Quote from: Moonglum on May 28, 2026, 05:41:10 PMYep, I like that - just checked out his credentials, quite a pedigree! Slight hint of Johnny Cash?

Tim

Yup, and maybe an old Leonard Cohen 

i still cant understand why the larger n gauge manufacturers dont go all in for a really sure fire popular model that hasnt been produced before. IN my case it would be ex lms princess, or a patriot.  Ex GW would be King or county. Southern would be a Nelson. I dont model eastern region.
Of these i think a King produced in high volume and attractively priced would be a world wide best seller.

Quote from: Bob G on May 28, 2026, 02:09:53 PMWhen I started in N a Minitrix Mk 1 coach was £1.01 discounted to 96p. A Peco 5-plank wagon was 40p and a steel mineral wagon 44p. I think the 15' wheelbase tank wagons were about 65p. The Jubilee was £9.50. There were only a handful of UK RTR locos, and half of those were not to scale or in some cases even recognisable as UK outline! Britannia was £7.17. The Farish Holden tank and 94xx pannier were around a fiver.

We were poor but we were happy, and we made do.

Peco actually painted a Minitrix V200 to look like a Warship for one of its early N catalogues (a reverse of what was done to a real Warship in preservation, which was painted to look like a V200), hauling a block train of its 15' tanks (later to become TTAs).

i cant remember prices when i started--around '75 i think. First loco was the lima 4f--then the farish 94xx.  I quickly collected all the british outline stuff--then bought a fleischmann 38. That did it for me--i sold all my british outline and went all out for german steam and old electrics.

Yep, I like that - just checked out his credentials, quite a pedigree! Slight hint of Johnny Cash?

Tim

Tom Morello

Looks like a track gauge to me.

Not exactly full of info there, either, so far!

When I started in N a Minitrix Mk 1 coach was £1.01 discounted to 96p. A Peco 5-plank wagon was 40p and a steel mineral wagon 44p. I think the 15' wheelbase tank wagons were about 65p. The Jubilee was £9.50. There were only a handful of UK RTR locos, and half of those were not to scale or in some cases even recognisable as UK outline! Britannia was £7.17. The Farish Holden tank and 94xx pannier were around a fiver.

We were poor but we were happy, and we made do.

Peco actually painted a Minitrix V200 to look like a Warship for one of its early N catalogues (a reverse of what was done to a real Warship in preservation, which was painted to look like a V200), hauling a block train of its 15' tanks (later to become TTAs).

Thank you @Southerngooner for your generous donation.

 

Quote from: Papyrus on May 26, 2026, 11:58:07 AMAs I always say, you can never have too many brake vans. Do you always say that? Oh, good.

Seeing as I have 26 of various types, I could well be guilty of that