I wonder if there are other members of this forum who remember their very first model loco and still have it?
I still have my first loco, bought with my pocket money, a Lone Star 000 push along Jinty. It is over fifty years old, a bit battered and has survived countless house and country moves. I think it must have influenced my decision to model in N gauge.
:NGaugersRule:
my first one was a three rail Hornby dublo 'Duchess of Montrose', back in the 1950s, and no I don't still have her, wish I did.
but after a few years led me into HO SNCF, then HO US, then finally .....
I SAW THE LIGHT 8)
and moved to N UK, specifically Scottish BR blue, with a touch of lots of RULE 1 :no:
alan
Lima HO Class 33, ca. 1977, yes I still have it.
A Triang Blue Pullman circa 1964. I wonder where it is now?
I don't still have it but a Hornby clockwork tank, just like the one on the left
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/19/thumb_28174.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=28174)
neighbours of ours with a big garden had miles of track, loads of stock and tender locos! lots of fun :thumbsup:
A Tri-ang EM2 27000 Electra, complete with all the working catenary.
All my 00 stuff vanished during one of our many house moves, as it did my Meccano stuff and my Matchbox models collection :'( :'( :'(
Quote from: class37025 on August 15, 2015, 03:40:32 PM
my first one was a three rail Hornby dublo 'Duchess of Montrose', back in the 1950s, and no I don't still have her, wish I did.
but after a few years led me into HO SNCF, then HO US, then finally .....
I SAW THE LIGHT 8)
and moved to N UK, specifically Scottish BR blue, with a touch of lots of RULE 1 :no:
alan
Well I never Alan, that' exactly what I had for my first loco. I got it for a Christmas present with 2 or 3 blood and custard Mk 1 coaches and a working travelling post office car. Sadly my parents gave them away when I got married and left them behind.
:beers:
Don't have mine any more but was a Lone Star Diesel with rubber band drive.
My first train set age 10, in 1973, was a liitle blue OO 0-4-0 called Nellie. Don't know what happened to my layout and stock after i left home, but a few years ago i bought an old second hand Nellie off eBay to display.
A trip to Eames model shop age 13 set me off wanting the tiny N gauge stuff, but didn't have the money then to get into N until many years later.
My first N gauge was a Poole BR Blue Western Gauntlet that i bought mail order in 1994. I still have it, mint in the box it was posted in. It was supposed to be a one off, but ended up sparking my rather more extensive collection, that now includes 30-odd Westerns and a whole lot of other classes too.
Same clockwork Hornby 0 gauge model tank as Minza, except livery was Southern Maunsell olive green, Xmas 1938 or 39, followed the next year by an Electric (20V AC) "Flying Scotsman" in LNER green but incorrect wheels, a 4-4-2 instead of a 4-6-2, the same model also appeared in SR olive as Lord Nelson, GWR Castle (or was it a King) LMS Royal Scot and a French Pacific, and we moan at the size of wheels!
None of them remained in my possession past about age 16.
My first N gauge locos were inherited from my father who passed away in 1974, A Farish pannier with can motor (the type discussed on the forum recently) which I no longer have, it did get hacked into something resembling an SR G6. The other loco was a Fleischmann 7161 4-6-0, that gained a Langley S15 body a few years later, that I still have, the original motor packed up in 2013 so best part of 40 years I suppose is not bad for a motor.
Quote from: austinbob on August 15, 2015, 04:14:04 PM
Quote from: class37025 on August 15, 2015, 03:40:32 PM
my first one was a three rail Hornby dublo 'Duchess of Montrose', back in the 1950s, and no I don't still have her, wish I did.
but after a few years led me into HO SNCF, then HO US, then finally .....
I SAW THE LIGHT 8)
and moved to N UK, specifically Scottish BR blue, with a touch of lots of RULE 1 :no:
alan
Well I never Alan, that' exactly what I had for my first loco. I got it for a Christmas present with 2 or 3 blood and custard Mk 1 coaches and a working travelling post office car. Sadly my parents gave them away when I got married and left them behind.
