The idea of the layout came about because my good mate
Marcus has a layout based on the Main North and when you are running trains you
have to bank your train up a 1;40 grade from Murrurundi to Ardglen. I spent
many enjoyable hours being the banker, so it was decided to have a grade on the
home layout. I had most of the locos and rolling stock for the time period of
the mid sixties so Tumulla bank out in the Central West was chosen for a home
layout. The layout was planned for a 7M x 3.5M garage, so when I eventually
stopped building and exhibiting layouts that part of the garage was for the
Home Layout
Another good friend Garry has a layout based on the
Newcastle to Fassifern line http://newcastle-modelrail.com/
and I was hooked in running and terminating trains on his Newcastle station. So
the dilemma was how to build a layout from Newcastle to Blayney so I then can incorporate
Tumulla Bank, ambitious you say so did I, and then my wife and I decided that
Sydney was getting too crowded so we moved to the upper Hunter Valley. The
bonus was 6M X6M garage waiting for a layout to be built
So as part of the move I had to sell all my exhibition
layouts as there was no room for them as I wasn’t going to exhibit anymore. I was
building my Home Layout. Mullet Creek went to the Auscision shop as a display
layout and some good friends bought the others. All except Whereist as that was
my favourite because I liked shunting and making up trains
How to incorporate Whereisit into Tumulla Bank and Newcastle
Station all in a 6M x 6M garage, impossible unless you build something based on
all these features
Stations ; Wherecastle; [based on Newcastle]
Whereisit; this part already done
Wherenow; branch line station from Whereist also the home of the BS
fertilizer factory
Wherearewe; on the line to nowhere loop and then comes back [2 level]
Then the train going
the other way goes to Somewhere loop and then comes back
From Whereist the train has to encounter Wheremulla Bank 1;63 the banker will be stationed at Whereisit
for trains over 400 tons for the push up Wheremulla Bank
The layout will be an operational with some scenery
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