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I like the Hornby 0-4-0 locos, as they are cheap and plentiful and available in a huge range of liveries, and excellent to run on small layouts. Great vid. Your way of speaking and accent sounded kind of familiar and I think it sort of reminds me a little bit of Frank Zappa's talking bits between songs on his live records. Which is a good thing BTW.

This physically paying me to watch this

Great video thanks for sharing, love these little tank locomotives, J

I am sure you already know, but almost all the locomotives you have presented in this video are available in the Hornby 2024 new items program as a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the Margate factory. Not the exact molds, but as a tribute to the legendary locos.

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I had a Hiawatha as a young fella & what I do remember was that it came with an oil that you would put down the smoke stack. This oil would smoke simulating a running train.

Love the channel! So glad i found the channel

TW, the wheel/track standards on that 2-10-0 are very different to Triang. You might notice Oscar uses, or seems to use, Super 4 track. Also, check the Mk 1 coach to make sure the axles are not riding out of their bearings. If they are replacement is problematic. To really comment involves mentioning brand-names; it would help if you provided an email address in your information. Best Wishes

Hornby was selling that hopper set in the 90s I loved mine as a boy I also had the yellow switcher as well (still have it).

Nice video. I might be going to Barrie, I'll look for the Thumbwhacker shirt.

Hello from Ottawa. I have a bunch of Tri-Ang equipment including a pulpwood car if you are interested.

Interesting video. A couple of things. Hitting the handle of a screw driver can, and has, created weakness lines in the handle structure. The weakness lines might be invisible. At some stage in the future when someone is pushing down hard on the tool to loosen a screw, the handle can fracture, sending the tang of the screw driver right into the wrist and forearm. A nasty injury. Similarly, hitting a hammer with another hammer is problematic. Parts or all of the metal might be hardened. Bits can break and really fly. Some ill-informed folk at one of our shopping centres were running a holiday kids' activity based on chiselling 'fossil' bearing rock. As above the organisers were teaching kids to use screwdrivers as chisels. Each child was given a screw driver and a hammer to hit it with. I did tactfully try and warn. They were incapable of listening. Now we have probably hundreds of kids/now adults spreading the practice. As my friend Jack said 'I've seen men sacked for less!' Don't be discouraged; like all of us, I do less than brilliant things also. I rely on others to warn.

Managed to hit some kind of send button in my comment above. Even so I will mostly leave it at that. In my case I have stopped pursuing this in favour of real modelling - let's see how far I get????????????? My next project was to rebuild a Brush 2 up to a running standard of what I call 'linear chess'. Huge task! This is a great backwater of the interest area. Just have your eyes wide open and be absolutely sure this is what you want to do. Keep modelling (no American spelling around here).

Oh I hope this stuff does not frustrate. It can be made work well, but it is a fraught subject. The aim is reasonably to walk away from a layout for a few weeks and have the trains start smoothly when you return. 'Smoothly' means no table thumping or otherwise use of the 0-5-0 shunter. Having a losing wrestling match every time you want to run a train will very quickly drain enthusiasm. You will need support from like mined folk. Strongly suggest following TH-cam Mr Snooze, and to a lesser extent Oscar Paisly (spelling?). Also strongly suggest you build a simple layout, even if it has to be kept under your bed. You need to find what works for you. By the yard-stick of a train responding to the throttle without hesitation I have only seen perhaps one layout actually work (the two youtubers not included). Of those, one was circuit running at an exhib., and the other was heavily doctored; its owner replaced nearly all the gear with Wrenn. Some disparate ideas from your videos. 1/ Peco track is expensive and not magnetic, but having said that it doesn't rust. Neither does not respond to 'Magnadhesion'. Magnadhesion matters for traction, but more importantly because it aids current pickup just enough to give locos like the Brush 2 and the Hymek some chance of decent running. Inadequate pickup is an Achilles heel of Rovex. 2/ Certainly replace the brushes on your Princess. Be reticent to clean a dirty commutator without brush replacement as the old brushes might be softened by oil, in which case will quickly repeat the problem.

Just in case you don't know: 'Mr Snooze' covers servicing one of these 4MT's in th-cam.com/video/p4K_1rNEjHw/w-d-xo.html See also Ronald Dodd for remag and servicing. th-cam.com/video/0LKT4JGMewU/w-d-xo.html will get you there. Have run these locos for years...Marvellous. The Hornby DoUBL 'O' Castle could probably hold its own against most modern locos ... and that is on their terms. I appreciate all the help and advice I have been given, so hopefully these sites will help someone out there. Keep sharing and enjoy.

Have you ever run any of this stuff?

I have one of the early versions of these. Sadly for display only as the Triang Super 4 flanges are too deep for my Code 100 trackwork.

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Nice to see our Canadian cousins taking an interest in British railways - those Wrenn models were fine pieces of engineering, rather than detailed or exquisite models. I have this exact locomotive myself, plus a couple of others and some Wrenn rolling stock - all of their stuff is built like a brick outhouse! I’m currently building a DCC layout and I intend to convert the locos using chips meant for larger gauges that can handle the 1A or more that these motors can draw.

