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!
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
Posted at 17:20:15 Tue 17 Mar 2020
Posted 17:20:15 Tue 17 Mar 2020
Posted at 17:31:18 Tue 17 Mar 2020
Great image Brian (walkingthedog). Thank you. 
That's not City of Truro, on the top shelf, is it?
GNR-Gordon-4 (HF)
Posted 17:31:18 Tue 17 Mar 2020
Posted at 11:37:47 Wed 18 Mar 2020
Have just received a new armature from Peter's Spares for my ailing R155 Tri-ang Switcher. Excellent service. So far, I have managed to get the Switcher to move 3 inches before tripping the controller. The little yellow beast moved in the wrong direction so I realised I had fitted the wheels incorrectly and had to start over again. But still struggling with re-assembly esp. inserting the new brushes. What a fiddly nightmare ! 
-- does anyone know of an easy method to fit these brushes ? 
I wonder how it was done when the loco was made.
Posted 11:37:47 Wed 18 Mar 2020