looking for Steam loco builders

I'm not volunteering as I have too much on my plate. Specs are good but drawings are better. I didn't know Adelaide had a Railway Museum so I'll have to check it out next time I go there - maybe March/April.
 
LOL yeah we got steam rangers, pich a richy railway & pt dock railway museum i think it's called & most likely more!!! thats just the main ones
 
boomer_aus_00 said:
will these help?
http://sarplans.steam4me.net/images/SAR_Rollingstock_05.gif

http://sarplans.steam4me.net/images/SAR_Rollingstock_11.gif

& this is the website i got them from as the have other loco's/rolling stock on there from SAR:

http://sarplans.steam4me.net/
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Wow! That was interesting. The loco plans I looked at are a bit low on detail but have the basic dimensions which would be the first hurdle. I like the Eyesight Testing Van - I could probably use that! Presumably it was towed around SA to small towns without much medical facilities.

I don't recall seeing any steam locos in SA when I lived there in the early 60's. Perhaps they were retired by then. I see there is a museum up in Port Adelaide, almost a stone's throw from Pennington Migrant Hostel where I resided for a few months. No fence around it though. 40 degree summers in those corrugated huts was not a pleasant memory.


Maybe I'll do one of these sometime - but not real soon! :wave:
 
I meant on the regular routes not heritage stuff. I rode on the Overlander(?) a few times to Melbourne and that was pulled by a diesel - maybe two. But if I head to SA later this year and one of those locos in the plans set has been preserved then I would head out there with a camera and a 8MB SD card! When building a loco one can never have enough photos - especially of the cab. Cab photos are rare. Ever notice that most loco photos are taken from the front. They are not much use for model building.
 
the last steam loco that run on the main lines of adel was the SAR 520 the last steam to work along side the diesel locos my dad came in to the railways just as the steamers was get replaced so yeah he missed out by a year but yeah the SAR F Class was restored & used on the weekend on the surbun lines still remember back in the early 90's the F class in the station it wasn't the SAR 520 but damn it was a great to see it there & the SAR 520, the 621 & the Rx Class use to do runs from keswick to victor still remember the last time i saw the 621 Class & the SAR 520 leaving keswick for the last every time as the main line to vic was geting convrted to SG damn SG lines to me i think it destoryed the south australia railways only if the put it as DG
 
boomer_aus_00 said:
i guess no one wants to build these 2 steamers?
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Don't feel bad if no one wants to create something for you. These days this community is lacking content creators willing to help. I should know, I've been barking up that tree for a long time now with the Laurel Line Project. I eventually gave up asking and I'm learning to make it myself.
 
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Problem with this is the details required to make a the model are often not avaiable - like a really good set of plans- Alot of NSWGR items have only made it into trainz due to Mr Edwards and his great Data Sheets.
 
so i might aswell forget about it then as thats all i could find as blueprints on these locos unless steamrengers themself would upload the blueprints on the web & i don't see that happening
 
sorry but the best way to help get with what you want down is to help the creator with doing as much resarch as possible - a set of blue prints to the quality of the Data sheets is a must plus photos and helps
 
cool well keep me posted about it thats one done :) if ya still thinking about doing it that is & let us know when ya finish the M class:P
 
Hi Boomer,

This is where it is so far
8432290346_5720a09d89_c.jpg

It needs new frames lined up and extruded, then that's about it, mapping is the hardest part,
I tend to spend months just on mapping and baking, I have a thread in the Screenshot section about it, that's where updates will be posted next.

Cheers.
 
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