www.ZelmerOz.com/CaneSIG: Modelling Resources

Resources to inspire sugar cane
railway modellers.

Go to: AMRM magazine article by Bob Dow (1997), scratchbuilding cane bins.
Go to: Australian sugar cane mills, locomotive lists, etc.
Go to: Bibliography, selected
Go to: Buildings, Queensland and Fiji (Scenic locale for a realistic sugar cane railway)
Go to: CaneSIG 2009 calendar
Go to: CaneSIG FAQs
Go to: Cane Tram Notes
Go to: Card models (downloadable free)
Colouring sheets: Bundaberg Sugar's Lorry (safety message); ASCR locomotives: BFC3, Germany, Invicta, Valdora,
Go to: Computer-based virtual modelling
Country notes: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Cuba, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Indonesia, Japan, USA
Go to: CSR Archives Collection in ANU's Noel Butlin Archives.
Go to: CSR sugarcane transport (c 2007, statistics)
Cuban Sugar Cane Railways, Claus Kleinhapl's modelling; Jim Petropulos' modelling (including large scale cane wagons and cane loader)

Go to: Electronics (FREDs)
Freelance OO9 modelling: Fowler-type loco; Carribean cane wagons; modelling tips (wholestick trucks, etc.)

Go to: Getting Started
Go to: Handbooks, Modelling (Modelling Cane Railways, Modelling Loco Depots, Qld Railway Goods Sheds, Goods Traffic on Cane and Shire Tramways, Modern Cane Railways of Queensland, Scale Drawings, Free Downloadable Card Models)
Go to: The Model Train Magazine Index: a Kalmbach sponsored index to some current North American modelling magazines.
Go to: Image Collection
Go to: Introduction to Cane Railway Modelling (8 pages, prototype and model tips, 1.4 Mb pdf file)

Go to: Large Scale/Garden railways
Go to: Locomotive and wagon drawings
Go to Australian Canefield Locomotives: by manufacturer and mill, from Chris Walters' photos and notes.

Go to: Managing Farm Safety - Risk Management - Growers Checklist - Sugar Production [includes cane tram items]
Go to: Members' Models
Go to: Mills, Refineries and Bulk Terminals [in Eastern Australia, map courtesy of Bundaberg Sugar]
Go to: Modelling Handbooks (Modelling Cane Railways, Modelling Loco Depots, Qld Railway Goods Sheds, Goods Traffic on Cane and Shire Tramways, Modern Cane Railways of Queensland, Scale Drawings, Free Downloadable Card Models)
Go to: Modelling the Unusual: Queensland's Sugar Cane Railways paper and presentation from Modelling the Railways of Queensland 2008 (2.8 Mb pdf)
Go to: Model Train Magazine Index, a Kalmbach sponsored index to some current North American modelling magazines.
Go to: 2005 Narrow Gauge Convention Notes: The Queensland Cane Industry and its Tramways (12 pages, illustrated, 1.5 Mb pdf file) with potential for modelling.

Go to: Pickling lichen and related scenery materials: Extract from McClanahan, Bill (1958). Scenery for Model Railroads (760 Mb pdf file)
Go to: Queensland buildings (drawings)
Reviews: Model Company (New Zealand) 7mm Malcolm Moore: kit (pdf file); Tootle Engineering's Moreton Mill 1:19 wholestick truck kits (pdf file)

Go to: Scale drawings
Go to: Scenic Locale for a Realistic Sugar Cane Railway
Go to: Scratchbuilding
Go to: Scratchbuilding (HOn30) the Bundaberg-built Jenbach 6w DM Locomotive (locomotive history, photos, drawings, etc.)
Go to: Selected bibliography
Go to: SRI-developed 11-20 tonne cane wagon
Go to: Structures, Queensland and Fiji (Scenic locale for a realistic sugar cane railway)
Sugar Cane Fields, modelling using broom straw; Yarra Valley grass, She Oak needles; etc.; Couch grass
Go to: Sugar, Its History, Manufacture and Modelling Benefits by Stan Parsons (pdf file)
Go to: Sugar in the News: clippings, etc.
Go to: Suppliers
Go to: Sweet Sounds of a Sugar Town (CD and DVD)
Go to: US Sugar's Clewiston Refinery, Florida (layout, photos inside buildings, field bins, cane wagons, etc.)
Go to: US Sugar Corp chart: Growing and Processing Sugar
Go to: US Sugar Corp chart: Sugar Refining

last updated: 17/12/09.

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