Once again I've made some changes to my plans for the module. After seeing Thap Cham and Saigon I've abandoned the idea of a level crossing across the yard. The level crossing will have to be on another module.
I came across a couple of city type buildings by Kato in a shop here in Sydney, very expensive but I bought them and they're on the module already. The idea is to create a small slice of a city skyline:
The Kato buildings are perfect as the modern tall ones, but I will have to scratchbuild the narrow 'Vietnamese' ones in between.
The good thing is I've actually seen DSVN in operation so have a better idea of basic operations and the 'feel' of the system. Some of my ideas were confirmed, and some not.
I have so many photos to add to my two websites and not a lot of time. But I will get there!
It was interesting to witness an integrated rail system with both passenger and freight. Here in Australia most freight has been sold off to private operators and the two functions don't have a lot to do with each other.
I still don't have a locomotive so I'd better get going with that one. I noticed in the same shop I bought the city buildings an example of the N scale GE '44' tonner locomotive. I wonder if the chassis could be used? But my first loco will be a D12E as previously reported.
I also got some photos of the grey tank cars. There were two at Thap Cham, so that should make my tank car modelling much quicker.
Oh well.... on with the modelling...
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