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Much less prestigious offer than Robert, a small die cast BING loco for the American market from around 1920. Forward only mech, the front coupler is not very useful... Tender is lettered for The New York Central and Hudson River. Bing has produced some bigger ones in the same style and clockwork and electric may be founded.

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Have a nice weekend and stay safe,  Daniel

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Mine WOULD have been as prestigeous if it wasnt a repainted , wheels stuck on with epoxy, and a bodgy wood front pony mount shadow of its former greatness ... All these can be remidied though , and at least the paint is almost the right colour lol

So my latest addition ... A Hornby No3C Riviera locomotive, which  is probably the least produced of the Hornby larger locomotives of the period and the set attracts quite a premium today , with even ratty coaches usually appear into a price bracket that is  prohibitive to me normally ...

An earlier production model as it has push on wheels rather than nut and bolt ones and doesnt have the wind deflectors at the boiler front ... It might not be the most glamorous incarnation but its 100% better than the one I never had LOL!

It will look good carting my later model Hornby CIWL carriages ( once I line up a tender ! )

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I have been getting to many of my long, set-aside, unfinished projects recently.  I am not sure how long this project has sat apart.  All I know is that when I started it, many years ago, I made 6 pieces, only to find out I was limited by the 3 bases I had.  So 3 of these pieces have sat for years.  I did acquire the 3 needed bases over that time, but never got around to stripping the paint or repainting the bases, until now.  Here are the 3 bases, painted.

I then assembled 2 of the 3 unfinished projects and could not complete the last one, as I ran out of eyelets used to attach the items to the bases.  I did order some eyelets, so the last one should be finished in a week or two.

So here is the total project.  The nearest 2 items are originals, plus the single remaining unfinished item.  In between the nearest 2 sets of tracks are the 5 reproduction pieces, and then in the background are 2 more mystery originals.

Here is a closeup of the mystery originals, with one of the previously pictured originals in between.  Note that these two originals are significantly taller and have no bases.  I simply drilled holes in the piece of wood in order to mount these.  Note that the mystery poles are unpainted below the cross arms and painted green above the cross arms.  I believe that these may have been used on some sort of factory produced layout and were designed to simply slide into a hole in the layout.  All I know is that I purchased them at York a few years ago.

NWL

Don,

Funny that all the conversations between Tom and Ward could have been overheard today between all of us, Time has marched on, but the fundamentals of the hobby haven't changed, and the fun rolls on.

I wish I could have had the opportunity to hang out in Ward’s or Tom’s trainroom while they were still alive. 

 

 

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