What did you order or the post deliver? (Worldwide Models)

[chadbag]

On 6/7/2024 at 8:09 AM, ED75-775 said:

The Ge4/4 on the other hand was a surprise find at Popondetta Yokohama. At ¥22,000 it wasn’t cheap, but at the same time it’s also one of the Noch exclusives, item no. 7074063, which may also play some part in said cost. It looks to be in perfect external condition, and of course ran well when I tested it.

 

Alastair

That's awesome.   I've looked at the Noch exclusives on websites and wished they were still available and affordable...  I don't know why I like the Rhätische Bahn.   While I've been in Switzerland, never in that neck of the woods and have never traveled on it (yet).  But I just like them and have a bunch of stuff (though no Allegras)

 

Edited June 12, 2024 by chadbag

[Giugiaro]

A visit to Paris for Japan Expo 2024 yielded this right on the first day, at Trans-Europ.

 

One DB BR 215 in DCC
One Small DR luggage car with lights

Two SNCF Corail TER 2º Class coaches

One (painfully expensive) SNCF BB 26000 DCC with sound. Because it was the last of the Multiservice in stock...

 

Edited July 22, 2024 by Giugiaro

[Welshbloke]

The first of the new RhB R -w wagons by Kato arrived:

 

https://youtu.be/dZQdP0eHdA0?feature=shared

 

I have the pack of four with containers and the single one with the optional log loads.

 

I was contemplating waiting until a UK stockist had the four pack with logs in stock as in the past one in particular has been competitive with Hobbysearch after including VAT and postage, but not any more - £150 here vs £75 (ish) from Hobbysearch. Will order the other pack soon.

Edited August 6, 2024 by Welshbloke

[Giugiaro]

I was able to snag this dodgy coach at Ebay.

 

The first class Corail coach from Portugal, by Arnold.

 

[ED75-775]

Train show weekend is here, and we all know what that means!

 

 

Another new retailer has appeared on the scene, and I couldn’t help but pick up some more secondhand Märklin items from him:

• 39030 BR18.5 express passenger locomotive and matching 42259 coach set.
• 48727 German Federal Army heavy-duty flat car loaded with an M48G tank.
• 47951 “Tank Transport with Tank Crew Car” set including three M48 tanks and an armoured troop carrier.
• 48114 (beer wagon) and 48115 (gondola with scrap load) Museum wagons.

The 48727 and 47951 sets were part of the short lived 4mfor lineup from the mid-2000s, and I hadn’t expected to see them at the show. As a result, my panzer train has now increased in size from five wagons total to ten plus a coach for the crews. So, not quite a sensha-do team yet if I wanted to go down that line of thought, but we’re getting there…

 

There will be a little more added to this tomorrow, but not too much.

 

Alastair

[Giugiaro]

I got a DB BR 101 and a Bimdzf driving trailer to complete my InterCity consist I already had.

 

 

[disturbman]

Not really recent, but took out a SS3 and SS3B to test the photographic capabilities of my new "table in front of raw wall".

 

[railsquid]

Bwahaha, my project to purchase all the Arnold/Minitrains Berlin S-Bahn units in Japan continues:

 

[RS18U]

While in Japan, my Waterloo Central GMD-1 arrived.  A high school buddy volunteers with the railway; when they heard that Rapido was re-issuing the B-B GMD-1 they asked Rapdio if they would do one in their preserved unit paint scheme as a fundraiser.  Which Rapido did, subject of course to enough pre-sales.  Even though I don't model CN or WC, I ordered one anyway to help out, then forgot all about it till my wife told me a box from Rapido had arrived.  A very nice model of a unique Canadian locomotive.

 

Will

[railsquid]

On 7/9/2018 at 12:06 AM, railsquid said:

In case anyone's wondering why it's being hauled by an S-Bahn liveried loco... well there's a prototype for everything, and it will save me wondering what I should do with the Minitrix BR 111 I acquired accidentally as part of a job lot...

Minitrix BR 111 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

Said job lot also included a Steuerwagen in matching S-Bahn orange livery:

 

 

in rather poor condition (missing front buffers, damaged paintwork, directional light fittings not installed), so finally sourced a replacement:

 

Minitrix Bxf 796.2 S-Bahn-Steuerwagen 2. Klasse by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

[Welshbloke]

The buffers seem especially vulnerable on those. I've ended up with two in not-quite-perfect condition so far, one (in the pack with two matching coaches and Br.111) had yellowed while the other had a broken buffer and the interior was loose (clip had snapped off). I only bought the second one as it was cheap in the big Hattons clearance sale last December/January.

