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

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PJ_model_trains

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Posted at 16:52:56 Mon 5 May 2014

Graskie said:

Good to hear your wife's result, PP. What tablet is she on that seems to be causing the problem?

I know she has problems on a Sunday with drugs, it is the chemo drug.

The chest pains isn't a drug

it is something she has to live with, seemingly due to (system won't let me add so) room a toid arth ritis it is recurring Costochondritis.

Posted 16:52:56 Mon 5 May 2014

PJ_model_trains

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Posted at 16:53:52 Mon 5 May 2014

Graskie said:

Good to hear your wife's result, PP. What tablet is she on that seems to be causing the problem?

I know she has problems on a Sunday with drugs, it is the chemo drug.

The chest pains isn't a drug

it is something she has to live with, seemingly due to (system won't let me add so) room a toid arth ritis it is recurring Costo chon dritis.

Posted 16:53:52 Mon 5 May 2014

LC&DR

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Posted at 18:10:31 Mon 5 May 2014

I bought a R121 Red Triang Suburban coach at the Gateshead toy fair on Saturday. It cost £2. I need some more centre coaches for my fleet of 1957 type Triang EMUs but people seem to want daft prices for the real thing (R223) so I decided at £2 it was worth

doing a repaint. (SoT will probably now tell me I will permanently ruin its value, but I now have yet another 3 car EMU, but I am not going to lose a lot of sleep over losing £2.) The roof took a bit of removing as I needed to get the glazing out to clean

it, but with a sharp knife and a steady hand I manage to remove it, I wish they didn't glue them on. The hardest part was matching the paint, as it is a very peculiar shade of green on those earlier 3Subs, but I have got fairly close with a mixture of different

greens.

Posted 18:10:31 Mon 5 May 2014

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Posted at 01:19:10 Thu 8 May 2014

Graskie said:

Blackbird, I have a special one-off Midland Pullman train from the same manufacturer, but experimentally fitted with sound at both ends by someone else. I have had no real problems with it at all, it glides along and doesn't

seem to have any trouble clearing my P*co code 100 trackwork, including a large junction. I have never checked any back to back measurements on it because it runs so well. Bit of a pain coupling the lot together and managing to get all wheels on the track

properly, though, eh?

Hi Graskie, I'm interested in your 'sound' installation. The original decoders are by Soundtraxx, are your sound decoders? There doesn't seem to be enough space for an ESU sound decoder? Is the sound program correct for this

set? I know there is a Cl43 sound program available which must be similar. I wonder if anyone has a sound recording for this set?

Posted 01:19:10 Thu 8 May 2014

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Posted at 17:52:49 Thu 8 May 2014

I'm afraid I won it on eBay, Blackbird, a couple of years ago. It was brand new and I managed to get it for just under £500 which I considered to be pretty good at the time, particularly with sound at both ends and the basic set costing as much as about

£400 in the shops.

I got it from Digitrains, by the looks of it, and my literature for it shows a Loksound Class 251 Pullman Sound Decoder. In addition to all the default lighting options, the sounds it has are:
F2 Twin horn
F3 Twin horn (reverse

notes)
F4 Volume/mute (double tap for 4 stage volume control)
F5 Guard's whistle
F6 Station noise
F7 Compressor
F10 Brake release
F11 Compressor

It was put up as a special one-off, which, to my ears, sounds great. I can't vouch for

sound authenticity because there are apparently few, if any, genuine recordings from when these trains actually ran.

All I know is that I regard this as my best and most satisfying diesel loco set-ups. It runs so smoothly as well, even across my complicated

junction. Perhaps I should put up a bit of film of it.

Posted 17:52:49 Thu 8 May 2014

Graskie

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Posted at 19:24:53 Thu 8 May 2014

At last I bought some UHU glue today, with the vague notion of sticking a few bits back on my locos sometime. Super-glue and the old plastic glues just don't work nowadays on modern plastics. I already had two tubes whose contents you can mix together,

but that seems such a waste if you want to glue just a few items at a time.

Posted 19:24:53 Thu 8 May 2014

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Posted at 20:09:09 Thu 8 May 2014

You don't have to mix the whole of the tubes Graskie just and equal amount from both. Uhu isn't much good for plastic.

Posted 20:09:09 Thu 8 May 2014

Graskie

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Posted at 20:24:00 Thu 8 May 2014

Yes, I know that, WTD, but anything you've mixed and don't use is wasted, isn't it? You probably need to have a gluing session for that. I must admit that my UHU doesn't mention plastics, but the guy on eBay who sold me a loco from which a few bits dropped

off on receipt swore by it.

Posted 20:24:00 Thu 8 May 2014

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Posted at 21:28:19 Thu 8 May 2014

Graskie said:

... Perhaps I should put up a bit of film of it ...

I look forward to seeing it.

Posted 21:28:19 Thu 8 May 2014

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Posted at 21:44:34 Thu 8 May 2014

Just mix a pin head size blob of each Graskie.

Get a little tub of Tacky Wax. Brilliant stuff. Great for sticking loco crews in the cab, steps etc. things can be removed if required and the wax cleaned off.

Posted 21:44:34 Thu 8 May 2014

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