Buy/Make Anything Cool Lately (Tinplate Version)

one just sold on the bay just north of a grand, it is an AF holy grail set

this little buddy,i have had on layaway at pat's trains,brought it home fri,runs like a champ,lights work,i really like it,,,,when he said ,hey I have something you would like,,,i should have run,,,,,now its mine,,also picked up this af bumper,,

terry hudon posted:

this little buddy,i have had on layaway at pat's trains,brought it home fri,runs like a champ,lights work,i really like it,,,,when he said ,hey I have something you would like,,,i should have run,,,,,now its mine,,also picked up this af bumper,,

The bumper is Marx.

Steve

nice Flyer locomotive, I have one of the Marx bumpers.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

SteamWolf posted:

Robert S. Butler posted:

Well, what the heck Jim and JHZ563.  Let's pour some gasoline on the toy train desire fire. 

What is that silver piece in the middle? Absolutely gorgeous! Stoke my desire-fire more! 

American Flyer Aeolus, 1935

Thanks! Will keep my eyes peeled! 

SteamWolf posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

SteamWolf posted:

Robert S. Butler posted:

Well, what the heck Jim and JHZ563.  Let's pour some gasoline on the toy train desire fire. 

What is that silver piece in the middle? Absolutely gorgeous! Stoke my desire-fire more! 

American Flyer Aeolus, 1935

Thanks! Will keep my eyes peeled! 

put this in the wrong place. one just sold on the bay for north of a grand

jhz563 posted:

 

Recently I picked up this Flyer set, which I will admit I know little about and would love some more info

  The curly Q couplers are kinda neat, it's shame they don't really mate with anything else.

The curly Q couplers mate with postwar knuckle couplers.

Antique Store finds include a Flyer Caboose for my scrap yard in progress. $20 for all

Joe Gozzo

After a long wait, my brand new 263e, possibly the only one I’ll ever own.  This beast is gorgeous!! I finally have something that looks right with my 2816 hoppers🙂.

Once I enjoy this for a few months as delivered I will probably pop the top and start adding weights for better traction!

Found exactly what I was looking for today. A nice, inexpensive stool I can sit on by my transformers nd watch my layout. hign enough to see and low enough to go under the layout.

jhz563 posted:

After a long wait, my brand new 263e, possibly the only one I’ll ever own.  This beast is gorgeous!! I finally have something that looks right with my 2816 hoppers🙂.

Once I enjoy this for a few months as delivered I will probably pop the top and start adding weights for better traction!

Hmm, better traction? Is it slipping? My 260e can pull a boat load of cars, and it's already pretty heavy.

George

George S posted:

jhz563 posted:

After a long wait, my brand new 263e, possibly the only one I’ll ever own.  This beast is gorgeous!! I finally have something that looks right with my 2816 hoppers🙂.

Once I enjoy this for a few months as delivered I will probably pop the top and start adding weights for better traction!

Hmm, better traction? Is it slipping? My 260e can pull a boat load of cars, and it's already pretty heavy.

George

Yup, 6 hoppers and a caboose and it slips a bunch.   I might need to clean the track again soon.  I have this train running on Gargraves track.  I am wondering if tubular track would work better.

jhz563 posted:

George S posted:

jhz563 posted:

After a long wait, my brand new 263e, possibly the only one I’ll ever own.  This beast is gorgeous!! I finally have something that looks right with my 2816 hoppers🙂.

Once I enjoy this for a few months as delivered I will probably pop the top and start adding weights for better traction!

Hmm, better traction? Is it slipping? My 260e can pull a boat load of cars, and it's already pretty heavy.

George

Yup, 6 hoppers and a caboose and it slips a bunch.   I might need to clean the track again soon.  I have this train running on Gargraves track.  I am wondering if tubular track would work better.

Those drivers look different than my 260e. I thought these engines were very similar except for the 12 wheel tender. Mine has nickel covered rims. Does yours have traction tires? 

Other things to consider would be binding of the side rods or front / rear trucks. I use Fastrack. Not sure if the Gargraves profile could be causing issues. How tight are your curves?

