Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Bought another Bachmann class 416 2EPB in blue & grey livery to go with 3 others I have - 1 in same livery, 2 in pure BR blue. Always loved the look of this class and related ones.

If you are not already aware then you may be interested in this:

http://www.bloodandcustard.com/2epbbr001.html   

A bit of Blood and Custard for the collection.  I am slowly building a blood and custard rake of the old Tri-ang clerestory coaches now made by Hornby for my 1950's style branch lines.  This one is from the China made Hornby Anglian set and was a bargain. 2 more composites and I have a nice 6 coach rake.

One fault on the HST Rob is that the red feed wire to the decoder is going to the negative feed (cast chassis) of the motor, it should be the other way around if the loco is as per factory in terms of it's insulated wheels in the right position.

Hi

Just purchased battle of britain Royal Observer Corps locomotive excellent loco plus the two hornby maunsell resteraunt cars in BR and sr liveries also just purchased the bude loco from the 1948 British Railway trials also waiting for the 1948 dynamometer car to recreate the iconic picture of the two together

One fault on the HST Rob is that the red feed wire to the decoder is going to the negative feed (cast chassis) of the motor, it should be the other way around if the loco is as per factory in terms of it's insulated wheels in the right position.

Indeed it is SoT. Thank you.

This picture from the other side.

Rob

Just got myself a Hornby class 08 shunter (finally) in sweet Mainline livery. This is great as I'm trying to model a freight layout eventually. Also works well with my Mainline class 37.

@Jeff Mennell; Posted at 20:59:42 Fri, 3 Aug 2018; Approved/Moved at 08:41:22 Mon, 6 Aug 2018 and Posted at 23:10:09 Wed , 8 Aug 2018; Approved/Moved at 08:30:14 Thu, 9 Aug 2018

Two great new locomotives you have there Jeff, a very low prices.

Sorry, but I have only just found these two posts, that I am qouting at.

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It is a  0-4-0 Great Western Pug Engine No. 101 - if you want to see it go then look for my vid called "Great Western Loco (Review & Test Of)"

You may need to reverse the motor control wires as well Rob. The grey is normally attached to the left hand brush contact and orange the right hand if memory serves me right. It saves messing about with a CV. Looks like the previous owner was following some sort of instructions backwards.

Bought another Bachmann class 416 2EPB in blue & grey livery to go with 3 others I have - 1 in same livery, 2 in pure BR blue. Always loved the look of this class and related ones.

 

If you are not already aware then you may be interested in this:

http://www.bloodandcustard.com/2epbbr001.html   

That is an insiane level of information and very interesting :). I knew that the 2EPBs were from the late 1950s and (thought I knew) they retired mid to late 1980s. Last one went in in 1994 - didn't know that!

I'll have another re-read a bit later on, but it did confirm something which I thought was true in that they often operated in Motor+Dummy combo, but did on occaison work in together to form larger rakes.  When this was done did they always power it using a different engine? One of your photos (wintery one) seems to show this? Or did they somehow manage to slave the motors of each motor car to act as one?

Finally, did were they ever mixed with different coaches tacked on to the end?

Which reminds me: Need to get a Thumper set at some point, though not sure where or how to.