Fav time of the month. Aaaaw man the 10% push me off the fence hahaha. It's great to see company's supporting you. Shows how big of a impact you have now :)

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Jordan! Yeah it’s really exciting to see and yeah I can’t wait to see where this goes! All very positive so far!

Thanks Will!

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Another great round-up Will, there's a LOT to take in from this months show! My last purchase was a second B Class loco for my layout from Australian Modeller before they all disappeared, so it's great to see them supporting you with a special offer for your viewers. I may just take a little look-see at some E cars after watching your Otway Explorer clip! Would have loved a day out to Warrnambool on the train!

Great stuff. Really appreciate all your work on this series. 👌

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks Will u seem like a really nice bloke ! Iam very happy that your channel is rapidly growing love the content cheers Tim

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim! Yeah it's growing well, really excited to bring everyone more!

You sure know how to make all that technical info entertaining Mr Will !

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Huck!

Will, Thank you for collating all the news. It certainly keeps us all up to date, and as always, you make it interesting. My last purchase was from MRT for some 3D Printed parts to add a bit of interest to my freight depot. Cheers, and stay safe. Michael

@ModelRailroadTechniques

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael. Your others are on their way.

@michaelimpey1407

2 жыл бұрын

@@ModelRailroadTechniques Thanks, looking forward to them.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael!

Thanks Will. Very informative.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thanks for another great vid. My last buy was a Steam era models DERM. Ugh my eyes ain't what they used to be....

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice! Thanks Chris!

thanks will!

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

If I were running Auscision, I would definitely go all-in on N scale. They have a wide open market to tap. Now that detail and running quality, with DCC and sound, is at such high levels, being able to build a "larger" layout in the same space is too tempting not to go N. Now that my large HO layout is torn down and all my HO trains are in display cases, I'm greatly tempted by those N scale NR's and building an N layout in my new, small living space. Go AuscisioN.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

A very interesting time a head with more Australian N scale on the horizon!

Nice news update Will. The Train-O-rama S class sounds exciting. Last thing I bought are some Steam era models kits so 3 VHGF grain wagons 2 AW pass cars 1 U van and 1 Z van. - Nicholas.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nicholas! Absolutely it does! Pretty keen on a few of them! At some excellent kits!

I may live in the US but my god I love the CLP/CLF Class, they look like a hybrid between an F unit, an SD40-2, and an FP45.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Ah I'm also a big fan! The last streamliners!

Very nice and enjoyed as allwaysss haha

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joel!

Last things I bought were some SMS paints and a peco 3 way point to replace a layout failure.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I also got some SMS paint recently!

Much appreciated update.OZZY train market has so much happening.Thanks Will.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dennis!

I may be a L gauge modler but I enjoy these.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’m actually considering including that business that does the how to make Australian L gauge stuff? Who’s name I’ve totally forgotten!

Last thing I bought would’ve been some steam era kits, probably the M cattle van kit, great video and I reckon I may be taking advantage of that 10% off on AM haha!

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Ah a great kit to build! Let us know if you do!

Well Done Will. My last buy was a Oscilloscope for my arduino projects.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice! Thanks mate!

Good video Will. Thanks for organising the discount, a great offer! - I took advantage of it and got some of the new NGTY grain hoppers. In terms of what else I've purchased lately, recently I put in my order for some 44 class. In terms of the content of the video and in particular with Auscision's big update (their biggest ever, I think), many of their stated ETA's are quite clearly over-optimistic. I've been watching events closely in the Australian model railway scene for the last fifteen years or so, and that experience tells me that things always take longer than they say, and never quicker. Certainly not new items, at least. I note that they didn't give an ETA for the C class or for many of the other locos, and a good thing too, because anything that doesn't have painted samples yet is NOT going to arrive this year, no way. For the recently announced Harris sets, Auscision claimed they would be here by the end of the year. NO. Its not going to happen no matter what anyone believes. The CLPs, G/BL, GT46C-ACe - none of them are likely to arrive this year, if by some miracle any do, it would be the ones which we have already seen the painted samples of, e.g. the GT46C-ACes or the G/BLs. But they are still unlikely to make it IMHO. Even the 44s are going to be arriving late this year if they do arrive at all (I'd guess October at the earliest). I don't believe that the XGAY or CHS wagons will arrive before the end of the year either, and the DEB sets I think we will be very lucky if they even arrive NEXT year (same with the C class and the CLP/CLF, I think). I am more confident that the re-runs of the NSW ballast hoppers and the SA grain hoppers will arrive sometime during the year though. Cheers and keep up the good work.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Toby! Excellent to hear! I totally agree there mate, always seem to add another year to an eta! Thanks for watching!

