Hi List;
I just saw the posting about this group being formed on the 7mmNGA list. Since my
interest in 7mm narrow gauge is the two-foot lines in particular, here I am.
I've added to the database on locomotive models, which also tells you where my interest
lies: I'm about to start building a Backwoods Miniatures 7mm (O-14) kit for the NGG16
Garratts used in South Africa and now on the Welsh Highland Railway. I'm currently on a
number of SAR newsgroups trying to collect information about the Alfred County Railway
that ran (until August of this year) from Port Shepstone to Harding, hauling tourists and
timber behind 2-6-2+2-6-2 engines.
I have collected a number of links on these engines and the lines on which they ran.
I also model the Maine two-footers in 1:48 (North American O scale), where I'm building a
model railway that's freelanced but heavily influenced by the Monson RR, which served a
slate quarry in Maine. Through that, I've developed an interest in Welsh slate quarrying
and I expect at some point I'll build a Quarry Hunslett in 7mm (if the lure of the new
16mm kit from Slaters doesn't get to me first).
I'd be interested in hearing from anybody else about to tackle the 7mm NGG16 from
Backwoods.
Cheers!
- Trevor in Toronto
