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

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Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021

Postman Prat

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Posted at 21:23:45 Sun 13 Sep 2015

Quite the little 'Steptoe', aren't you?

Someone is going to have a real job on their hands, when you 'pop your clogs'

Posted 21:23:45 Sun 13 Sep 2015

LC&DR

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Posted at 06:54:31 Mon 14 Sep 2015

Undoubtedly, however I don't have a horse and cart ...................yet!

I do like to recondition old model trains and when one is dealing with stuff that is 50 years old canabalisation is often the only way to make one good one out of half a dozen bad'ns.

£4 got me a Triang Princess loco. The cellulose acetate body was broken, and the valve gear rusted up, but the X04 was both good and had a pair of carbon brushes in virtually unworn condition. The carbon brushes alone will repay the investment. However once freed from the rusty chassis and some light lubrication the motor ran perfectly, so that is another X04 added to my reserve supply. Of the chassis the cylinder block (apart from the slide bars) and motion bracket are fine and the driving wheels and pinion gear are fine too. Unbroken CA cylinders are not that easy to come by, so these will undoubtedly restore something else in future.

The £2 sack of track revealed a load of type A TT track, about 50% of which can be made usable. This includes 12 points, of which about half are salvagable and the rest will provide spares.

One disappointment was the TT locos. The diesel had been dropped and broken the nearside front step and bent the securing screw, which had a worn slot and wouldn't turn. The steam loco was a non-runner, the motor is probably burnt out. However I have removed the bent screw after drilling the head off, and substituted the one from the steam loco. The step has been replaced with plastic strip, and when hard will be touched up with paint. The steam loco will now await another one to provide a working motor or I may try and get the armature rewound.

Posted 06:54:31 Mon 14 Sep 2015

choralc

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Posted at 13:02:39 Mon 14 Sep 2015

R2925 Clam Macgregor fitted with after-market sound decoder and some wagons.

To make up for that on-line auction site not allowing a further postage discount he threw in some more near new and new wagons and a Tornado with issues.

Tornado turns out to be R3245. Yes TTS. Four extra wagons and a TTS for $12.50. Very generous.

I will post more about this loco in the DCC section as it needs help.

FNQ, Australia

Posted 13:02:39 Mon 14 Sep 2015