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serotta1972

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On 7/3/2017 at 10:34 PM, marknewton said:

School holidays have started, which means play dates and train-watching trips:

 

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The boys with a pair of Qube 11 class locos at Port Kembla.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

 

These look familiar, went to a Model Train Club Open House and saw these but in a different livery.  The owner was pretty proud and everyone was asking about his train and where it's from.  He only had 20 cars as compared to the actual 40 car The Ghan Train.  

 

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Yeah it was and because it was an open house, they had a lot of trains running.  This of course was the most interesting one.

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G'day Junior,

 

They're similar, but not quite the same. The models are of these locos:

 

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They started out life as the National Rail Corporation NR class. When NRC was formed in 1992 they inherited a very mixed fleet of older second-hand locos from NSW, Victoria and the Commonwealth. The NR's were ordered in 1995, and eventually totalled 120 locos. At the time they were the most powerful locos in Australia, and by far the most sophisticated. I remember well the first time I worked one - it was marvellous! :)

 

The models are by Austrains/SDS. Auscision are releasing their version early next year:

 

http://www.auscisionmodels.com.au/NR Class Locomotive.htm

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

 

 

 

 

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Last Saturday morning my family visited a live steam club track in Western Sydney that we hadn't been to previously, the Western District Live Steamers at Prairiewood. 

 

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The blokes we met there today were very friendly and obliging. One of the members was running this beauty on the 71/4" gauge track:

 

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Its a freelance 0-4-2 named "Emma". Mal, her owner, very generously let my son Harry have a little run of her. He loved it! 

And Dave, another member put Harry in the seat of his 44 class diesel loco:

 

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If you're in that part of the world I can highly recommend a visit.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

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serotta1972

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Thanks for the info Mark, I just might have to look into some Australian locomotives.  This also looks similar to the diesel your son is riding on.

 

 

 

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On 9/18/2017 at 2:21 PM, Kabutoni said:

Having a morning out with papa to let mama do some things on her own. Considering my son has the same energy output of his parents, every second must have value, so we set a goal: Tokyu Train and Bus museum, with riding trains. Departing from Minami-machida, going all the way to Jiyūgaoka and Shibuya, then Miyazakidai for the museum and home again. All done and back before the afternoon... My body is broken, but it was worth it. :)

 

 

Oooh, didn't know about that one: http://www.tokyu.co.jp/museum-2/index.html

 

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Pleased to say that plans to go ahead with our second local Japan Festival are now ready to implement.  Only a once a year indoctrination so far, but hey, progress is progress!  :)

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Meanwhile, on Planet Squidlet this whole "talking" thing is becoming very popular, turns out the little blighter actually remembers the words I've been saying to him for the last 6 months (he kept pointing at things and making me tell him what they were called), so he's suddenly saying things like "kei-an onsen" and after running through various possibilities I realise it's "Keihan Honsen" then he runs to his train book and opens the page and points to the relevant train and says excitedly "kei-an onsen!". Which is kind of weird because Keihan is not exactly local, I guess he likes the colours. Today at least we had "yamano 'en" . Drives his mother crazy.

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On 10/17/2017 at 2:34 AM, cteno4 said:

Lol, careful what you say! Little sponges and all!

 

 

He worries me sometimes... earlier I was trying to explain to him that the HO2 in the bathtub was not "omizu"  ("purupuru") but "oyu" ("hotty hotty"/"atchi atchi", this is not Sparta) so he pointed at it and said "water".

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On 12/10/2017 at 3:51 PM, serotta1972 said:

Thanks for the info Mark, I just might have to look into some Australian locomotives.  This also looks similar to the diesel your son is riding on.

 

Yes Junior, they're the same locos, my railway's 44 class. The model you posted is in the later, so-called "reverse" colour scheme.

 

The real locos are Alco World Series DL-500s, built under license locally by A.E. Goodwin and Company. Their works was not far from where I lived as a kid, my father would often take me there to see what was being built. As a young railwayman I spent many hours working on them. Later on in my career I used to maintain and run class leader 4401 when it was based with us at Eveleigh for heritage train operations. They're probably my favourite diesel loco, and even nowadays there are still some in revenue service. They're tough old things!

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_44_class_locomotive

 

All the best,

 

Mark.

 

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Hi Mark,

 

Thanks always for sharing your knowledge and insight of these trains and even better your personal connections and stories.  Looks like you're doing a wonderful job passing on your passion for and history with the railroads to your son.  

 

-Junior

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Last week at the Odakyū Family Festa we won two B-Train Shorty sets (1000 type, standard and Hakone version), so it was time to start making one... It maybe will take a few hours in total, but doing it in phases might not be so boring for him. He didn't like the opening of the bags that much, but I'm sure he'll appreciate the effort and have is own train to run on papa's tracks!

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Good training toni, in a few months he will be assembling all your kits, better eyes and more nimble small fingers!

 

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