Bulleidboy Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Nice loco M/N Canadian Pacific. It was one of the first three M/N Class (Super detail) models introduced by Hornby in the year 2000 - so it's been around for sometime. I bought mine new in 2006 - it cost £68.00 - and it's still in the box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 My Hornby R2171 Canadian Pacific had the original price still on it, it was £71.50. I cannot remember when I bought it, I know it came from the Signal Box in Rochester (sadly gone), I preordered it because I liked the colour. I checked EBay and I remember there was one for sale in the North York Moors Engine Shed shop (I was on holiday), and all of them were around the £100 mark, because I remembered thinking that is a lot of money for an old loco, that is not even DCC ready. What is it about these and the unrebuilt ones that makes them fetch so much money? It is the same with Wrenn, if it is a City loco it is worth around the £100 mark, but if it is a unrebuilt West Country it can be as much as £400. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashcat Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Just pre oderd SR Terrier 0-6-0T W10 'Cowes' R3812 it's for a new fictitious 4.7mt end to end layout that is still very much in the planing stage but I know will be SR and now seems that it will be based somewher on the Isle of Wight 😆 which is a strange twist as I live just across the water and see the island every day as I walk on the beach and regularly visit./media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/r/3/r3812_sr-terrier-cowes_render_1_1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I find you have to define your 'search' then keep looking - something normally comes up, but if it's at auction it can go for a ridiculous price. The most 'valuable' / sought after are the Hornby un-rebuilt Merchant Navy locos - they're still an 'arm-and-a-leg'. I tried a couple of times at Sir Keith Park, but each one went over £110, so I left it - not paying that.I fancied a rebuilt lightweight. Diesels are coming next for me - a 59, then a 66, then a 55 next - 3 different manufacturers. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I just did a search on Sir Keith Park, they are totally ridiculas prices. The Wrenn ones are even more stupid. I have got 2 early unrebuilt Hornby models, that I bought years ago, but the good news is the body shape is still the same. I have early eighties one, but that is totally different. The really good thing about them is that there is loads of room to put the DCC chip in, in my two I had to add a socket but there was loads of room, but the model is really simple the valve gear is really uncomplicated. There is even room to put a decent speaker in it. At those prices it will be cheaper to buy the new one when Hornby release it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulleidboy Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 I'm sorry, but I find the Wrenn M/N's so basic, I wouldn't buy one at any price. Although the Hornby ones have been around for almost twenty years, they still look very good. I have twenty four M/N - some for renaming and numbering - only six to go! Some of the latest models such as Nederland Line and Elder Dempster, can be bought new, for less than some of the older model - the bonus with these models is that DCC/Sound can be fitted fairly easily. There are always a number of "new" tenders available on ebay, so if the model has the wrong one (and this is a bit of a minefield) they can be swapped. I have one built from parts - I bought a DCC Chassis, a body (it has to be a later model body) and a tender. It only worked out fractionally cheaper than buying the complete loco. Although it can be done, with a fair degree of internal butchery, the early bodies will not fit on a DCC chassis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Good information there - thanks BB.I was considering a 'bitser' but held off. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 35005 arrived!!It has a small 'click' I cannot locate, so will live with, just keeping an eye on all bolts, linkages and conrods! Runs very smoothly nevertheless. All lubricated. /media/tinymce_upload/430d3aa8b9df98a5681c8db3a1b827b3.jpg Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morairamike Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 My used class 419 MLV arrived. Two days early and upon opening the box it looks like new. I can't find any marks on it at allVery good value for what I paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Just bought the GCR Rothley station and platform plus peco track to build it has was 1950s. Should keep me busy for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 An unboxed Lima Mk1 BSK in BR Chocolate & Cream@ £11 (I think) Two boxed Mainline SK, one BR maroon with the other blood and custard @ £12 each A Boxed Mainline Stanier 57' Brake in BR Maroon also @ again £12 I had only intended to buy Coaches but could not pass an unboxed Lima Class 121 in BR Green for £28 and then I got a slight discount for cash. The only defecys I have found so far is a missing buffer on one of the SKs and it's bogies were held on by self tappers but I knew I has a spare chassis (from a green Southern Region one I had spoiled trying to to repaint years ago (just hope I can find the body to provide the missing buffer!) I couldn't test the railcar but I thought I'd take the risk as I have at least 3 working Lima motors which have had little use I can rob parts from. All from an "antiques" cabinet rather than a model shop. Even with the defects they seemed like reasonable value when compared to on-line sales especially as I have most of the spares which SWMBO says I must clear out to make room! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulali Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 hornby R 3748 class 66789 and four dapol jna wagons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoacIslandRay Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 A Hornby Peckett B2 arrived this morning - lovely little loco, companion for the W4. Already renamed - thanks Modelmaster for the plates - now how do I lose the APC roundels without wrecking the Hornby matt paint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 That lovely but old Canadian Pacific click seemed to go, was running well, then ... stopped! I ended up replacing the gears, and a spare motor in case a 'few thou' had worn off the worm - original gear was metal as well ...Then I had all manner of problems reassembling - the rear parts of the connected (some are separate like the Coronations) connecting rods ... they seemed too long!! Eventually I figured out that the 'floating' sprung axle mount for the rear axle has more one side than the other, and I'd managed to reverse it ... Duly reversed to correct way around, and all is well - running OK ... for now.I managed to replace the idler gear - in-between initial and final drive gears as well. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Hi Al. I had the same problem with that rear axle on the old rebuilt MN... It really gets the little grey cells working! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Hi Sarah,Certainly had me for a while.I though I'd 'stretched' the conrods or something equally bizarre. Needless to say they showed their 'flexible tendencies' a couple of times, so I'll tread carefully with this one ... Now onto the Black 5 that's shorting out ... Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Last weeks has got to be the best. I bought a Bachmann A4 off that popular auction site, for a very reasonable price . It said it was DCC fitted and it was the new type of Bachmann (no split chassis). It arrived this morning. To my surprise it had lights and a smoke generator fitted. I had to glue a few bits back on, but that was a real result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Nice find. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Oh Dear! I popped into my local model railway shop today to see if they had the new Ransome & Rapier 45 ton breakdown crane, which they hadn't, but I came out with a rail mounted gun and a Dean Goods in ROD livery! Will I never learn!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I do love Oxford's reference numbers for the rail mounted gun models! 😉 A long while ago, we had a plastic kit version of the German gun "Leopold"....now long gone.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Thanks to Rana Temporia I now have a lovely little TT gauge Triang Jinty. A little cleaning and lubrication and a minor soldering task and it runs like a hare. Thank you Rana! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 A couple of simple plastic profile strips to make up some custom enclosures for mobile phone speakers for my locos. I wanted a ready made suitably sized box section but had to make do with H-section and flat strip. The idea is to try ‘tuned’ lengths for the box to see which gives the best sound. I am sure their is science out there to calculate this based on the speaker size and frequency response, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulali Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 A H and M duette controller kindly given to me from my neighbour.PAT tested a few days ago and now on my layout,what a difference from the hornby R8250 controllers,very very pleased with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 LC&DR thanks for the kind words. I’m glad it went to someone who wanted it and will enjoy it. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 There's mention of the 4P Midland Compound in another thread - another of my 'all time favourites' which I think I saw at Bressingham, and at the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill Trials all those years ago. I've occasionally looked for a 'good, used' in perfect condition, but they're all at elevated prices ... managed to 'win' one today at a more respectable price ...It is the 'NRM 1000 Midland' one - looks great. I'll post some pictures up once I receive it ... hopefully later on next week. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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