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Rewanui design

Any layout is a melange of challenges large and small.  A bunch of these have slunk incrementally forward of late, which is just as well since another exhibition outing is looming. Rewanui has featured here from time to time without really exploring the design in detail. The whole thing was (mostly, hopefully) thought out some…

Another We post

In which your scribe continues his narration of the construction of We198… In the first thrilling instalment of this little exposition, I presented a CAD render of the cylinder and motion.  Those parts have since been refined, printed and cast.  The cylinder/slidebar/motion bracket were cast as a single part, as this simplifies construction significantly and…

Coals to Greymouth

Here on the blog, I’ve pontificated on all manner of matters relating to Rewanui (real and model), but it has been a while since the line’s raison d’être has featured.  The extraction, movement to the bins and loading of the coal is outside the scope of the model (taking place ‘off scene’ as it were),…

Watering the layout

Rewanui, and the mines that shipped coal from the various bins there, was situated in the narrow valley of the Seven Mile Creek.  The creek, it’s tributaries, and the bridges that span them are significant features of the prototype and my representation of it.  The creeks are not especially large, but they are quite steep…