Big score in Michigan today, Hines 2-8-2, GMC 4-6-2 and a whole lot more!

Gold strike!  Too bad zincpest can have plagued manufacturers on this side of pond.

Nest!  Always fun and exciting to come across something like this.

I believe someone has parts for the GMC/All Nation locos.  She needs a few things but I think she will run again. The pilot beam/cowcatcher is ok, its the part that goes back into the brass frame rails and under the cylinders to hold them in place that zinc pest got.  The drivers use the same round nuts to keep them in place that Bassett Lowke used on UK tinplate O scale and gauge one locos, most drivers are loose from age/wear and I cant get the round nuts freed up.  I wonder if there was a tool made for these  The actual Hines loco(2-8-2) is running, waiting on some detail parts that needed a bit of JB weld to reattach them to cure.  And she goes around my 24" radius curves as well.  Plenty of fun stuff to give TLC and put back to use over the coming winter months.   

It got Lionel in the 1930s on the earliest runs of the Scale Hudsons.  This model has the cast bronze boiler, so it might be prewar.  I wanna say that after the war the boiler switched to sheet brass.  I think I can get the Pacific going again eventually.  Thats part of the fun, tinkering to get these old ladies going again.   AD

Wow, that is a tremendous score!  Some guys have all the luck...

I see a Marold power source of some type; can you say exactly what that is?

Impressive that Mike will "do" a 24"R curve... 

Mark in Oregon

Here is a better pic, it does power on but a new power cord will be installed before actual use.  I have a pair of Man o Stats in my box of stuff to build a control panel.  Hopefully that Marnold power supply works.  I will go thru it in the coming days, replace the power cord.  The Mike has blind center drivers, key to getting around my curves.   I know of a Hines 0-8-0 set up the same way.  Hopefully I will be picking that up at the March meet from a dealer I met at the Indy O scale meet.  I have been chatting with him thru email, but no shows down this way before then for him(he is from Wisconsin).

@artfull dodger posted:

Here is a better pic, it does power on but a new power cord will be installed before actual use.  I have a pair of Man o Stats in my box of stuff to build a control panel.  Hopefully that Marnold power supply works.  I will go thru it in the coming days, replace the power cord.  The Mike has blind center drivers, key to getting around my curves.   I know of a Hines 0-8-0 set up the same way.  Hopefully I will be picking that up at the March meet from a dealer I met at the Indy O scale meet.  I have been chatting with him thru email, but no shows down this way before then for him(he is from Wisconsin).

Thanks for the pic; hope you will post some additional photos of that "control panel" once you have finished.

FWIW, the All Nation Ten Wheeler (which doesn't have blind centers) will also "do" 24"R; although I don't think it likes doing so...

Mark in Oregon

Mark, if your on fb, watch marketplace closely.  Searching different word combinations.  That is how I have found some of my greatest finds thru the years.  Same for ebay.  Many of these family members have no clue what it is, or what to call it.  If it wasnt for the original box, they would have no clue and didnt even get the right engine in the box.  They had the GMC Pacific in the box, not the Hines 2-8-2.  Mark, I bet if the flange was removed from the center driver, it would be even happier.  I am just beyond happy the Hines runs well on my curves, which I am stuck with for a few more years at the least.  If it wasnt for the unsprung chassis, the middle driver trick would not work as it would squat once the middle drivers slipped off the rail in the middle of the curves then catch and bind once coming back onto straight rail.  Being ridged framed and very heavy, she just doesnt not care, just changes the pitch of the growl a bit, even the AHM 0-8-0 and the F3's due that thru the curves.    AD

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Dan Weinhold

Yep, I need to message him and see if there are any steam engine parts kicking about.  I think AN ended up with the GMC Pacific model back in the day.   

One of the photos seems to show a Bowser trolley. Any idea on what you are going to do with it. Curious as to which one it is. 

Its not a trolley, they reused the trolley box for the turntable drive unit.  Which is what is in there, for the Bowser turntable that was part of the collection.  Everything in the collection was 2 rail O scale.  Only thing missing was the track that was lost in a basement flood.  There was 3 prewar transfomers he was using for raw power, all 3 showed flood damage to them, so they all went right in the trash.  None were Lionel.   

@artfull dodger posted:

I wonder if there was a tool made for these 

Not back then - the original instructions recommended grinding or filing a slot in a screwdriver, but I found a #6 spanner screwdriver bit fits perfectly.

@artfull dodger posted:

Looking at the above-quoted photos, I recognize the Norfolk Southern gondola, Erie and Southern Pacific boxcars and bobber caboose (can't make out the roadname) and Great Northern flatcar with crates as 1970s-era AHM models. The tuscan-colored gondola is most likely also AHM, possibly a repaint. The Great Northern boxcar is an Atlas from the same era.

Source: owning examples of the ones I identified.

---PCJ

Mostly AHM, Walthers(passenger cars and made a couple wood freight cars), All Nation.  Hines for the 2-8-2, GMC/All Nation for the 4-6-2, Tuscan gon is a wood and cast brass kit.