The Hills Line, a wonderful Australian model railway
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- The Hills Line In HO Scale is an insightful look into a unique Australian Model Railway layout built by Peter Michalak, that depicts the rarely modelled broad gauge railways of the state of South Australia.
Originally "Bridgewater" an exhibition layout depicting the real life railway location on the Adelaide-Melbourne mainline, it has since been retired from the exhibition scene and is now a centrepiece of a much larger home layout that depicts the original broad gauge mainline between the South Australian state capital of Adelaide and the Victorian state border. This video details the process and methodology of modelling a unique Australian prototype and the challenges that entail such as scratchbuilding steam locomotives, railcars and buildings which aren't otherwise available ready-to-run or even as a cottage industry kit.
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Camera and Editing by Maikha Ly
Equipment used: Canon M50, DJI Oslo Pocket 2, iPhone 13 Pro and Zoom H4n
Edited on: Adobe Premiere Pro
Music: Epidemic Sound
Enjoyed your video very much. Lots of detail.
Many thanks!
Well done Pete, this is something to aspire to
It is a very inspiring layout and modelling standard!
Great to see south Australian model railways on TH-cam keep it up Richard Courtney edwardstown sa
Thanks Richard and indeed our aim of this video was to bring more SA Model Railways out into the open for all to appreciate!
Where did you source your cars and the CFS truck from on the layout?
Congratulations from the UK. Great layout. Familiar with some of the rolling stock from my Trainz simulator.
I see a crows shirt, I immediately clicked subscribe!
😂
Absolutely amazing. I remember that West End beer billboard!
Nice
Fantastic layout and great insight to your progress hope my layout is half as good as that when I finally finish
Remember, this layout started in 2013, 9 years ago. Good things like your layout take time! :)
I lived in Adelaide as a kid . My first trainset was the Hornby Spirit of Progress Set back in the 70s . This brought back many memories - Great set up ... Well Done !
Great video Pete, I thoroughly enjoyed it. 👍🏼
From one broad gauge junkie to another thou art a man of class and style. I don't have a lot of interest in non broad gauge Australian railways so it's great to see someone modelling it really well. You're really nailing the look I must say.
Pleasantries out of the way, I'd like to invoke my inner gunzel and write an invective on why I hate standard gauge but it would be so full of expletive laden rants that I'll desist on this occasion. Needless to say this layout has eased my disgust of our good Victorian tax payer funded broad gauge locomotives being sold off to private enterprise. Seeing a C class locomotive on the route it was specifically designed for - even in model form is enough to calm the savage beast.
Brings back memories... used to catch the "Red Hen" train to Bridgewater as a teenager in the mid/late 80's before they closed the station and terminated the line at Belair. Having grown up in a street alongside the railway line near Port Adelaide, I used to see steam locos 520 and 621 make special trips from the Port to the city.
Great layout - looks amazing and certainly takes me back 35-40 years. Impressive scratch building and a pleasure to see my home town being modelled in such detail
I love the modeled corrugated iron roof
What a beauty of a layout well done!
Very impressive! Just wondering how big your rumpus room is 😅
Awesome Pete! Looks great!
Great video Pete, well done team
You will have to add the Auscision Overland to it
I rode the train to Bridgewater once to visit relatives at Mount George.
Do you have plans to do future exhibition layouts
Love the #520! Is this a Rocky River kit? Great scene Mate!
Excellent work!
I follow you on fb :)
Thanks Izera! Hope to be sharing more content soon!
Love it mate! Hi five. Fantastic effort. Your enthusiasm for the hobby is an inspiration. Thank you.👍
@@adamspender6595 will show it to Pete, thanks!
Check out our other videos as well
Fantastic layout
Thank you for the tour, excellent stuff & the hills scenery is very accurate & realistic.
Our pleasure My Steam!
Fantastic layout!
Thanks Kingsview! We are in awe of your efforts as well with your NSW based layout!
@@Rheilffordd Thanks! Realism takes time! It's really enjoyable!
I am sure a cup of tea is needed after all that hard work.
Never has a truer sentence been said 11:30 I had to sell my pride and joy, my trains. I had a temp layout in our enclosed back porch whilst waiting to have a 12 metre by 4 metre shed built to house my new layout. To make a long story short the wife decided depart without any warning and wanted half of everything in $$$.....goodbye trains.....Ps I miss my trains more than her, they brought me happiness.
Says it all mate!
Nice to see a few familiar faces on the video.
Impressive, Very Nice.
Instantly recognised that first shot, but i did walk up and down that road every day for 10 years
Beautiful spot that Bridgewater is!
(Although the traffic on Mt Barker road gets a little busy at times 😜)
The crows adelaide fc
I would love to visit Mt. Lofty
You have not used roadbed ?
Wow - what an impressive layout! Also, great video. :)
Thank you sir!
Great work and a great video! Would have loved to see blackwood in the middle, but that would just be greedy!
Thanks Ann! A layout of Black... wood be awesome in any scale! 😅
Hallo. Very good video and lokomotivs.
