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 08:57:13 Sun 24 Dec 2017
More electronics stuff, some more old style dil resistor networks for my layout timer.
Posted 08:57:13 Sun 24 Dec 2017
Posted at 10:57:03 Sun 24 Dec 2017
What's with needing all these water crane's, TsoT? I have one and to me, for the size of the layout, that is plenty. 
GNR-Gordon-4
Posted 10:57:03 Sun 24 Dec 2017
Posted at 11:18:14 Sun 24 Dec 2017
My layout plan has four loco depots Gordon, it is an adaptation of an old Hornby plan. The main shed is a six road shed plus two storage roads, each road has a water crane, main station platform ends also have water cranes as well and the smaller 4 road shed has cranes for each road, the two small sub sheds have a crane each, the freight quarry branch has one as had the good route and then theres the top level super 4 layout, there are six water towers in the design. It soon adds up. Here's the original plan, plan 17 from the 4th edition track plans book. I have done away with the first radius curves abd return loops, the up and over section is an entrance and exit to an overhead super 4 double track route and a branch line.
Posted 11:18:14 Sun 24 Dec 2017