Wombat Creek Tramways

Work around the Fibro houses has continued. A wooden fence has been erected on top of the bluestone wall along the tram barn area. The garden around the green house has been laid out. As seen on the photo the owners of the green house are better gardeners than the neighbours. The lawn is nicely cut and lined by blue-stones. The garden beds are ready for planting. The concrete slab for the garden shed has also been poured. The tree in the corner is a wattle – probably needs a few more flowers to give it the right yellow colour.

At the back of the tram barn Ray Knott, the local joiner, has loaded his Volkswagen full of left over wood from the construction of the barn. A water tower (yes – the real barn in Elwood had a very distinctive water tower) and a shed for tools are next on the ‘to-do-list’.

The tank wagon is a more than 40 years old Jouef track cleaning model. And no – it doesn’t advertise the well-known beer VB – Victorian Bitter. In Wombat Creek the only beer to drink is WB – Wombat Bitter!

Lately I have been tinkering around the two fibro houses. The ‘garden’ at the blue houses is mainly made up of grass – very long grass. The residents are not gardeners!
The grass is made with ‘teddy bear’ material from ‘Spotlight’, hairspray and a small and cheap spray bottle with diluted green acrylic paint. The result is not too bad – only a few clumps of grass. I still need to add a couple of gum trees, a garden shed, a Hill’s hoist and a few more ‘surprises’.

It is a bit hard to photograph the street side of the fibro houses, but with a mobile phone on ‘selfie setting’ it looks like this:

Since my last photo I have done a bit of weathering and ‘rust’ on the barn. The rolling stock is mainly made up of three Bachmann Brill trolleys. They have been bought on Ebay for a reasonable price. They aren’t really of Aussie design but not too far from the Adelaide H Class. But as you can see a new tram has arrived – a Melbourne W6 class. It is from Cooee and un-powered. I plan to scrap one of the Brills to motorise the W6. It doesn’t sound too difficult but apparantly it is not straight forward to dismantle the W6. I’ll keep you informed.