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A Tractor (Class 37) in Railfreight livery on PenYbontfawr!
Don't panic! it will change soon!
I purchased this old Hornby model (Against all advice) from the Cradley Heath Model Railway club sales dept at a bargain price, sold as not working.
On investigation it turns out that the previous owner had fitted a Hornby Zero1 decoder, hence it would not run on DC.
A quick snip of three wires and a bit of botch up wiring soon proved that it did in fact run.
I've already added extra pick ups to the non motor bogie and that has made a distinct improvement in slow speed running on PenYbontfawr.
Sometime in the future it will feature on my workbench where it will be "Done up" a bit with some Shawplan bits and will be resprayed into the very early all green livery making it more suitable for my era of interest, Late 50's early 60's.
Class 37's have always been a feature of the former Cambrian lines even up to the present day.
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