Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Good to hear. Did not realise they came without tyres.

Good to hear. Did not realise they came without tyres.

They may not, but I can only speak from experience.

The Virgin Class 47 pulls five coaches and a DVT and never misses a beat.

Maybe they'd run better if they should have pesky tyres 🤔

I have a number of old Jouef/Playcraft, Lima, Hornby Acho etc. locos and can usually find traction tyres that do the job from a mixed bag of Hornby and Lima ones I bought from a swapmeet and several bags of Hornby ones I have collected over the years as many wheels are approximately the same sizes. the Jouef rubber band drives can also be replaced with traction tyres of approximately the same size. The originals were the same catalogue numbers as the traction tyres for each model.

This could have been Flying Flying if it had not been for Allan Peglers foresight and vision who single handedly bought and safed Flying Scotsman of indignity of ending up like this..

It was lucky that FS was saved but if it had not have been saved it would have been cut up into hundreds of bits within days of being taken out of service. The more northern scrap merchants had less other work, so cut locos up as soon as they arrived, The Scrap merchant on Barry Island had a lot of other work, and left the locos it had till the other work dried up that is why so many ex Southern and Western Region steam locos and so few North Western and Eastern steam locos are around today.

I am still buying working pantograph locos I have now a massed 35 locos in total.

9 x Hornby Class 86

7 x Lima Class 87

9 x Hornby Class 90

5 x Hornby Class 91 with MK4 DVTs

5 x Hornby Class 92 ( converted to live pantographs )

Latest being a Lima Class 87 as well as several Hornby Class 91s and DVTs plus both MK3 and MK4 coaches MK 2e Brake Ends, Freightliner and other suitable rolling stock.

The liveries covered are BR Blue, BR Intercity Executive, BR Intercity Swallow and BR Sectors.

Re: Std Class 4 models. My nephew calls mine The Ninja because it's so quiet.

I think my last entries for recent purchases were a Bachmann Stanier Mogul - superb looking, and running, locomotive - and a Rapido Models LNER Dynamometer Car.

There's a slight update.

The Mogul was checked over, touches of 'lube' in all moving parts areas, and it had been running perfectly, and for quite a few hours, moderately loaded after gentle break-in each way, and run each way, when it suddenly substantially slowed ...

Inspection showed the brushes had started arcing, initially sporadically, which I tried to 'burn through' with gently light running, then harder, but nothing doing. I've never won when I've opened up one of these can motors, where servicing used to be easy on the old Ringfields and X-04's .... so it's new motor time, after perhaps 8-10 hours' running!

For the Rapido Dynamometer Car, there's been a MAJOR RECALL!!

I'd not even placed it on the running tracks, just on display alongside my 'living room perch' behind Mallard.

Apparently, the lighting function is inconsistent and unreliable, with a risk of fire!!

That's gone back on free recall.

The Mogul will join the list of Bachmann locomotives requiring a replacement motor.

Al.

Not a new acquisition, but the first time out of the box since purchase on the 18th December 2015 - Battle of Britain Class 34070 "Manston".

The real 34070 Manston was issued with a new 10 year boiler ticket on the 16th November 2022 after a five year overhaul. Can be seen on the Swanage Railway.

I bought an ex shop stock gold plated Flying Scotsman special edition today. I got Princess Elizabeth Golden Jubilee with gold plating a couple of weeks ago in similar condition, so I am a happy person (for a while).