Another Standard gauge Project

Here is another view of my #2 trolley project running on my shop layout. I already found a nice bell for it in my parts box and  I also have a bag of sitting people. 

I'm needing some help since I struck out at York. What I need help with is finding a silver center dome for my 515 standard gauge tank car and a pair of silver # badges for my standard gauge 512 gondola car. Does anyone out there have these items for sale? If so please let me know. The parts dealers in the Orange Hall came up empty, for the second time. I would like to get these two cars checked off my To Fix List.

BTW you need a motorman and NOT an engineer for your trolley. GOOD LUCK with your project! :-)

George Tebolt seems to have the plates.

Larry

Is the dome bigger than the one on the O 815 and 2815?

Maybe check if MTH offers it as a piece part for the Lionel Corp tinplate stuff. Also, keep a lookout on ebay..

Dennis Holler posted:

Is the dome bigger than the one on the O 815 and 2815?

Maybe check if MTH offers it as a piece part for the Lionel Corp tinplate stuff. Also, keep a lookout on ebay..

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm not sure about the O size. MTH at York did not have anything I needed. I miss T Bolt ! I will have to check him out on line.  These two project cars are taking forever or so it seems. 😄

great project

Finally, I got one of my project cars done !! The 520 searchlight car is all put back together and in good working order.  Still waiting to find the parts for my 512 and 515. Since I will be missing the Allentown First Frost show this weekend I will have to wait a little longer to look for parts.

By the way here is a view of the 520 searchlight car soon after I bought it.

One more for the evening. I bought this laser cut wood bridge kit at York this fall in the Blue Hall. It was a total impulse buy, LOL.  An easy kit to assemble and I think it looks pretty awesome. 

JohnnieWalker posted:

One more for the evening. I bought this laser cut wood bridge kit at York this fall in the Blue Hall. It was a total impulse buy, LOL.  An easy kit to assemble and I think it looks pretty awesome. 

Do you know who the manufacturer is?

GwrChurchward posted:

JohnnieWalker posted:

One more for the evening. I bought this laser cut wood bridge kit at York this fall in the Blue Hall. It was a total impulse buy, LOL.  An easy kit to assemble and I think it looks pretty awesome. 

Do you know who the manufacturer is?

Thanks for the like.  All I know is that I bought it from a great guy and the instructions say Harris Hobby House on it. No # or address.  I believe his table was in the last row of the Blue Hall at York. The row furthest from Silver Hall. He also had another design as well but this one caught my eye. I hope this helps you. 

TrainLarry posted:

George Tebolt seems to have the plates.

Larry

I just emailed George to find out if he still carries the nickel plates. Fingers crossed that he has them. As for the center nickel dome for my 515 tank car, no one has it. That project car is going to take longer than I expected. Thanks for reminding me of Tebolt.

Here's yet another standard gauge project. It may not seem like a big deal to some but I've been searching  the train shows for a full year to find  nickel  #512 plates for my gondola car.  It was crazy !! Having parts dealers saying that they had them but just didn't bring them to the show, catch them next time.  They had plenty of brass plates though. Haha  Finally I looked up George Tebolt and found them, ordered them and got them. Boy do I miss seeing George at York. Anyway my nickel #512 gondola car is fixed and checked off the  To Fix List.

#512 gondola car

Another project that has been in the works for a few years. Fixing up a set of Baby State Cars that I got at an auction a few years back. I'm still wondering why I bought them. LOL!! They were painted with a brush and missing parts but at the time I didn't have any passenger cars so I thought what the heck. So I took them apart and sandblasted them and primed  and finish coated them. I also added plexiglass and Willams window inserts to add a little interest to the cars. I also had to add new light fixtures to the cars as well. So much for a quick and cheap project.

looking good!

Some of my projects may seem very small, but when you have a lot of them , each one that gets checked off the list is a major relief.  The 155 Freight Station is now complete. One more 155 Freight Station to work on and then onto another 512 gondola project. My list is actually getting smaller, for now. LOL! For this project the last thing to do was to put the name plates on. When I got it,it had a piece of wood between the base and the base cover. It was a piece of one by material cut to the size of the base cover and screwed in place. This raised the platform up 3/4 of an inch, and it was  painted an odd color. I believe this was done because the three posts are broken at the bottoms and the previous owner had his own idea of fixing the problem. They were also rigged with a piece of coat hanger as well. The whole thing was a bit wobbly to say the least. I removed that piece of wood and added m y own, all hidden from view. All secured and no wobble . It seems to be all original except for the repainting of the base, and now the name plates. This project is now CHECKED OFF

nicely done Johnnie!

