Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Just unpacked my Huntley and Palmers Peckett. Wow just about sums it up. The detail is incredible. I'm going to permanently attach a wagon with extra pickups if I can find a way to route the wires.

Now waiting for my 'Dodo' which has not yet been despatched although I have had the advice stating it is in the warehouse. I hope it will arrive by Friday.

Just received DODO All I need to do is find the spare 4 pin decoder I set aside for it. The front coupling & socket rattling around in box, but this has pushed back in and seems secure. Just wished I'd read the DCC fitting instructions first as I will need to take it out again to access the body screw!

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I have just received the new Hornby B13 loco. It has been well worth the wait. Just finished running the motor in and now to fit the vacum pipes etc then the lamps. I will enjoy my Xmas running my new B12 together with my new B17 and D16 Claud Hamilton.  I must congratulate Hornby on the very best model so far brilliant detail on the B12 and smooth runner. Thank you Hornby.

I do find it rather sad that by far the most read and contributed to topic on these forums is the "look at what I've got" one. It reminds me of being back at primary school in January when everyone spent the first morning boasting about what they'd got for Christmas.

 

It's very symptomatic of human nature but, as I've said, I find it rather sad.

It is Human Nature. You'll probably have to wait a few million years for it to change - if they've read your post!

 Yes, True,  Good in't it   ! ! ?  ? 

 

So we are all big kids after all !!! Playing with toy trains.

Hi Big Kid,

Can you please put this kid out of his misery and tell me 'what the blazes is a DoDo' (apart from being an extinct species of bird)

PP that is all and exactly what it is !!

DANGER THIS POST WILL TRY AND EXPLAIN SOMETHING. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT LOOK AWAY NOW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

THE DODO

The Dodo, or Raphus cucullatus, was a large, now extinct, flightless bird of the family Columbidae which lived solely on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.  They were hunted for food by Dutch mariners  during the 16th and early 17th Century, and the last reported sighting was before 1674. Live specimens had been taken to Europe for study earlier in the Century but no breeding pairs survived.  Skeletons were recovered in 1865, at least five sets of bones are thought still to exist, but none complete. It was a ground nesting bird of course and it is thought that rats introduced from ships mooring off the island, attacked and destroyed the remaining eggs, causing the extinction.

This is a contemporary artist's impression. No photographs exist.

Thank you

Thank you

Alternatively it is one of the new Hornby Pecketts

https://www.hornby.com/community/peckett-0-4-0t.html

SWMBO is also from Mauritius. She is most definately NOT extinct.

Thank you

Alternatively it is one of the new Hornby Pecketts

https://www.hornby.com/community/peckett-0-4-0t.html

Which is named after the big bird!

I would post a picture of it when it arrives, but SWMBO will want to wrap it up to give it to me on Sunday.