OO/HO African profile model railway in Kenya: 12 - the desert
Posted: 14 Mar 2020, 16:42
An overview of the section of the layout which is going to be the desert.
It's a small manned station with a passing loop and two sidings. There's a catch point protecting the main line from the sidings. There will be home signals at both ends of the loop, operated from a ground frame at the station. The station building is a wood kit from Sarissa's wargaming range - this is actually El Alamein station, though I have renamed it "Station Number 6", as some of the stations in the desert in Sudan only had numbers, not names.
There'll be an airstrip here (hence the small aircraft in the picture, from Oxford models). I'm just about to start constructing an Airfix DC3/C47, which will be parked on the apron being unloaded. I also have a kit of an Antonov An2, a small biplane. I have seen both these aircraft operating in Sudan, and of course the DC3 is still all over Africa (and South America). I have flown in one often, and I have run humanitarian airlifts using one.
There'll probably also be an NGO field hospital, and possibly a UN camp. I'm still wondering where to put a military camp. This might be as good a place as any, as the government would probably want to protect an airstrip being used by the UN and NGOs.
It's a small manned station with a passing loop and two sidings. There's a catch point protecting the main line from the sidings. There will be home signals at both ends of the loop, operated from a ground frame at the station. The station building is a wood kit from Sarissa's wargaming range - this is actually El Alamein station, though I have renamed it "Station Number 6", as some of the stations in the desert in Sudan only had numbers, not names.
There'll be an airstrip here (hence the small aircraft in the picture, from Oxford models). I'm just about to start constructing an Airfix DC3/C47, which will be parked on the apron being unloaded. I also have a kit of an Antonov An2, a small biplane. I have seen both these aircraft operating in Sudan, and of course the DC3 is still all over Africa (and South America). I have flown in one often, and I have run humanitarian airlifts using one.
There'll probably also be an NGO field hospital, and possibly a UN camp. I'm still wondering where to put a military camp. This might be as good a place as any, as the government would probably want to protect an airstrip being used by the UN and NGOs.