Back in August a mate of mine and I went down to Melbourne for the Caulfield exhibition, the exhibition was worth flying down for & very enjoyable, also picked up one of the NSW BKX car transporter kits from Strath Hobbies (as recently review in AMRM), just have to find the time to put it together amongst all the other stuff I want to do - maybe another retirement project along with the J.
We had 2 days down there so visited the exhibition on the Saturday and then did some travelling on the Sunday, went to Puffing Billy in the morning & saw 2 trains depart, then hightailed it to Maldon to see the Maldon / Castlemaine (Victorian Goldfields Railway) steamer run, we made it too late to catch the 'J' to Castlemaine but had a great time none the less exploring Maldon station & it's surrounds - especially it's selection of wagons :-.
Maldon township is great - like stepping back in time & has some great old time looking shops etc, unfortunately we did not have much time to explore the area, but we've slated it for a re-visit next time we head down that way.
I had heard that the station itself was burnt down a few years ago & I wasn't really sure what to expect and was very pleasantly suprised to see it had been rebuilt to what I can only assume was it's former glory.
Well that's it for now.
Cheers Alex...
Some great pictures there. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob,
ReplyDeleteI notice from your blog that you model Victorian (as well as WA), you might be interested that at the Modelling the Railways of NSW @ Loftus earlier this year, a gent named Ian had on display his models of the Lima Southern Aurora cars that he modified to make more realistic (including the baggage & power cars), I understand that the AMRM will be running a set of articles of how to do the same - they looked really good.
Cheers Alex...