Celebrate Tinplate-Jan 2012-What's New?

I got a standard gauge flat car with roadster.




And this AF wide gauge electric with bell ringer. I intend on restoring this one.

Have wanted one of these for a long time. 165 Magnetic Crane.

Hello,
The french participation to this wonderfull subject, a french Hornby set from around 1930-32. It is a very simple clocwork model without reversing system on the engine but all the charm of litho tinplate on the passenger cars.









Happy New Year everybody,
All my best wishes,

Daniel

I picked up this battered Ives 3251 at a meet a few weeks before Christmas.





Pretty rough even for her age at 80+. I purchased a repro bell to replace the missing one, but I'm thinking I may break down and cosmetically restore her (a decision I don't make lightly). One thing strange is she's missing the door on the opposite side...not sure if that punches out or if someone cut it out. I haven't had a chance to diassemble and service, but she runs great after being hosed down with tuner-cleaner. Looking forward to acquiring a few cars to drag around.

PD

Great idea for a new 2012 thread RJ! There are some beautiful and interesting trains under the tree this year! Santa brought me a Märklin RS 13031 No. 1. gauge electric from about 1930. Märklin workers handpainted this locomotive in 1 gauge, while the 0 gauge version of the same loco design was lithographed. To me there is someting very personal and special about holding in my hand a tinplate toy train that was hand painted by someone 80 years ago in Germany. I'm doing some needed repairs and servicing but I hope to have this beauty running real soon.













Update: Rebuilt the pantograph and finished repairs and servicing:

Happy New Year guys.

Not really a Christmas gift, but a restoration project of a 408E finished right before Christmas.

Santa was running late, but these arrived today


A Marklin switch tower from the later 20s

and this

Which is the center coach for a very scarce Bing U-Bahn set from the early thirties
Below is the set (Now Complete)


Roland

Roland.

Wow.

Ubahn.

cool.

Below is a picture of what I got for christmas.



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Thats right! Nottathing!

Rob,

Always remember many times we buy our own best presents.
I have been looking for the U-Bahn car for about five years.
I am sorry that Santa did not bring you anything this year, maybe next year you will get something cool.

Roland

Roland you are so right.

Believe me if I had gotten something for Christmas, Mrs Claus would have blew a gasket...

So I am satisfied with October York and some auction buys.

Life is good!

Posted a new video to my entry above on the Märklin RS 13031.

Santa dropped this one off about a week before Christmas...

Ives 3253.

Not a hard set to find but here is my new Lionel Classics State set I found for 870.00 real happy to add to the roster and for Russian Christmas
KG

Here's a 259E I bought to run around the Christmas tree this year. I had been looking for a late version, and found this one at a meet in Porters PA. Runs great...love those green running lights...

Not quite new to me, but finally got my treasures from the Nov Cal-Stewart meet cleaned and ready to roll. Took them to the GTE this past weekend to run on the Tin Plate Trackers layout. I cheated on the Comet, it temporarily has a Marx DR one way motor for power until the original motor is repaired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eyJVDe-Gc

Steve

Lionel Lines #258



Joe

My newest tinplate train. A 1937 Flying Yankee. I bought this set last March.

If I keep buying diesels, this Marx water tower won't have much work left.

Luckily, my railroad is still buying new steam. This is a Lionel 0-8-0, heading up the Wegmans train on the inner loop.

Great photos!!!!

Cordially,

Dennis

Not a Christmas gift. I have had it for a while. Sparingly run and this is its first photograph. Lionel Classics 44 Freight Special. A beautiful,smooth runner.

Santa bought himself another red and black 3242R loco. A bit rough but the only one we have seen with an all red frame. They are red over black 99.9% of the time. Check out the Iron Lionel wheels a PO used as replacements. Strangely enough as rough as she is neither die cast pilot is broken. I suppose that is the way it goes. Nice shape = broken pilots and bad shape = good pilots.
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NO IDEA WHY THE PIC WONT DISPLAY!!!!!!!!

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inkfrog doesn't work for this image...don't know why...

MMM I have used them before always. Looks like i need to find another way to post pics on here!

Thanks Jim!

Wonderful pictures everyone. I just picked up my first "modern" tinplate, which are the Christmas passenger cars from the 2011 MTH/Lionel Tinplate Catalog. My only dissapointment is the box coupler/latch coupler combination on one car. I'm replacing the box coupler with a latch. Here are some pictures..

Very nice, RJ! Since it is your first modern tinplate, I wish you the same long life that your vintage units have given you!

 

Thought I would try out the new forums ability to post photos.  Here is a shot of my new LCT 757W Hiawatha with PS2.0.  I have wanted one of these Hiawathas for as long as I could remember.  The Isaly's reefer behind the engine was a Christmas presnt from my wife.

 

And on the opposite end of the spectrum here is my "new" Lionel 158 and 822 caboose.  The 820 boxcar and 821 stock car where bought new by my Dad's uncle.

 

-Ryan