IN THE LOOP
In the early nineteen nineties I made one of the better decisions of my modelling life and became a member of the Wyong and District Model Railway Club. I developed a friendship with a member, Ray. At the time Ray was probably in his early fifties and he'd had been involved in the hobby long enough to have gone through several different scale and gauge interests, which included the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) in HO. He owned several very nice NSWGR HO brass locomotives which he occasionally ran on the club's layouts and . When I knew him, his interest had shifted to the Shays that ran on the shalethe line so they could build a layout based around this prototype. However, this didn't stop Ray being involved in the planning and construction of the Wyong club's large HO layout, .