The Kanunda and Emu Flat Railway

Although I had no experience in operating sessions when I started planning the Kanunda and Emu Flat Railway (K&EFR), I wanted a layout that would be capable of hosting prototypical operating sessions for at least four people. The layout would need to be able to be operated point-to-point, but I also wanted to have a continuous run for testing locos and for visitors to be able to see a running layout.

The K&EFR is a fictional piece of main line somewhere in South Australia set in the early 1980s. Being a freelanced layout I did not want to get too involved in having everything perfectly prototypical. I wanted a layout that would have the flavour of country South Australia in the early 1980s.

Modelling the early 1980s allows for a great variety of colourful locomotives and rolling stock because Australian National was introducing its green and yellow livery while there was still a lot of the old South Australian Railways colour around. V/Line trains were running through into South Australia. V/Line was also in transition from the blue and yellow Vic Rail to the then new V/Line orange and grey livery. I also made the