PORT ELIZABETH MODEL RAILROAD CLUB Newsletter
December 2020
#12/2020
In this issue: Committee PEMRC Calendar Great News! FAQ Show & Tell New Books 5+2 Spectacular Railway Routes Dad’ Awards Meccano Loco Cab-ahead Oldest Club MIWULA Stylish storage Track Plan
Gift ideas MR & MRH news Show & Tell Quiz Pilentum YouTube Market Place Vintage Ads
Garratts shunting at Sandstone Estates April ‘17
COMMITTEE 2020: Chairman: Treasurer: Clubhouse: Layouts: Librarian: Editor: Workshops:
Roel van Oudheusden Attie Terblanche Mike Smout JP Kruger Carel van Loggerenberg Roel van Oudheusden Graham Chapman Mike van Zyl Mike Smith
roelvanoza@gmail.com terblalc@telkomsa.net ma.smout@mweb.co.za juanpierrekruger@gmail.com annie3@telkomsa.net pemrailroadclub@gmail.com chapman22@telkomsa.net carpencab@gmail.com ‘Shop’: mwsmi5@iafrica.com WhatsApp: 078 069 7699 Subscriptions for 2020 are 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. 623 861 2205
Note changes in venue, time and host and host
PEMRC CALENDAR We will continue with our fortnightly gatherings whilst adhering to the prescribed pandemic precautions. Although larger gatherings are now permitted, the overriding factor still is the limit of 50% of capacity of the venue. Depending on the venue of the host, our capacity limit is 10 persons. Booking is essential; please book the day before e Sat 14
Sat 28
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Meeting type
Venue
Time
Host
Limited gettogether
Booking essential contact host 13 Lionel Road Walmer Downs
09:30 11:00
Mike van Zyl 073 374 3280
Limited gettogether
Booking essential contact host 26 Richardson Street Summerstrand charl40winks@gmail.com
11:00 Charl du Plessis 082 450 7052 12:30
International Day of the Model Railway No PEMRC event in Dec. 2020 due to Covid-19 Video of 1st Intl Day of the Model Railway 2015 Germany
Sat 5
Dec 2020
Sat 23
January 2021
Sat 30
Jan 2021
Layout visit
To be confirmed (tbc)
Sat 20
Feb 2021
Layout visit
tbc
PEMRC Annual General Meeting Venue to be advised
10:00
9-11
July 2021
29-30
Oct 2021
14-21
Aug 2022
National Train Show Santa Clara California, USA Eurospoor 2021 Event & Exhibition Centre Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Netherlands NMRA National Convention 2022 Birmingham, UK https://www.nmra2022uk.org/
Christmas is coming and here at Hornby we have just the thing... The Coca-Cola Christmas Train Set, with the locomotive and wagons resplendent in a CokeÂŽ Red livery, together with an ideal starter layout makes this the perfect Christmas gift for an adult collector, as well as a great decoration piece for your 2020 festivities. The Coca-Cola Christmas Train Set, creating wonderful magical memories for the whole family to enjoy for years to come! The Coca-Cola Christmas Train Set #R1233M: 0-4-0 Diesel Shunter Locomotive Closed Box Van, Container Wagon, PLUS, track, controller, transformer, re-railer.
GREAT Discounts - exclusive for our members! Click on the logo of your preferred supplier to start shopping online. PEMRC has been able to arrange the following benefits for our members:
1. Dream trains No shipping costs for combined orders of R2000 or more. Shop online and fill your cart, even if less than R2000, but then contact our Mike Smith, to combine your order with fellow club members and all will save.
2. Mini World Models Shop online and use the special coupon below to claim your unique PEMRC member discount
3. Crafty Arts 10% discount via their discount card scheme. Collaborate on building dioramas and exhibits in their extended premises.
4. Model Scenic Products
Last month we published Questions 14 and 65. Which ones do you want to see next? Write to: pemrailroadclub@gmail.com
INDEX
Decoder Installation Click on the image below for the video or here to read the article
END OF TRAIN DEVICE WITH BRIGHT RED FLASHING LIGHT! Installs in Minutes with No Freight Car modification or wiring required
Model# EOT-33-G Shown with
Patented Technology - US Patent 7,549,609
Copyright © 2004-2016 Ring Engineering, Inc. See also James’ way in “Show and Tell” on page 12
Demonstration Video of the “New” HO Scale High Performance Magnalock Brake Lines & MU Cables (click on the image for the link)
Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre (AIMREC) After more than six years of waiting for an opportunity, a temporary showroom aimed at highlighting the centre's potential opened in the £75m Elwick Place leisure complex. Opening in December, it featured the model layouts by the Railmen of Kent - the winners of Channel 5's Great Model Railway Challenge. It has now closed for good after a new tenant was found. A statement issued on Sunday read: "It is with great disappointment that we vacated Unit 2 in Elwick Place in July, after a period of closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, during which our landlord secured a long-term tenant. In the three months between the start of December and first weekend in March, we welcomed more than 3,000 visitors to see the layouts on display and gained operating experience and visitor feedback that are helping shape our plans for the future." The statement notes the centre's aim to host a promotional evening with its supporters - who include Roger Daltrey and Jools Holland - had not been able to be fulfilled. Here is Jools on the January 2019 cover of Railway Modeller which featured his extensive layout in detail. (Copy available from RvO)
FIVE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY BOOKS BY DENNIS MOORE 1.
