QR @ Pinkenba

Yarraman here we come Going to QLD State Archives kept seeming like the right step and option, but it constrained me to during the weekdays and working full time I am time poor. I thought surely QLD has a Tank Wagon laying around and the Ipswich Museum was the first place that came to mind, but I thought I would do some more googling and don't ask me how I found this news article  Historic Tanker Returns To Yarraman - southburnett.com.au  where a local group had rescued one of the old QR wagons. I gave the Mrs. the heads up we were going on a road trip. We packed the car with a picnic and full tank of diesel and off we went. When I found the Yarraman site, I was like resident expert, explaining QLD history to my lovely wife. I was that excited I had forgot to get my phone as I got out the car, so back to the car and I snapped away as many photos I could.  While I couldn't get up close enough as the tanker is locked behind a fence. It was enough for me to start roughly gue...

Let's make a phone call Returning from the Brissy Model Rail show I realised like everything in life this was not going to be simple. One of the new words I come across at the show was "Cottage Industry" at the time I did not understand what this meant but this became clear later in my journey.  A couple weeks after the show, I picked up the phone and called  PGC Scale Models and spoke to nice gentleman who asked me heaps of questions and I provided my backstory. He advised his models were available, but I would need to wait a couple months due to other various commitments and explained to me the QR scene was a small cottage industry compared to the other markets, but things are possible and encouraged me to keep at my goal. He politely asked me to send him an email, and he would be in touch with details of his available models and some other information to possibly help me. Back to the drawing board Still a little confused and unsure where to start, I was determined to g...