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(1) Ironbark platform waiting room is made from pottery.
(2) Lilyvale station building is made from balsa strips glued over a ply frame.
(3) The old Ghost Gum station. Ghost Gum was renamed Sandstone and then Ti-Tree. The building is made from fibro with the bricks scribed on. never again - it's too hard to work with but I thought it would stand the weather better.
(4) Melaleuca station is built on a raised baseboard. Originally it was a small passing station with a small waiting room (left). Now (2005) it has grown to a major station with a larger building. It is the most accessible part of the layout and the place of choice for visitors to put their trains on the line.
(5) Ti-Tree station, uses the building that was originally at Sandstone (and before that at Ghost Gum - recycling at its best!). It is also on a raised base board.
As Sandstone is the headquarters of the S&TR, it is an imposing, 2-storey structure. It is made from Hebel concrete, scribed to represent sandstone blocks and is complete with a clock tower with working clock. The roof is fibro (fibre cement sheet) scribed to represent slate, with ridge capping bent from aluminium (cans). The corrugated iron on the awning is from Al cans and a paper corrugator.
There is also an imposing stained glass window featuring a train (copied from the real thing in Dunedin NZ). I scanned a photo of the window, made a few changes to include the wordsd Sandstone and S&TR, then mirror reversed it and had a printer print it on clear plastic sheet. I have placed aluminium foil behind the 'glass'.
The clock is a cheap ($2) travel clock with a new face drawn in Word, and printed on normal paper, then varnished. The seconds and alarm hands were removed. The face surround was turned from perspex and painted gold. The tower is Hebel. The awning posts are garden irrigation pipe and fittings with curved supports from HO rail. The post heights can be adjusted by the simple screw in fittings.
More station pics>
Ghost Gum
Old Sandstone station (building now used now at Ti-Tree)
Ironbark station
A long freight passes through Ironbark, into the cave
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