  Jonnie, I'm right there with you man! I love to keep my engine and passenger car project lots in show boxes... I have a bunch of them.  I need to update my project thread.  I think if You, me and Dave worked on and finished all our projects this forum would be stuffed with posts for months!

yeah but it would use up too much bandwidth and we couldn't have that......

and SOME of us have more projects than the rest of us......

Dennis Holler posted:

  Jonnie, I'm right there with you man! I love to keep my engine and passenger car project lots in show boxes... I have a bunch of them.  I need to update my project thread.  I think if You, me and Dave worked on and finished all our projects this forum would be stuffed with posts for months!

 

WOW !! If all those boxes are projects, you have me beat for sure. It seems that my new addiction to standard gauge is causing my head to spin. I have tried to stop collecting projects for a while but you guys know all to well while looking for a part for one project there's another to be had at the next table. I have three or four more 500 series cars to work on, a few signals, adding new light sockets and new wiring to a few houses, and some Ives street lamps to get to. Plus I have a trolley and a rail bus sitting in boxes just waiting to be worked on again. I think I can do it as long as I check off more than I add to the list. LOL!! 

Lets see some of your projects.

Probably 60% projects, there are three boxes of ho stuff that I'll never use, a bunch of TycoPro sets in the last picture, and I think another couple of those big water boxes has empty Lionel boxes and another has a pile of 2454 style box cars cause I love those things..  I've got some standard gauge projects up in the attic, three automobile projects, and a Partridge in a pear tree.. It's out of hand.  A buddy and I parted out a 63 Ford Falcon earlier this year and I'm glad we did the dirty work at his house, my wife would have killed me! That was worth while though as we doubled our money and I got a perfect grill for my Falcon hardtop.  I'm gonna try not to buy any more projects Jan 1.  not sure how far I'll make it but it's worth a shot.  No new projects and finish old projects...

Dave, I know where you can get some more projects

you have my attention sir....

Here's an older project that I posted a year or so ago. I think I have 5 513 cattle cars so I decided to turn one of them into a lighted poultry car.  My 390E freight train was pretty dark running it in the dark. A light on the engine and a light on the caboose and a whole lot of nothing in between. This is also before my 520 search light car project.  I got the idea from my set of 12 or more 0 gauge poultry train on my buddies layout. I have all but 4 of them.  So now there are two lighted cars mixed in the consist, a poultry car and my search light car. I have also added an extra two lights to my cabooses. A light on each end and one inside.

Well here's another project to check off the list. After building my MU cars and running them at my shop I thought something was missing, a tail light ! I bought the tail light at last years YORK show and I finally got around to installing it. I will be looking forward to seeing it run all lit up. After this I have my 515 tank car to work on, a 512 gondola car to customize and a 517 caboose that needs a light. That's not all, that's just the easy stuff before hitting the other project boxes that I have . Sorry the photos are in the wrong order. 

JohnnieWalker posted:

This is my latest project, its a Pride Lines reproduction of a Lionel#2 Trolley with a McCoy truck and an Ira Keeler drop in open frame motor.  This is its first run ever and my puppy's first intro to trains.  Now I will have to add a head light and a tail light, passengers,engineer, maybe a pantagraph or trolley pole, and some paint.  If I add the pantagraph I can run it on my shop layout which has a live standard gauge catenary wire(rail). If I make a trolley pole I will make a trolley wire system like I saw at York in the orange hall. Either way it will be nice seeing it run from the over head wire/rail .

 My other projects include: finding a pair of silver 512 badges for my gondola car, a silver center dome for my 515 tank car and a silver handrail for my 520 search light car. I also still have to find a photo of a drover to put in my lighted 513 poultry car that I made. Then maybe I can move onto the next standard gauge project! LOL

Pets are so funny and cute when they interact with trains. I think they think trains in motion are animals, maybe a snake. Your puppy, however, was not afraid of, but amused by, your tinplate train.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

JohnnieWalker posted:

This is my latest project, its a Pride Lines reproduction of a Lionel#2 Trolley with a McCoy truck and an Ira Keeler drop in open frame motor.  This is its first run ever and my puppy's first intro to trains.  Now I will have to add a head light and a tail light, passengers,engineer, maybe a pantagraph or trolley pole, and some paint.  If I add the pantagraph I can run it on my shop layout which has a live standard gauge catenary wire(rail). If I make a trolley pole I will make a trolley wire system like I saw at York in the orange hall. Either way it will be nice seeing it run from the over head wire/rail .