I like the troubleshooting skills and then seeing the locomotive in action. Now you've given yourself many little projects - especially with the super tiny 3D print, if you can pull that one off.

Fun video. It's pronounced "Fife", Like "Life" Bananas. Are you building a full layout, or is that on another video?

Hi ThumbWhacker, all you need to do is find a standard Tri-ang princess rear bogie which is a direct replacement for the later one supplied with the Gresley tender, these are a very common spare here in the U.K. I have two of the Transcontinental Pacific locomotives, one of which I’ve repainted into CPR passenger livery (which I bought as a non runner with a damaged body) great to see the Transcontinental locomotive and coaches in the Canadian Pacific livery, would love to make a train up of them myself but they are rarer than Rocking horse manure over this side of the pond. 😂

Hey, three months have gone by. Just sayin.

To be fair the R455 is actually a Tri-ang design. Tri-ang and Hornby merged between 1966 and 73. My R455 has a metal drive cog and is stamped Tri-ang on the red plastic body. Mine has deeper flanged wheels so won't run on code 100 track well. I have a Series 3 code 125 layout that these run on best. The R355 Polly, R355R Nellie and R355Y Connie swapped names per colour over the next few years and were created by Tri-ang before the Tri-ang Hornby days. I have all 5 versions you mention and they are great to see on any layout. Thanks for showing off your models. Mon from Monsville Railways.

Great video, I like the old Tri-ang Hornby trains as well, regards from Canberra Australia

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It’s not made in china. It’s made in Taiwan.

I had one of these as a kid. My was from the 'Rural Rambler' set with 3 blue coaches. The livery is for the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Prussian blue.

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That loco is in an earlier box than the loco, it is a 1976- version. It would originally have contained a Nellie, hence the mystery name sticker. Hattons were still selling discontinued R355 Nellies in late 1976 - £3.50. They would also sell you a 1974 model Princess Victoria for £6.50, one of which I bought. Incidentally, the silver dome on 25550 has the same push-on plastic moulding as used on Lord of The Isles, only in that case it is brass in colour. If you find one unglued you can pull it off to find a standard Nellie dome underneath. I know these things...and yes, 25550 was Rovex's phone number. 25555 was the number for telegrams.

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I've been collecting these Triang models for a few years now. There are quite a few to look out for, Including the Blue Nellie, Red Polly, Yellow Connie, also the less common blue Connie and Blue Polly! Also around the same time were three black versions, the first with a gold BR crest, later with a transfer BR crest, and also a budget version which was completely black and even lacked the whistle! Then the green 27, the red with and without the chrome dome, and the last blue versions, one with yellow lining, one with gold. It can be quite addictive collecting them! Triang seemed to change from the bronze pickup, to the wire, and back to bronze again. Great models, and lovely to see them running so well on your video! All the best from the UK

Great video! Thank you! I had the blue 7178 loco with two 4 wheel coaches in the same blue livery as a kid, great loco, regret selling all my OO gauge stuff years ago, I'm now into N gauge due to space constraints.

The instruction sheet at 1:15 has the date 1st August 1972 stamped as 010872 which also corresponds with the ‘Hornby Railways’ era box and price .

There was an earlier version of NELLIE. It was yellow, and called CONNIE. It may not have made it to Canada.

Loved it. It's been 10 years since I was last there. Brought back memories of kayaking Huron just along that coast. V peaceful

Did you make this or the old ford?

I think I like the red one with the silver dome the most. Although the blue is nice too. Interesting tidbits. I liked the final run on the track with each of them. The blue one looked great going around!

Don't choke on it... hahaha. Matchbox cars tend to be classed as 1 : box Lol

Nice job. But pls use a pusher to keep hand away from blade. A guard would be nice to. I hate the sight of blood 😒 😤

That looks like a great kit...of an ugly old truck...but so much detail. Always enjoy your delivery. Shades of another countryman aVe, but without the strong opinions and Canuki dictionary requirement 😀

I like your light hearted approach. Loving all the Canuki references from my time in sarnia (and occasional trips to cottage near Tobermory). You have a new sub my friend. Gary, uk

Mark of a good loco is that it can operate at slow speed...ie they were shunters...

Very nice video, nice to see someone look at our locos who isn't from the UK, personally all that steel track is better off being retired to non conductive work like use with Clockwork or battery operated locos as no matter how much you'll clean it and change the rail joiners it'll still be high maintenance and get dirty

Nice owl lamp! I can't blame any phantom who wants to keep it on. lol

The artwork from the airbrushing book was pretty cool! I look forward to seeing what you come up with! What are those couple of ideas?

What in interesting find! Spoiler alert: Why isn't the pink whale buoyant?

It would be cool if you do a video where you make homemade cards. That one you showed briefly looked so cool! Anyway hobbies are good for the brain and heart (along with all the obvious other things).

Had a moment to watch. This is like a puzzle for grown-ups. Thanks for all of your efforts and sharing my channel too.😁🙏🏼