:beers:
yep, I remember the operating TPO.
all appeared one xmas morning on a flat baseboard on the dining room table, which had to be cleared for xmas dinner >:(
Quote from: newportnobby on August 15, 2015, 04:13:05 PM
A Tri-ang EM2 27000 Electra, complete with all the working catenary.
All my 00 stuff vanished during one of our many house moves, as it did my Meccano stuff and my Matchbox models collection :'( :'( :'(
ah yes, doesn't matter if its a double decker bus or a mini, comes in the same size box, scaled to fit :)
Quote from: railsquid on August 15, 2015, 03:44:21 PM
Lima HO Class 33, ca. 1977, yes I still have it.
And here it is:
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/19/thumb_28175.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=28175)
having survived 25 years in various boxes being moved between various countries.
Quote from: newportnobby on August 15, 2015, 04:13:05 PM
A Tri-ang EM2 27000 Electra, complete with all the working catenary.
All my 00 stuff vanished during one of our many house moves, as it did my Meccano stuff and my Matchbox models collection :'( :'( :'(
I had exactly the same but mine was a CKD (Completely Knocked Down kit) Worked a treat!
Sold it to the Isle of Wight Model Railway Society and I expect it is now completely knocked down again!!!
My husband has none of the cars and trains he carefully collected as a child as his late parents gave the whole lot to his younger cousins, a real bunch of bruisers.
They didn't last long and got completely wrecked. He was not amused. Every now and then he will see a model he used to have and say "I used to have one of those" :'(
Quote from: silly moo on August 15, 2015, 05:28:58 PM
Every now and then he will see a model he used to have and say "I used to have one of those" :'(
That is so sad :( !
but look on the bright side, you have his birthday & xmas present list all sown up for the next ##years :) :)
Mine was "Sir Nigel Gresley" Hornby Dublo 3-rail, xmas present and yep, still got it ! Also I still have several other Dublo birthday/xmas presents from that era as well as the Dublos I swapped an extensive bird's egg collection for.
( !!! eeeek, well it was a long looong time ago when young people spent lots of time roaming fields and hedgerows and did that sort of thing: at least I can keep these models whereas the egg collection would have become an embarrassment ! )
I am wondering about the thread title - - what would be an un-real model :angel:
PS. My wife had a Hornby clockwork set but sadly no longer :'( boohoo.
Quote from: Mustermark on August 15, 2015, 04:15:28 PM
My first N gauge was a Poole BR Blue Western Gauntlet that i bought mail order in 1994. I still have it, mint in the box it was posted in. It was supposed to be a one off, but ended up sparking my rather more extensive collection, that now includes 30-odd Westerns and a whole lot of other classes too.
"30 Westerns :drool: Impressive.
Well done.
Triang English Electric Type 3 D6830 and three Pullmans in 00 making up the Intercity Express set (About 1967 I would think) all long gone..
First N loco a Lima Class 31 in BR Green about 1975, didn't last very long, went to the great scrapyard in the sky...
Roy
Farish Class 56 Triple Grey Construction as part of the "Size 3" set.
Christmas 1993 I should think. No longer have the wagons but the old girl is still with me.
She has been to BR Bob twice, dropped of a board circa 1m and still just about going.
Now I have the Dapol 56 her faults are plain to see, but will never part with her. Currently arranging an alternative use as a "display piece".
Skyline2uk
Mine was the classic Hornby Dublo Southern R1 Class, numbered 31337 and manufactured a good 25 years before I was born! It was also my dad's first locomotive back in the early 60s and he handed it down to me when I was three or four years old, just before the same Christmas I received my first train set.
It's seen a huge amount of use from both my young dad and young me so is in "not quite mint" condition, but I recently gave it a bit of a dust-off and a well-deserved clean.
