Four walls and a roof...

Blink and you'd miss it...

After the painting of the portal frames was completed over the other weekend, in a day the roof was on, and the entry door installed.

And then two days later the walls were stood, but they still have several hundred screws to install.

But it is getting close.

Onwards to final completion!

Murtoa arrangement.

Murtoa is the final station in the section I'm planning to model, which is Deep Lead (Melbourne) to Jung (Dimboola) with the main stations being Glenorchy, Wal Wal, Lubeck and Murtoa.

While not exactly to the correct size at the moment, this is the SCRAM plan for Murtoa based off of the 1951 signalling diagram. Below that is a prospect for a modified eastern.

An idea I had was to make a couple of changes to the up end of the yard, moving Post 2 in the up direction towards the Melbourne end of the yard extending the 'loop' of No. 3 and No. 4 roads and also extending the No. 1. So the 2 DC becomes a RH point instead of a double compound.

The parts listing generated out of Scarm, but not for the modified arrangement outlined above.

Structural completion.

All the structural steel is now completed and welded in place. Painter is next to paint the blue steel portal frames prior to sheeting. But the sheeting is here along with the air-cell insulation.

Not long to go now till we get to the pointy end of the job!

Athearn SD70ACe UP 1983 Western Pacific

While not my actual prototype, I am a fan of Western Pacific and do like this heritage livery applied by Union Pacific to their SD70ACe locomotive UP 1983. 1983 being the year that the UP took control of WP and was later merged on June 17, 1987. Utah Rails has more information on those activities and can be found here: UtahRails.net

Athearn released UP 1983 in as a G2 model in June 2022. An earlier model was also produced back in June 2016. A link to the Genisis 2.0 out of stock item can be found here Athearn ATHG01983.