Amateur fettler sent me some pre-war railcar plans a while ago, and last week I got to see some old prints from what I assume was the Wairarapa cars test runs (including Auckland I think). I've always wanted to make a model of RM10 Awara which was a freight version, and has a simpler body profile.
Then there's the track configuration and the layout possibilities of modeling the whole line (though it would take an age to run a train up as it would take far too long)
'Are we there yet?'
'If there is 1/2 way up a steep hill surrounded by smoke and gorse on a stinking hot day, then, yes, we're there.'
Its just so sodding tempting!
'If there is 1/2 way up a steep hill surrounded by smoke and gorse on a stinking hot day, then, yes, we're there.'
Its just so sodding tempting!
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I think it's a great idea.
I've still got my nz120 wairarapa railcar! balsa and photocopied sides onto transparent styrene! yay! On a Lima Geep! that's burnt out! yay!
Buuuut even using DCC, (go on, I just dare you to fit a decoder into an aitch class...)
how do you stop the train squishing itself in the middle with lots of silly loco's scattered through-out?
And you have to finish Paekak before you can start your next project.
Muir
You SO need to provide us with a photo of the beast, Muir!!
Muir;
-getting a decoder into an h would be a piece of cake, they were huge inside 9I keep wondering if a speaker would fit as well),
-to avoid derailments, you would need one driver per loco, with suitable punishments for accidents (like a swear jar).
-You should always aim bigger for unfinished projects....
It's not quite in the same league as anything on here... maybe if I took one of those bigfoot/nessie style photo's of a blurred fuzzy thing off to the side which one can't quite make out...
My RM100 is getting relegated to the 'it's going to end up looking really fuggly and embarrassing' basket, so now I'm keen on building a standard and another wairarapa....
'tis funny I've always thought the Upper Hutt to Summit side was a lot nicer - big hills, big scenery which fits into more of a shelf area, pakuratahi gorge isn't that wide, and running lot's of loco's including Dg's and De's, H's and single fairlies etc; I had a big pipe dream about Upper Hutt to summit to cross creek then looping back through the Rimutaka tunnel (isn't that a great photo of the opening day Df and train coming out the tunnel portal?) and then back to upper hutt, change loco's at Upper Hutt, then Summit, then Cross Creek, then Upper Hutt again but I've figured out I should actually try to make a layout that I might actually get running...
If you looped the incline area round and round like a twisty thing in the hills I reckon you could almost get away with under the table speakers - I don't think doppler effects is really such a big thing at 6mph...
So whats up with the railcar. is it a trackgang one or a homebuilt?
theres nothing that cant be fixed (you won't believe the hole I melted in mine with a soldering iron one night).
Either that or for a small fee we will take it off your hands.....
And we do have the technology to rebuild things too!
It's a homebuilt - even with a chrome exhaust - I'll have to dig it back out whereever it is - and it's a freebie when I get it together - I'll hunt this weekend, but I know I've still got it....
I remember my childhood pride and joy (a tt triang britannia) that I used to carefully put by my table lamp at night, and waking up one morning with a lamp thats leaning on a Salvador Dali image of soft britannia...
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