Yulan Valley Railroad

Neville,     Nice hearing from you, glad to hear you and the wife are doing OK!

Simon

It's Friday!! Operating day !! The virus is no excuse for not being here !!!!

Thanks Simon, you have to retain your sense of humor.

Hi everyone.

Another industry I have managed to finish is "Vulcan Chemicals" everything is scratchbuilt.  The plant has it's own engine and chemical trains are a part of the operating plan. The locomotive will be painted in Vulcan materials colours. The tank cars are MTH converted to 2-rail I am doing another eight cars at the moment. Roo.

Not finished but getting close is the Coil Loading shed at the Rolling Mill. When I finished the roof and it was painted I put it in place on the layout and found it was to dark inside so i cut four large holes on one side of the roof and put skylights in should have done both sides but lost interest in it. It looks okay. Roo.

Yet another project (I do all these projects myself as well as keep the layout running I'm still a loner) is yet another scrap yard. Gone is the large Ore pile at Waterside yard and in it's place is going to be a scrap yard I have added a short dead end spur for it. It's wired and works but we probably won't use it on operating day I really only want to put a rail mounted crane on it. The biggest problem is what kind of scrap yard to do the solution is to build two different scrap yards ! And interchange them ! More to come later.  It's a famine or a feast with me I should be out walking down south it's the Bush walking season but everything has been closed down to protect the small towns and we are sticking to the rules no travel anywhere. Roo.

Roo,

I am very impressed with your scratch building talents.

Dave

luvindemtrains posted:

Roo,

I am very impressed with your scratch building talents.

Dave

Thanks Dave !

Howdy Roo (or is it G'day). Glad to see some posts from you. I was wondering how you made out in the fires a few months back....and now this....

The modeling is great as always. Keep it up.

Bob

We never had any fires near us (thanks for asking) and I'm settling in at home working on the layout I wanted to try and finish it this year looks like I will. Thanks for the call and Yeh...it's G'day mate !

Got a few trees to plant soon. They are store bought sprayed with glue dipped in Woodlands burnt grass foam then sprayed again and left to dry. Dulls them down a bit. Roo.

Great build Roo, I  think the entire O gauge community was wondering what happened to you since there were no posts recently. I've always liked your posts.

Neville:

Welcome back. It is great to see your railroad again. Stay healthy and hopefully this Covid19 crisis will end soon.

Just saw this thread from early last year.  I had been missing Roo's posts and glad he checked in.  Anyone here from him since April?