PORT ELIZABETH MODEL RAILROAD CLUB Newsletter April 2021 #04/2021 Every gauge welcome!
In this issue: Vandal-hit Woodcroft rises again
Vandals sentenced
PEMRC Calendar
Committee
T-Gauge
Market Place
Famous Layout: Rod Stewart
Tehachapi in N
Digital Sound
Digital Command Control (DCC)
New Releases
Sanborn Maps
Model of the Year 2020
World’s Most Scenic Railways S3
Model Railway Electrics
Legendary Locomotives
Rebirth of a Giant- 9F
Mailbox
Vandals sentenced
Market Deeping Model Railway Club vandals sentencing: parents of three boys to pay £500 compensation - Rutland & Stamford Mercury By Suzanne Moon Published: 19 August 2019 Three drunk schoolboys who admitted destroying a model railway exhibition will have their parents pay £500 compensation to the club whose exhibition was destroyed. The youths, who were about to take their GCSEs, caused damage costing £30,000 and smashed up hand-built locomotives and displays including one which had taken 36 years to build and another built by a nine-year-old. Market Deeping Model Railway Club members, who organised the exhibition, were left in tears. Four youths aged 15 and 16 were arrested after rampaging through the sports hall at Stamford Welland Academy during the early hours of Saturday 18 May.
Three youths, all aged 16, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage during a hearing at Lincoln Youth Court. They were given a 12-month referral order. They were ordered to pay £500 compensation each to Market Deeping Model Railway Club plus £85 prosecution costs and a £20 victim surcharge. The financial penalties were ordered to be paid by their parents as none of the three boys has any income. Sentence on the fourth youth was adjourned to September 2 for consideration of compensatio n. The chairman of the bench John Lock, passing sentence, said the compensation was a gesture and told them: "The hurt can never be compensated for”. He added: "In more than 20 years on the bench I cannot recall a case such as this of mindless, wanton destruction. It beggars belief. The displays were smashed many totally beyond repair. The event, which 400 people were expected to attend, was called off and exhibitors who arrived at 7.30 to put the finishing touches to their displays were reduced to tears at seeing years of hard work and effort destroyed. Organisers said five complete train track layouts which each run up to 30 metres were damaged - forcing the annual event to be cancelled for the first time in more than 30 years. A layout for youngsters could not be saved and the club is now rebuilding and promoting youth events. John Kneesworth, of the St Neots Model Railway Club who had a display at the event, said in a victim impact statement that one of his organisation's displays took nearly 10 years to build and his own collection of locomotives and wagons was smashed. "It is absolutely impossible to quantify the damage," he said. “I spent 20 to 25 years building up my collection. It was all made by me and unique. I'm truly shocked at what happened. This was years of work and effort. I cannot understand why anyone would do this. It is devastating."
William Sowerby of the Market Deeping club said: "Not one display was still standing. Everything was destroyed. Smashed and thrown across the room. I could not believe what I had seen. One of the displays took 36 years to build." The boys, who were having a night out before taking their GCSEs, all apologised in court. They went into the school hall to play football and were planning to sleep there as three of them found themselves accidentally locked out from the house where they were due to stay the night. Nigel Edwards QC, for one of the boys, said "All of these boys were in the buildup for their exams. They were going to have a night out playing football. There was a bottle of vodka kicking around. They all had a tipple and things unfolded from there”. Linford Fuller, for another boy, said: "The parties were in drink and I think that explains why they weren't thinking properly in addressing in their minds what was going on. Had they been sober then different choices would have been made." Following the vandalism, well-wishers raised more than £100,000 through crowd funding for the club including a donation from rock star Rod Stewart. The model train enthusiast, who has his own 100ft model railway at his Beverley Hills home, handed over £10,000 and called on celeb pals Jools Holland and Roger Daltrey to do the same. The musician, 74, said: "I was absolutely devastated to hear that vandals had destroyed what was to be a lovely show by the Market Deeping Model Railway Club over the weekend. The collection was priceless and I am donating £10,000 to help compensate those affected and asking fellow enthusiasts Jools Holland, Roger Daltrey and others to do the same. It took me 23 years to build my model railway so I feel their pain." Following the vandalism committee chairman Peter Davies said: "The youngsters were attacking with hammers. They were playing football with model locomotives. We even found a box containing wagons and carriages thrown up in a basketball ring. One hammer had been used so hard the handle was broken and the head flown off. The devastation was total. It was mindless vandalism. Everyone is devastated”.
PEMRC CALENDAR No organised activities are currently arranged.