 My other projects include: finding a pair of silver 512 badges for my gondola car, a silver center dome for my 515 tank car and a silver handrail for my 520 search light car. I also still have to find a photo of a drover to put in my lighted 513 poultry car that I made. Then maybe I can move onto the next standard gauge project! LOL

Pets are so funny and cute when they interact with trains. I think they think trains in motion are animals, maybe a snake. Your puppy, however, was not afraid of, but amused by, your tinplate train.

Thanks for the comment. Little Jagger is not so little now,62 lbs. and almost 8 months old. I have been running a few trains on the floor to prep him for the Christmas floor layout I set up at my brothers home. Happy to report he did awesome ! 

Took my MU cars to my shop this afternoon and ran them to see how the tail light looked. I give it a thumbs up. Next project is ?

This wasn't in the queue but managed to get done sooner than later. Not quite finished, I need to pick up the Lionel name plate for it at the next show. I got all these parts for $25.00 !!

JohnnieWalker posted:

Here's an older project that I posted a year or so ago. I think I have 5 513 cattle cars so I decided to turn one of them into a lighted poultry car.  My 390E freight train was pretty dark running it in the dark. A light on the engine and a light on the caboose and a whole lot of nothing in between. This is also before my 520 search light car project.  I got the idea from my set of 12 or more 0 gauge poultry train on my buddies layout. I have all but 4 of them.  So now there are two lighted cars mixed in the consist, a poultry car and my search light car. I have also added an extra two lights to my cabooses. A light on each end and one inside.

I love this idea,i want to make one with a 200 car,just need to find a cheap one,thanks for the super idea 

Thanks Terry Hudon I hope you find one soon. It was a fun project that added some new interest to the train. I have a few other cars that I'm customizing that I'll post as I get to them. Only requirement is you show us what you did. Good luck.

JohnnieWalker posted:

Thanks Terry Hudon I hope you find one soon. It was a fun project that added some new interest to the train. I have a few other cars that I'm customizing that I'll post as I get to them. Only requirement is you show us what you did. Good luck.

will do ,I found a donor,,,where did you get the chicken panels from?

I took one out of one of my 14 O gauge poultry dispatch cars and photo copied it. I then cut each row of chickens and spaced them accordingly to the openings on the car. once I did that I again photo copied it and created a new chicken panel. I also taped the photo copy to a piece of plexiglass  and then mounted it in place.

Checking them off the list one by one . Here is my latest project, a covered 512 gondola car. I found a 500 series box car roof and decided to cover one of my six 512s with it.

Finally DONE !! I have been slowly working on this 515 tank car for over a year and a half. The last items to go on were the nickel name plates. 

Here is a project that I worked on not that long ago. While in my shop looking at my shop layout I thought it would be nice to see a few garages next to the villas and bungalows. I cut a 4x4 down to 2x3 blocks with a 90 degree roof. I added brick paint I bought at York , corrugated paper from a hobby store for the roof and I drew the windows and doors and made copies of them to glue on. Then I did the artwork of plants and vines. They may not be to scale with the houses but they do have a slight tinplate look to them  . I think that’s why I like Standard Gauge so much.

Something else that I’ve slowly been working on. It’s a 392 tender that I’m pairing up with my Lionel green 390 steamer. The last thing to do to it is to add a Dallee bell and whistle sound system. And that includes adding two roller pickups . I’m looking forward to finishing this project soon. I had the tender paint made at a local auto body paint store. I took the green 390 boiler in and had them match the color. I also added another hole for the drawbar to move the tender a little closer.  The painting process was clean and scuff up the gun metal paint, add two coats of green then 3 coats of clear gloss.? Next step is to cut the soup can down to make a speaker box and to glue and wire it up. An up date hopefully soon.

G'luck with the tender. Did you ever make a "chicken clucking" sound Mp3 module for those poltry cars?