VR Harris Train with SiC-VVVF inverters

PavløvA_YT's Modelling

 In Europe, VR is Finnish Railways. But here in Australia, VR is Victorian Railways!

 This was a model of a Victorian Railways Harris Train, named after their then-CEO. They entered service in 1956 and ran to 1988, when they were buried in a quarry, as they used asbestos as insulation.

 I found a very damaged paper model of a Harris train in my cupboard while cleaning it out, and rebuilt it. However, it needed new floor equipment, but the only things I had available were some old E131 floor equipment (which I am replacing). Therefore, my 1956 Australian train has 2021 Japanese traction control! The real Harris Trains had resistor drives. 

Now, this model was not originally my design. It was made by a (now defunct) Australian design firm called TransitGraphics. They have now stopped making these trains, and, as I got this model in a questionably legal way, it has a watermark. I am not going to publish this model, instead, I will draw my own one.

So... new model out soon...?