To start us off we have another steam shuttles, this being Steamrails Union Shuttles held on the 29th of March. The OG shuttle Ks joined up again for the day of shuttles.
This month is planned to be a slower month than last, so not too many videos, but we'll see who we go.
Time for part two of our coverage of the Sandown Train & Hobby Show for 2025. This part is slightly larger than part one because I made a few balancing issues, but here we are. We take a look at 17 more layouts from the exhibition.
Hope everyone's enjoyed the pair of videos.
We will take a little break for a couple of days from uploading, as we have no videos planned until past the next weekend, where the next video is currently due on the last day of the month.
We're back again, with another exhibition video. Haven't been able to post for the last few videos due to a n issue on YouTube's side not wanting to put out share links, but here we go.
Today we are back for the annual Sandown Train & Hobby Show, or as we like to call it, Sandown's Model Railway Exhibition, as over half of the exhibition is for the train part. We spend a full day attempting to capture as much as we can, and this time due to the size, are limited to just the train components of the exhibition. This video has also been split into two parts.
Anyways, good to be back again, where the exhibition is slowly growing it's focus on layouts rather than traders.
Anyways, will be back in a couple of days for part 2. So stay tuned.
With our flexible schedule in full swing, w're back on the MTMR layout. It hasn't been too long since our last unboxing, but trailing out a more prompt response the new products this year, even though, there aren't too many models planned for collection this year.
Anyways, today we go Victorian with the well awaited SDS Models K Class. The popular models have seemed to have been flying off the shelves, for some types anyways.
Anyhow, this is our look of one of the variations.
As stated in the video, dunno when our next unboxing will be, however, the exhibition scene is starting back up again, so stay tuned for those.
We're back at it for another chase, this time being a day trip to Victoria's western region. S301, S313 and T364 teamed up once again for another tour, but his time operating in top and tail down the Ballarat line and onwards.
Anyways, we capture most of the operations through the heat.
Well, we have now returned to our flexible scheduling, but we're gonna start things off slowly, with some weekly uploads before we may have breaks of up to a fortnight.
Anyways, to start us off, we have a little video from our most recent venture up to Puffing Billy. This day saw some rather odd and rare operations due to the operation of a 16-carriage train for two of the three services.
Anyways, next video will be subject to what is filmed, so hopefully catch everyone soon.
Also, with this, our vlogs channel should be able to resume from the end of March.
We're back on the MTMR railway today with a new HO unboxing video.
This time, we stretch out era a little, acquiring something that isn't really related to our main theme, but still a nice to have joining our DL Class for operation. Today we take a look at Auscision Model's new CLF class model. This is the class leader.
Anyways, good to be back in Australian modelling.
This is also our last extra video as part of the holiday scheduling, as we return to our flexible schedule. As usual this'll see videos uploaded when they are ready rather than being limited to a schedule. Quotas will be at least 3 videos a month from March, not including second parts.
Well, we're into the last week of our holiday scheduling, and we continue with our more current videos. This year marks the year of the snake on the lunar calendar, for this, Steamrail Victoria operated their heritage Tait train to the Lunar New Year Festival in Glen Waverley. The shuttles ran between Darling and Glen Waverley, and we capture the train at each of the stations along the line.
Anyways, shall be back again later in the week, so stay tuned.
We complete our last successive weekend of travelling around the state. This time we are out in Albury for a quick little day trip, capturing the Lachlan Valley Railway's Murray Valley Rattler. We stay located in the Albury area, and also see the XPT services that pass through.
Anyways, a rather short video compared to our last couple of videos.
We're back for another round of exhibitions, and to finish off our January coverage, we head down to the Greater Geelong area for the Corio Model Railway Club's 50th Model Railway Exhibition.
This year they returned to The Centenary Hall which has since been completely renovated. A decent sized gathering of exhibits this year, however we are still able to complete our comprehensive coverage in a single video.
Sit back and relax as we take a look at this year's exhibition, which will also be the last one for the next couple of months, with no planned exhibition videos until March for us.
On Australia Day, Steamrail operated a day trip to Rochester with their diesel fleet. This was also the first time S301 has led a public heritage train since being acquired. This video captures the train on both legs of the trip to Rochester, making the video one of the longest heritage chase videos we have uploaded.
It was decided to not split the video as there was no good splitting point for a day trip, so here we are.
Sit back and relax for our first new heritage video for the year.
Our next video has been delayed due to this video, and will be uploaded on Friday. This will be the exhibition video, which I'm expecting to be around the same length. Till then, cheers!
Last video missed out a post, but we are now in our holiday season again, so until the 17th of February, we've got two videos per week.
Today we travel out to another exhibition, once again, one we are yet to have gone too.
The Phillip Island & District Railway Modellers ran their annual exhibition last weekend, with a range of in-house club layouts were on display, along with some visitors.
Once again, this was another smaller regional size exhibition, with a few previously seen layouts as well as some new ones.
Anyways, a nice little exhibition.
More to come with the year just beginning. We are attempting to keep exhibition videos spaced out, so next weeks videos are gonna be a little backwards, but in any case catch everyone again soon.
Today we have an extra video to the schedule due to the decision to split our Warrnambool Exhibition video.
Anyways this time, we take a look at the last eight layouts at the exhibition, completing our comprehensive coverage of this year's show.
Next week, our holiday schedule resumes for four weeks, throughout these we have not planned for any two part videos, so, so there are no provisions for any extra videos beyond what have been planned.
It's intended on a mix of exhibition, heritage and backlogged videos to take up the bulk of the holiday scheduling.
We're back with our first video to be filmed for the 2025 season, and like last year, we found ourselves in Warrnambool. We take a look at this year's Warrnambool Model Railway Exhibition, which encapsulates around the same size as last year's exhibition.
The video has been split into two parts due to it being just slightly over our maximum length for uploads, so an extra video is due out later this week to accommodate that.
This is the first of many model railway related videos that will still be uploaded to the main channel, rather than the dedicated model railway channel, so hopefully everyone enjoys.
Behind the scenes, we are still in our break season, so this is a video from our backlog.
Mid-last year, an extra video was recorded, this being a charter with 707 Operations.
The feature of the tour was the combination of two V/Line A class locomotives at the helm. A66 led the weekender that had ran up to Echuca the previous day, with recently repainted A62 and PTV N471 as assisting locomotives.
We capture the train though the morning freeze of country Victoria, finishing up in the inner suburbs.
Will be back next week for our next video, however a video for our other channel is in the works at the moment.
