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We have a variety of winter sports that involve snow, including the usual suspects, what with strapping planks to your feet and falling down mountains, or sitting in wheel-less conveyances and hurtling down mountains, and various other ways of getting down mountains. The snow areas cover...

Here in the Antipodes it can get cold at times so we do have chimneys and fireplaces, and as for where you hang the stockings, well, I won't go into that except to say that they look good on the wife;) I must admit I'm not a big fan of snow but I recall seeing somewhere that Australia has more...

As we wind down towards the Christmas holidays I'd just like to wish all contributors and readers-passing-through all the best for the festive season. Early forecasts are for a temp in the 40's(celsius), over a hundred farengrade, on Christmas Day, when we'll sit down to a burnt turkey...

Yesterday I posted a couple of links for narrow gauge and logging in Australia. For the street railway/interurban fans out there here's a link to a rather large Australian site. As you'll know Melbourne is the capital of trams in Australia, although Sydney has put in a short route in the last...

For those interested, some websites with Australian narrow gauge info. There's a truckload of info out there and this is what came of 5 minutes on Google. http://www.puffingbilly.com.au/fan/heritage/hist-53.htm The main tourist railway of Victoria, with info on the narrow gauge lines of...

Welcome and logs From down here in the Antipodes a hearty welcome to the new members and emigrants. As for logging, it's not my cup of tea, but, Australia had a wealth of narrow gauge logging roads with a variety of motive power, and NG still lives on in our sugar fields of Queensland. I'll...

Strange thing about Korea during the run-up to the World Cup. Several places we entered featured Bulgoggi on the menu. Upon asking the serving staff they had the carefully rehearsed mantra, "Is beef, not dog". And I know there's no such thing as a truly bad beer, but a couple of the local...

Ah yes, 'roo tail soup, cooked over an open fire in the bush, swilled down with a couple of vats of maniac soup, sorry, Fosters, while the 'roo burgers are cooking;) A true culinary feast. Then again I saw a couple of similar signs in Ulsan, Korea, last May.

Bob and the other boys. I also haven't done much on a layout lately, which I suppose isn't surprising what with trying to find somewhere to live after dragging the boat, and the wife, 2500 miles across the continent. Next trip back east I'll load the trailer with all the railroad stuff from...

Welcome to the gauge. I've only been here a month or two but already picked clues, hints tips etc, and there aren't any people who will pounce on anything you say just for an argument:cool: Using some of the info, and the photos from this site as inspiration I'll shortly be working on a small...

Down here in the antipodes several diesel classes, the Victorian Railways "X" class springs to mind, were designated to run long hood leading. This was on the grounds of crew safety. Apparently in a collision, short hood leading, you end up wearing the tractor engine of the truck you hit; long...

The SDRM website has some seriously good info on steam locomotion, for those interested in the technical side of things.

Shamus - As I will be in transit between my present abode, Victoria, and West Australia for the next couple of weeks, is it possible for me to bung in a photo to the prototype section now??;) If so I'd like to submit the photo at thread 682, page 2, submitted at 8:07pm on July 24th on the...

http://www.barbados.gov.bb/bgis/nation/flag.htm A link to the barbadoc flag. And a piccy, if I've got it right.

The Commonwealth Games are terrific for an international event, but for sheer, unmitigated fun I don't think we can go past the Olympics of a couple of games ago when the Cubans sent possibly the funniest gymnastic team of all team. Horse vaulters who took headers into the horse, Parallel bars...

This is another rail tractor, this time a Fordson.

The Victorian Railways had several series of modified tractors, mounted on rail wheels, used for shunting wagons around the smaller yards I'll append a photo of 1 to this message and another shortly. The first is a modified Massey Ferguson tractor.

Have you ever noticed how you can put 6 pairs of socks in a washing machine and get 11 single ones out? There is something in a washing machine that will form the basis for the Star Trek-like transporter:D But then again, one of the perils of space travel may be the sock belt, just outside the...

Thank you ladies and gentlemen for all that. There's a bucketload of stuff to read and digest, then I'll get a coupla lengths of code 83 or similar, some trackbed, handful of nails and a knock-o-meter (hammer for the uninititated:D ) and try it. Like swimming, I spose it's jump in at the deep...

I know it's been done ad nauseam all over the web, but, where is the best place to learn how to handlay track? I'll be starting with the usual starights and freehand curves initially but then hope to graduate to turnouts eventually. Thanks in advance.