It's now found a new home away from the dust in a Jouef display case, the base of which it's pictured on.
Still works.
JB
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/jivebunnystudios/IMG_3583_zpsdpy3rdvf.jpg)
Thanks for sharing all of your first locos, a real trip down memory lane!
Dad collected Hornby and Bassett Lowke O gauge clockwork and live steam locos which I was privileged to play with from a young age. I reckon my first model railway loco was an 0-4-0 clockwork Thomas The Tank Engine although I don't remember having the full set with the two carriages.
(http://www.vectis.co.uk/AuctionImages/521/1021_l.jpg)
My first electric loco was the apple green Flying Scotsman set and was for me, at 6 or 7 years old, the definitive image of this locomotive - I was all sorts of confused when I saw models of this same loco in a shade of dark green, or with a different dome, or with smoke deflectors, or with a red name plate, or with a different chimney, or with TWO tenders...
(http://www.vectis.co.uk/AuctionImages/217/399_l.jpg)
I always yearned after some N gauge but no-one we knew had any and it was an exotic mystery although this has been addressed now that I have enough pocket money to cover the costs!
I suppose mine was the old classic of the 1950s, the Tri-Ang 'Jinty' in BR black. It was in a set with two coaches and some Series 2 track. There were also a few wagons, a point or two, a few lengths of plain track and (of course) a H&M 'Minor' controller (or transformer as we called them then) all sent by 'Father Christmas'. In reality mum and dad, various aunts and uncles etc had got together and purchased a few bits but as I recall when all laid down on a board (6x4) was a very nice present and one I played with for years, other bits being added as time went by.
This was all for Christmas (about 1958) and I can't remember not having a 'train set' from that day to this. Of course all that went to the scrap yard many years ago.
My first N Gauge loco was the GraFar 08 in 1979 which too has now been disposed of but only last year when it finally stopped working while being used to test the electrics on my present layout.
A Hornby clockwork similar to MinzaPint, but with a tender in BR green, followed by Lone Star push along stuff, followed by a Triang Britannia with smoke and magnahesion, followed by Peco Jeanette 009 on an Arnold chassis, before finally arriving at N gauge and Pennsylvania diesel set. Finally swapping to British prototype and acquiring a Minitrix Sir Nigel.
Phew! :sweat:
Don't have any of 'em anymore.
Mine was a Hornby Minitrix Warship D823 Hermes in BR Blue. Not sure of the year, but probably early / mid 1970s. My dad bought it for me in Raynes Park not long after we moved from inner London to Surrey, so it could be as early as 1973!
Yes, I do still have it but sadly it is a non runner. I do still run sister loco D819 Intrepid, which has been converted to DCC and is still running well.
Triang Hornby 46201 Princess Elizabeth. C. 1972. I repainted it from LMS Maroon to BR Green. Yes I still have it proudly displayed in the case. Last time I tried it (about 15 years ago) it still worked, as did the chuff noise and the smoke generator...
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.
Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.
Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...
Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.
I know the feeling - a favourite aunt gave me a Christmas present for my 'train set' :) !
Sadly by that time I was modelling N gauge, BR blue Western Region and the loco was an OO gauge LMS Jinty........ :-[
But a nice thought, all the same.
My first electric train was from a Hornby set. I can't remember the set name but the loco was an 0-4-0 Caledonian 'Pug' in red livery with the name Desmond. I still have it, in a box somewhere. You can just see it in the photo below, in front of the Jinty.
(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j154/fourwheelsteer/Train%20and%20model%20rail%20stuff/DecemberTrains004.jpg) (http://s79.photobucket.com/user/fourwheelsteer/media/Train%20and%20model%20rail%20stuff/DecemberTrains004.jpg.html)
All the other Hornby stuff in the photo was sold on Ebay. I was a bit sorry to see it go but meeded the space.
