Certainly, over the last couple of years my regular updates came down to monthly and then once every three months down to only a few a year. This has come down to being busy at work and home life being chaotic as well. I did get some little bits of railway modelling done on the side, but did not find the time put a blog together up until now. I have all of sudden found myself a on large break which should allow me to power through in completing my HO Layout of Muttama. I guess will start from where I left off from last time. The messy construction site of Muttama Rethinking My Approach to Mu ..read more

A Very Belated New Year Model Rail Post Over the last year updates have been a few months apart compared to the regular monthly updates. But 2022 saw the end of one Job and a start of a new job. Certainly, the new job has involved a new routine which took a little bit to get use too, but I'm glad to say, that I gradually getting back to the routine of my Railway Modelling efforts. It may be not as much time commit to it compared to previous years. But certainly what has been little nibbles here and there are now starting progress into much larger bites in progress. Oberon Railway Station in N ..read more

 What a busy month May has been for myself. This involved getting Narellan ready for the model rail exhibition at Rosehill, then the weekend of Exhibiting Narellan at Rosehill and a week later, doing a quick trip down to Albury to check out the Model Rail exhibition. Burrowa blessed its presence again at the Rosehill Gardens Great Train show Getting Narellan Ready for the Rosehill Gardens Race Course Exhibition As mentioned in my last blog, Narellan as a layout ran well except that I had failure with one of my Austrains 30 Class Tank engines which needed to be repaired before the Rosehil ..read more

The long story short, my railway modelling activity has been a bit low of late and I will go into that more to that reason in my next blog. But since my last blog in March, I have been rather active on the Exhibition front. This has been my main focus in this hobby of late. It is fair to say at some point, I do have to at some point enjoy running my layouts and trains that I have worked many hours on. Here is my overview on how those Model Rail events unfolded. One of the N Scale Layouts that was exhibited out at the Diamond Creek Exhibition Forestville 49th Model Rail Exhibition This has be ..read more

Model Rail Exhibitions in Sydney are back on after 2 years not being able to go ahead due to COVID. Here is the details of the first event for the year. Furthermore, I will be exhibiting Narellan. Forestville Model Railway Exhibition Narellan has been accepted to be exhibited at this Model Rail event. From the details that I see for this event, there are going to be some good stores and a good amount of very decent model rail layouts that are going to be on show. I would like to thank the North Shore Railway Modellers for the invite for this event. My Model Rail efforts for February  I ..read more

May has been a Month to get back on working on Muttama and cover some of the other minor remaining tasks for Narellan to get both layouts ready for the potential upcoming Model Rail Events in 2021 and 2022. Here is what I have been up to during the month of May. Gatekeepers Cottage Before the day of automatic Boom Gates where roads would cross over the Rail. A Gatekeeper was Employed to either shut the gate to prevent road and pedestrian traffic crossing the rail line whilst a Train was passing through and shut the gate across the rail line when no rail traffic was passing through. As the name ..read more

Just as 2021 was looking like that Model Rail Exhibitions were not going to go ahead at all. All of a sudden, the Kaleen Exhibition at Canberra and Easter Model Train Expo at Diamond Creek confirmed that they were a go. I ended up getting involved in the above mention two events which were only a week apart from one another. First one at Kaleem where I supported my Club Layout of Wingello and the other at Diamond Creek where my recently completed N Scale Layout of Jindalee was exhibited. As I have already touch on these Exhibitions already in my last two blogs, I do want to show some of the pr ..read more

First of all I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year with high hopes that 2022 will be a year of success. 2021 started well with a return of Model Rail Exhibitions that occurred in the ACT and Victoria which I was fortunate enough to attend. Certainly great to have them back after a year of model rail exhibitions being absent due to COVID. However, second part of the year 2021 not so great but a little bit of railway modelling done at least during that lockdown period. One of My N Scale 44 Class weathered models done in early 2021. 2021 In Summary First Success story of 2021 was the ..read more

Last Weekend saw the first Model Rail Exhibition within NSW/ACT Since the COVID Restrictions forced the cancellations for the 2020 Exhibition Schedule. For me it was the second event to support the showing of my Model Rail Club HO Scale Layout of Wingello. Further on in this Blog, I have another announcement I would like to share. Wingello on Friday Setup. 32nd Canberra Model Railway Expo For me personally, this has been the first time that I have attended this exhibition and I have to say I was very impressed with this event. Furthermore, there were a lot of high standard layouts at this eve ..read more

It's that time of year again where the Festive Season has began and we are about to conclude 2021. Certainly has been a year with ups and downs, but hopeful 2022 will deliver. Merry Christmas I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, a safe holiday season and the best wishes for 2022. Some mysterious Elf figure who thinks it is appropriate to block rail corridor at Jindalee Have I missed a Blog? Since my last blog, work, family and getting sorted for Christmas has been making me busy that I have not been able to find any time to work on my current model rail projects. The best that I ..read more