Morning Oscar. Has it ever occurred to you that back in the early 1960s, _no one's_ trains ran as well as yours. My six year old's memories of my train set are of my dad having to constantly thump the baseboard as the locos either failed to start or stalled on the points. Derailments were common too, particularly with sleeved wheels that created enormous friction and would literally cause trains to fall over on curves. Points would often fail to make electrical contact at the blades causing dead track. The fact that all of yours run so well is actually a great tribute to your standard of workmanship and maintenance. I'm sure you edit out a few problems, but the general way it all behaves is wonderful.

Your channel has always brought a smile to my face, Oscar, I've dreamed of having myself my own model layout, and finally have one so that I have the luxury to run my engines, the fact you can acquire, maintain, and run such vintage equipment in such amazing and functional condition has been very impressive and entertaining to see in motion.

A great video, thanks Oscar. I had a TC Pacific as a child but didn't really know what it was as I didn't have Triang catalogues. It came from a second-hand shop and the broken valve gear was fixed by the local model shop. It always ran really well, often pulling MK I blue/grey coaches through my Airfix station ! Thanks again, it's always a treat to see your railway.

I never cease to be amazed by the runnîng of your locos on series 3. No hesitation on points. Incredible 😮. I only managed running as well as this when I switched to Peco Electrofrog points! Very well done Oscar.

That was an inspired choice for this mornings consist, putting the TC loco on the old time coaches. Just beautiful!

Hello Oscar. Another great nostalgic video, love it. For me it brought back memories of my maternal grandmother buying me an R.54 TC Pacific " Hiawatha". That was in March of 1972. My Mom, Dad, brother, myself & Nana were shopping in downtown New Westminster, British Columbia. We went into a hobby shop, anyway on a whim Nana decided to buy me the " Hiawatha" for my Tri-ang / Hornby Super 4 layout. I was gobsmacked! If I remember right the R.54 cost $12 Canadian. The " Hiawatha" Nana bought me is like the one in your video, with the Canadian style tender. It must have been older stock in that hobby shop in 1972, as the Tri-ang/Hornby Canadian catalogues back in the early 1970s showed the TC Pacific with the British type tender. I still have my TC R.54 that my dear grandmother bought me in 1972. Thanks for your fabulous video.

Fantastic! The Capability of these Models is an Absolute Credit to You, and Sunday Mornings wouldn’t be the Same without a visit here. Many thanks OP 👍🏻

Great video Oscar. This week I’m sitting on the patio of my apartment in Cyprus and being 2 hours ahead of UK TIME have had to wait for you to upload today. It feels quite surreal sitting here in 30 degrees of heat watching your trains running around. Makes me want to get back to mine. Not yet though! Thanks for sharing. Roy.

Hi Oscar, Nice intro footage and the 08 is always therapeutic. Hiawatha is in very nice condition and a smooth runner. Great finding the HD goods depot. Pity we have to run things so fast to get a result on the smoke generator. Thanks again, Gordon

The Triang Transcontinental Steam Freight Set was the start for me. I got it as a present in 1968. I still have it and the rolling stock but it is a non runner. Nice to see yours running so well.

Thanks Oscar for another brilliant video ,it always makes my weekend . You have a very interesting collection of stock & a joy to see. Your last 2 programs have been interesting with very different stock from the normal . Thank you 😊Suffolk .

A good running Session Oscar - nice to see that you got that “Hiawatha” to smoke at the end!!! 😉😊🚂🚂🚂

Morning Oscar, what a fantastic sight Hiawatha and six old time coaches make. Those 3D printed parts you made certainly look good. I have a number of those coaches, with some variations including a very orangy yellow and an unlined version, as well as the teak version from the Railway children set. Like your examples, not all of mine have seating units installed. Nice shots of the short freight with the Black diesel shunter. How about making some 3D printed containers in other colours? would make an interesting rake. Thank you for another great start to Sunday, regards to you and Roberta from Rob & Sue in Gloucester.

Happy days Oscar, I remember these locomotives very well, I have just purchased a new locomotive the lord nelson class , southern railway. Fantastic layout triang railway hornby dublo .. I have a few older locomotives rolling stock. Very enjoyable presentation..

Once again very enjoyable video to watch on a Sunday morning cheers Patrick Quinn IRL

Well, that was a fun running session and I enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for the amount of time you invested in the capturing and editing of these videos. Great stuff, Jersey Bill

Great video Oscar. Thanks.

Great clip as always Oscar.. Sunday's guilty pleasure after work. Migraine today and settled down to relax. That turntable is a classified weapon! Not migraine friendly! Love your programmes by the way

What a lovely loco and it sounds very smooth.

Great video footage again Oscar, thanks for sharing J

Good morning Oscar, it's Martin from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Thank you for a great channel as always and a great video as well. First i must say i am so pleased you have finally got the goods shed you have been wanting for a long time. I was looking for one so I could pass it on to you but someone has beaten me to it. I was looking on Ebay but the ones I saw mostly had pieces missing or were broken. But I am pleased you got one eventually. Your video today ( Sunday morning, 10.15 am) was very interesting and informative, I always liked the Trans Continental range of locomotives and coaching stock and wagons. It's a shame that Triang Hornby never did any station buildings etc to go with the TC locomotives and rolling stock . I stand corrected if Triang Hornby did make these items for the overseas market. Still, it would be interesting to know if they ever did. Well, once again Oscar it's time for my cup of tea and my toasted tea cake, and I will watch your video again. Keep safe Oscar, have a good week ahead and ill see you next Sunday morning. 👍🚂

Hi Oscar. Great video. I used to have one of the TC pacific's many years ago. Not a clue what happened to it. Possibly sold off to buy something else. Think mine was one of the later 1970s plastic bodied loco. But nice to see yours running. Glad you found a place for the goods shed.