The PS3 engine should be able to pull a lot more cars than that. Also, check that the wheels on the hoppers and caboose are all spinning freely. 

George

I found this Kibri Hellgate Bridge.  Its really cool.  I can't find anything about it.  Does anyone have any info on this bridge.

Also picked up these four lighted houses that appear to be made from some wooden cigar boxes. There is one "El Producto" sticker inside one of the houses.

Joe,

Those cigar box houses are great.  I would have snapped them up in a heartbeat

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Not “tin” but they are metal. Very nice, but dusty. Couldn’t pass them up at $20 per car. 

Steve

Steve,

What are those?

Joe Lyons posted:

Steve,

What are those?

Joe, they are postwar Lionel 2500 series aluminum passenger cars.

Steve

Joe Lyons posted:

I found this Kibri Hellgate Bridge.  Its really cool.  I can't find anything about it.  Does anyone have any info on this bridge.

 

 

 

 

I do not have any info on this item, but I wonder whether it is a Kibri item. Kibri items normally have the Kibri name stamped somewhere (e.g. at the back or the bottom of an item). I have never seen a paper Kibri trademark like this; it looks like a cut-out of a box of a postwar Kibri item. At the Kibri archive (http://www.fleischmann-toys.de.../Bruecken/index.html) I do not see a bridge like this.

Regards

Fred

sncf231e posted:

Joe Lyons posted:

I found this Kibri Hellgate Bridge.  Its really cool.  I can't find anything about it.  Does anyone have any info on this bridge.

 

 

 

 

I do not have any info on this item, but I wonder whether it is a Kibri item. Kibri items normally have the Kibri name stamped somewhere (e.g. at the back or the bottom of an item). I have never seen a paper Kibri trademark like this; it looks like a cut-out of a box of a postwar Kibri item. At the Kibri archive (http://www.fleischmann-toys.de.../Bruecken/index.html) I do not see a bridge like this.

Regards

Fred

It's an amazing item. Clearly not Lionel. It's handpainted for sure, which I would say would be pre-war. You may be right about the Kibri logo, but we should check the rest of the item. If it is custom, it is terrific!

George

I guess my first question is that kibri logo a paper label or is someone just assuming

that?

The logo is paper and I can not find it stamped anywhere else.

I picked up this pile of (junk) parts recently.  Mostly 3/16ths Flyer 0 with a couple of 545 locos that have most of the parts and 4 good motor frames.  Amongst the parts were a handful of cast figures, a complete Lionel E unit, a pair of Ives loco wheels, and some Lionel switch parts. Also showing exactly how he shipped it.  I guess when its this junky it doesn't matter much but I feel I was lucky the loco shells made it safe and sound.  Oh yeah, also got a couple of boxes of unused light bulbs and two unused Lionel knuckle coupler conversion packs in the two manila envelopes.  It's a lot of great parts for someone like myself who like working on this ... junk lol

If this was on the bay, I would be leaving negative feedback

nice haul Dennis...wonder if he stood on the other end of the room and just tossed the stuff in!

It was and it's not the only time this has happened.  Got this load stuffed in a suitcase.. I got this one mainly just for the early diecast Virginian hopper, but it was two complete sets, a 4605 with 310 and a 49 set with a 290.  I gave this guy a lot of ______ for this pack job.

Steamer posted:

nice haul Dennis...wonder if he stood on the other end of the room and just tossed the stuff in!

He might have, but it was stuffed in pretty tight!  I was really surprised the steamer shells didn't break as fragile as some of those are.

well they are just old toys...right? and he did go the extra effort to lay on a couple pieces of Styrofoam.....

I picked up this pile of (junk) parts recently.  Mostly 3/16ths Flyer 0 with a couple of 545 locos that have most of the parts and 4 good motor frames.  Amongst the parts were a handful of cast figures, a complete Lionel E unit, a pair of Ives loco wheels, and some Lionel switch parts. Also showing exactly how he shipped it.  I guess when its this junky it doesn't matter much but I feel I was lucky the loco shells made it safe and sound.  Oh yeah, also got a couple of boxes of unused light bulbs and two unused Lionel knuckle coupler conversion packs in the two manila envelopes.  It's a lot of great parts for someone like myself who like working on this ... junk lol

Nice haul Dennis...even if it is junk (tongue in cheek)!   

