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

atom3624

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Posted at 11:31:11 Mon 13 Jul 2020

Is that your second then .... !!!!!!

How many, 25 and counting?

Worse than I was with the A4's a couple of years back!

Al.

Posted 11:31:11 Mon 13 Jul 2020

LC&DR

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Posted at 12:05:43 Mon 13 Jul 2020

With me it was SECR class C 0-6-0s, at last count I had 23, only another 86 to go! (plus one in Gauge O).

Posted 12:05:43 Mon 13 Jul 2020

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 12:42:12 Mon 13 Jul 2020

Is that your second then .... !!!!!!

How many, 25 and counting?

Worse than I was with the A4's a couple of years back!

Al.

Your addition is correct Al - that will be twenty five, and the seller of todays purchase has just offered me a slight price reduction on another one! BB

If you dream it, you can do it.

Posted 12:42:12 Mon 13 Jul 2020

81F

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Posted at 13:33:38 Tue 14 Jul 2020

Two Oxford rail Dean Goods for a very low price on eBay but to my horror neither work despite both being labelled new.

I had a BR verson that exhibited the same symptoms and managed to fix - one of the pickups was touching something it shouldn't and caused a short. But this was so much hassel I really do not feel like having a go at both these. I have therefore started the process of trying to return them as there was nothing in the description to say there was anything wrong.

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

Posted 13:33:38 Tue 14 Jul 2020

Jimbo

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Posted at 16:18:28 Tue 14 Jul 2020

More Neo magnets came today. So I continued my experiments with magnetic couplings.

So far - not good omens. Derailment of full length coaches on 3-4 Radius. I think the Neos are just TOO strong. Maybe Ferric magnets the answer. I will press on but disappointed so far. Mmm. ------

JG

Posted 16:18:28 Tue 14 Jul 2020

atom3624

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Posted at 17:31:38 Tue 14 Jul 2020

Mr. Hunt seems to have hit a nice compromise - small enough not to pull the carriages off.

I do see them 'flexing' just at the point of contact, but the magnetic pull is more than strong enough - that's not their Achilles' heel - it's the mounting into the NEM pockets, where selected.

(HST option has a different mounting with an Airfix-type clip over the coupling for retention.)

Al.

Posted 17:31:38 Tue 14 Jul 2020

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 11:14:31 Thu 16 Jul 2020

I succumbed - so two Merchant Navy Class loco's arrived today! They will become Blue Funnel and Shaw Savill

If you dream it, you can do it.

Posted 11:14:31 Thu 16 Jul 2020

atom3624

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Posted at 11:31:42 Thu 16 Jul 2020

Is that still 25, or 27 now?

There were only 30 made ... I don't disagree they were one of the better designs - novel initially, then beaten into 'something more normal but still to feast your eyes on' ...

Al.

Posted 11:31:42 Thu 16 Jul 2020

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 12:07:36 Thu 16 Jul 2020

Twenty six - four to go! I'll stop for a while now. It has crossed my mind whether I should have a green Canadian Pacific - it only ran in blue for a short time - and then in it's preserved state - not BR.

If you dream it, you can do it.

Posted 12:07:36 Thu 16 Jul 2020

Anonimouse

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Posted at 23:46:29 Thu 16 Jul 2020

My latest new acquistion is a Bachmann class 117, just over a week in my possession, my latest of all are rebuilt Clan Line, and also Lamport & Holt Line in the Royal Wessex train pack these were swopped for a Hornby Royal Scot "Old Contemptables" and an all green Bachmann class 37.

Posted 23:46:29 Thu 16 Jul 2020

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