Forgive me, I have cheated on O gauge

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll


I have to confess becuase its eating me up inside. I cheated on O gauge.
And whats worse, is that it was with OO scale British Hornby Trains. [:0]

I spent the money that was going to get me a 2037 and lots of cars and bought 2 Hornby train sets. [:(]

Please forgive me. But, I still like OO gauge as well, so if anyone has any second hand Hornby they are selling for cheap, I'll be glad to take it off your hands. [:(][:D][;)][:(][:(]

Again Sorry [:(]

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[Bob Keller]

Hornby rocks (though Branch-Line runs better ...). [^]

[Anonymous]

Well,

at least I'm not the only one who appriciates British Hornby and Bachmann. I'd like to get Dapol's City of Truro Kit.

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[thor]

Yeah Hornby does rock. I'd have gotten back into trains with that if it wasnt so hard to find over here, I mean in a shop where you can see it. I dont like to buy online.

I really really wanted that live steamer they make. I used to have tons of Hornby stuff decades ago.

However my son bought me a Lionel set and thats what got me back and I'm really glad he did because I love everything they make!

[wrmcclellan]

Report to Dr. John and repeat the following 50 times:

Forgive me Joshua for I have sinned.
Lionel, MTH, Williams, Weaver, (cough) K-Line, Marx, 3rd Rail - I will repent.

[dwiemer]

Steel, say it aint so! Actually, I have been thinking of getting a few items from "across the pond" and making a loop on the layout. If I can arrange for it, I will certainly do so.
Dennis

[lionelsoni]

Nos te absolvamus.

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid I coveted my nieghbors Hornby Flying Scottsman set. I really liked the tin buildings as well. If I could ever find a set I would be a Hornby OO collector today I am sure.

I already get imported British comics (2000AD).

[Anonymous]

Sounds like Jerry Springer material hehe.

Chris

[laz 57]

At least you didn't eat GRITS?
laz57

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

I love Grits, eat 'em all the time with lots of cheddar cheese.

emmaandy, Hornby still makes a Flying Scotsman set. That was one of the ones I bought. It has the Flying Scotsman, 4 coaches, trackmat, loop of track with two sidings.

I also bought a Black Five in BR late crest with several wagons (what Brits call freight cars). It wasn't really a set, but I consider it to be one.

If anyone wants to buy British OO gauge equipment, here is a website that has almost every brand of Briti***rains.

www.britanniamodels.com

That is a train sotre in Canada where I bought my trains from. Also Hattons, www.hattons.co.uk. ships Hornby and Others to the USA.

I ordered the Flying Scotsman from Britannia Models and the Black Five and wagons from Hattons.

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P:S: Britannia Models has Hornby's 2006 188 page catalog for sale. I have one of them and it is great. But they only show the Canadian prices. E-mail them, and they will tell you what stuff cost in US dollars, or tell you the exchange rate.

[cnw1995]

Least you could to do to redeem yourself is come back over from the dark side - and get some spankingly wonderful British outline O gauge trains from Ace or ETS.

[Jumijo]

I've been sorely tempted to buy an HO Gordon locomotive for my kids. So far it's only temptation. Like Jimmy Carter, I have lusted, but not gone any further.

Jim

[FJ and G]

Check out this Hornby live-steam:

http://www.britanniamodels.com/livesteam.php

That'll make you do some sinning!

[Jim Duda]

Hey Big Dave - how 'bout a LIVE STEAM, RADIO CONTROLLED train for your back yard?

See ya in Hades, bro...!

[FJ and G]

Jim,

They actually have "tinplate" live steam; been making them since early 20th century. There are still quite a few around. I believe some may be radio controlled. They definitely are on my wish list. That or the British O scale live steam. Surprised CTT never had an article on tinplate live steam since it's in their "toy train" category

[Anonymous]

There's a kit (or rather, a set of kits) to put the Dapol City of Truro on a proper powered chassis and add more detail to it. Branchlines sell it, think the price for a full package (including the plastic kit) was about £80 last time I looked. Expensive, but I saw the results in a magazine article a while ago and it looks amazing. The loco kit is in fact the old Airfix one from over 20 years ago, Dapol had the tooling repaired recently and restarted production. They also make a very reasonably-priced range of 4-wheel open wagons in assorted private owner liveries which might be of interest - Hattons list those.