 

I am watching for a Fleischmann or another Minitrix S-Bahn Br.111. Stumbled across four Minitrix double deckers in the original "mintlinge" livery for a very silly price recently, and a good percentage of photos I've found have them behind an ozeanblau/beige or S-Bahn 111.

[railsquid]

Well, the old one now has a new owner, who should be fully aware of all its issues...

 

Funnily enough, at the time I acquired that, sort of as a freebie with the BR111, I had no idea about the matching coaches (only ever saw the locos with that livery), and decided it might be worth getting some to bulk out the set. And had a gut feeling to wait until my next trip to Hereford, and lo-and-behold in the case at the back of the model shop where they keep the non-UK N gauge, they had two of the desired coaches. I presume I'd noticed them on a previous trip but not known what they were, and my subconscious had helpfully put 2 and 2 together.

Edited December 19, 2024 by railsquid

[Welshbloke]

I'm not sure how long the 111s lasted in S Bahn use, they certainly seem to have wandered a bit. I've seen photos of them with:

 

"Mintlinge" livery double deckers (seems to have been common)

 

4yg Umbauwagen (I think this might have been a shuttle service in connection with a depot open day when they were new)

 

A pair of silberlinge and a DRG-built luggage van with DB markings (definitely the most peculiar!)

 

I know some BR141s and 143s also recieved the S Bahn colours at various points, I have one of the former by Fleischmann. Oddly enough that (new) and the Minitrix train pack (very used) also came from Hereford, over twenty years ago now.

[chadbag]

7 hours ago, Welshbloke said:

also came from Hereford,

 

So, what color is the boat house?

 

[Welshbloke]

1 hour ago, chadbag said:

 

So, what color is the boat house?

 

I'm not sure there is one. Stirling Lines is quite some distance from the river! You probably wouldn't want to boat on the Wye at the moment in any case, thanks to excessive industrial chicken farming and slurry run-off upstream it's not as clean as it ought to be.

[E231-500]

I was lucky enough to get a Lima TGV set (104402S09) for a bargain on eBay. Seems to be in great cosmetic condition with all 4 of its Pantographs intact. Hopefully should have it just after New Year.

 

Now to track down one of the very elusive (and expensive) 'La Poste' TGV sets!

[mr bachmann]

Not Japanese, but the postman left these yesterday are they as good as Kato or Tomix ? 
although a good review is given be Spookshow.net , bought from. Rail’s Sheffield at 1/3 rd 

of Bachman’s catalogue pricing , out of the box both ran well and slow speed ,- on DCC .

 

Peter Witt streetcar…

 

 

[brill27mcb]

The Bachmann N-gauge Peter Witt streetcars are much, much better than their older toy-quality Brill and PCC models - worlds apart. It's too bad they discontinued them, because they were the best trolleys/trams from a U.S. company. I rank them as good as Tomytec or Kato trams (although the Kato LEX design has the amazing below-window micro-drive units), and if you want DCC digital control, Bachmann included it from the factory, unlike the Japanese makers. Historically Bachmann has been hit-or-miss in product design and quality - these are a definite hit.

 

Bachmann list prices are always very high, but in practice their products get very heavily discounted here in the U.S.  When Bachmann stopped selling the N-gauge Peter Witts, some online resellers cleared them out at US$40. Now they are gone and sorely missed by modelers, so today you will see them at inflated prices on Ebay and elsewhere. Their prototype was a fleet built for Baltimore by the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia, so the yellow #6119 is accurate and its real counterpart is preserved at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.

 

Rich K.

[mr bachmann]

Thanks for the reply , I really bought them for the chassis , to scratch a White Pass loco that was sold to the Durango and Silverton , but they may struggle to haul coaching stock , so they are safe as trams for now , and will join the tram fleet .

[mr bachmann]

Today I put the tram in the hands of the depo staff , they rigged up a tempary coupling and tested on the incline , they managed 4 cars , then weight was added to improve traction , they found seven had the ‘loco’ labouring/wheel spin so in the end six cars was decided as max load .

Very imprest with Bachmann Peter Witt tram/streetcar , controllable on both DC and DCC , on DCC it will crawl at 6 seconds a sleeper , next project will be scratch build a White Pass loco as sold to Durango  and Silverton ….

 

 

[brill27mcb]

Good results! The Peter Witt's wheel diameter is probably on the small side for a locomotive, if that matters to you...

 

Rich K.