Last year i found a train from Heinrich Fischer, which has a curious pickup.
Similar trains are in the "universal Toy Catalog" 1924/26.
A Pullman coach was still very nice, just had to be cleaned. The second coach needed the rusty frame a repainting.
The tender was also good, but had to be directed.
The locomotive needed a complete renovation, it was pretty scruffy.
This year I found a signalman's house of Heinrich Fischer. with a curious front silver sheet metal. Here together with lamps by Fischer.
In the meantime, I have also come to grips with the secret of the pickup. Issue 2/2018 of "Altes Spielzeug" shows the same locomotive with a freight train. It's a set with the train, a signal, a signalman's house and a rail oval. The 2 straight rails of the oval are special feed rails, with an attachment for the signal and the signalman's house. The battery sits in the signal, which is also lit, this feeds the electricity into the track. On the other side is the signalman's house which is also illuminated via the track.
After several soldering, straightening and painting jobs, the train has become quite nice again.
The locomotive with again functioning headlight
A forum member gave me a socket for a Fischer signal, so I started to recreate the missing parts.
The signal socket was for a normal signal, so there had to be the slots for the tabs in and the transition plate, which is also at the signalman's house, attached to it.
The sheet is relatively complicated.
In addition came the metal sheet, which is fastened under the rail. For this, the middle threshold of a rail has been removed. Since you can cut the rails mounting brackets very badly from a sheet and bend out, I just cut the taken threshold and soldered from below.
After the last detailed work here the set again in complete condition.
The signal and the signalman's house now have the tracks with the matching adapter plates.
The signal mast is still from Distler, but when a matching signal from Fischer shows up, it will be replaced.
The battery in the signal now supplies 3 lamps again.
And here with the whole train.
Later, I had found the matching Fischer Signal.
And, I found a interesting catalog image. From the 1930 catalog of the American mail-order company Montgomery Ward & Co, a large train set of American flyers with accessories from Fischer include the signalman's house.
Greetings
Arne