Here is my first train set although not the one I actually owned many years ago. Is it real? I have an Observers Book of Railway Locomotives of Britain (revised edition 1962) that list V-2 locos as having numbers running up to 60985 and the B-1 locos starting from number 61000. Both LNER 4-6-0s. My Hornby O gauge clockwork has a number (60985) that fits in the gap. Suspicious? Doesn't look much like a 4-6-0, but the chimney does look LNER.
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Second train is an interesting one. It is a Maurlyn model of a New South Wales Government Railways C38 + 2 coaches. This company started manufacturing trains in Sydney in 1951 but was dead in the water by the end of the 50s apparently. Unfortunately, I don't have this set anymore.
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The beginning of me into model railway modelling was the Xmas present of a Trix Twin Pytchley trainset when I was 8. This lead in the years following to the acquisition of a TTR Britannia, Class 5, and a Warship which were all fine models for the time.
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Finally, I arrived at N scale in the late 70s starting off with a Minitrix K4. I'm still with North American although I have shifted from Santa Fe to Canadian Pacific.
[smg id=28185 type=preview align=center caption="Minitrix K4 in N scale"]
Webbo
Quote from: silly moo on August 15, 2015, 03:26:23 PM
I wonder if there are other members of this forum who remember their very first model loco and still have it?
I still have my first loco, bought with my pocket money, a Lone Star 000 push along Jinty. It is over fifty years old, a bit battered and has survived countless house and country moves. I think it must have influenced my decision to model in N gauge.
:NGaugersRule:
Hornby City of London in 1965 I no longer have the train my father gave her away on me leaving home!!
Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.
Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.
Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM
Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.
Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.
Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Scuse me while I wipe the tears off my keyboard.
I'm sure somebody somewhere loves you.... :sorrysign:
Quote from: austinbob on August 16, 2015, 07:48:48 PM
Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM
Quote from: PGN on August 16, 2015, 08:33:00 AM
For my 12th birthday, in 1979, I got my first model railway items. We bought them whilst on holiday in Helston. A Graham Farish "General Purpose" 0-6-0T in LMS black no. 7313, six Peco trucks (assorted private owner opens and vans, including a Ffyfes banana van, a Colman's mustard van, a Saxa salt wagon, a Shaka salt wagon and a couple of opens), a Peco LMS brake van, a Hammant & Morgan "Clipper" controller, and some track.
Pocket-money additions included a few LMS coaches (the 4-wheelers were only £1.05 in those days), a Lima 4F in LMS black no 4547, and a Farish class 4P in LMS black no 1118 (I think all the birthday and Christmas money went towards that one). Friends bought me wagons for my birthday, which was very irritating. What was I to do with a Lima NCB 15' coal wagon? It didn't belong in an LMS era goods train, but I could hardly show ingratitude ... and they MEANT well.
Anyway, then along came home computers, the railway fell into disuse, and I sold it all to make a bit more room ...
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Scuse me while I wipe the tears off my keyboard.
I'm sure somebody somewhere loves you.... :sorrysign:
You know that song by Foster & Allen "Nobody's Child" it was about me, and the song "Ghetto Child" by the Detroit spinners was the musical version of my childhood
Mine was a Lima 0 gauge train set, with the 4F. Sadly it lasted about 3 years before the motor was fried by a 'friend' when he changed the voltage on the ancient H&M controller I was using at the time. :veryangry: :censored:
My first proper N gauge purchase was a Graham Farish BR Black Five, two coaches and a length of Peco Flexitrack. They were all purchased from Hamleys in the late 1970s when Hamleys still had a reasonable model railway department.
That purchase set me on the road to ruin :D
I still have the Black Five but it is a bit worse for wear as the valve gear has fallen off.
Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Oh dear. The tears are running down me legs :D
Quote from: Bealman on August 17, 2015, 05:53:36 AM
Quote from: paulprice on August 16, 2015, 07:42:55 PM
Nobody bought me anything, because nobody loved me :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Oh dear. The tears are running down me legs :D
Are you sure that's TEARS
My first N model was a C62 by KATO, it was bought second-handed in the mid eighties. I ran it too hard and the axle split around the millenium. I still keep it.
