The first train, fittingly hauled by the #2, the old rail tractor in due deference to the unballasted track, is here seen crossing the sandy soil of Wanilla Forest. One day there will be grass and trees here...

Moving onto Wirrandra we see this module is even less developed - bare blue styrofoam is a wonderful look :-) Note the sleepers are more widely spaced in the goods siding in the foreground.

The short train paused at the "station" at Wirrandra - a small shed built from actual plans of similar shelters on the South Australian Railways Port Lincoln Division. The little station will be graced with a nameboard shortly.

Here the first train is rounding the big curve out of Wirrandra, and about to reach the Saltpan module. That blue styrofoam merges ever so sweetly with the skyboard, doesn't it!

Although the Saltpan module is not new, it has never featured in the permanent layout arrangement until this extension. Here the photographer has run ahead and captured the train at the level crossing, with the first of the salt pans appearing in the foreground ...

... and then, courtesy of that wonderful invention, the "skyhook", we can see the train passing the second saltpan about to head out onto the new River Dutton board

The "big bridge" over the River Dutton - so called because there are only two bridges on the railway, the other being the small culvert in Wanilla Forest. One day this modul will progress from bare board to styrofoam.
This view of the big bridge shows the checkrail to protect against a fall into the abyss - or at least onto the floor.

Finally, with the sun getting low on the horizon, the tractor shudders to a halt outside the Anunaka station building. The first train over the reopened Dutton Bay Tramway has completed its journey

Now that the trains can run again work can concentrate on the scenery - or perhaps now I can have a couple of friends around and have an operating session. But first, I need a timetable. Watch this space...