Having traveled on many trains in many parts of the world being able to relive the journey is a great reason to take up model railroading.
While watching DVDs of the trips and looking at photos helps to relive the trip, actually recreating the line and the scenery takes reliving a journey to the next level.
Take as many photos as you can on the trip as these will help to guide you when it comes to modeling. Here is a photo I took while on the Taieri Gorge Railway from the engine.
It shows the bridge which is part wooden and part metal, the bridge number, the retaining walls behind the bridge foundations, the type of rock and how the vegetation is. There is great detail in this photo to help me when I recreate this section of track.
Look out also for interesting things to add to your scene and take photos - here is one idea that I particularly like from this journey.
In the middle of this photo you may be able to make out an upside down wagon! Originally they were used to stop banks from collapsing after being filled with rock - there is more than one. Then a flood washed them down stream - imagine the power of the water to move fully laden rolling stock!
Of course I will have to find an old broken wagon - wouldn't want to use a new one like that!
All aboard!
While watching DVDs of the trips and looking at photos helps to relive the trip, actually recreating the line and the scenery takes reliving a journey to the next level.
Take as many photos as you can on the trip as these will help to guide you when it comes to modeling. Here is a photo I took while on the Taieri Gorge Railway from the engine.
It shows the bridge which is part wooden and part metal, the bridge number, the retaining walls behind the bridge foundations, the type of rock and how the vegetation is. There is great detail in this photo to help me when I recreate this section of track.
Look out also for interesting things to add to your scene and take photos - here is one idea that I particularly like from this journey.
In the middle of this photo you may be able to make out an upside down wagon! Originally they were used to stop banks from collapsing after being filled with rock - there is more than one. Then a flood washed them down stream - imagine the power of the water to move fully laden rolling stock!
Of course I will have to find an old broken wagon - wouldn't want to use a new one like that!
All aboard!
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