Recently I have been devoting a fair bit of thinking time to the question, "What am I going to model with my Oz outline rollingstock?" I have four or five Lima NSWGR brown passenger stock (TAMs I think). Four or five Commonwealth Railways silver passenger stock. Some old Lima NSWGR Class 44s (4464 Candy and 4469 Tuscan), a 42 (I think) Tuscan, a 422 (Freightrail 42207), and some steam 38s (I think). After what I believe was a good first attempt at scratchbuilding a CDY/NOCY wagon, I could roll out a few of these to add to the rollingstock. As for location I am thinking either my take on the Murwillumbah branch from Murwillumbah to Byron Bay before its closure in 2004. The other option is a fictious branch in NSW somewhere where a lot of different stock rolled through.
On the flip side is to model a modern &/or composite 'what if' period as I do have a very nice Auscision EL51 CFCLA outline (I do like this livery). I have no rollingstock of the modern period, but I am thinking of possibly a five pack of Auscision CQBY 60' container wagons in CFCLA livery as a starting point. At least it will have somethnig to pull then! I can then suggest a couple of twin packs of 20' and 40' containers as Christmas presents from my sons.
Hopefully Mr Mackie allows modern outline on his Cassino layout?
Comments &/or suggestions appreciated.
BTW I will still complete my British outline layout Illavearf in the meantime. Planning on the Oz outline will take a while I am guessing.
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