Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 07:59:15 Tue 19 Mar 2013

What's your latest aquisition?

Here's my latest purchase, a Tri-ang-Hornby R.754 M7 in BR Black livery.

The box was tatty, crew were missing and the BR totem transfers on the tank sides were part missing as per normal.

The model is slowly being restored, a fresh box mint was found on ebay with incorrect labels (the one on the right) and I have crew and original totem transfers a plenty in stock, I will post stages of the restoration at intervals for all my friends on here to see as they take place.

Here's the loco pre-restoration but with nice new original 40+ BR Totem transfers put on the side tanks, a packet of the original transfers is posed by the loco for reference.

Hope all at Hornby like what I am doing to their old locos.

Enjoy!

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0063_zps3ff63c6a.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0064_zps634965e3.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0065_zpse2948e27.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0066_zps04c86aff.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0067-3_zpsdfd86c7c.jpg.html

Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021

choralc

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Posted at 07:14:45 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Father's Day order made on the 10th arrived today

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R3284TTS Class A1 Flying Scotsman. Already run in on rolling road and sound functions manually entered into RM;

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R4388 LMS Composite, R4389 LMS Brake and GWR Brake as my 3 for 2 purchase;

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Two by Sapphire decoders (one for a Bachmann City of London) and three R8249s.

FNQ, Australia

Posted 07:14:45 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Fishmanoz

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Posted at 15:59:42 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Is the loco not in the database yet CS? Otherwise why would you enter them manually?

And thanks for all the fish …

Posted 15:59:42 Wed 17 Jun 2015

rustonhornsby

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Posted at 19:02:28 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Evening all,i ordered 6 br mark one coaches and only paid for four on the Fathers day special offer section on the Hornby on line shop.Fantastic coaches at a bargain price,highly recommended,grab em while you can!

Posted 19:02:28 Wed 17 Jun 2015

LB&SCR K Class 2-6-0

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Posted at 20:27:00 Wed 17 Jun 2015

hi all umm i was just wondering what this hobby would be like if hornby and bachmann joined forces and become 1 big manufacturer just think of how lovely the models would be and with all the money both of them get maybe models would be cheaper to buy and make

Posted 20:27:00 Wed 17 Jun 2015

walkingthedog

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Posted at 20:58:16 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Do you reckon it would make any difference. I think it would be worse, you need competition.

Posted 20:58:16 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Postman Prat

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Posted at 21:08:33 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Without competition we'd certainly be worse off. We'd have to buy whatever the company chose to give us and, as sure as God made little green apples standards would fall and prices would rocket.

Sorry LB&SCR, but you're nice little dream would almost certainly rapidly become a nightmare !!

Posted 21:08:33 Wed 17 Jun 2015

walkingthedog

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Posted at 21:15:19 Wed 17 Jun 2015

No choice would not be good.

Posted 21:15:19 Wed 17 Jun 2015

choralc

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Posted at 23:06:06 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Is the loco not in the database yet CS? Otherwise why would you enter them manually?

I chose the model when adding the loco to my list and when I clicked on the default settings button it came up with Steam 1 which was generally wrong. I have since read the forum about re-updating RM even though I have the latest Revision but since I have already inputted the functions I'll wait for the next listed revision.

Again even though the loco has travelled thousands of km it has worked well straight away though I did do a short run in on DC before using the run-in on rolling road program using RM.

FNQ, Australia

Posted 23:06:06 Wed 17 Jun 2015

Fishmanoz

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Posted at 00:09:08 Thu 18 Jun 2015

If the loco is already there, chances are the background auto update process described elsewhere has already included the functions, no revision needed.

And thanks for all the fish …

Posted 00:09:08 Thu 18 Jun 2015

Fazy

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Posted at 02:13:26 Thu 18 Jun 2015

Just wondering when did this topic become a what if bachmann hornby became one.and or a RM problem discussion thread.

Both good topics to discuss but can we have them on a separate page so people know where to look if they wish to.

If it’s not Crimson, it isn’t a proper engine

Posted 02:13:26 Thu 18 Jun 2015

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