Mike 

 

Finally got a nice (for me anyway) set of Blue Comet cars 2613/4/5.  Not super expensive, about half of a set of MTH cars.  Just need to clean them up, looks like the roofs will shine bright.

Picked up a Lionel 256 at the Pomona show on Saturday. Needed some work, I already re-wired it. It looks fairly decent, some issues with the paint here & there but nothing too big.

What it really needs is some new rollers.

Brian Liesberg posted:

Picked up a Lionel 256 at the Pomona show on Saturday. Needed some work, I already re-wired it. It looks fairly decent, some issues with the paint here & there but nothing too big.

What it really needs is some new rollers.

Glad you got it. I thought it was pretty nice overall, but I already have a Repro set plus some extra cars.

Steve

The guy could have definitely done a lot better job on the restoration. The wiring was absolutely atrocious, some weren't even wires! I found what looked like safety wire with heat shrink over it that was obviously way too big and had holes worn in it so it was shorting to the frame. Lots of tabs for the windows/doors were broken off inside and the inserts very poorly superglued into place. Very worn brushes & bushings. I still think the price was worth it but am disappointed a bit in the condition of the locomotive.

As for the cars I think they look great, my only beef with them is that the plastic inserts for the windows are missing. There's no clear plastic, and the blue tinted parts have been replaced by thick beige paper. But I can't say there were any other problems with the cars, the paint job is excellent and the stamping looks professional.

It's almost as if 2 different people restored the locomotive and the cars. 

Went to the Chryslers at Carlisle, PA swap meet last Friday and a guy there had a tent full of pre and postwar trains.  Scored these Ives STD gauge passenger cars, easy restoration, that will look great behind my 1134.

another reason I need to get to Carlisle. nice score!

Got my 263e working great, I didn’t know about simply applying zip ties to the uncoupling shoes.  The mechanism must drag on the axles somehow.

I also am loving the flexibility of the American Flyer curly couplers.  (Although the ETS and American Flyer gondolas aren’t getting along!)

I saw that thread on the shoes & zip ties. After a bit I thought it must have too strong a shoe spring, hit the axle, or rubs the sides of center rails. The wheel flanges should keep it off the outer.

The A∃OLUS is a favorite of mine. My Marx Crusader bash would have been the  A∃OLUS if I had more mirrored stainless on hand. (It is  A∃OLUS )

Finally got around to going through this set, oiling the axles etc. The box took a couple of staples to repair some that had torn through. Everything is nicer than the EBay pictures. There is so much track I doubt it all came with it. Motor works well. Box says set #200. Everything here is duplicate for me, but my unboxed set has the black 1110.

Steve

terry hudon posted:

this little buddy,i have had on layaway at pat's trains,brought it home fri,runs like a champ,lights work,i really like it,,,,when he said ,hey I have something you would like,,,i should have run,,,,,now its mine,,also picked up this af bumper,,

Hey, Terry

I told you it was a good looking Engine. These 0-6-0 are hard to beat.

Pat

Several recent interesting small items have appeared on the layout:

1) 1939 Wyandotte Roi-Tan Cigars promo piece- advertising Sophie Tucker's CBS radio show.

2) Two different Flyer crossing signals. The Flyer crossing signals are "S" gauge but I must say I think they look great with O scale tinplate. Not that I don't like the "Big" Lionel crossing gates and signals, but they really are "big".

3) Also new is the brick roadway under the viaduct, found a short roll of the brick material at a recent TTOS meet; I'm wondering what others have used to create brick streets on their layouts?

4) And lastly, visible in the background is an interesting scratch-built transformer array that makes a perfect complement to the Lionel power station. It's stamped on the underside of the wooden base- it appears to say "Dube's Railroad Miniatures" in Marrietta PA. Very "old school" O gauge model railroading I thought.

Ejoy!