PEMRC is not organising any group activities during the pandemic 9-11
July 2021
29-30
Oct 2021
14-21
Aug 2022
National Train Show Santa Clara California, USA
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Eurospoor 2021 Event & Exhibition Centre Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Netherlands
NMRA National Convention 2022 Birmingham, UK https://www.nmra2022uk.org/
COMMITTEE 2021: Chairman: Treasurer: Clubhouse: Editor: ‘Shop’: Workshops:
Roel van Oudheusden Attie Terblanche JP Kruger Roel van Oudheusden Graham Chapman Mike van Zyl
roelvanoza@gmail.com terblalc@telkomsa.net juanpierrekruger@gmail.com pemrailroadclub@gmail.com chapman22@telkomsa.net carpencab@gmail.com
Subscriptions for 2021 remain at R300 for the year. EFT is preferred, but the Treasurer may be persuaded to accept cash. Bank account: Port Elizabeth Model Railroad Club FNB Walmer Park, branch code 211417, Account no. 62386122057
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Welcome to Patagonia and Formula 1 update! Together with our Argentinian friends, we are almost finished building miniature Rio de Janeiro. While Rio is now waiting to be set up in Hamburg, the show has to go on in Argentina, where the substructure for the Patagonia part is already being built. And we can even see the first houses. But first a look back at all the creative preparatory work from the wonderland and private pictures from 2019 by Gerrit and Frederik.
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T gauge (1:450 or 1:480) is a model railway scale with a track gauge of 3 mm (0.118 in), referred from "Three-millimetre gauge" or "Third of N scale". It was introduced at the Tokyo Toy Show in 2006 by KK Eishindo of Japan, and went on sale in 2007. It is the smallest commercial model train scale in the world.
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A unique opportunity presents itself now for which there is no time to waste; you may even consider another mortgage or swap any other "under-performing" asset in order not to miss being part of this rare collection which is now up for sale and will shortly be marketed internationally. Your bid may result in retaining some in South Africa! Many of you are familiar with the vast collection of specifically Lionel O gauge rolling stock which John Lemon has but he has loads more. John is moving house from one part of P E to another but needs to make room for the new owner of his Sunridge Park residence. The accompanying images are but a limited overview of what is on offer. Everything is in an excellent display or running condition. Many items are unique or rare; some restored by John and he has a story to tell about almost each one of them. There are models in the following scales: G (LGB), O, S, as well as HO and OO. There are also books, rare catalogues, tracks including his unique multi gauge layout. There is for instance an unused boxed set of the Lima SAR Blue Train set with tracks and controller; part number 10 7620 F4:
Please make an appointment to discuss your offer with John: Tel or WhatsApp: 079 515 5823 Landline 041 360 4422 Email: john.lemon@mweb.co.za
FAMOUS LAYOUTS Rod Stewart’s “Grand Street and Three Rivers” railroad
The rocker has created a huge 1500 square feet model railway layout at his home in Los Angeles, complete with 5 ft. tall skyscrapers. It has been 26 years in the making and is based on an American city in the 1940s. The sprawling depiction of a post-war, heavy industrialised city was inspired by his love of American railroads - “they are bigger the loco’s are bigger, but not any better, everything is just bigger”. He worked tirelessly to create great depth in his construction, with intricate details on the buildings, the trains and even the trees. Sir Rod said that he does not “like to see flat backdrops, they spoil the illusion., so I went for more buildings and streets than tracks. It is the landscape I like, attention to detail, extreme detail, is paramount. There shouldn’t be any unsightly gaps, or avements that are too clean.
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Hornby to produce OO gauge "Lion" Hornby has confirmed that a OO gauge ready-to-run model of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 0-4-2 Lion, is under development. complimenting its recently-introduced all-new 4mm scale model of Stephenson's Rocket. Built in 1838, Lion was ordered from Todd, Kitson and Laird of Leeds for use on goods traffic. It was subsequently rebuilt in 1841 with a longer boiler and remained in traffic with the London and North Western Railway until 1857. It was later sold to Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, while in the late 1920s it was handed over to the Liverpool Engineering Society for safekeeping. In 1953, Lion went on to achieve celebrity status in the classic movie, The Titfield Thunderbolt, and was renamed Thunderbolt for its starring role.
Only 22mm long is Märklin’s reconstructed railway maintenance draisine (VW T1), a Klv20 of the German Federal Railways for scale Z, 1:220 6.5mm track gauge.
Crafty Arts 10% discount via their discount card scheme. Collaborate with Aubrey de Chalain on building dioramas and exhibits in their newly extended premises.
