Fast Forwards twelve months

The layout isnt anywhere near built yet, its frustrating, yes very frsutrating... and all the time, i am still keeping faith with the plan. Window Shopping is still as bad in 2019 as it was in 2018. The only difference is the goals are slightly different. Yes, a year later I have two DB 60s, two DB 66s (both now in the newer large logo DB livery which works so well)... having dabbled further with loco reliverying, and caught in the crosshairs of delays for the Bachmann Class 90, I really wish (#kickingmyself) that I hadnt been so trigger happy with letting four DB class 90s go soooooooo easily - grrrrrrr. Ok, so i may have got reasonable prices for them, but it's just disappointing. I guess onwards and upwards.

My goals for the next twelve months are to steadily grow my DB fleet, I have recently acquired 67018 in the maple leaf livery but whilst this livery is unusual, i do prefer the newer DB 67s with the railfreight slogans on them. Maybe I will have to do some wheeler dealer-ing there.

As for new models, a few other more pressing affairs are going to have to take over short term, but its my intention to acquire the new Hornby 87 in Cally Sleeper livery late in the year, and i still have a DJ Models 92 on order - I wonder if i can that to Cally Sleeper rather than DB.

There are times where I wish I had never got back into model railways.

Many times indeed

There is always something one wants...

So, i had my layout plans, they changed, my loco fleet changed accordingly, so i had a mixed ac fleet of mainly Virgin and EWS, i then moved on to DB Schenker and then post Schenker DB Cargo, is wher I am at, and it aint changing. So, I get to what is almost perfect for an AC fan, two EWS 86s, kept on, not retired as EWS did, sent back to Crewe for maintenance and taken out of possible scrapping - an imaginary team of engineers spending a day at freightliner Basford Hall seeing how they have kept their 86s going. So, the plan of EWS 86s is going to happen, then I come across the Heljan 86 - and at the same time as discovering this - Bachmann firstly, and then DJ Models announce 90 and 92 models - AARRRGGGHHHHH...

Soooo... wind forward to early 2018, and the loco plans for Johnson Street IEMD are as follows:

Class 86s
2 Heljan ones - one in Ex EWS DB and one in DB large logo - maybe 86261 and 86424 - depending on where these are now

Class 90s
5 Bachmann ones - 90019 DB Cargo, 90024 DB Malcolm (Pretty please Bachmann do this one), 90034 DB Ex DRS (reblown 66 sound, hopefully), 90036 DB (Minus Schenker) and 90037 DB Ex EWS

Class 92s
1 DJ Model - 92015 in DB red

Class 66s
2 Bachmann examples - 66002 and 66065 in DB Ex EWS (both sound fitted)

Class 60s
1 Hornby - 60100 in DB red (TTS sound fitted)

Class 08s
1 Bachmann - 08907

Long term possibilities
Hornby Class 87 - 2018 model - in Caledonian Sleeper livery
Dapol Class 88 - when they get round to it - in DRS Blue without all the logos