Australian Model Railway Magazine

60 years of memories

With the completion of the December issue of AMRM, an association of over 60 years came to an end for me.

Back in 1962, I began my first job as a factory hand at a typesetting company in St. Peters, Sydney. The company provided typesetting services to printers all over the city and suburbs. My duties included sweeping the floor, melting waste material and casting lead ingots for use on the typesetting machines, as well as getting

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