DIGITAL SOUND DECODERS Set the volume on your PC and Ctrl + click on these images to explore the decoder sound of these locomotives and then carry on to the test with various speaker configurations
10 Different speakers playing the same Class 37 DCC and steam sound. https://youtu.be/Mcexn_1gkiY
https://youtu.be/RfCVzYgHQpg
The HORNBY Locomotive Manual is available on our Google Drive and has lots of helpful information on decoder selection as well as installation. Ctrl+Click on the title page
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The battery-operated ICE 3 by Märklin is suitable for children as young as three years old thanks to its easy-touse magnetic couplings. The Märklin my world starter sets with plastic tracks, an infrared remote control and a battery-operated locomotive are suitable for children from the age of three. The locomotives and cars are connected via child-friendly magnetic couplings. What is new are the Logistics starter set and a five-piece ICE 3. For children aged 6 and over, the Märklin Start up range with starter sets includes the usual Märklin C-tracks for power supply and the digital control of the vehicles.
You can go full throttle with the TGV Euro duplex high-speed train, which is 102 cm long in the basic set and which can be extended to 275 cm with four sets of two double-decker cars each. To TGV Video. The 40 cm long track tamping machine Unimat 09-4x4/4S from Märklin has all it needs to become the functional model highlight of the year. It has numerous sounds, an electrically powered pantograph and a motorised replica of the ballast compaction that takes place during track construction work. Filigree motorized crane arm Viessmann has brought out the ROBEL track vehicle 54.22 in the Aarsleff version as an H0 functional model for two-wire track systems. The 13.4 cm long track construction vehicle has a motorised crane arm despite its flat design and offers a wide variety of working sounds. An impressive mixture of a historical building with a modern façade is the Specht wood factory kit by Viessmann
Busch. It consists of individual construction kits with mostly pre-coloured cardboard, wood and/or plastic parts. The Marienberg hall has movable gates made of real wood.
The Insemination Action Set comes with models of a cow and a working inseminator and the milk filling station with wooden hut and vending machine is also ideal for mini dioramas.
Faller also presented numerous H0 buildings – the six-part action set Römerberg-Ostzeile town houses, 2 new railway stations, There is an architect's house with a slab roof and the DHL packing station with covered parcel machines Faller’s “Sala Motor-Drome”, has brought a wall of death motorcycle show to life as a little bit of funfair nostalgia. Faller’s popular Car System Digital has been expanded to include an ultra-compact radio control in USB stick size. The radio master handles the communication between the ultrasonic “satellite” tracking system, the self-driving car and truck models and radio expansion modules.
A modern maintenance hangar for track construction by Kibri The 349 mm long HO building kit with removable roof has pre-assembled, manually movable rolling doors.
NOCH has a micromotion tree with swing, where a hanging swing with a small girl swings on the branch of a mighty oak in 1:87 scale. HORNBY BR, Merchant Navy Class, 4-6-2, 35024 ‘East Asiatic Company’ - Era 4 The Merchant Navy Class locomotive 35024, first entered traffic on 13 November 1948. The locomotive naming ceremony was at Waterloo Station on 15 May 1949 where HRH Prince Axel of Denmark, chairman of the East Asiatic Company, officially named the locomotive. BR Standard Class 9F: New rendering of new detailed model to be released soon
These maps may be downloaded from here totally free. You can customise your search not only for a given area or town but also the era.
Season 3 of this popular British Channel 5 Series is now available for you to enjoy; Ctrl+Click on the image to take you to our Google Drive for uninterrupted viewing or download
Episode 2 of Season 3 takes you visually along the line described below: THE ROAD TO THE ISLES Unquestionably one of the world’s finest railway journeys, the line from Glasgow to Fort William and on to Mallaig traverses some of Britain’s loneliest landscapes: ‘a wearier looking desert man never saw’ was how the hero of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped described Rannoch Moor. The stupendous scenery is enlivened on weekdays until early October, and at August weekends, by the bark of steam locomotives working the Jacobite Steam Train between Fort William and Mallaig. Besides trains from Glasgow Queen Street, the line is also traversed by the Caledonian Sleeper from London Euston. There are few greater contrasts in British train travel than pulling up the covers in the dark of the Home Counties and waking up to Scottish moorland and mountains. The journey starts under the 1880 wrought-iron roof of Glasgow Queen Street; the station was built on the site of a sandstone quarry and it still has a subterranean feel, exacerbated by the climb in tunnel and trench out of the station up a 1 in 42 gradient that was beyond the power of early steam locomotion. Consequently, until August 1909, trains had to be winched up Cowlairs Incline by stationary steam engines. The train winds through the Glasgow suburbs, passing Singer station to remind one of the factory where almost 7,000 workers made 13,000 of the eponymous sewing machines each week, and of a time when there wasn’t much that Britain didn’t manufacture. Today the train passes soulless sheds simply selling stuff. The railway comes close to the Clyde at Bowling before Dumbarton and its volcanic crag and castle. There are fine views over the estuary, but little shipping disturbs its waters compared with a century ago when railway owned paddle steamers frothed the water between many a Clyde and island pier, besides innumerable cargo ships.
