My latest purchases have included 2 × Hornby tender drive black 5 locos, 1 was purchased as just the loco from ebay as number 5112 which has been repainted and renumbered as 5001 due to already having 5112 in the loco driven Hornby railroad version. My other black 5 is number 44932 ( the full sized loco returned to service recently after 30+ years of restoration work ).
Prior to these, my purchases include 2 × Hornby tender drive A3s ( pictures below, the black 5s will follow in a day or 2 )
All the motors in these 4 locomotives have been converted to cd motors and they go like the wind. In the black 5s the motors to me give a realistic idea of how fast they ran passenger services on the WCML and the A3s at full whack on the ECML.
Another puchase from ebay although a good few months ago was a Bachmann class 66 chassis onto which I have fitted a Hornby EWS body for number 66042 ( not sure of the R number in the Hornby railroad range ), the body required a little bit of modification to allow it to fit over the light clusters which I had to disconnect from the power circuit as they had become non functional and not having much electronics experience with diodes and resistors I have not replaced them for reactivation. This loco runs in top and tail formation with a freightliner class 66 number 66416 ( pictures to follow of these locos ) working with 7 Hornby Mk2A coaches.
(Couldn't read or write back then!)
