...
Hi all, It's probably been asked before, but, what was the font or closest word processer font we have now, used by the railways during the inter war years? It...
I don't know what the colour schemes meant, but you certainly didn't mix up what went into the various tank wagons. evan ... From: Richard Glendinning...
Allan Let me have your postal address and I will send you a copy ... From: "Allan" <allanmains@...> To: <nz_railchat@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday,...
Font as used where, Lindsay? Station names perhaps? If that's the case I can't help, there was no font as such to my knowledge, each sign being individually...
Hi Colin Thankyou for your kind offer. Les Downey was on the job in a flash and I had them the next morning! Sorry for not replying sooner, Jenny and I are...
Sunday afternoon pub quiz question. Can anyone tell me how long the 4 wheeled guards vans lasted as plough vans? I've seen pictures of them being used during...
I can recall and indeed photographed 4 wheel brake vans, with and without ploughs attached in the early 1970's parked up in out of the way sidings but I doubt...
Hello Ep 2501 - formerly F 10 was used by NZR from 1950 until around 1961 as a Ballast Plough Van - Now preserved at MOTAT. Regards David Maciulaitis ...
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