TRAINS, PLANES & AUTOMOBILES !

My interests have broadened to include the above.  The Planes are really DJI Drones (I have three),  my tripods in the Sky,  because photos are an excellent way to express yourself & your Hobbies, including Flying & Flight. I am Enjoying Life !

 The Electric Car is starting to take off.  This is the Nissan Leaf,  a bigger range battery is coming out soon,  which will make them even more popular.

Running at AMRA, Glen Iris, Melbourne, Victoria.

This is one of my live steam locomotives in action at AMRA Glen Iris, in Melbourne, Victoria. Our large scale group meet there once a month and enjoy running trains. This loco is my Accucraft Edrig,
it runs really well, not like my Forney, it was a bit of a lemon, so I sold it to a mate for a song !  It made his day !!!

Track Cleaning on the E.B.R.

I find, I have to clean the track once a week using a track cleaner; otherwise it becomes a big job, where you have to manually scrub the track.  If I run the track cleaner around the track five times, it is clean for another week & I can run trains to my hearts content.  If you run trains every day, the track cleaner would become obsolete.  As you can see from this picture, I also have problems with weeds, they are a curse.

The E. B. R. goes British.

On the Viaduct.

Passing the Station.

Sidings.

Locomotive Workshops.

Do you like my signs?

Do you like my Labels?

Spiffy Eh?

Over the Viaduct.

I got it all in!

Returning along the back fence.

Out of the Basement, over the pond.

Around the Trestles.

Double heading in front of the derelict Station Building. 

Light engine over the viaduct.

British over the viaduct.

Running onto the viaduct.

Off the other end.

Emu Bay Station.

Emu Bay Station again.

Light Engine past the Station.

Station again.

Running through the basement.

The Easter Egg Train!

The whole Family love the Easter Egg Train, especially the Grandkids. Each canister holds two chocolate eggs, each circuit of train, one Grandkid takes a pick! It was a great Day!!! Easter Sunday 2013.

Making the E. B. R. World Class!

Ballasting the Emu Bay Railway.  Unfortunately this ganger fell to his death from the viaduct bridge, quite a drop from the rear of the train, I think he slipped on some gravel. R.I.P. from the rest of the Gang.

Stage 3.

Stage 3 is a long story, so I will start with the first chapter. I wanted another place where I could be out of the elements to run my Emu Bay Garden Railway, so this called for a shed to be constructed. I wanted the shed to look a little like a Railway Building, the roof has a work shop look about it as you will see in the photographs I attach. My Daughter Samantha gave me the wood for the frame of the shed, when they dismantled a back veranda in Hamilton. It was a slow trip home with all that wood on a  small trailer and on the roof of the car. The cladding of the shed is rolla doors (garage doors) from the local transfer station, so the shed wasn't a great cost to the Railway. It was just a case of the garden shed growing! The Railway is at waist height in the shed, due to the slope of our house block, this makes the Emu Bay Garden Railway very interesting & easy to use !

When the shed was completed, double track was laid along the back fence, with a turn around in the shed. The track in the shed takes a circuit around a round house and turn table, still under construction.