A shot from our most recent running session in November 2005. Activity at Possum Point station, D1 shunts the wharf sidings while No 3 rests in loco.

The Bachmann tram hauling a trailer past Bottom Points

The new Bachmann "Indi" looking very imposing on the Bottom Rd on the last day of 2004.

This Ebay special arrived in late 2004 and is a Bachmann "Indi" 2-6-0. It runs very sweetly on track power, but as most other owners have discovered, it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding..... in fact it could only just haul the train in the photo, and that was going downhill! It is earmarked to provide its chassis to a convertion, sometime in the future......

In mid 2004 another Ebay special arrived, this Bachmann "almost" Annie (new drivetrain, but not all the new detail bits). Its track powered and is seen here with a cutdown Bachmann tender. It runs well, but does not normally take part in operating sessions. Here is is coming off the "Mt Lyell" bridge on a sunny Spring afternoon in 2004

Scratchbuilt styrene TGR CC open wagon waits by the coal stage to be unloaded.

The RVR's most recent passenger aquisition, another Bachmann passenger car, "on test". It was painted by Ron Martin in Tasmania and aquired via Ebay, and luckily the colour scheme is not too dissimilar to the RVR Maroon and White scheme, so it fits in "as is" for the moment.....

Still my favourite, the RVR's original loco, No 1, converted from an LGB "Stainz" 0-4-0T, drifts through the shrubbery along Bottom Rd. No 1 is fitted with RCS radio control with on board batteries and a Sierra sound system.

TGR CC 119, scratchbuilt in styrene, stands in the goods siding at Underpool.

Standard Bachmann trolley with trolley pole removed. With a little work and the fitting of passenger bogies it should resemble a Mt Lyell O class passenger car..... in the meantime its the RVR's experimental battery electric railcar..... ;-)

A scratchbuilt in styrene model of a Tasmanian Government Railways (ex Tasmanian Main Line Railway) E+ (E cross) closed van. Not many references to these vehicles have survived, but what I have been able to find out has resulted in this interpretation of what one may have looked like while operating on the Bellarive-Sorrell line.

My first 16mm wagon. Scratchbuilt in styrene and timber on an Atlas O gauge 4 wheel caboose chassis, this vehicle is just the thing to take visiting to 32mm lines with the "critter".

Scratchbuilt in styrene on a modified Lehmann chassis, this is a model of a TGR, (ex TMLR) E+ closed van as running on the isolated Bellarive-Sorrell line in the early part of the 20th Century.

Another recently completed model, C 8, converted from a 4 wheel toy open wagon produced by "Scientific Toys"

This is a 32mm gauge, 16mm to the foot "critter", scratchbuilt on a Rivarossi O gauge 0-4-0 diesel chassis. It is still waiting for its colour coat and final weathering. It can't run on the RVR, as it is 32mm gauge, and the RVR is 45mm, but it is useful for visiting!

Pride of the Line! The RVR's original loco, No 1, was inspired by the Mt Lyell and Burrinjuck Krausses, and was modified from an LGB "Stainz" 0-4-0T.

The most recently completed vehicle. D 7 has a scratchbuilt styrene body on a modified Aristocraft tender chassis and is inspired by the Emu Bay Rwy's B class timber bogie open wagons. It is loaded with coke, which was a major traffic on the Mt Lyell Rwy, being back loaded in the ore wagons from the port to the smelter. It also serves as a "sound" truck, as it is fitted with a modified Bachmann sound unit and a speaker, thereby giving a voice to those few of my locos that have been hitherto silent.....

Mildly modified Bachmann Porter saddletank on the Bottom Rd.

Mildly modified Bachmann Porter saddle tank trundles along Bottom Rd towards Possum Point

No 3 shunts the wharf at Possum Point

The RVR's latest loco, 2-4-2ST No 3, trundles off the Dragonrock bridge and along the rock wall section towards Bottom Points