Above: Tootle Engineerings's 16mm=1' scale Clyde loco and Moreton Mill bin runs on 32mm track for true 2' sugar cane railway modelling in the garden.
Tim Boulton's Tootle Engineering supplies some of the best models of Queensland sugar cane and shire trams/railways for the garden. Scaled at 16mm=1' (1:19) these models will run on 32mm track for true 2' modelling; alternatively some are available to run on 45mm track. Photo: Clyde locos in production, January 2008.
- Argyle Locomotive Works (Australia): Locomotive manufacturers and importers of live steam models.
- Ron Aubrey's 1/24th scale Fairymead Com-Eng loco.
- Brian Carter Garden Railways (Australia)
- Fabrice Fayolle of France normally models Queensland sugar cane in On30 but he also experiments with other scales: Gn15 diorama.
- Hans Hammarsten of Sweden has never visited the tropics but is quite interested in modelling industrial railways, including a small banana plantation in Hn15 (1/24th on 16.5 mm track)
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Steve King's 7/8" (22.5 mm scale) cardboard
mock up and laser cut steel models of Javanese prototype wholestick cane truck
as constructed, and
in-service, which can be left outside year round; and Maine 2'
winter scene. Steve says he had about 50 wholestick trucks made, and sold some of them as kits.
Steve and a number of his friends are currently (mid-2009) building 7/8" scale models of the Innisfail Tramway short guard's van (photo, drawing).
He has also provided some notes on laser cutting (pdf file) for model building. - Brian Millar's 16mm scale Queensland sugar cane models: Comeng Model A, QGR H wagons, two mill's wholestick trucks.
- 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 (ex-Moreton Mill). 1 - 2 - 3 - 4.
- A Moreton Mill lift bridge and train at the 2003 Narrow Gauge Convention. This bridge has since been showcased, with drawings, as the 'Pelican River' bridge in a recent Narow Gauge Down Under article (Fainges, Jim and Malone, Steve (2009). 'Canetoad Gully plus Pelican River', NGDU 33, April).
- Jim Petropulos' Cuban garden railway and Large Scale (1:20.3 Garden) Cane Wagons (764 K pdf file); radio control (56 K pdf file); and working Cuban cane loader ('Choo Choo', 2.1 Mb pdf file).
- 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers web site (European)
- 16mm web ring
- Jim Russell of Columbus, Ohio builds styrene mockups from CaneSIG drawings and the EM Baldwin book that look good enough to be finished models for the rest of us. Three locos were built to help him decide which to build in 7/8" scale: 1 - 2 - 3. Building his 7/8" scale model of Netherdale, an ex-NSW 73 Class loco, is now a Handbook article.
- Mike South models in 1:32 scale, 3/4" gauge, with overseas sugar cane prototypes: Fowler-type (Hawaii) and Bagnall (1, 2) (Puerto Rico) locomotives.
- Tootle Engineering: Specialty manufacturer of 16mm=1' cane, shire and industrial models. Tim Boulton's model of Mossman Mill's 0-4-2T 'Ivy' in 16mm scale. Review of Tootle's wholestick cane truck.
- Unknown Modeller: SM32 (16mm scale) 0-6-0T, scratchbuilt by an unknown deceased modeller (NSW/Canberra area) using a Hornby (?) clockwork 0-4-0 mechanism with a dummy centre driver. Now in the collection of Rob Nesbitt. Wholestick cane trucks from the same source.
- Dave Webb's 7.25 inch (184mm) gauge Boulder Creek Tramway. Currently operating with a Malcolm Moore loco as power, Dave has three Bundaberg Jenbach locos under construction: Chassis frames, chassis being welded up, production line of 3 chassis assemblies, chassis with axle box assemblies in place and Malcolm Moore loco with riding wagon in background to provide scale, horn guide and axle box assemblies, buffer in place. November 2009 construction update: cab assembly; Jenbach with Malcolm Moore and open wagon, Dave and Jenbach without drive, and 3/4 view.
- Wikipedia 16mm scale links.
last updated: 22/03/10.