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Great video Barrie! I’m in the States. But I have always loved the look of a stout German steam locomotive best. They just have a presence like no other. Thanks for sharing.

At 5:43, that spilled coal is there to make room for the gears in the tender. 13:18 Basically they merged with Roco. The duplicates in the catalog were sorted out by keeping the most recent model of the two. For a quick start in rolling stock: Roco offers an 8 car freight set for a very good price. Other manufacturers to consider are Trix, Liliput, Tillig and Piko

Good robust looking loco's Barrie, even Michael Portillo looked impressed.

Those Fleischmann locomotives are Creme del a Crem par excellence😊 They are even easy to locate here in the states. 🤘🏻🚂🤘🏻

Hi Barrie, Sorry to see the state of Hornby lately, you've already gotten quite a few excellent Fleischmann models. I also have a Fleischmann Class 65, though it's a bit older than yours. They really are great runners, old suburban freight and stopping train service, meant for push-pull.

I love the Fleischmann locos as I have been collecting them for a few years now, the reason I collect them is their attention to detail on the locos is more prominent and they are there where other brands seem to forget or just don't do it as it is too much tooling to create the items needed.

These locos look great ,also I havnt bought anything from hornby for ages , but picked up on e bay what looks like a never or hardly used Coronation class Dutchess of Norfolk for under 60 pounds , and been after one for ages and one came up on ebay for a great price ,yes it's not one of the new ' singing and dancing ' hornby ones, but a older one from the 1980s but I like these older locos ,as parts don't fall off even if you breathe near Them.

Glad to welcome another convert. I was lucky enough to get my first Fleischmann loco (080 class 55) at the tender age of 14 (1975!!). Cost 8 quid. Don't stick with just Fleischmann, check out Roco and Piko as well.

Barrie, I have been a Fleischmann fan since the '50's. All their locos are designed to perform like the prototype for speed. All the steam locos are 4.2 metres to the chimney top. Two types of smoke deflector, Wagner (square) Witte (as your class 41.

Got into USA models when I lived there…quality streets ahead of the uk…

Wonderful. Just playing trains. Brilliant.

Hi, European model railways are on another level compared to Uk model railways, the electronics they use is way advanced compared to what we see in the Uk model railways, you just have to see it to believe how advanced and amazing their stuff is, money well spent Barrie.

Glad to see you also appreciate fleischmann. I have a collection of over 40 moany from the 70s and 80s which I convert to dcc. They really are well made beautiful models. Also I would suggest Roco and trix, which also make beautiful models.

Hi Barrie ho gauge Fleischman is now roco and the BR 118 diesel from roco is made in Vietnam as are some wagons, i went over to German in 1994 and have not regretted it one bit

I had a problem with poor quality back in January this year with a Cavelex Models Class 56 that had a jammed gear tower and I even got silenced on RMWeb on their part of the forum for dare complaining about the quality. This month, Accurascale have announced a new Class 60. I will stick with them for my OO gauge Class 60's although I have since moved over to O Gauge earlier this month and I don't regret it one bit. I will never buy another model from Cavalex ever again. I never had a problem with Accurascale, Dapol and Heljan and I would be more than happy to support companies that are supportive. I got a lot of flack for calling out the issue on my Class 56 but I will not shut up and I will not back down to bullying either from fanboys. Great video though Barrie.

I myself have had bad experiences with hornby unfortunately... Bachmann has never let me down, even though to some people who review trains they have "inferior" motors

I gave upon Hornby and British locomotives a few years ago. I now have Marklin 3 rail ( stud contact) Analogue and Marklin digital, ok they aren’t inexpensive but are far better engineered models. Working lights, facility to install seuthe smoke generators, I’ve even bought locomotives already with digital (MFX) sound chips factory installed.

Also take a look at the Trix, Hornby-Rivarossi, Piko and Brawa ranges too. By the way many German locos were provided to other countries as reparations after WW1 so you will see variants in Belgian, Austrian, Italian and French liveries. Any other questions you might have please ask. Märklin 2 rail models were marketed as Hamo but, latterly, have been added to the Trix range. Märklin operate on 16v AC using stud contact.

Witte Smoke deflectors on the ,berkshire, pacific and Mikado, and Wagner on the BR50 Kreigslok

Hornby’s latest reincarnation of the Black Five has been a bit of a disaster with the new coupling arrangement between loco and tender. It hasn’t been getting great reviews here on YouTube.