Moonlight Creek Coal Co. – The Layout
To be built on 4 1200mm.x300mm. sections:
(i) Paparoa (settlement, NZR railhead); rail corridor thru dense West Coast bush
(ii) The Bins: coal bin and (sawn) lumber loading dock (this is the first section to be built). Enter Stage Left: dense West Coast bush; Moonlight Creek tressle bridge; Moonlight Creek; derelict hut in bush; yard – Inglenook track plan (to include: track inspection pit, open/out door workshed with brick furnace); lumber loading dock (wood chips, stacks &c.); Bins; elevated tressle and workmen.
(iii) Dense West Coast bush and Munn’s Sawmill (abandonded mineshafts – Mine #1; Chinese market garden; sawmiller’s huts; creek)
(iv) Even more dense West Coast bush; Moonlight Creek Coal Mine.
Period: 1930s-1950s The Sugar-Bag Years to the End of the Golden Wether.
Operation: Inglenook shunting on a (simplified) trackplan of Charming Creek Coal Co. Railway.
