The WAMRC featured in a story on Today Tonight last night. Watch the full story in the clip above.
WAMRC on Today Tonight
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RailFest 2015
(repeat of a previous post — but now less than a week away!)
RAIL HERITAGE WA presents
Where? The Railway Museum, 136 Railway Parade, Bassendean
When? Sunday 11 October 2015, 10 am to 5 pm
Swap meet — many stalls — new & pre-owned — Model trains, books, railwayana- Model railway club — with behind-the-scenes visits
- Meet Warren Duffy of Lost Perth
- Guided tours — behind the scenes
- Kids’ activities
- Afternoon tea in the buffet car
- Sausage sizzle
- Special displays
- Live music — great sounds to enjoy
All these extras, plus our normal displays — and only the standard prices — adults $9, concessions $7, children $4 (under 4 yrs free)
The Railway Museum
136 Railway Parade
Bassendean WA 6054
Haskell L‑Class locos getting closer
Haskell Co. have pictures of the L‑Class in production in multiple liveries on their Facebook page — and even have the boxes ready. Shipping looks to be just around the corner! Here are a sample of some of the photos — visit their Facebook page for lots more.
Galleries Restored
All of the image galleries from the club’s old website have now been migrated across to this new website. This was the final outstanding bit of the old website to be migrated — so the new website is now complete and the old one can be retired permanently.
To see the image galleries, click on “Galleries” in the menu bar at the top — or follow this link: Galleries
Railfest 2015
RAIL HERITAGE WA presents
Where? The Railway Museum, 136 Railway Parade, Bassendean
When? Sunday 11 October 2015, 10 am to 5 pm
- Swap meet — many stalls — new & pre-owned — Model trains, books, railwayana
- Model railway club — with behind-the-scenes visits
- Meet Warren Duffy of Lost Perth
- Guided tours — behind the scenes
- Kids’ activities
- Afternoon tea in the buffet car
- Sausage sizzle
- Special displays
- Live music — great sounds to enjoy
All these extras, plus our normal displays — and only the standard prices — adults $9, concessions $7, children $4 (under 4 yrs free)
The Railway Museum
136 Railway Parade
Bassendean WA 6054
WA Weekender
The WAMRC is set to feature in an upcoming episode of WA Weekender — WA’s own locally produced lifestyle show. Filming at the Rail Heritage museum and WAMRC was completed several weeks ago and the segment is due to go to air this coming Sunday, 1st March from 5:30 — 6:00pm on Channel 7. Looking forward to seeing which bits of the 4 hours they spent at the museum will be used in what will probably be a 5 minute long segment!
Gingin Railway Station — 19th April
Photograph courtesy of © Gordon Stuart
Gingin Railway Station is set to come alive on the 19th April (10am — 4pm) as part of the National Trust Heritage Festival. Presented by the Lions Club of Gingin/Chittering, this year’s theme is Heroes and Pioneers.
DCC Circuit Breakers
The DCC circuit breakers (PowerShield X’s)on the main HO Gunyidi layout have now had the optional short-circuit buzzers fitted (the round black things in the photo above), so they now make a noise when there is a problem. If you are operating on the HO layout and your train stops — listen out for the buzzer. If you hear it you have a short circuit and lost power — if you don’t hear it, it is probably just dirty wheels and/or track!
The next step will be to install LED indicators up on the end wall so you can tell at a glance which finger of the layout it is that has the problem.
January General Meeting
Happy New Year everyone!
The next general meeting for the club is on the 21st January at 8pm in the clubrooms. The minutes from the last general meeting are available in the Members’ Area.
Systems Upgraded
A big hats off to the NCE service department. We had an NCE PB105 booster fail and after much dithering decided the best course of action was to return it all the way back to NCE in the US for repair. It cost A$29 to post back on the 13th November last year together with a note explaining the problem and a request to let us know what the cost of repair & return would be.
Didn’t hear anything for a month, then just a brief email stating that a package had been shipped to us from NCE together with tracking information. It arrived a few days before Christmas — our booster repaired and posted back at no charge, complete with complimentary upgrade chips for both our PowerHouse Pro (main layout) and PowerCab (workshop) DCC systems! [I had mentioned in the note that we’d like to buy the upgrade chips if possible to be included when the booster was returned.]
The repaired booster is working great and both upgrade chips are installed and working. The PowerHouse Pro system software version is now 2007C (we were using a beta version somewhere between 2007 and 2007B) and the PowerCab system software version is now V1.65 (was V1.28d — a non-released beta version). [Note that the picture above is old.]
For details of NCE software revisions have a look at Mark Gurries’ excellent site: