That was a quick reply, Jon
Come to think of it, yes, I do see the scenery is the Blue Mountains route, it just didn't look like it at first.
Although I am an Aussie, my main love is the LMS (with many happy hours working with Dave Corfield on Thames-Mersey, as well as running many other MR/LMS routes ), but my secondary love is the NSWGR, as I grew up in the 50's and 60's with NSW steam in my blood (my late father's last surviving brother, is an ex-NSWGR top-link driver - often drove 3801, and a lot of other NSW locos).
At present there are several NSW routes -
The 'Blue Mountains' route (I believe this was going to be updated by some people from the Nazarail group, but the project is cancelled due to other commitments)
Then there is the 'Illawarra' route from Nowra to Kiama (found on the steam4me website -
http://steam4me.railpage.org.au/trainsi ... index.html )
And the 'Coals to Newcastle' (CTN) route from Strathfield to Newcastle -
http://www.railpage.org.au/coalstonewcastle/index.php
There are a couple of other NSW routes being worked on at the moment - one that should be released soon, is the 'Central West' from Orange to Dubbo, and another one based on the Main South down towards Albury (no release date offered yet).
I am heavily involved with Peter Newell on the CTN route, we are currently working on V5 expanding the route from Waratah to Maitland in the North, and from Strathfield to Sydney Central in the South - this will be available in another couple of months, as there is a lot of custom scenery work needed over these new areas.
I've built hundreds of custom scenery objects for CTN so far, and have built a great deal of NSW rolling stock (can be found on the CTN website under Downloads). My new 46 Class are my first attempt at making locomotives from scratch (not yet skilled enough to try a steam loco). Once I get the CTN V5 out of the way, I'll be doing a bit more NSW passenger and goods rolling stock (and maybe another loco or two).
Hope you enjoy running some of the trains and routes from 'down under'
Brian Bere-Streeter
"Any railway that paints their locomotives such a magnificent shade of red, must be the most superior in the land" (apologies to the late David Jenkinson).
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