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[wkennerley]

Hi All some in progress pics of my Rhodesia Railways layout and some of the scratchbuilt / kitbashed rolling stock

Wayne

[Nick Belbin]

Nice one – seems to be a big interest in N so far. Where did the interest in Rhodesian railways come from?

[tornado64]

nice garret !!

[wkennerley]

Nice one – seems to be a big interest in N so far. Where did the interest in Rhodesian railways come from?

I was born in Rhodesia hence the interest in Rhodesia Railways and the Rhodesian Air Force stuff elsewhere on Britmodeller

nice garret !!

Thanks it still needs finishing though, I have to sort out another chassis as one of the current ones is binding. IS to be powered by a caboose attached behind.

[tornado64]

there is a nice garret in the science and industry museum manchester ,,, as they were built in manchester ( gorton i think ) and shipped to rhodesia !!

[bexwh773]

nice garret !!

Tornado, couldnt resist that, nice to see someone else appreciate a beautiful powerful loco

Cant wait to see the rest of the layout either

Bexy

[T-Tango]

At one time K-Kits used to do a very nice Garret in "OO" guage, sadly long gone.

[wkennerley]

At one time K-Kits used to do a very nice Garret in "OO" guage, sadly long gone.

There is a company who does ready to run OO/HO Garratts but heck they are expensive. There is a company who make a cast body for a Garratt but its a British type not like the Rhodesian ones. Mine as incorrect wheel layout as I cannot get anything with the correct number of lead/trailing trucks, but most of my layout/stock will be built as 'looks like' rather than is 'exactly like', otherwise nothing would get built really. I started working on my station building again recently, its been a learning curve for me so some bits went awry and I got put off it, however I will look to having it done by the end of this year now.

wayne

[T-Tango]

The K-Kits Garret was a complete kit and it was on flat cards bubble wrapped in plastic, it seemed a funny way to get the kit like this, as most kits came in boxes, I built the Garret but I never put a motor in it so I never saw it running.

[T-Tango]

Just found this, scroll right down to the bottom of the page.

Linkie

Nice "N" gauge Garret

Edited by T-Tango, 08 July 2009 - 12:06 PM.

[wkennerley]

Just found this, scroll right down to the bottom of the page.

Linkie

Nice "N" gauge Garret

Yes thats the one I was thinking of above, the kit from fleetline is the body work only, you have to purchase two donor loco's for the running gear

Wayne

Edited by wkennerley, 08 July 2009 - 07:08 PM.

[wkennerley]

Two additional pics of the layout

[wkennerley]

A photo of my kitbashd Rhodesia Railways DE4 loco in n gauge - needs some detail finishing



Wayne

['V']

Interesting stuff - Rhodesian Railways a subject that I'd never even thought could be modelled- and particularly in 'N'

It's also great to see someone else making a mess as they ballast their track - has to be done, but it took me almost every evening of January to fully ballast mine.

'V'