Peter Anderson’s Beyer-Garratt loco (7¼" gauge) – based on a Bayer-Garrett of Leopoldina Railway, Brazil.
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CSMEE points and station to left of picture. Track length is app. 1 km.
Right: British ‘Black Five’ steam loco: built and run by Society President, John Nicolson, a 1:8 model based on an Armstrong-Whitworth engine. In weight, the model is 300 kg as opposed to the full size Black Five weight of 137,454 kgs. A total of 842 of the design were built between 1934 & 1951 for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co. (LMS), the biggest of the ‘big four’ railway companies of England. 18 have been preserved by Railway Societies - still running at various locations in Britain.
The Bunyip steam loco: 1:3 model of a Bundaberg cane train, like the Mountaineer originally based on a 2’ gauge. In weight, the Bunyip is about 4% of its full size counterpart – 750 kgs as opposed to 18,000 kg. 4 were built in Canberra by Ian Smith and John Nicolson, with the others now operating in Victoria. 8 were built in the 1950s and service the Queensland cane crushing operations from Bundaberg north to Mossman.
Happy trainriders at a CSMEE Open Day.
‘Frosty Pines’ a model Shay timber locomotive (7¼" gauge).
This type of locomotive was developed for use in steep timber country in areas such as Washington State in the USA.
Left: Peter Anderson’s Indian ‘JSR’ model (7¼" gauge)
Right: ‘’ a model (5" gauge)
Shaun Barker driving ‘Mountaineer’ – a model of a full size engine used in WWI by Australian Railway Units operating in France. Built on approximately 1:3 scale, this model steam engine is beautifully presented in black with brass finishing. The full sized version ran on a 2’ gauge and was used to service the trenches and artillery battery, transporting guns, ammunition, munitions and food to the troops, as well as taking out the wounded. The British War Department commissioned the engines, but due to manufacturing shortages in Britain during the war, two American companies built them, with about 100 of the Mountaineer’s type built by the Cooke Loco Works of Alco (the American Locomotive Company), and the Baldwin Locomotive Works building a different type of engine.
'Santa Fe'- a diesel-electric model
President John Nicolson driving Peter Anderson’s JSR model.
Another view of the Bunyip
