Well, the year has flown by like the Tilt Train driven by my Uncle Warren, and I have been busy with my trains. My club didn’t exhibit the layout at the big Brisbane Train Show this year as we moved into our new clubroom at the North Ipswich Railway Workshops instead.

We are now in the Tool and Gauge shops, which are easier to get to then the old clubrooms; we can now go through the main Museum gates to get to it.
The room is also bigger but it leaks (we were wondering what the paint circles on the floor were, but the rain answered that).

It took us two days to do the move and the club members kept me busy. I had to tell them what to move and where to put it, what to throw out, what to keep . And Mum, talk about lazy, all she did was to hang onto a broom sweeping. I don’t class that as work, she does that at home all the time.

After cleaning up I organised the guys into putting up the two layouts, so now we are in business. We meet more often now and the run days are great. What I like is sharing my lunch with Clyde the workshop's cat; he likes the salmon sandwiches from the canteen the best.

With this move, I’ve been able to run my trains a lot more, I have two of the Thomas sets which I run four wheel English wagons with. I also run my Union Pacific trains with some of Dad’s rolling stock. Grandad fixed my steam engine after it somehow fell off the layout onto the floor.