A photo of it taken around late 90's.
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Rather not look and thank you, c6250, for getting us back on topic! :thumbsup:
Even though they were 00 models I wish I still had my first two locomotives, a Lima "Meld" Deltic and Bluee class 33
Mine was much more boring then all of yours, a flying scotsman from hornby railroad just under a decade ago. No longer have it due to moving to N.
Quote from: G_N_E_R on August 17, 2015, 07:20:54 AM
Mine was much more boring then all of yours, a flying scotsman from hornby railroad just under a decade ago. No longer have it due to moving to N.
I cant believe I'm about to type this, but even though its an LNER loco its not boring, as it actually got you hooked on the hobby.....god I need lie down...... :P :P :P :P
Quote from: paulprice on August 17, 2015, 07:23:07 AM
Quote from: G_N_E_R on August 17, 2015, 07:20:54 AM
Mine was much more boring then all of yours, a flying scotsman from hornby railroad just under a decade ago. No longer have it due to moving to N.
I cant believe I'm about to type this, but even though its an LNER loco its not boring, as it actually got you hooked on the hobby.....god I need lie down...... :P :P :P :P
Hahahahaha! My mother's cousin had a huge N gauge layout in the loft with full length continental trains that may have helped as well!
Quote from: c6250 on August 17, 2015, 06:55:23 AM
My first N model was a C62 by KATO, it was bought second-handed in the mid eighties. I ran it too hard and the axle split around the millenium. I still keep it.
A photo of it taken around late 90's.
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Now that is a handsome beast :heart2:
My first - in 1959 - was the Triang 3F tender loco, cannot recall the number.. Part exchanged it some 5 years later for an HD 264T 80033. Later bought another 3F for my S&D layout and added a correct pattern Ks Midland Tender. But sold all the OO in 1976 when I switched to N gauge.
But I now have a Union Mills 3F. Not relevant to my Scottish interests but I got it for old times sake.
A Hornby Dublo 3-rail "Sir Nigel Gresley" with two tinplate carriages bought about 60+ years ago and yes I still have them, on display over my N gauge layout. Brian
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This was a shared Christmas present with my big brother and he got to keep it :(
Is that the Tri-ang set, Di?
I think they did the same in blue/yellow livery, too :hmmm:
My father bought a Hornby Triang OO Blue Pullman because, as a very small child, I saw it in one of his catalogue and fell in love with it. It was finding all his old train stuff that got me running it and hence the journey into N.
My first actual train purchase was an OO Pendolino - which I still have.
Quote from: Ditape on August 17, 2015, 08:19:02 PM
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This was a shared Christmas present with my big brother and he got to keep it :(
I had some of this later! My mother told me that I couldn't have the drive unit so I plumped for the Vista Dome and Observation cars!
Both items sold to satisfy my lust for more English pieces!
Thanks for the memory! Peter.
I had one of these ( with 2 trucks and a Toad. C/O Mr Triang and the Beatties shop in Holborn[smg id=28256 type=full align=center caption="image"]
my first N gauge loco was a Life-like set with GP-40 and wagons + round of track that I bought when on hols in Canada in 1993.
So nearly 20yrs in N !
Nick R ( older but not much wiser)
Quote from: Railwaygun on August 17, 2015, 09:21:30 PM
I had one of these ( with 2 trucks and a Toad. C/O Mr Triang and the Beatties shop in Holborn[smg id=28256 type=full align=center caption="image"]
my first N gauge loco was a Life-like set with GP-40 and wagons + round of track that I bought when on hols in Canada in 1993.
So nearly 20yrs in N !
Nick R ( older but not much wiser)
I had one of those too but in Black, do you remember the sound of the knurled wheels?
