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
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Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021
Posted at 20:24:59 Wed 14 Apr 2021
I just got these two fully working clockwork locos. The one on the right is an original Trackmaster and the one on the left a Triang one. I have an almost mint Triang body to replace the one shown. The main differences between the two are the wheels and couplings. The Trackmaster one is missing the coupling but has very fine scale wheels. The Triang one has both couplings but has much coarser wheels.
I can now get rid of the other locos I have in various states of repair, although most have a functioning clockwork motor.
Posted 20:24:59 Wed 14 Apr 2021
