Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Check out the Bachmann section of RMWeb.

There are quite a lot of stories of very poor quality control of the Class 90.

Unfortunate, as as you say, it seems a very nice model.

Al.

Yes, Al, I had read some of the stories, but hoped that the company would have taken remedial action. The supplier was apologetic and immediately offered the replacement.  I will see!

Rod

A pair of Bachman’s 57’s DRS Weathered livery and Arriva Trains livery. First class locos. Oh and a Hornby junior set for my Granddaughter which I have to say is far better than what I expected. She loves it.

Treated myself this week to a 1991 made Hornby Class 90 with live pantograph in Mainline livery as a birthday present to myself,. Hopefully it will look good on my yet to be be built live catenary layout, I have been buying a fair amount of the old triang phase 1 and 2 overhead wires and masts ready for the build, which I hope to do when I have recovered some more from the stroke I suffered last October.

I haven't bought anything loco or rolling stock wise for a while as I have been busy building my own designed control boxes that operate the point and signals, and the underboard relay PCBs and diode matrix's for the correct signal interaction to points positions. Those now work correctly and I am happy with them.

So I decided to reward myself with a new loco. I was after class 205 thumper with sound but oh dear prices far too high. Anyway a trawl of the web brought up a class 419 MLV at a reasonable £55, says it's little used and even shown on YouTube video. So waiting for it to arrive. Then 21 pin decoder time and fit and run on my layout.

Looking forward to that.

Just bought a brand new green class 37 with split headcodes Bachmann diesel. I initially baulked at the price, but then when I saw what they went for second hand, I bought one with sound fitted. When I added up how much the loco would have cost without sound and then added on the cost of a decent sound chip, the already fitted option makes sense (it saves about £20). I must admit it is really good, although I normally don't spent that much on a loco.

The Bachmann diesels are generally very good, the 37 particularly so.

For my part, I've finally got hold of a Hornby R2171 Canadian Pacific for a reasonable price - less than 3 digits as they say. Not perfect, but should receive tomorrow.

I suspect the previous owner has glued the buffers solid, fitting the steps, which have fallen off.

Cylinder draincocks have been ordered, to complement it - like my other 'preserved Merchant Navy' locos.

Al.

                A. pair of GWR 1101 0-4-0T one needs a little work on the valve gear.

Reply to atom3624. I have got one of those Hornby R2171 Canadian Pacific, if it is the one I think it is. I bought it from new, years ago. I have only just got back into the hobby since I retired. I have just checked on EBay they go for stupid money. I found with mine, that it wasn't DC ready and there is no room in the loco, so I put a socket in the tender using Hornby 4 pin spare parts. I added the Hornby sound decoder and it runs really well. I did replace the tender coupling with a fixed drawbar. You probably know that you cannot easily get replacement valve gear. 

Hi CB, I don't see how these maintain 3-digit prices, so jumped at 'an opportunity'.

I've 3 rebuilt MN's already, and 2 un-rebuilt WC / BoB - one being Winston himself!

Superb looking locomotives, but always fancied 'that blue one'.

35005 is in the works now, and my guess is it'll come out of the shops ... green!!

Never mind. I'm getting non-stop 'confirmations' that it'll arrive tomorrow. I expect I'll need to work on it a little, but at least the whistle and 'cable' are intact ... some aren't there if you look closely!

Hornby con-rods and valvegear may be scale, but are quite fragile - I've had to 'geometrically correct' a couple in the last couple of days, fortunately without incident!

There are chassis being sold on 'that auction site', but not cheap.

I'm DC operation currently, but one day may go DCC.

I HATE sound in steam locos with a passion, as virtually none synchronise the beats / chuffs correctly - this would really annoy me.

There must be a simply optical eye synchronisation application somewhere,surely, as all I see on You Tube fall way short!

Perhaps its me being too picky, but I couldn't have sound unless it was correct.

Al.