Anybody remember the Walla Walla Valley Railroad of Blair Kooistra in the 2005 “Great Model Railroads”? He had started on a larger version of the same thing, but that’s all changed. Different prototype, different country, different hemisphere.
Cool.
http://northofnarrabri.blogspot.com/
Andre
How do you know that’s Blair’s layout ? Well, I guess initials BEK matches - Blair E Kooistra, isn’t it? And it is stylish.
Still - that’s quite a leap from Walla Walla Valley to New South Wales “down under”.
Btw - if anyone is looking for track plans for small agricultural communities - there are some cool ones on the blogspot web page above.
Thanks for posting this, Andre!
Smile,
Stein
How do you know that’s Blair’s layout ? Well, I guess initials BEK matches - Blair E Kooistra, isn’t it? And it is stylish.
I know because he said so on a Yahoo group to which we both belong. I hadn’t been an active participant and just stumbled on the posting where he mentioned about slaving away on his NSWGR layout. It kinda blew me away because I’m seriously considering doing something similar, but New Zealand during steam days. It’ll mean a scale change to S since HO track is correct for Sn3.5.
Here’s part of the reason (note some of this clip has 40’s music, some pure steam enjoyment): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j_rOlEdSdM&feature=related
I rode behind a sister engine in 1969 when she was still in active service. Mainline steam and narrow gauge. What more could one ask for?
Andre
I knew Blair was up to something when he started unloading all his WWV rolling stock on eBay!