CoastalRev's Jamberoo Railway in N Scale

6.8.08

I assembled my first Micro-Trains couplers!

I'm very excited because I've assembled my first pair of Micro-Trains couplers.

When I modelled HO scale I had no troubles assembling Kadees (the HO equivalents) but the N-scale ones are a tad tinier! Rory's advice to assemble them on the plastic sprue saved me from buying a jig and I fitted my first pair to the C.O.R. tanker that's been waiting for couplers for over a year! It's pictured here sans coupling:

I'm very excited... and now I can run my 45 class (see previous post) with two wagons!

Labels: 45, micro_trains, new_loco, progress, rolling_stock

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No progress but we have a new loco!

From Jamberoo Rail...

Well, there's been absolutely no progress on the Jamberoo Railway since the last post in March.

But yesterday I received my long-awaited ready-to-run Aust-N-Rail/Peter Boorman's Workshop 45 class fresh from the 'factory'.

She's fantastic!

I only have one wagon running at present with Micro-Trains couplings--so only the TRC Wagon from Pallas Hobbies is running with MT bogies/couplings. So that's all we've been running with for the time being.

What a great loco!

Here are some low-quality snaps taken with my mobile-phone camera.

And yes, it's inspired us to resume progress on the layout... so has the 'deadline' of the church fete in October!!!