Hi there, Was just wondering if anyone has an update on the December issue of the Journal. Just making sure I hanen't missed it, thanks, Craig [Non-text...
God said to Michael, the Archangel, "I have striven for and achieved great balance on my newly created perfectlty balanced planet called Earth." Pointing, God...
Sorry people: change the reference to Colorado to NZ....see what you get when you pinch a story off another newsgroup. Oh well.......... ... From: "Russell J...
Grettings Gentlemen I wonder if someone can help me with some information regarding the NZR's Workman's Huts? The one's I'm refering to are the type that were...
If you go to Image Set 4 on Dean Arthur's website (link in footer to each page of our messages) you will see a number of Grant Morrell's models of workman's...
Most of my buildings are painted using the 'Resene' test pot. At around 3.50 they are cheap enough to get a couple of different shades of the colour you are...
Hi, Just a reminder (for those in NZ); TV 1, Monday night. Going, Going Gone, features a model railway auction. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Can anyone give me some idea when/and if side chains stopped being used on frieght wagons? must get the wagons on our layout looking correct! Cheers Ian ...
Ian, Having been partly responsible for the side chain move I feel a bit troubled by the fact that I can not remember the exact date! However, it was...
I can't remember, either, except that it was during the period when we had the portable layout set up in the old NZR amenities building in Carlyle St. That was...
Looks like 1970, give or take a day or two. A photo on the West Coast in early 1969 shows nothing but black tarpaulins behind an Ab, one at Lyttelton behind an...
A good reference is the Cousins Book "Pict Rlys of NZ"- P23 shows a Df at Paeangaroa Oct 69 with a mix of black and orange. P25 shows a Df at Otamarakau same...
I'll ask around at the club (NSMRC) Thursday night, a couple of the members are ex steam drivers, will see if they have a re-collection of them and times of...
Thanks guys. Those dates are close enough for me. I figured it must have been early post steam era. What make & name of the colour do any of you use to produce...
Hi, Getting a bit off topic I know, but can anyone tell me what the unloading method is for the little coal tubs used at coal mines. The ones with the U shaped...
hi Glen yep you'd be right in thinking that they were turned upside down to unload. yours in trainz Graham Baker Greymouth http://greytrainz.8m.com/ ...
Hi Glen On the video by Memory lIne, On Denniston. There is a short dshot of a Coal tub being emptied. They had a sort of cradle and the wagon was puched by ...
Now if you are going to model tarps correctly you also have to number them! It happens that I have just found an Invercargill section Circular Memo for...
Two of the NZ-developed PVC-coated tarps (there were earlier trials with other materials) were used for trials in the SI (mainly on timber from Greymouth to...
Yep - I have a photo of one of these tipping a wagon at the old Dunedin Gasworks around 1985 I believe. I think they were called tipplers. Peter ... From:...
Added a couple of pix from 'The Mine in the Hill' School Journal Part 2 Number 1, 1967, in the photo section showing a simple end tipping arrangement. In this...
Adam I will be in Pahiatua, Saturday 1 March 2003 and will photograph what is there Regards Ian ... Ian Galbraith... Interests. NZR Modelling in Sn3½ Ann...
I am a junior member of the hutt valley model railway club in Lower Hutt and I am interested in nzr 1.64 I am currently working on a layout of pahiatua as it...
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