Thank you very much!
G'day, I enjoyed your Junee video really well done. This is a good one as well. I am glad that you were able to visit the Adelaide Model Railroaders last night and we would be pleased to see you again some time.
Cheers Ken
Hi Ken! Thank you for the feedback and also welcoming my visit to the AMR the other night. I will be in touch in due course on when I wish to visit and maybe even do the video there!
@@Rheilffordd Thanks for the reply. Please stay in touch and it can be arranged for you to do a video at the AMR.
Cheers Ken
Awesome work Mr. You've got some interesting liveries there and quality sounds.
I’m a fan
Awesome, certainly brought back memories
Why the hell is there music playing !!!!!!!
@@allanchapman6250 to annoy purists like you 😜
The SAR Class 520 is beautiful! The entire layout is remarkable too. Surely a labor of love.
Brilliant thanks for letting us look at what you have done. Always enjoyed looking at the Bridgewater layout at the annual show at Angle Park.
10:52 I need to know where to get an Rx
Multiple Options. Out of production Model Design Studio kit, out of production 3d printed body kit on Wombat Models C30T chassis, Ajin/BrassKits Brass RTR offering from the 80s…
This video inspired me to create the "Port Elliot line in ho scale"
By all means! And share with us when you do 😁
@@Rheilffordd I just need to do wiring then its operational
Like the one that looks like a 38 class!
Mazda, look up the South Australian Railways 520 Class steam locomotives, they are absolute underrated pieces of
Mechanical art 😁
Is your track peco Oo scale
Yes, the track is both OO and HO scale as it’s the same gauge
well done zo
thank you sharing video
Nice video
Thanks Mccoy!
Impressive stuff! 💯💯
Oh, wow! Having been stationed at Bridgewater 73-76 it was so very familiar. What a great job.
I’m glad the layout has been reproduced very familiar to you!
Good work bloke a lot of skill required Cheers
The layout, the rolling stock, the Crowies shirt, this video is perfect, congrats.
Thanks Zoso, will pass it onto Pete! Check out our other videos while you're here too!
Love the Redhens!
They were solid trains for their time, although comfort wise, air conditioning is always good!
Can we see it in person?
Hi JMgmail! Unfortunately not, as this layout is in a private home of the owner featured
Great stuff! Well done!
Oml how did you get a 621 model
@@TrainsDownSouth621 the answer is in the video if you watched it all 😜
(Pete scratchbuilt the entire locomotive)
@@Rheilffordd wow, I didn't know you could do that.
I went to the model railway show and saw yours but that's was YEARS AGO and my parents think I made it up
Love the sight of the red hen at bridgewater. I lived at scott creek through the 60's and 70's.
Hi Mike! It’s a classic scene of the former Government railways, much like the 600 Class steam locos climbing the hills!
great work mate
Great video Pete, thanks for putting it n TH-cam
Hi David, I’ll pass the feedback onto Pete, thank you and feel free to check out our other videos 😁
@@Rheilffordd Thanks you, and I will follow up your suggestion.
Just beautiful!
I agree, Pete's done a great job on it!
Absolutely incredible!
Hi Shelton, thanks for you feedback (And also for letting me use your footage of the CLPs used in the Streamliners Australia video too!)
@@Rheilffordd No worries - glad you could use some of my footage. Thanks Peter.
The layout is excellent and good to see you promote Australian modelling, however a few adverse comments, firstly too much footage of moving trains are out of focus , a small example is the 8.28 mark, the 8.57 mark and 11.15 mark, the camera doesn't focus well and lastly the wire wound trees look wire wound, otherwise a good first attempt.
Hi David, thanks for the feedback and completely fair comments. This was the first documentary we made with railway models and admittedly still getting use to it all. We will up our game as the content comes along
Looks amazing...............however I don't believe Bridgewater ever had three platforms from a realistic modelling point of view.
Hi Gary, thanks for your feedback! Bridgewater most certainly had three platforms back before it was demolished post-STA days, as depicted in this photograph. www.flickr.com/photos/markcarter/28518232796/in/photolist-Ks4p3U-DeczLv-9D8VLp-9DbQmJ-K2SmBq-9D8VDD-9D8VtV-9D8VAt-mx9mTr-9DbQ61-e1YUH4-mx9n7T-oF731r-mx9Vqt-2mgjuNA-2j9nCmM-2j9nxL4-84RZn2-fzZGZP-adx4Fa-adx4C6-2ixu4WJ-2bq6dpH-9JRahm-2bq6dfV-adzUjo-adzU91-2igc393-mx9V1F-mxbei1-mx9UHg-mxb8xy-mxbes9-mx9nbk-mxbek5-mxbekf-2iM3WLH-pjuvBh-TUmJ1D-2igd6M4-6X3xY2-2mggQR6-2j9nsMb-2dzB6n9-2hHhR5a-2ajtL2y-2bq6d92-kUJ7Qa-kecnkB-kkSxLH