A long-since departed Farish GWR 94xx, a Minitrix 2-6-0 Ivatt and Warship.
I still have the Warship, which has had a couple of repaints but still goes.
Quote from: newportnobby on August 17, 2015, 08:24:13 PM
Is that the Tri-ang set, Di?
I think they did the same in blue/yellow livery, too :hmmm:
Yes it was Triang and it had what I believe was the series 2 track the one with the grey base supposed to look like ballast.
Quote from: Ditape on August 18, 2015, 04:35:33 AM
Quote from: newportnobby on August 17, 2015, 08:24:13 PM
Is that the Tri-ang set, Di?
I think they did the same in blue/yellow livery, too :hmmm:
Yes it was Triang and it had what I believe was the series 2 track the one with the grey base supposed to look like ballast.
My book on the history of Tri-Ang suggests you are correct about Series 2:
Type 1/ A silver plastic base with tinned steel rails from 1950
Type 2/ An improved version with better radius curves, a grey 'ballast' and enhanced running qualities (1951)
Type 3/ Essentially as Type 1 but introduced the concept of standard track geometry and the grey ballast had been removed (1958) although Type 2 track continued to be produced until at least 1961.
Type 4/ Marketed as 'Super 4'(1962)
Type 6/ Sleeper spacing was improved and an altogether more realistic looking track resulted. It is, with modifications, still in use today.
(There was no Type 5 track).
P/S All those praising Kato track for its built-in point motors might be interested to know that Tri-Ang were selling points with integral motors under the ballast strip as early as 1951, albeit in OO.
I have a few Hornby Dublo electric points in my collection that are still working... even if the lights dim when you fire them, still it adds to the atmosphere, and before you call me an old FART, they are from my Grandfather HONNEST
Quote from: petercharlesfagg on August 17, 2015, 09:34:10 PM
Quote from: Railwaygun on August 17, 2015, 09:21:30 PM
I had one of these ( with 2 trucks and a Toad. C/O Mr Triang and the Beatties shop in Holborn[smg id=28256 type=full align=center caption="image"]
my first N gauge loco was a Life-like set with GP-40 and wagons + round of track that I bought when on hols in Canada in 1993.
So nearly 20yrs in N !
Nick R ( older but not much wiser)
I had one of those too but in Black, do you remember the sound of the knurled wheels?
I've still got a yellow one. Over 50 years old now.
My first as a Christmas present was the triang breakdown set. I still have the loco (a jinty) and coach ( a GW clerestory brake end in black).
:hellosign: My first loco was a Triang 0-4-0 in blue no7 Nellie and yes I still got her.I`d bet it would run even though it hasn`t turned a wheel for 20+years.
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This was my first n gauge loco which has long gone to that scrap yard in the sky.
Sadly I don't have my first locomotive, but it was an N gauge Lima class 31 in BR Blue with 4 Mk1s
and a loop of track. It was a Christmas present I think in 1979 as I still have a the Graham Farish Poster from that year (featuring a Black 5 in winter, I had it plaqued and it now adorns the mancave :) :)
I remember my dad setting it up for me in the front room Christmas morning. He'd thought the controller looked flimsy so they'd saved and also bought me a H&M Powermaster. We stuck the 31 on the track and dad hooked up the power to the 12VDC uncontrolled connections and the little loco took off like a frightened cat derailed at the first curve and banged straight into the bookcase!! luckily only a broken buffer ensued which was fixed by Dad.
Mum and Dad chose N because we had a tiny house and I had the box room. Over that year Dad filled the room with a 5x4 railway with curtains around and places to hang my clothes and keep all my stuff beneath it. So it was me my railway and my bed in a 8x6 boxroom :) Shows the dedication and love of my Dad as he didn't even like trains (had a bad experience stuck in a train for hours on end in Crewe as a squaddie!!)
Thanks for this thread, really brought back some wonderful memories