Above: Carl Millington's scratch built HOn30 model of the Isis Mill tamper, shown here larger than life size.
Ron Aubrey's 1:48 Moreton Mill cane bin and his 1:24 scale Fairymead Mill ComEng Loco.
Tim Boulton: 16 mm scale (1:19) EM Baldwin and Moreton Mill wholestick trucks; wholestick truck review (pdf file); 16 mm Clyde locomotives being constructed; 16mm Model of Mossman Mill's John Fowler 0-4-2T IVY; and 8 mm Decauville.
Building Paul Catchpole's quick Caribbean cane wagons in 009 (pdf file).
Bob Dow's 'Dowmont' layout/models (on CaneSIG) and his web site with photos and plans of Bundaberg-Jenbach 0-6-0 DL, cane truck, freelance workwagon and freelance 0-6-2T steam locomotive.
Lincoln Driver's HOn2.5 Wallaville exhibition layout (with some of Carl Millington's models).
Jim Fainges' O-16.5 (7mm) models from the 7th Narrow Gauge
Convention, Albury 2005:
Babinda,
Marian,
Petrie,
Ruston;
locomotive
and wagon drawings; and drawings of Queensland buildings
(selection, 808 Kb pdf file;
full set, 6.3 Mb pdf file).
More recently Jim has modified an HO Bachmann Climax with a
commercial cab conversion kit to get a smooth operating On30 model.
Fabrice Fayolle's On30 Queensland sugar cane models in France: loco shed in progress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Bachmann Gas Mechanical mechanism with a Backwoods Miniature superstructure kit, 3/4 view, side view with navvy flat, side view with RJ Models Moreton 4 ton cane bin and delightful palm trees (kits from Hart of the South Models, see Supplier page for contact link). Micro-layout update and Gn15 diorama.
Don Fraser's excellent results using Yarra Valley grass to model sugar cane fields.
Peter Grace's On30 model from the 7th Narrow Gauge Convention, Albury 2005: Petrie
Hans Hammarsten's Hn15 cane and peat models
Factory assembled prototype 1 and 2 for Hanovale Castings/Berg's Hobbies On30 Bundy Fowler 0-6-2T kit. Photos c Mar 03, kit delivered mid-2003. Delivered kit as professionally assembled from the kit by The Model Works Australia.
John Henshaw's Tooleybuc Sugar Tramway.
Gerry Hopkins' photo of a garden railway model of Moreton Mill's lift bridge and train, Narrow Gauge Convention 2003.
Jim Hutchinson: Loco shed model from his Handbook series
Steve King's 7/8" laser cut all steel wholestick cane truck.
Modelling Cuban sugar cane railways
(Claus Kleinhapl and Lazaro Garcia Driggs).
Steve Malone's 16mm scale Fowler 0-6-0T.
Typical small diesels hauling 4 ton cane bins and a cane harvestor at work on George Marsh's 009 Sunshine Sugar layout at the 1998 Modelling the Railways of Queensland Convention.
Brian Millar's 16mm scale Queensland models: 1955 Comeng Model A, 0-6-0 with jackshaft drive (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11); QGR H wagon (1, 2 ); and wholestick cane trucks (wood, steel ).
Carl Millington's Queensland HOn2.5 models
Finally, photos of Edward Millington's award winning 2.5"=1'
model of Bli-Bli, built in 2005 and shown here running on MELSA
Rockhampton's 5" gauge track, 7 June 2008. Apparently the
prototype Bli-Bli is now (2008) out-of-service and rusting away at
Bingera Sugar Mill.
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Rob Nesbitt's freelance 009 Fowler-type loco, 16mm Innisfail C van (from a Tootle Engineering kit, see Suppliers) and construction photos of On30 EM Baldwin DH15 'Bli Bli' (ex-Moreton Mill), from a Badger Bits kit (front and back views.
Jim Petropulos' Cuban garden railway.
A 3mm =1 ft South Pacific Island layout exhibited in the UK by the late Frank Saunders. Images downloaded from the Micro Layout Design Gallery (http://www.carendt.com/microplans Continuous/single level) 19/03/03.
Mike South's 1:32 scale Fowler-type (Hawaii) and Bagnall (1, 2) (Puerto Rico) locomotives.
Greg Stephenson: 009 cane and shire models with 009 wholestick truck modelling tips.
Haruhiko Suga's HOn2.5 Sugar Cane Line (Japan)
0-6-0 DH models at the Townsville Exhibition, c 1994. Photos
1 and
2
by Peter Murray. Owner and builder unknown but it's quite possible
these were either 16mm or 'G' scale ready-to-run models from a
manufacturer that is now out of business.
Unknown modellers: Moreton Mill lift bridge on display at the 5th Narrow Gauge Convention, Melbourne 2001 (overall / detail); Narrow gauge locomotives models from the Buckwater Lumber, 'Class A' Critter, 'Fowler', and Hannibal, based on the On30 Bachmann Porter; Freelance cane diesel on an Athearn chassis with a modified Atlas body.
Marc Witten's card models built from Jim Fainges free downloadable models
Lynn Zelmer: On30 DM loco from a Handbook article; comments and photos from the 2002 Miniature Train Show; On30 micro-layout under construction; On30 Fiji crew car; On30 tourist car; On30 Moreton Mill River Store shed under construction..
last updated: 21/09/08.
