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Ruston Light Railway Progress

OO Scale British outline Ruston Light Railway model railway micro ‘layout in a box’ now fully operational, and scenery progressing along nicely. After doing a lot of work on the Ruston Light Railway micro layout, I have now finished the wiring and had a few operating sessions on the layout. Read more…

By Jim, 3 yearsJune 10, 2020 ago
Layout Building

A junction that works like a junction

Making my HO scale model railroad Dolton Junction module a junction in more than just name increases operating interest. Ever since the Dolton Junction module was built some years ago it was nearly always a non-operational “junction”. That is, a junction in name only with only one leg of the Read more…

By Jim, 4 yearsJuly 8, 2019 ago
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First Exhibition

The first time I have ever exhibited my own layout.

By Jim, 7 yearsMarch 7, 2016 ago
Layout Improvements

New platform for American Electric

When the HO scale Dolton Industry Park switching module, representing a fictional industrial park east of Dolton Jun

By Jim, 8 yearsMay 12, 2015 ago
Exhibitions

Stawell 2014 Exhibition

July means two things to a south eastern Australian model railroader – really cold weather, and the Stawell model ra

By Jim, 9 yearsJuly 15, 2014 ago
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Latest Youtube Video

After a very long break from uploading any video to YouTube, due to download limitations on our old internet account

By Jim, 10 yearsMay 26, 2013 ago
Layout Improvements

Population Explosion

Since the last blog post, which was quite some time ago, I have been enjoying operating Dolton – Illinook – Blue

By Jim, 10 yearsFebruary 14, 2013 ago
Layout Building

Blue Island scenery, Part 2

Some more scenery work has been completed on the 4×1 feet HO scale Blue Island staging module in the last day or so. Rat

By Jim, 10 yearsNovember 13, 2012 ago
Layout Building

Blue Island scenery

The 4×1 feet Blue Island HO scale staging module (which represents the IHB Blue Island and B&OCT Barr yards and all

By Jim, 10 yearsNovember 5, 2012 ago
Layout Building

New module started

A new HO scale model railroad module has been started. This one is a 4×1 feet module, designed to connect the the we

By Jim, 11 yearsSeptember 15, 2012 ago

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