STEAM OVER THE LOOTSBERG PASS: The Rosmead to Graaff-Reinet Railway Standard landscape format 10” x 8”, 25cm x 20cm: softcover, or hardcover with dustjacket, or image wrap, - your choice. 110 pages, 145 photographs, predominantly colour. https://www.blurb.com/b/10366094
2. STEAM THROUGH TOORWATERPOORT: The Klipplaat to Oudtshoorn Railway Standard landscape format 10” x 8”, 25cm x 20cm: softcover, or hardcover with dustjacket, or image wrap, - your choice. 110 pages, 126 photographs, predominantly colour. https://www.blurb.com/b/10366153 3.
STEAM OVER THE MONTAGU PASS: The Oudtshoorn to George Railway Standard landscape format 10” x 8”, 25cm x 20cm: softcover, or hardcover with dustjacket, or image wrap, - your choice. 114 pages, 142 photographs, predominantly colour. https://www.blurb.com/b/10366184
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STEAM TO THE SOUTH: The George – Mossel Bay – Riversdale Railway Standard landscape format 10” x 8”, 25cm x 20cm: softcover, or hardcover with dustjacket, or image wrap, - your choice. 60 pages, 87 photographs, predominantly colour. https://www.blurb.com/b/10366209 5.
CAPE MIDLAND STEAM: (Western Section) This volume is, quite simply, a “combined volume” of the four individual books listed above, linked together with an “all-Region” schematic map. AVAILABLE IN TWO FORMATS. [a] Standard landscape format 10” x 8”, 25cm x 20cm: hardcover with dustjacket, or image wrap, - your choice. 388 pages, more than 500 photographs, predominantly colour. https://www.blurb.com/b/10366258 [b] Very large landscape format 13” x 11”, 33cm x 28cm: hardcover with dustjacket, or image wrap, - your choice. 388 pages, more than 500 photographs, predominantly colour. https://www.blurb.com/b/1036586
Please also do visit http://www.blurb.com/user/red3450 for all of the Author's fifty four titles, covering many other countries besides South Africa, although that country will always be the prime focus of this series. (A) DISCOUNTS As many of you may be aware, print on demand books are unavoidably a little on the expensive side, but one does not have to pay the catalogue price. If you are buying a book / books, please simply google Blurb Coupon Code , and you will find many sources of discounts available, which code you simply enter towards the end of the checkout process. These coupon codes are common practice in internet mail order and can be a little tricky and irritating, but it is worth persevering. Discounts of up to 40% are usually available. (B) DELIVERY COSTS Delivery costs are inevitably relatively expensive for single copy orders, so prospective customers are urged to please consider buying all titles you may be interested in (from the catalogue of 54 books) in "one go". Or, get together with like-minded friends to combine an order. ……………The delivery cost per book then comes down dramatically. With best wishes and I hope you find something of interest either in the new books or in the back-catalogue. Please e mail me if you have any queries, or phone me. Regards Dennis Moore, 808 Val de Vie Estate, Paarl 7646, South Africa E Mail: DennisMoore3450@gmail.com ***PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS*** Telephone 021 879 0308 CATALOGUE: http://www.blurb.com/user/red3450 All Blurb books may be viewed (preview), in full, and for free. About Dennis Moore A well-known South African Railway Photographer, Dennis is the author of two best-selling books on South African steam locomotives, 'The Sunset of Steam' and 'The Shimmer of Steel’. He has also published 54 (mostly) landscape format books on www.blurb.com. For a complete list and full details simply go directly to http://www.blurb.com/user/red3450 India, China, Zimbabwe, East Germany, U.K. industrial are among the titles as well as the most extraordinary coverage of all things 'South African steam'. Magnificent photographs and design abound... A well-known exponent of night, silhouette and glint photography, the author includes many examples of such work, but the scope is broad, covering the conventional and unusual approach to Steam photography. Lively anecdotal text, expanded captions, maps etc. are included.
