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

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0067-3_zpsdfd86c7c.jpg.html

Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021

andys steam dayz

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Posted at 21:23:09 Sun 30 Dec 2018

Purchased the last steam run golden arrow train pack with rebuilt West Country loco Appledore plus 3 highly detailed golden arrow pullman coaches super set highly detailed

Posted 21:23:09 Sun 30 Dec 2018

Derek 19B

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Posted at 21:49:43 Tue 1 Jan 2019

3 Devon belle Pullman cars in excellent condition,makes up a six car train looks great just fits in the station.

1 Blue box N class looks good.

and my less than £60 Merchant Navy has arrived via both daughter houses and it spending Christmas and new year in Konia post office.

is it a good by, time will tell it has the following faults

front fastening broke ,over tightened, fixed with superglue

wonr move striped the engine down, let's say it won't need oiling for a long long time ,I could probably oil all my locos with the oil in the loco . So dryed it and cleaned all the thick sticky no very sticky grease out tested okay without the tender. The screws fixing the motor were tightened to hold the motor in place as it was lose. Not supprised with amount of oil around the motor and gear box.

.With the tender connected nothing the connections seem to be shorting . The tender wheels have alsobeen over oiled so this was striped and cleaned but it's not free running ,this needs looking onto.

lastly the smoke deflectors are both off,well the left side is off and the right side is off a Britania loco it's definitely not a merchant navy deflector so new deflectors will be ordered from RT models .

It will be a good engine once the tender and smoke deflectors are fixed

So still some work to do ,,N to run in Clan Line to finish off and the lounge to decorate . Happy new year!

Derek 19b

Posted 21:49:43 Tue 1 Jan 2019

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 21:08:50 Thu 3 Jan 2019

A few bargains, the N2 was bought as an Xmas treat and arrived after Xmas, but the rest are train fair finds.

Posted 21:08:50 Thu 3 Jan 2019

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 21:12:44 Thu 3 Jan 2019

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Posted at 21:14:10 Thu 3 Jan 2019

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Posted at 21:15:44 Thu 3 Jan 2019

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Posted at 21:16:44 Thu 3 Jan 2019

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Posted at 22:50:20 Thu 3 Jan 2019

Lima GWR railcar in green. Imaculate external condition but stuck when put on reverse then freed itself when direction changed and changed back so I will be checking for trapped wires

Modelling a combined 00 and 009 gauge Layout (GWR/GVT) mostly

Posted 22:50:20 Thu 3 Jan 2019

Jimbo

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Posted at 17:42:50 Fri 4 Jan 2019

Heljan "Falcon" has just arrived from Rails. Beautifully packed, as usual. The Heljan leaflet states that this loco will pull over 15 coaches on a level track. So it is following the tradition of the original which, in 1962, from a standing start, pulled 18 coaches up the Lickey Bank, a gradient of 1 in 37. tractive efort required was70,300lbs in less than ideal conditions. An etched metal name plate is included in the box but I am not sure what to do with it.

Now running the "Falcon" in carefully.

JG

Last Edited 08:56:24 Mon 7 Jan 2019
Posted 17:42:50 Fri 4 Jan 2019

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