@Cols
I have a similar story although I'm just a young whippersnapper of 72.
Started N gauge in the 70s with a Farish 94xx pannier, a 2 car class 101 alng with a Minitrix Britannia, 9F and 2MT tank. Apart from the DMU I still have them all and they run very well. Like you I also purchased the Dapol 14xx and a straight sided 45xx which run well but take off like scalded cats. I now have some 130 pieces of motive power with more on pre order
Like you, I am entrenched in the analogue camp and won't budge

Quote from: Ensign Elliott on August 05, 2026, 11:31:13 AMA nice mix of steam, modern and wagons. I'm so pleased to see sound fitted 37s at long last.

I'm not sure that CL37's count as "modern" these days 

John P

Some short clips of dirty diseasels featuring classes 17, 20 and 52

Weathered Clayton class 17 with parcels train on Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Weathered class 20 passes Heatherley with cross country passenger train by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Weathered Western on hopper train through Heatherley by Mick Hollyoake, on Flickr

Quote from: Moonglum on August 05, 2026, 09:28:14 PMI give up... I bet Mick @Newportnobby likes it!

I did, but prefer the version on Seconds Out with 2 drummers instead of 1½

@port perran
Maybe this will chime more with you........

Sorry-just not my cuppa.

I give up... I bet Mick @Newportnobby likes it!

Well, I don't really know how to respond to that.

I was rather hoping that I'd be converted to Genesis after all these years and was waiting for something to happen at 4-40.

However, no foot tapping here I'm afraid. I found it just a bit of a racket   

Sorry.

@Cols   My first N gauge set was a Bachmann diesel freight set bought in Fiji in 1974, to which I added a Grafar Pannier tank and Spam Can which both fell apart quite rapidly whereas the cheap old Bachmann kept on going.  The Minitrix models were far better than contemporary Grafar and Lima.  My Rivarossi Jubilee was also excellent - the "Rolls Royce" of British N steam locos.

I converted to European N in the early 80s and have never looked back.  I'm still running 70s Minitrix, Fleischmann, and Arnold alongside current models.  I suppose I generally consider 60s and 70s models as Ancient

Genesis at their very best (IMO)...


4:40 just wow...

Tim

C'mon Martin @port perran , surely this will get your feet tapping!

Quote from: Will_J on August 05, 2026, 04:57:02 PMI wonder who supplied the sound project? There are a few for the 37 and they vary in character quite a bit.

I expect its the same as the Bachmann OO version. Very tractor like