Henschel Museum – Kassel, Germany Andreas Giller, head of the museum and photographer Hendrik Bloem, admiring a scale model of Class 25 Condensation locomotive which Henschel had developed for the South African Railways.
ECUADOR “The devil and his nose railroad” (Nariz del Diablo), ‘Tren Crucero’ at its most famous part of the 447km track where it traverses over the zigzag reverses to descend 500m into this steep valley. It takes four days from Quito (highest capital city in the world at 2850m) over the Andes to Guyaquil on the Pacific coast.
Click on the Eisenbahn Romantik icon to view 45’ video. UK tour operator PTG Tours offers unique tours for steam enthusiasts to Ecuador.
Ecuador has the most biodiversity per square kilometre of any nation, and PTG will show you all of it on the newly accessible railways. Train riders will see the lush green peaks of the Andes Mountains and experience the zigzagging ride up the Devil’s Nose, a mountain with almost perpendicular walls. This impressive engineering takes you on one of the world’s most adventurous train rides. During the Andes tour, you will pass by some of the world’s most famous volcanoes, including the world’s highest active volcano, Cotopaxi.
James Kruger circulated theses images on the WhatsApp group on 10 Feb. 2020 describing how he made and fitted these end warning yokes to his dz open SAR wagons.
“Juk” (Afr.) = Yoke When guards vans were withdrawn, a yoke was used on last open truck. Two “Ore”, a “Merker” and a red lamp were attached to the end truck as shown here by James. DZ= “Dolly” low sided truck for general goods.
BIG BOY - that was a locomotive legend, and not only for the famous Union Pacific Railroad, which from 1941 had procured 25 of these locomotive giants from the American Locomotive Company ALCO. Back then, the Big Boys exploded all dimensions of locomotive construction. Two engines with a total of eight driving axles were powered by a huge boiler. The Big Boys brought up to 7000 hp to the rails, they reached a top speed of almost 130 km / h. The 40-meter-long and 550-tonne colossi hauled 6000-ton freight trains on the plain.
QUESTION: We want to know from you whether the Big Boys were the biggest, the strongest or the heaviest steam locomotives ever built? Get the answer without Google; rack your brain/grey matter, you may however consult your own library including previous PEMRC newsletters. Try to resist as long as possible before looking for the answer on page 19! These are the only awards where Dads decide which toys cut the mustard. The aim of the Dads Choice Awards is to recognise that sometimes Dads like to play with completely different toys with their children. These awards are a celebration of Dads and their kids playing and spending time together.
HORNBY’s 00Gauge “FLYING SCOTSMAN” Highly Commended To be a Highly Commended Winner, entries had to be impressive in nearly every criteria.
PILENTUM – YouTube Channel Steam Locomotives’ Paradise: Model Railway Micro Layout from Austria by PILENTUM
This model railway micro layout, presenting a lot of steam locomotives and diesel trains used by the Austrian Federal Railways, has been constructed by Gottfried Reither, a railway modeller from Austria. At the moment it is still a micro layout in HO scale because Gottfried does not have enough space in his hobby basement to install a larger model railroad layout. Therefore, the layout consists of only one railway line. The layout is divided into four segments with a width of 70 cm and lengths between 150 cm and 120 cm. At both ends of the layout, track helixes connect the staging yard or fiddle yard which is located exactly below the landscape. Gottfried is a train enthusiast and he loves to watch his model trains. He does not need a large central station. He also does not need to simulate shunting operations. His layout depicts a mountain railroad line in the Austrian region Gesaeuse (“Gesaeusestrecke”) as it was used in the 1960's and 1970's. On this Austrian mountain railway line, which is characterized by ascents and descents, it was usual for locomotives to run in multiple unit train control, i.e. in push-pull operating mode. Heavy freight trains and also passenger trains are hauled by a bank engine (“banker”), banking engine, helper engine (“helper”) or pusher locomotive coupled at the front or at the end of the train. Both in reality and in the model landscape, trains have to overcome an extreme gradient. Banker or helper locomotives have to climb a height difference of 45 cm in this HO scale layout. This also corresponds to Gottfried’s philosophy of his superb model railway layout, in other words to watch Austrian steam trains and diesel trains of era III. To make the scene as realistic as possible, all locomotives were equipped with a sound decoder from ESU and sound files from LeoSoundLab. The layout’s structure was made of Styrodur. The landscape, the meadows and grasses are made of products from the manufacturer “Mini Natur”. The trees and bushes are made of products from various manufacturers or simply hand-made. For the tracks the product “Mein Gleis” from manufacturer Weinert Modellbau was used. In other places, for example in the invisible fiddle yard, “Roco Line” rails are installed. Following Gottfried’s philosophy PILENTUM filmed the weathered trains and locomotives from different angles. The video should enable the viewer to enjoy the railway traffic on this mountain line. These railroad operations may seem boring, but they are authentic. Pilentum has added chapters in the video, so that you know which locomotives to see, details on the YouTube page.