The 100-mile (161-kilometre) West Highland Railway begins at Craigendoran Junction, where the train turns abruptly north along a ledge with broadening views over Gare Loch. The diesel engines growl up the bank through leafy Helensburgh, while ships ride at anchor in the estuary, before disappearing behind loch-side woods of birch and oak. Churchill departed on three of his four wartime visits to see President Roosevelt from Gare Loch’s Admiralty port of Faslane. From Garelochhead there is a spectacular view back along the narrow loch to the south before one of those almost theatrical transitions that punctuate the route. The train burrows through a fern-clad cutting and emerges to a panorama over Loch Long, where it is joined by Loch Goil. Arrochar & Tarbet station, which once supplied breakfast baskets to northbound passengers, lies between lochs Long and Lomond on a strip of land used as a portage in 1263 by King Haakon IV of Norway as he sought more places to raid. The views along Loch Lomond are some of the finest of the journey, the railway running along a shelf cut into the hillside above a dense canopy of trees. A summer ferry links Inveruglas with the idyllically situated Inversnaid Hotel on the opposite shore. Near the hotel is Rob Roy’s cave, where the red-headed fugitive Jacobite, much romanticised by Sir Walter Scott, is said to have holed up. Perhaps one day the largest vessel built for a British inland waterway, the paddle steamer Maid of the Loch, may again churn the loch’s waters. Launched in 1953, she is moored at Balloch at the south end of the loch and welcomes visitors while fundraising continues for full restoration.
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Dream trains No shipping costs for combined orders of R2000 or more. Shop online and fill your cart, even if less than R2000, then contact PEMRC Graham Chapman, to combine your order with fellow club members and all will save.
SBB steam Elephant #2978 Class C 5/6, 2-10-0 (Image - Eisenbahn Romantik #3/2020) The class was designed for use on the steep inclines of the Gotthard route, and was considered extremely efficient, earning the nickname Elephant. Its design was based on the successful C 4/5 locomotive, and the result is the largest steam locomotive operated by the Swiss Federal Railways. Maximum speed 65 km/h; power output 1190kW / 1600hp; Gauge 1435mm (4’ 8½”) Driver diameter 1330mm (52.4”); Axle load 15.8t; Adhesive weight 79t, Total weight 128t Built by SLM Winterthur between 1913-1917.
Annie Bruehl waits at the Edwards Lane crossing for UP 618 to pass by her completely original 1953 Buick Feb 2007 - Michael Allen Steam Locomotive No. 618 is one of the stars of the Heber Valley Railroad locomotive fleet. This historic engine, which turned 100 years old in 2007, has been pulling tourists through the Wasatch Mountains since 1971. At one time there were over 1000 locomotives like it working for the Union Pacific Railroad, which took delivery of its first 2-8-0 in 1868. They were first used on the steep grades in Wyoming Territory in main line freight service, though they proved very adept at just about every task, be it yard switching to fright service to passenger duties. This type of engine was such a standard type of freight locomotive that nearly all major railroads owned dozens of them, and practically all smaller railroads had at least one on the roster. The 2-8-0 is a very versatile design in that a locomotive the size of the No. 618 could pull, by itself, a freight train of fifty or sixty freight cars over level track, or it could be double-headed with another locomotive for heavier train or steep grades. Although not specifically designed as a passenger engine, many smaller rail lines used them for that purpose. No. 618 started life in the erecting halls of the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone, Pennsylvania in July 1907.. Mechanically speaking, the No. 618 is equipped with 22″ X 30″ piston valves, Stevenson valve gear, 57-inch drive wheels, and a superheated boiler. Its boiler has 286 fifteen-foot tubes, and a working pressure of 200 PSI. Over the years the engine has starred in movies and television programs, pulled the Olympic flame, and has been the subject of numerous magazine and newspaper articles. In celebration of its 100th birthday in 2007, it was temporarily relettered as Oregon Short Line No. 1068, the historic locomotive’s first number. Source: Heber Valley Railroad Internet homepage.