Last thing I got was a mostly built shay kit! Hard to come by here. Sorry to the other 3 bidding on it... (Old comment got deleted randomly which was annoying)

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really odd not sure what’s happened their! Now that sounds like a really interesting project! I really loved geared locomotives and am always tempted to collect them!

NGPF grain wagons (NGH-23) courtesy of your code mate! Thanks so much for that

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

An excellent choice! Thanks mate!

@bigdirtyfreighttrains951

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillJamesRailways next up is another NR 😬

Awesome 🚂😎👍👍👍👍

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Dammit!!!! Now I have to spend $$$ at Australian Modeller. Thanks.🤘😁

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Really the opposite of a problem! Haha

Thanks for the updates. Shame about Sandown though but yay, the S Class returns! Last thing I bought was some Code 80 straights for my turntable.

@wilks3620

2 жыл бұрын

So excited for the S class. If only they made a run of S313

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

I agree there Stuart!

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s hope they see the comments about it!

I always hang out for the occasional 20% off sales :) Got a red rattler last time

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

The elusive 20%! I also got the tait set last time!

The last thing I bought was an X200 class shunter.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Ah excellent to hear!

You need to go into Studio and tick the “My video contains paid promotion, endorsement or sponsorship” to keep the regulators happy

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

I actually thought i had thanks for pointing that out!

That's terrible news that train-o-rama aren't including S312 and S302 in their SSR livery. Otherwise great vid as always, thanks for posting!

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

It’s an odd choice for sure! Maybe they’ll see the comments about it, and put them back into production! Thank you for watching Bob!

@bobmarkson5343

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillJamesRailways No worries Will, I really enjoy your vids and congrats on owning a SS commodore - I liked the way you included that in the other vids. Re S class livery's; I think the other elephant in the room is the SSR graffiti grain train. It'd make a really cool set in HO I reckon but almost impossible to make. I liked driving down sunshine road when it was parked in Tottenham yards near the scrapped comeng's. To me, it looked like a mad max train. Hotrod livery's on S302 and S312 with the weathered P class loco's - it could be the coolest train on earth. Definitely in broad gauge. Cheers! EDIT** I'd pre order a S302 and S312 in the SSR livery if train-o-rama had produced it. I'd maybe get a second S312 in the railpower livery if they offered that as well. I'd probably need a few beers first before buying all 3 on preorder but my collection feels incomplete without them.

I'm a bit late to these videos but today I bought an SDS NR class #15 Pacific national locomotive and Auscision BDX wagon pack. My first step into Australian HO

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Never to late! If it helps there’s a new one that always comes out on the 1st of the month! Ah a great first step into the scene! Thank you for sharing that!

Excellent video! We are now spoiled for choice, in ready to run models of Australian prototype. My most recent might be regarded as a strange purchase. Experimenting with finer scale track. HO scale code 70 is still too heavy rail for sidings or branch lines in Victorian Railways in the late 1960's, early 1970's. Bought a length of code 55 N scale flex track. Regauged it to HO scale. (cut the sleepers up the middle, heavy ballasting holds the track at HO scale width and mostly disguises the smaller sleepers. Made the track into a loco ash dump siding, for when I eventually equip my layout with a steam loco. Almost all my rollingstock has finer scale wheels, and runs fine on the code 55. Hoping to make my proposed branch, to be added to the layout with code 55 track.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! That's an awesome project, and one I've not really seen don't before! Thank you for sharing it with everyone!

If the Auscision N scale locomotives can match the running qualities of Kato and American ScaleTrains locomotives then I will be giving serious consideration to starting a Australian N gauge layout and selling of all my HO stock. It would be nice if Auscision were a bit more active on KZread with promotional videos of their various model releases and could show the running and sound qualities of their N scale locomotives before the order forms become available. Really hope the N scale venture for Auscision is successful and provides Aussies a reliable and viable alternative to HO Scale especially for modeller's in smaller houses or apartments.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more with your comments!

Im actually hyped Auscision is making a suburban vic train. Not because im gonna buy it, but hopefully it means down the track we will see the comeng, x trapolis and HCMT which I will be pre ordering the second they go up on website.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! Hopefully they keep selling well so we get them down the track!

Great for the Auscision update, seems the C Class is no closer, paid for 3 years ago, not happy Jan :-(

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

It seems that way! Oh I’m in the same boat on that one!

Hi Will I was looking at your railway pins and was wondering will you ever make a A Class one in MK3?