SP294 Cab ahead Vintage post card published by SP in 1981 from an original Howard Fogg painting commissioned by SP. The last of the famous Southern Pacific’s “Cab-Aheads” SP4294, with a ‘reefer block’ through Blue Canyon eastbound for the Sierra summit. Unique to Southern Pacific, the cab-forward was developed to avoid heat and fumes from the engine exhaust in long tunnels and to provide better visibility on curves. SP4294 was delivered in 1944 to assist with the war effort. It was retired in 1955 and donated to the City of Sacramento. It now occupies a prominent place in the California State Railroad Museum. The museum’s locomotive collection contains 19 steam locomotives dating from 1862 to 1944. They illustrate the development of steam technology from its early years in the mid-nineteenth century through its apogee and climax in the 1940s. The engines range in size from the diminutive Southern Pacific No.1, “C.P. Huntington,” to the million-pound giant, Southern Pacific articulated cab-forward No. 4294. Fewer than 45 full-size steam locomotives built prior to 1880 exist in the United States. The Museum has eight of these, including Central Pacific Railroad locomotive No. 1, “Gov. Stanford.”
MECCANO This superb Meccano rendition of the LNER “Flying Scotsman” is owned and built by PEMRC member, Hylary Smith. (WA 31.1.2020)
The oldest Model Railway Club with a Guinness certificate to prove it!
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MARKET PLACE
Members can advertise their model rail related items here for free; All others pay a 10% donation of the value to PEMRC.
Please submit your offer to pemrailroadclub@gmail.com ASAP for this HO SAR suburban train set by LIMA #10 4512 as illustrated, consisting of one motor unit and 3 coaches, including, transformer, one length of flexible track, two short straights plus all the track mounted on board including two manual points. It has not been used in years and has not been tested. Who wants it? All offers will be considered.
MINIATUR WUNDERLAND, Hamburg
New Adventure on Trains Book Series! Welcome to this special one off virtual event in partnership with Macmillan Publishing and the new Adventures on Train book series. Sam and Maya talk about their love of trains along with sharing a reading from the “Kidnap on the California Comet”, Illustrator Elisa Paganelli invites us to draw along with her, we talk to Francesca from the Margate Bookshop. Link to video:
For more information on Adventures on Trains visit: https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/macmillan
ANSWER to Big Boy Question on page 13: The Big Boys were neither the largest (with tender), nor the strongest or heaviest (without tender) steam locomotives ever built. As far as these superlatives are concerned, there is always a locomotive that was slightly better or bigger than the Big Boy in a specific area. When it comes to the superlative “the heaviest steam locomotive ever built”, experts still argue about whether a Big Boy with a tender was heavier than the (1'C) 'C3'h4 H8 “Allegheny” from Chesapeake & Ohio. Without a tender, the “Allegheny” is heavier. Longest: 6-4-4-6 S-1 Duplex. https://youtu.be/f-0-Ex6LH2g This one and the Milwaukee Road 4-4-2 Class A's had 84 inch drivers Heaviest: 4-8-8-4 Big Boy and 2-6-6-6 Allegheny Highest Tractive Effort: N&W 2-8-8-2 Y6 Highest Horsepower: 4-4-6-4 Duplex and 2-6-6-6 Allegheny https://youtu.be/WVNHywKHOOk Fastest: N&W 4-8-4 Class J, 4-4-4-4 Duplex, C&O 4-6-4 Hudsons, 6-4-4-6 S-1, The Hiawatha passenger steam trains, etc. Highest Operating Pressure: Santa Fe 2-10-4 5000 Texas types built in 1938 and 1944. https://youtu.be/S3TqGypgch0
STYLISH STORAGE. The pen box as the T3 locomotive of the Prussian State Railways arouses nostalgic feelings with its characteristic appearance, characterized by the chimney and steam dome. This special locomotive not only makes the hearts of railway fans beat faster. The first locomotives were delivered in 1882, one of the last actions of this series of steam locomotives was probably the transport of sugar beets in autumn 1979. In our new pen box you will not find beets, but pens, business cards, post-its or a smartphone in the wide compartments in the boiler room Space. Compartments: 12 Dimensions: 9.2 × 27.5 × 7.8 cm (H × W × D) Discover the matching magazine rack as the T3 steam locomotive! You can store your reading in style in our new book box, which can of course also serve as a magazine rack. Guaranteed to be an eye-catcher in every living room or children's room! Dimensions: 31.4 x 76.5 x 27.5 cm
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