Links!
Everbody has a link farm. So here's mine.
Museums and historic societies:
Illawarra
Light Railway Museum the best museum
group in the world!
Glenreagh
Mountain Railway (I donated a concrete
sleeper to this mob, and rode the ganger's trolley up the hill
and through the tunnels. Its well worth it)
Australian
Railway Historical Society of NSW (The
BEST railway bookshop I have ever seen)
Light Railway Research Society Of Australia (The mother lode for Australian Narrow or Light Railway
Modellers and Researchers)(And I'm not yet a member)
Prototypes:
The Garratt Pages (You
Americans have nothing to compare to the Mighty Garratt)
The
Shay Locomotive Database (Okay, I
admit, these things are my favourite machines of all)
New Zealand Geared Steam Locos
(and those Kiwis make great, albeit weird lokies)
Ruston
and Hornsby Locomotives (I like Ruston
20DLUs, the ideal backyard railway loco)
World Wide 30 Inch Gauge Lines
(Spend a month here)
Industrial
Narrow Gauge Railways (Don't forget to
eat)
World Wide 2' Gauge Lines (prepare
to be inspired, my favourite gauge)
Newnes
Services (Info on the wonderful Wolgan
Valley Railway, nothing like it anywhere else in the world)
Model Railway Manufacturers
Boulder Valley Models The people who make the Mighty Midget kit,
great site with lots of inspirational products
Mountain Blue Miniatures stocking O scale figures, kits, solder and flux and various other useful bits and pieces
Model Railway Resources
CaneSIG (Check out the Jim Fainges' Drawing collection - more
that meets the eye)
James Eckman's On30 (Must Read
before building anything mildly On30)
The On30 Model Railroading Page A great On30 resource site
The Model Railways Shunting Puzzles
Website (Details of Timesaver and
Inglenook shunting puzzles and more)
Micro
Layouts for Model Railways (THE site
for those who think they have no space, and where the Canal
Railway is that inspired half my layout)
Model Railway Yahoo Groups I belong to
O14
(Finescale Narrow Gauge-using 1:43.5 and exact 2' track)
Australian Narrow Gauge Group
(my favourite group on my favourite subject)
Australian NMRA Narrow Gauge Special Interest Group (A quiet, mostly private group used for SIG purposes)
Small Layout Design (Helped me
with my layout design, and plenty of inspiration)
Model Railway Sites
Dutton Bay Tramway (A grasp on
reality makes this freelanced layout so...'Right')
The
On30 Guy (Well, he had my layout plan
within a day of it being posted, must be a good site!)
Australian Model Railways (Publishers
of fine magazines and books on Government Australian Railways)
Broughton Vale Tramway (by my
friend Professor Klyzlr, wonderful Aussie and NZ logging practise
in HOn30)
Photographic Collections
Australian Narrow Gauge Web-Exhibition (I hope to one day feature on this website)
Picture
Australia
Archives
Office of Tasmania
State
Library of Victoria
Hobby Shops
Berg's Hobbies, Parramatta (makers
of the fine Krauss and Bundaberg Fowler locomotives for O scale
narrow gauge, and my favourite source for anything O scale. Tell
them Mark Kendrick sent you) I work most Monday mornings at Berg's to feed the habit that is modelling trains.
Tracks And Trains (cheapest
Bachmann On30 in Australia, BVM, excellent service, good range of
O scale products.)
The Railcar (I have never bought from them, but the range is huge,
and I have heard only good reports about them. And they stock
some stuff I really want)
Music
My
Dying Bride (Ideal for any funeral or
sadistic party)
Chalice (Metal meets Opera...And here is the resulting orgasm)
Fear
Factory (We Have Been Forsaken! See
them live and you will see what I mean)
Lacuna
Coil (Goth metal at its finest.
Evanescence are a shame to the genre.)
Nightwish (Walking On Air...A must have song)
The Butterfly Effect (These
guys rock damn hard, particularly live. See em and buy their
record)
Stratovarius (Well, been around donkey's years, influenced
practically everyone, yet rarely listed in people favourite bands.
Why?)
Nevermore (Fat Heavy sounds out of Seattle, yet sound as good as
many European bands)
any comments?
Email me: trainbrain @ optusnet . com . au
(remove spaces from address before sending)
Mark Kendrick 09/10/05