Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Nice loco M/N Canadian Pacific. It was one of the first three M/N Class (Super detail) models introduced by Hornby in the year 2000 - so it's been around for sometime. I bought mine new in 2006 - it cost £68.00 - and it's still in the box!

My Hornby R2171 Canadian Pacific had the original price still on it, it was £71.50. I cannot remember when I bought it, I know it came from the Signal Box in Rochester (sadly gone), I preordered it because I liked the colour. I checked EBay and I remember there was one for sale in the North York Moors Engine Shed shop (I was on holiday), and all of them were around the £100 mark, because I remembered thinking that is a lot of money for an old loco, that is not even DCC ready. What is it about these and the unrebuilt ones that makes them fetch so much money? It is the same with Wrenn, if it is a City loco it is worth around the £100 mark, but if it is a unrebuilt West Country it can be as much as £400.

Just pre oderd SR Terrier 0-6-0T W10 'Cowes' R3812 it's for a new fictitious 4.7mt end to end layout that is still very much in the planing stage but I know will be SR and now seems that it will be based somewher on the Isle of Wight  which is a strange twist as I live just across the water and see the island every day as I walk on the beach and regularly visit.

I find you have to define your 'search' then keep looking - something normally comes up, but if it's at auction it can go for a ridiculous price.

The most 'valuable' / sought after are the Hornby un-rebuilt Merchant Navy locos - they're still an 'arm-and-a-leg'.

I tried a couple of times at Sir Keith Park, but each one went over £110, so I left it - not paying that.

I fancied a rebuilt lightweight.

Diesels are coming next for me - a 59, then a 66, then a 55 next - 3 different manufacturers.

Al.

I just did a search on Sir Keith Park, they are totally ridiculas prices. The Wrenn ones are even more stupid. I have got 2 early unrebuilt Hornby models, that I bought years ago, but the good news is the body shape is still the same. I have early eighties one, but that is totally different. The really good thing about them is that there is loads of room to put the DCC chip in, in my two I had to add a socket but there was loads of room, but the model is really simple the valve gear is really uncomplicated. There is even room to put a decent speaker in it. At those prices it will be cheaper to buy the new one when Hornby release it.

I'm sorry, but I find the Wrenn M/N's so basic, I wouldn't buy one at any price. Although the Hornby ones have been around for almost twenty years, they still look very good. I have twenty four M/N - some for renaming and numbering - only six to go! Some of the latest models such as Nederland Line and Elder Dempster, can be bought new, for less than some of the older model - the bonus with these models is that DCC/Sound can be fitted fairly easily. There are always a number of "new" tenders available on ebay, so if the model has the wrong one (and this is a bit of a minefield) they can be swapped. I have one built from parts - I bought a DCC Chassis, a body (it has to be a later model body) and a tender. It only worked out fractionally cheaper than buying the complete loco. Although it can be done, with a fair degree of internal butchery, the early bodies will not fit on a DCC chassis.

Good information there - thanks BB.

I was considering a 'bitser' but held off.

Al.

35005 arrived!!

It has a small 'click' I cannot locate, so will live with, just keeping an eye on all bolts, linkages and conrods!

Runs very smoothly nevertheless. All lubricated.

Al.

My used class 419 MLV arrived. Two days early and upon opening the box it looks like new. I can't find any marks on it at all

Very good value for what I paid.

Just bought the GCR Rothley station and platform plus peco track to build it has was 1950s. Should keep me busy for a few days.