Evandale Light Railway and Steam Society


Locos of Our Members

: (Graeme Reardon) vk7zgg@ vision.net.au

Charles Goodwin

Dundas

7 1/4 inch based on a Narrow gauge loco.
Built by Charles Goodwin to his own design.
Wheel arrangement is 0-4-2. Briggs type boiler
fitted with 27 @ 5/8" and 4 @ 1" copper tubes
with a copper coil in the fire box.
Dundas took 3 years and one month of spare time to construct.
Dundas was the very first loco to run on this track.

Tasmanian X Class

This loco was also built by Charles Goodwin and
is a petrol electric model of a Tasmanian X class loco.
It has a 5.5 HP Honda petrol motor driving two 24v 50 amp alternators in parallel.
These are connected to two modified series wound C40 Lucas generators also in parallel,
one on each bogie, both axles driven, at 10:1 reduction using an intermediate shaft.
The speed of the loco is controlled by the speed of the petrol motor
and it is fitted with vacuum brakes which are also
connected to each carriage of the train.

Sue Bye

VR S Class

This 5" S VR diesel electric loco with fibreglass body
was built by Geoff Baumgartner using his own fibreglass moulds.
It is powered by 2 permanent magnet motors running at
24 volts using the electronic control design from the
Australian Model Engineer and built by Graeme Reardon.
Electricity is supplied from two deep cycle 12 volt batteries in series.

 

Graeme Reardon

Tasmanian Y Class

This loco was built by Graeme Reardon (with some help from Peter Lawson)
and is a petrol electric model of a Tasmanian Y class.
It has a 5 HP Kubota petrol motor driving two 24v 50 amp alternators.
These are separately connected to two modified series wound C40 Lucas generators,
one to each bogie, both axles driven, at 12:1 reduction.
The alternators have electronically controlled field voltages allowing
the alternators to deliver 50V @ 25 amps under full load.

Gill and Peter Waddle

The General

The General was built over 50 years ago in Farnborough, England. It came to Tasmania in 1977.
It has run commercially at Salamanca Place, Penny Royal and Farm-o-Rama.
It then fell into disuse and was dismantled and parts lost.
It was restored by Greg Waddle in 1992.
It is a Pacific type i.e. 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. Briggs steel boiler
made by Ditchams, Hobart.
Working pressure is 700 kpa.

Little Jim

Little Jim is an XPT type 7 1/4" gauge Loco.
Originally built by Dale Kingston of Smithton.
It was restored by Greg Waddle in 1995
and is now powered by a 9 hp Honda petrol engine
driving a Vickers hydraulic pump. This in turn drives a centrally mounted hydraulic motor
which dives a carden shaft to bevel gears (from a Holden diff.) located in each bogie.

Great Western 2-6-2T

3 1/2" gauge Great Western 2-6-2T originally built by Ian Simpson of Hobart
and is now part of Greg Waddle's collection.
This loco is known as No 99 and was built at Swindon in 1903 to a design by Churchward.

Julian Ridgers

Etna

This is a 5" gauge loco built by Lloyd Ridgers of Hobart and operated by his son Julian.
Etna is a saddle tack loco to the well known Sweet Pea design,
with the addition of a trailing truck for added stability.
This is one of many locos built by Lloyd, all with names from famous volcanoes,
no doubt inspired by their ability to occasionally spew sparks
and suchlike from the chimney.

Tich

This is a 3 1/2" gauge loco built by Ian Simpson and owned by Julian Ridgres.
This loco was designed by the late "Curly" Lawrence,
a brilliant engineer fondly remembered
by model engineers as L.B.S.C. The "tich" design has proved to be a most suitable design
for any beginner to the hobby of model engineering.

Max Hays

G.M. Diesel

This large 7 1/4" loco built and owned by Max Hayes is powered by a 4 cylinder Morris petrol motor
driving a 200 amp generator connected to 2 traction motors, one on each bogie.
This is a real people mover as can be seen from the photo
as it climbs the 1:60 grade into the station at Evandale.

Peter Crowder

Nicola Romeo

The original, a 2 ft gauge petrol loco, was first used on the Lake Margaret Tramway in 1925.
This 7 1/4" gauge model was built by Peter Crowder in 1995.
It is powered by a 5 HP Robin petrol engine using a centrifigal clutch
and a cut down Holden gearbox.

Peter Lawson

7 1/4" Contractors Loco Heidi

This loco is scaled from a 2 ft gauge loco which ran in Western Australia.
Built by Peter Lawson, it took 1600 hrs to construct and weighs 200 kg.
Cylinders are 2 1/4" bore by 3 1/2" stroke, wheel arrangement is 0-4-2
with an eight wheeled bogie tender. Working pressure is 700 kpa.
Construction commenced in 1992 and was completed in 1995.

 

Ray Peck

Heidi

This loco was constructed by Ray Peck and Alan Hume.
It is built to Heidi plans with cylinders of 2" bore and 3" strke.
The wheel arrangement is 0-4-2 with a 4 wheel tender.
It has a Briggs boiler working at a pressure of 700 kpa.

Roslyn Richards

 

'Miss Keisha'

 

"Built by Peter Lawson,this loco is based on a Mt Lyell shunting loco

later sold to the T.G.R. and joined their 'V" class as No. 13.

After being sold into private ownership in 1986,

it was then sold to the ZigZag Railway Co-op in N.S.W. in 1992.

It has now returned to it's original home on the West Coast Wilderness Railway.

 

The model was powered by a Briggs & Stratton 5 h.p. petrol motor driving through a centrifugal clutch

and a cut-down Holden gearbox.  It took 600 hours to construct and has an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement.

 

It was sold to Bob and Roslyn in November 2004, re-engined with a Honda 4 h.p. motor

and repainted in Emu Bay Railway Co. livery during January and February 2005

 as one of the two locos owned by Mt Lyell was sold to the EBR."

 


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