Mikaido Steam Shuttles in Hawksbury | Picnic Train - Richmond Steam Trai...

With spring being back, we roll out another one from Over the Border. We take a short day for the first of two days on the Richmond line to take a look at the Picnic Train's Richmond Steam Train Rides. Three shuttles were run between Richmond and Mulgrave with their flagship locomotive 5917, top and tail with 4836. 

This really is a short video, which sees the train for all three shuttles, then the transfer back to Riverstone, where the train stabled until the next day of operations.

We are trying to keep a balance between Over the Border specials and regular videos over the next few months, subject to operations from the mainline operators.

As our full flexible schedule is still ongoing, it won't be too long until the next video, so catch everyone soon.

AMRA Vic Branch Clubrooms Open Day 2025

G'day,

Hope everyone's going well, just casually pushing through with our more intense than usual scheduling atm while we burn through the last of this September backlog. 

Once again, we are back at AMRA for another annual open day.

This year is a little smaller, now that Murri has left the club, but to supplement that, Maryborough is on display, although not operational.

As usual the two main layouts are in operation throughout the day.

Cheers all, till next time.

Steam and Runners Pace Through Lakeside | Puffing Billy Running Festival...

G'day,

Been a little bit since posting here. The last few videos have been published while being offsite, so good to be back to regular publishing. 

Today we are back at Puffing Billy again. This time we head up on the first day of this year's Running Festival to take a look at some of their train operations.

Day one has the shorter races, which are centered around the Emerald Lake Park. Along with this, Puffing Billy still operated its regular four train timetable, with some differences.

7A and 14A took on the pace train for the morning, running as a double header for the whole day, and in top and tail during the Running Festival.

Anyways, enjoy this kinda long video.

Got a couple more videos to end off the month, so stay tuned.

Goulburn Model Railway Exhibition 2025 - Part 3 | Goulburn Model Expo 20...

G'day,

We're back for our last part covering this year's Goulburn Model Expo. This part covers the last nine layouts seen in the Ross Whitttaker Stadium. Most of these layouts have been previously seen before, but we get a little time to capture them again, in new light hopefully.

Anyways, we'll be back to big trains after this, so we'll be back soon.

Goulburn Model Railway Exhibition 2025 - Part 1 | Goulburn Model Expo 20...

Howdy,

We're back for another set of videos, along with our return to over the border. After the success of last year's inaugural Model Expo, they returned again bigger than ever. This year's Goulburn Model Expo was run on the last weekend of August. Divided over two rooms, 71 exhibitors we present for one of the largest regional shows. 37 of the displays were operational layouts, which will be shown in our first three part video for the year.

Each part has a base of 45 minutes of unedited footage, so stay tuned for the rest which are due over the next week.