Monday, 28 October 2024

Ten-Wheeler's Steam Shuttles & Return Transfers - Transport Heritage Exp...

G'day,
Time for our second part of our coverage of this year's NSW Transport Heritage Expo.
This part it's all about steam, and the transfers after the weekend.
This year, two ten-wheelers were the only steam locomotives to be present, with both operating the steam shuttles. C3526 and C3265 operated in tandem for the shuttles along with diesels 4201 and 4501.
We will be back to Victorian videos for a little bit after this, but this shouldn't be the last of our NSW videos as of yet.

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Sunbury Model Railway Exhibition 2024 | Sunbury Model Railway Club

G'day all.
Time for our last exhibition video for 2024. On the weekend of the 19th of October, the Sunbury Model Railway Club hosted their annual exhibition. The exhibition can be marked as a regional exhibition, as it is one of the smaller exhibitions we covered this year. 10 layouts were present of the 24 stalls on offer at this show.
More of dependence of international themes are seen throughout the layouts with only one using Australian rolling stock.
This video is a comprehensive coverage video, so we do spend a few minutes per each layout, either capturing operations or the details of the layout.
Cheers all, it's not the end of model railway videos for the year just yet, so stay turned for more.

Sunday, 20 October 2024

Rattler Shuttles Through the Suburbs & Displays - Transport Heritage Exp...

Howdy all,
Time for our last weekly video, as we return to our flexible scheduling. Today we have our first of two videos from this year's Transport Heritage Expo at Sydney Central.
This part mainly covers the electrics and railmotor shuttles along with a look around Central Station.
This next part has been a little delayed to allow an exhibition video to be uploaded in 4 days.
Cheers all.

Sunday, 13 October 2024

Skyrail Steam and Rattler to Lilydale | Steamrail - Lilydale Shuttles | ...

G'day,
Another week, another video. Our weekly schedule is only going on for one more week, so expect the channel to be a little more lively again.
Today's video covers our view of this year's Lilydale Shuttles. This time, the Taits were brought up with locomotive K153 on the UP end. Like the last couple of shuttles, the weather was rather less than ideal, but this time, we had a bigger focus on the rebuilt stations.
Anyways, catch everyone next week... it's about to get busy again.

Sunday, 29 September 2024

Final Steam and Rattler Shuttles on the T3 Bankstown Line | THNSW - Bank...

Howdy all,
Well, we're back in the swing of Over the Border specials and we bring to you our vision of the Bankstown Heritage Weekend, farewelling the heavy rail operation in preparation of conversion to Metro.
Two heritage trains made their appearance known throughout the day. Locomotive 3265 Hunter operated three shuttles in an anticlockwise loop through Bankstown, and Red Rattler F1 operated three different routed shuttles.
For this video, this was recorded with out substitute camera after it failed a week earlier, so I was still getting used to using it during these shuttles. Apologies if some of the shot turn out a little shaky or out of frame because of this. We are still in the process of acquiring a new camera, however this process is taking a little longer than planned.
Also from this video, we will be returning to our monthly uploading for the month of October. So, catch everyone next week. Cheers.

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

AMRA Vic Branch Clubrooms Open Day 2024

Howdy all,
Well, we're back for another video as we slowly complete our 4 day frequency.
Today we have our most recently recorded video, capturing this years open day at the AMRA Vic clubrooms. This year followed the same lines as last year, with Murri displayed up and the two main layouts below.
This video is the first video to be fully recorded on mobile while we plan out a replacement video camera.
Cheers all, one more as part of the higher frequency, then we are slowing things down for the month of October.

Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Goulburn Model Railway Exhibition 2024 - Part 2 | Goulburn Model Expo - ...

Howdy all,
It's time for another post. Didn't get a chance to post our last upload due to being out of Melbourne at the time, but here we are.
Today's video takes us out of Melbourne for the inaugural Goulburn Model Expo. This is part two of our coverage where we completed 12 layouts in this video. The exhibtion was one of the larger scale shows being comparable with some of the suburban shows in magnitude with 50 exhibitors all up.
We will be back in Victoria for our next video, although this is our last video to be recorded on the video camera for the time being.
We're still awaiting for new Australian models to complete another unboxing, so apologies for the long wait. Cheers all.