Welcome to the Hunter Valley Lines website

This website is not related to any company but is a website about my model railway hobby and the trians I run based on those operating in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia.

My layout is under construction right now and will be completed I hope sometime around Christmas of 2003, depending on the Chief Accountant and the financial department.

It will be N scale using single track operation and will be built to be operated by up to three people, including a dispatcher. The control system will be DCC, most likely Easy DCC as I have used it before and found that I really like the way it operates. The operating software will most likely be RailOP for the same reasons.

I have no designs posted yet. That is most likely to come in the next few months over the North American summer. Currently I live in Kyle, Texas with my wife and one child. We'll hopefully be moving back to Australia in the latter part of 2004. If Goerge W doesn't blow the whole planet sky high.

I have already written a couple of articles on operations and layout design and they will be posted here soon.

In addition there is a section of the website set aside for the AUstralian Railway Operations SIG, a special interst group. This group is a yahoo groups group and is open to anyone interested in learning and sharing information about Australian Railway Operations.

So if you have some information to share please drop me a line at the following address:

Interests

As a young lad growing up around Sydney's outer western suburbs I spent many an afternoon staring at the roof of an idling 48 class locomotive shunting the Blacktown livestock and good sidings near platform 1 and 2.

All of that, along with my youth is now gone at this location, but the memory still lives on.

Those sooty, smelly robust workhorses I think have lead me down the path toward high hood units all these years.

So the Hunter Valley Lines will have nothing but high hood designs on the line. In addition there will be a lot of bulk load movement and the line will be set in the near to present day although mostly freelanced.

There'll be some full-on shunting for crews to perform and some serious running in and out of the sceniced layout section.

I have not decided on a livery yet, but you can expect something cool out of the paintshops fairly soon.


	Sending Coal to Newcastle



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