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Hello! Ah never say never! Once all the current ones are gone, it's something i might do as a limited run, but not sure at this point!

The 10% off pushed me to by a 600 class haha

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

An excellent model to pick up!

Last Purchase hmmmmm…. Probably an Auscision SCT class and a CFCLA EL class, definitely two locomotives needed to expand the modern SCT system. But with that 10% discount, it might tempt me to buy something and will definitely not go to waste.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Some great pick ups there Aiden! We’ll let us know what you get!!

I've not bought any Australian Model Trains in a while, I've been buying instead N scale Japanese, I've got twice the commuter EMUs for my money verses buying one set from Auscision

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i mean that's a bit of an unfair comparison, aside from scale, the Japanese market is a lot bigger than ours, similar comparisons can be made between Us or Uk brands vs ours. But, same things, they produce a lot more with more people buying them. I do wonder how Auscisions N scale prices will stack up against the international companies however I feel it'll be the same as in HO Scale.

@rod.h8064

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillJamesRailways for the cost of a 4 car Harris, I can get in Japanese N a full 8 car EMU formation plus an add on 4 car set, each set will have a motor and working directional lights at each drivers cab. But depending on the manufacturer, it will be either DIY numbers and destro boards or fixed factory applied numbers and boards. Heck I can even get a full 16 car N gauge Shinkansen for that and have actually almost paid close to that for a second-hand 30 year old 8-car Shinkansen from a certain local train store that offers used gear along side used (someone must have rooked them when they traded it to them).

its probably news that came out before you started these news clips.... but something on the SDS T class would be good. Absolutely hanging out for those.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

It was mentioned a few months ago, but sds are very quite at the moment with updates on the T’s! Still no pre-orders for private operator T’s and nothings changed on the VR/VLINE models, and still now pre production samples!

What’s the best way I can get in to model railways? I like the more metro type stuff (idk any names or classes) but I’m not sure how id go about even starting a little railway, I’m from Adelaide an I know there’s not much Adelaide metro models an only a handful of SAR trains.

@ohnostepbro6916

2 жыл бұрын

An is N scale cheaper then HO gage?

@wilks3620

2 жыл бұрын

@@ohnostepbro6916 N scale is generally cheaper, but harder to find models. If I come across some metros I will tell you.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

I’d say maybe pop into Orient Express in Adelaide or even take a look at visiting some of the clubs and see what’s around you locally. I think for Adelaide metro, I think I’ve only ever seen scratch built models at least at this point!

Will, does the Australian modeller discount code work in store or is it just online?

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Only on the online store until the 31/3/22!

I am curious about the 3 and 4 letter designations on freight cars. From my vantage point 12,000 miles away, the lettering seems totally random. Can you explain how they get their designations? Thanks.

@johnd8892

2 жыл бұрын

The railways started discussing a national coding system in the late sixties , probably in anticipation of more through running in 1970 when all state capital cities would be connected to standard guage. Took until about 1978 to start being applied gradually the in earnest.for bogie rolling stock. Intially it followed as per this : First letter is the owning system: eg V - Victorian Railways. Second letter is the car type, and I think that this is where the question was pointed. B=Boxcar C=Cattle Car (ANR) or Coil Steel (all other systems except VR) F=Flatcar (and coil steel, VR only) G=Grain Hopper (?NSW only) H=Hopper K=Steel traffic (introduced 1990s) L=Louvre van M=Motor Car wagon O=Open wagon P=Pneumatic discharge hopper (Vic only), cement hopper (other systems) Q=Container wagon R=Reefer S=Sheep wagon (ANR only) or livestock generally (other systems) T=Tank wagon V=Brakevan W=Well wagon Z=Special Wagon (NSW only) The third letter is a wagon type identifier The last letter WAS for bogie type A=Slow (Plain bearing) W=Low level X=bogie eXchangable Y=Fast (Roller bearing), not exchangable PY as the last two letters on VR and ANR indicated availability for passenger trains. However some refinements over time since with new operators and wagon types.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that John!

James what would you recommend for a short wheelbase passenger carriages with KD couplings for a 960 SAR. I’m not fussed what state it comes from.

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

I reckon shortest I can think of that might be suitable would be the Glenelg Centenary Cars from Orient Express, they’re pretty short from memory! Also my names Will! (The joys of having a first name for a last name as well)

@MrMontrose1967

2 жыл бұрын

@@WillJamesRailways sorry Will thanks for the advice

sorry all USA railway

@WillJamesRailways

2 жыл бұрын

Ah they’ve got heaps!