Hi all,
Thanks for keeping up such a lively group. I live in a small town in
the Freestate, South Africa where rail transport is definately not
what it used to be. When I was a kid SAR used a very interesting mix
of smaller mostly Krupps tank locos for switching and some very big
American mountain types for freight and passenger service.
Articulateds were Garrets I think from UK, all on a 3' 6" gauge. SAR
was also big on electric units, they also did some heavy switching
around Durban harbour with big steeple cabs. The first diesels only
made their appearance here with really nice light blue liveries
about '55 or '56. I lived in Durban then and there was a huge steam
loco marshalling yard you could hear all night for miles. My modelling
interests however, are US railroads 1900 era, I had quite a lot of
Flyer as a kid.
I spent some time in USA in the '70's and brought some Loco Sheds
back home, also Paul Mallery's Trackwork and Bridge and Trestle
Handbooks and the 1906 Locomotive and Car Builders Dictionaries (Gregg
reprints) and I bought some Kinsman kits and a Rex suburban from John
Bortz. I got his address from SG Herald and visited him at his PVW
when his harbour scene was almost complete ( I think Frank Titman made
most of it) and the rest was mostly sorted track on bare benchwork and
lots of steam power and rolling stock. I loved the way S just fills up
your field of vision. I also had 25 pairs of Ace archbars which went
missing along with some tools, notably a KD coupler height gauge and
all my Heralds except 1 which has a photo of Ed Louizeaux at PCR-NMRA.
Hi Ed. I have 1 pair archbars left which escaped the fate of the
others by being in a Kinsman box.
Well I've had this stuff for over 30 years and the dream of an S
empire all this time and now I am finally getting down to it even if
it is only a coffee table size switching puzzle.
And my questions..........
It seems there are no 1900 era freight or passenger trucks
available? The BTS locos look beautiful for this era although I doubt
my thin flat Rands will ever stretch that far. I want to go Proto64,
handlaid track; I made some frogs with .060 flangeways and they just
don't look right. Question: When making up trackwork does one bend the
rails first? How do you get smooth bends, for a constant radius? And
for easements? For closure rails and then a Straight frog? I love the
look of British trackwork, are curved frogs US prototypical?
I'd love to meet you all, see your trains, maybe I'll make a NASG
convention one day.
Cheers,
Ant.
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