Australian Model Railway Magazine

Peak r-t-r?

I was on the phone to a train modelling friend the other day and we were laughing about our early kit building efforts stretching back into the eighties and nineties. I built my first steam locomotive kit in 1994 and the reason I remember the year so clearly was because I heard about Kurt Cobain’s death on the radio while I was working on the kit. I was never much of a fan of Nirvana’s music so perhaps it would be more accurate to say I remember what year he died because I was doing

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