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Hey Robin .....cant wait to get back to Georgetown, having seen and operated the old M.A.T looking forward to seeing the new.

Jim.. Livingston is a town The name might have been changed to an African name since independance, named after David Livingstone who discovered the Victoria falls whilst looking for the source of the river Nile Another explorer Stanley was sent to look for him and on meeting him in the bush is...

Sad Sight Indeed Those are the Zimbabwe Loco's The first photo is a crash site Those Garrette Locos Type GMA used to pass my house in my youth Makes my heart bleed Will Post a photo of one in good condition when I stop crying

Happy ,Happy The good book says three score and ten,to which can be added the time spent model railroading Welcome to the 70's club

Enjoy having them while you can, they grow so fast and leave you with a hole thats not easily filled. my Grandsons now live in Canada and boy did they leave a hole in my heart.looking forward to my Great Grand children God willing

Took a break from layout construction yesterday to have some outdoor fun. Our Live Steam Club hosted the annual RSA Live Steam Meet.... attracting over 60 loco's from country wide Clubs Some owners allow you to drive their masterpieces...Here I had a drive on a very fine model of a Baldwin,one...

And I thought Robn had done a lot of structures !!!!!. Those of us that do not have much imagination sure get much food for thought Many thanks for letting us have a look at all those past structures

Panning around The trees are Blue Gums ...not indigenous to South Africa,the seed came in the hay that was shipped here from Australia for the Britsh horses during the 1899/1902 Boer War

Looking out of our holiday apartment window I thought ,WOW that will make a good backgound for my layout Do we take pictures often enough to help us remember good layout scenes ?

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good detailing once again Jim

Heared about a guy walking off a construction site every day for a week with a wheelbarrow fully of sand, the Guards poked around in the sand and found nothing, suddenly there was an accute shortage of wheelarrows on the site...then the penny dropped Here in the RSA they will steal anything...

Paul .... every time I am off the net for a while you get something published....WOW.......Best of luck and '" Keep em coming ":thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

Stories about U/G loco's I have plenty, Will dig out some pictures when I return from my holiday next week Riding in a small enclosed passenger car one morning,traveling between two shafts, one of the idiots in the car reached out as the loco slowed and pulled out the link pin, he...

Yup...thats me on my 70th birthday... my kids paid for me to do some arial acrobatics....Greatest thrill !!! flying up side down My wifes being giving me blazes for drinking to much coffee...I just cant win...no beer no coffee, no you no what... buts life still good,must be the model...

Hey Jim...... great picture story Tell me did you think this up before you began or as you went along ? Only kidding :D :D :D :D Its a great kit bash

Pat.......I used to drink for the First Team ...Senior League but no more ;) ;) ;) Ken it wer'nt a Cessna it was a Harvard

Pat.... the only thing I am guilty of is lazyness....too lazy to set the tripod up Looks like my age is catching up with me:oops::D :D

Those photos brought back a lot of memories for me, having spent many years underground in South African gold Mines. Must have traveled hundreds of miles behind a host of little locos, Battery,diesel driven and overhead trolley traction. Remember one weekend a gang of us went underground on...

Following in Robins footsteps a night scene

From the other side