So, where did 2019 go?

Phew, that was a fast year!

363 days ago I announced on this blog that 2019 would be the year that this blog would head in a slightly new direction, with the erection of a 1/87th scale model of (most of) Eumungerie's railway yard, just as it was in the Spring of 1968.

Well, it has been a year of planning and frustration, culminating in Council approval arriving on the eve of Christmas for the necessary shed to house said model railway. So my 2020 resolution is the same as my 2019 resolution!

Thanks for reading the occasional meanderings this year.  I learned a bit from researching these blog posts. Hope you found them mildly amusing and somewhat useful.  This time next year I am going to look like this bloke in his Dodge, straddling Eumungerie's weigh-bridge.

Actually, I would also like 2020 to give some person living in the centre of the universe (ie Eumungerie) an opportunity to recreate this photo of members of my family living it up in the railway yard. 

Happy New Year reader(s)!

Don

A bit more about Dubbo station

In response to a couple of readers' comments, I have cut up and blown up a few drawings of Dubbo station from plans generously provided to me.  They are just lovely, classical drawings.

I will start with a version of the elevation posted in the last blog - but this time including the brick building on the western end of the station.

Here is the road-side elevation...

And now for an end elevation...

And a cross-section...

And, finally, two plans.  The first from Contract Drawing No.2 and the other from a 1985 drawing...

So, to Marcus and the other modeller who left comments, I hope these help in your efforts to create a decent model of this station. As one who will be following in your footsteps, I would be mighty interested in seeing your results and hearing any tips you have.

For everyone else, I hope you enjoy the intrinsic beauty of these renderings as much as I do.

Cheers,
Don