@Nation Wide Lines Wouldnt it be a hoot if your hodge podge of carriages came from the same house as my hodge podge Metzel!!! Only to be virtually reunited on the forum after 100 years !
The Metzel is obviously the shining pinnacle this week , but it is overshadowing some cool finds this week as well ...
I snapped up a fully working Davis-Electra transformer/controller manufactured for ROBILT ...max 20Vac Big Beefy Bugga ! Thanks Nick for parting with it !
And a smattering of wagons/coaches from the Dutch Connection ( cue quirky theme music !)
only marked "Made in US Zone" Beckh? although the bases look Schuhmann? perhaps from the pre-war tooling when Beckh acquired AS and produced directly after the war ?
I particularly like this one tho ... a Gas car
A little Bub tender ...
Unmarked but fairly sure its a Bub Crane car
And a little blue Issmayer
And in "Non-trainyville" I also scored a neat little Hess Dynamobil ... fascinating stored energy flywheel motor power unit that can be attached to pretty much any steam tool accessory to power it safely without handing your kids a bottle of fuel and matches !!! LOL!
Turning the handle imparts huge RPM into a large flywheel inside it and then the stored power can be transfered to the output pully with a simple on/off dog clutch.. I love it !
I acquired one locally a few years ago but it didnt have the litho top cover ...