Hi Oscar, The R54 Pacific was my first Tri-ang loco... Bought for Christmas 1955.. Still running, but the wheels now have grooves worn in them, from so many years of running.. I have some other 'later model' ones with smoke and Magnadhesion, but still treasure the "original" .. It came in a "set" with a Gondola, Box car and Caboose.. Standard track in those days, but most of that is even still usable.. ( being acetate though, some pieces have shrunken a bit)? I still have the picture from the box lid.. Not actually a 'picture' but, an artist's impression with two boys added in... A great effort at drawing a lovely layout inhabited with Standard track, some more R 54, R 55 and R 56 locos, the same wagons plus a few R 111 Hopper cars and TC coaches... In 1955, that may have been the entire T.C. range, all depicted in that picture? What wonderful memories... The 6 "old time" coaches make a great long load for the Hiawatha.. The long TC boxcar, refrigerator wagon and stock cars look good in a train behind that loco too? The running session at the start was very nice too.. THANK YOU.

Good afternoon to you Oscar from Glasgow another great video from you Sir

A good video here Oscar, some nice trains running in this one, thanks for the info on the Davy Crockett loco in your reply to me on that video.

Great intro running today Oscar, I could have watched that for hours I think. I have found that the TC Pacific is one of the smoothest and most powerful of the Tri-ang locomotive range, a point demonstrated by your Hiawatha. I wonder how it would do on the incline with those six Davey Crockett coaches? David.

Came across a very sad one of these Back in the 70s same chassis as the princess. Which was not quite right either .

I have an American HO Gauge steamy of Bachmann status, from the Chattanooga Express train set. She has an Ore Car, caboose and a pair of Disneyland carriages to have fun with. I've given the steamy a face and named her Frisky the Disneyland Engine. Who says we can't be kids?

Some of the 'odd' camera angles make me feel a bit dizzy when watching them. .... The R.54 locomotive is a nice runner, and I soptted another wagon that I used to have (think I still have it) R.561 it's the contaniner wagon with the orange/red container on it. It must be from the either a battery operated train set I had at one time, but have no memory of when I got it. I can rember having a clockwork set, with an 0-4-0 BR black tank loco and a hand full of wagons,.... the battery operated set's locomotive was a little blue 0-4-0 tank . I know there was also a flat wagon that had a car as a load, the container wagon, a long bogie wagon, and an ex NE/LNER brake van. And as I have mentioned in some of my other comments, my next set was the GWR pick up goods set. Always like to see if I can spot items on your layout that I remember having as a kid. ! Yes the unprinted container wagon R.561 woould have been in a set.

Oscar have a look to make sure the smoke pipe is inserted correctly as it should smoke better than it is. The S5994 Smoke Pipe must be inserted angled end first and it should be cleaned using a S5995 Smoke Pipe Cleaner or some 3 amp fuse wire. I have a number of X430 Seuthe Smoke Generators all of which smoke well even at slow speeds.

Hi Oscar, I noticed the hiawatha chassis has large wheel weights compared to other princess wheels ,

Hi there Oscar ,, I have 3 of these 2335 loco's and 4 x 2335 tenders which all have varying degrees of damage and paint missing on all of them but they run beautifully but two of the three do not have the smoke units and only 1 has a working headlight in it. I might make 1 complete 1 out of the best runner. The other thing is none of the have the nameplates on any of them. Can you still buy the original nameplates for them or do I have to print them off like you have yourself done. Also the light bulb holder ,, are they attatched by a screw holding them on or are they glued on to the chassis ? Also are the yellow carriages you have there ,, are they the ones that go with the Davey Crockett loco in a set or are they just carriages that go with anything and the reason im asking is they come with a joblot where i got a working single steel turntable in amongst a heap other triang stuff and all reasonably cheap too. As bad as the Davey Crockett is , its a great little runner just missing lots of bits but still has the running motor the yellow wheels and front pony truck but is missing the red cow catcher and a few of the domes and a big crack and missing piece of the cab roof. I will give it a good clean and see how it comes but if anything it will make great spare parts if i cant get the bits i need. Oh well still not too bad as it is a goer for for some thing made in the 1960's isnt too bad i suppose. I am asking this as i got one of the davey crocket in really poor condition and the carriages arent much better with missing plaform ends like yours were. Also I havent forgotten you with the track points and diamond crossings etc promised to send to you but Iv just been a bit busy lately and have had a bout of the dreaded influenza A for the last couple of weeks so there not much doing in my yard so i have been cleaning out all my trains i have here and im getting to the old track i dont need here so I dont mind passing it on to you as part for fixing or you to use maybe ans all feee to and ill pay the post to get it to you as i call it a good karma as you have taught me a heck of a lot of info i never wo7ld hqve had of it wasnt for the like pd you and OOBill and heap of other too. Boy oh boy it gets to be an obsession sometimes and didnt really realise how many trains i had in the last four years since my mum passed away. I have also decided that i might sell a few of the older style open box axle carriages i have bought that are the silver trancontinental cars with the mark 2 couplers as im not really keen on getting worried about the darn things uncoupling all the time and have found that the markm3 couplers are quite reliable. I am undecided whether to sell them on fb marketplace or gumtree or on ebay but i do have a lot of locos with the mark 2 couplers and not sure if i can convert them to mark 3 couplers or not so they may get sold too. I love your new goods shed it looks great and suits your layout. Anyhow sorry for all the rambling on but i reqlly do appreciate your videos. Cheers from John in Australia.

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Hi Oscar what a lovely model ,hornby must of made those for overseas sales well into the seventies bec in 1980 zodiac toys in Wandsworth arndale had those and the CN diesel for sale I have an old advert on a magazine somewhere modelrailway constructor I believe. All the best Oscar Mark 😊😊