[Anonymous]

Don't sweat it! "Classic Toy Trains" is not synonymous with "O" gauge. It's an aesthetic. Any train that relies more imagination and creativity than how accurate a scale model it is to create pleasure, counts - no matter the scale. Standard Gauge, On30, S, HO, even Z can get in there - it's a big tent!

At bottom - they're all toys! Unless they're 12" to 1' scale and making money for their owners!

I don't care what anyone says about about how accurate their scale model is, it has absolutely no more significance than a Barbie doll. Then again, the pleasure and fun people derive from their scale models is just as real and valid as the fun toy train folks get from their stuff.

And Bob Keller is right Hornby ROCKS! But tinplate Hornby rocks HARDER!

Old 2037

[Anonymous]

No reason to feel bad! Who says you have to stick with one gauge or brand? As others have said, Hornby rocks! Besides all my O and S gauge, I too am a fan of British OO gauge trains, although I stick with the vintage ones. I am an avid collector of Tri-ang trains, which modern Hornby trains are descended from. Tri-ang includes not only British, but also North American outline trains. I also have a Hornby Dublo three-rail set and hope to get more Hornby Dublo in the future.

[palallin]

FWIW, someone has been dumping a huge amount of OO Hornby on eBay lately in the O listings.

[jimhaleyscomet]

What scale is OO gauge. Is it like HO?

Jim H

[palallin]

Strictly speaking, OO is 1:76 scale (as oppoesed to 1:87.1 for HO). But the Brits have a sort of morphidite version running 1:76 scale equipment on HO track. I do not know if the Hornby in question is true OO or OO/HO.

[Anonymous]

Hornby is true OO - 4mm=1ft scale on 16.5 mm track. It's a weird arrangement dating back to the days when electric motors were too big to fit into a HO scale British loco (the prototype being smaller than locos from the US or mainland Europe). There have been a few attempts at British HO but none have been enormously successful, mainly as people don't want to have to junk their entire OO collection (the scale difference is obvious when you park two together - a real GWR 14xx tank loco isn't the same height as an EMD F7!). The two can happily co-exist on the same track though.

[lionelsoni]

Lionel OO, on the other hand, used the correct gauge for the scale, 19 millimeters or 3/4 inch.

[Anonymous]

I think OO is 1/72 scale while HO is 1/87 but they are run on the same gauge track. Or that is my understanding.

[lionelsoni]

OO is 1/76, as Steven said, or 4 millimeters per foot, as Matt said, which, at 1/76.2, is virtually the same thing, but expressed in the quaint British way...;-)

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

I thought about it and I'm not sorry. I have always loved Briti***rains and I plan to build a Nice layout with them.

I'm looking forward to getting Hornby's new BR 0-4-4 M7 and Bachmann's Ivatt 2-6-0.

A firend from school started me on Briti***rains because he has 6 sets of old Hornby Dublo that his grandfather passed down to him before he died. After playing with them, it was settlyed, I was now a dienarh Briti***rain fan.

Ace Trains are nice. I'd like to get they'r 4-4-4 in LMS or Caledonian Railway with some coaches.

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P:S: I still like Lionel though. But I think I will take a break from it and go to British OO for a shortwhile.

[Anonymous]

One train pack you might be interested in - look up "The Northumbrian" (Hornby R2435). I'll explain why: This has Hornby's new loco-drive superdetailed A4 and three of the new Gresley coaches. Price of the loco alone is around £70, seperate coaches are around £25 each, the pack of a loco and three coaches is £104. Add suitable Kadees and you'll get proper close-coupling, the detail on these is amazing. I hope to buy one later this year assuming they don't sell out. There's also a 3-coach extension set for £75 or so. Frankly, I'm amazed these packs didn't sell out in a week at those prices!