Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?
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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!
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Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021
Posted at 12:17:32 Tue 7 Feb 2017
Bought a massive job lot at auction yesterday dirt cheap for a £120, mostly unused from new, the jewel of the lot is the v.rare Tri-ang Swedish 0-4-0 Shunter which usually fetches a small fortune nowadays. Also in the lot were enough points to build a major terminus. Think I am going to be very busy.
Posted 12:17:32 Tue 7 Feb 2017
Posted at 14:17:33 Fri 10 Feb 2017
Bought a massive job lot at auction yesterday dirt cheap for a £120, mostly unused from new, the jewel of the lot is the v.rare Tri-ang Swedish 0-4-0 Shunter which usually fetches a small fortune nowadays. Also in the lot were enough points to build a major terminus. Think I am going to be very busy.
Fantastic find! Is the rare Swedish shunter the red diesel? How rare are they? I have one in the Triang set that has the hand held battery controller and freight cars similar to the one photo you have of it (one flat has 2 autos on it). The loco runs beautifully after a cleaning and service!
Last Edited 14:29:06 Fri 10 Feb 2017
Posted 14:17:33 Fri 10 Feb 2017
Posted at 01:06:30 Sat 11 Feb 2017
Just bought this a Jouef 231C pacific in brown in what appears to be very good condition but with a bit of a squeek when turned by hand. This is very much a nostalgia trip since one of these was my second loco of which I still have the motor so if this wont go I've got a spare!
Another bonus is that it is complete , my original did not have a tender or smoke deflectors so ran with a bodged hornby Brit tender.
Posted 01:06:30 Sat 11 Feb 2017