Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

I had a LNER L1 2-6-4 T  for Xmas. 

Also got R4174C the LNER 61'6' Sleeping Car and the R9732 Rail Over River Bridge (but it's more like Over Creek Bridge).

Also some new traction tyres for R.351 Thomas and the GWR 0-4-2T.

Sorry, LC, when I say posts, I do mean pages, of course. I'm very pleased to see that it was I who actually did it, though.

Hi all,

I've just spent most of the weekend installing a Shinohara Double Crossover at the east end of my station. I'm sure Hornby won't mind my quoting a different company, as Hornby don't manufacture Double Crossovers. I didn't realise that it incorporates "live" frogs, and that these rely on blade to stock-rail contact to switch the polarity. However, as a result of this, I found that I got a short when a train passes over the diamond crossing at the centre IF the opposite diagonal is not set as well. Now that that is sorted, I am delighted with it - I can now have trains entering and leaving any of the six platforms at the east end of my station.

Ray

Latest purchases. I'm slowly building a couple of rakes of these beauties to run behind some 1970's Hornby and Tri-ang-Hornby locos.

It was a funny period with the Mark 1s in fake pre-Nationalisation liveries, and a lot of the range self coloured and shiny. Not one oif my favourite versions but full of nostalgia. I remember struggling home on the train from Gillingham to Sheerness with a Lima 'O' gauge set, the 0-6-0 and two CKs in in LMS Red livery.  I still have it but all was repainted in BR livery many years ago.

 A Hornby MK 1 Parcels in Maroon, but having checked on this site, as I paid £23.75 I think it was a bit expensive from the retailer - not my usual one. It was not boxed as Railroad though ? - I thought the MK1 s are Railroad ?

However I also got a triple Railroad pack of stone mineral wagons for £12.00 and they were a lot less than this site. 

Three Oxford vehicles as well - a LWB Land Rover - VW Beetle and an Austin Healey 3000. 

At Xmas I got a DoG - Railroad. I note it does not have tender pick ups - does the expensive version have these ?

This is the latest purchase, it came off ebay and was described as mint which it definately wasn't as I could see from the photo's the seller put up, the metal work had all rusted, the tank and chassis had blue paint on it, there was a glue mark and some scratches and the top half of the tank had faded, it was filthy dirty too. I didn't bother to raise a case against the seller as I bought it so cheap.  I took it all to bits, derusted the metal work and treated it, resprayed the metal work and rebuilt it yesterday evening and outshopped the model, just some paintwork attention to do to the bogies today. They are a rare model. Model is R.247 ICI Chlorine Tank.

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Latest purchases. I'm slowly building a couple of rakes of these beauties to run behind some 1970's Hornby and Tri-ang-Hornby locos.

Meant to say this yesterday, congrats on being the first to post on this forum, and being the last on page 100!

Rod

This is the latest purchase, it came off ebay and was described as mint which it definately wasn't as I could see from the photo's the seller put up, the metal work had all rusted, the tank and chassis had blue paint on it, there was a glue mark and some scratches and the top half of the tank had faded, it was filthy dirty too. I didn't bother to raise a case against the seller as I bought it so cheap.  I took it all to bits, derusted the metal work and treated it, resprayed the metal work and rebuilt it yesterday evening and outshopped the model, just some paintwork attention to do to the bogies today. They are a rare model. Model is R.247 ICI Chlorine Tank.

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Sorry, just realised you wer the penultimate contributor on page 100