S scale news update for 2020

 The AMRA WA Sn31/2 Modellers Special Interest Group have been meeting on-line for the past four months due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and will be meeting again on Monday 14 September at 7.15pm Western Australian time, via the internet. The normal updates and a bring and show will be held followed by the showing of slides of the Cunderdin layout. This layout was built by Railwest Models and friends in 1991/2 and is housed behind glass in the preserved AV-class dining car at the Cunderdin pumping station Museum. Graham Watson hopes to be showing a series of over 30 digital slides of the layout as it was built all those 28+ years ago. It should be a memorable night in more ways than one.

The other bad and good news is that Crispian Fitzhardinge is vacating the position of editor of the ASnM Magazine after three years and we all thank him for his terrific work in what is a labour of love. The good news is that John Maker who is President of AMRA WA will be taking over the editorship from January 2021.  We also hope those who those who subscribe to the magazine will continue to do so and those who haven't will do so in the future. It rally is a great little magazine.

Meanwhile, as very little material has been added to the Blog in the last eight months I thought a photo or two might be of interest to devotees of modelling the 3'6" railways of the WAGR, the CR and the MRWA in S scale. So here they are.

• The first photo is of a crowded Medullup yard on my Canning River and Medullup railway. Most of the vehicles are scratch-built over the past 30 years using proprietary running gear while the goods shed is based on the one at Wongan Hills and the Station building is a scale replica of Mundijong station.  
• The second photo is of an anonymous and pristine ADE Governor class railcar commissioned in 1937 by the WAGR, probably taken during WWII as the covered windows on the signal box may indicate. Thanks to Graham Watson who sourced this photo from the RHWA archives.
• Finally there is a photo of four railcars recently scratch built to provide a 3-car ADG/AYE/ADG set and a 2-car ADX/ADA set.