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  • Australian Model Railway Magazine

    The Model

    Mar 17, 2020 3 minutes

    My model is in Sn3½, that is 1:64 scale with a track gauge of 16.5mm to represent the 3'6" of the prototype. It is built to depict R174 (the first loco of the second order) as a 4-4-2 in its final years of active service in the early 1950s. The superstructure and tender of the model is completely scratch-built, except for boiler fittings and loco and tender bogie side frames obtained as castings from Railwest Models in Perth.

    The chassis is also scratchbuilt, except for Markits wheels, Mashima

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