it's SPRINGTIME

A couple of spring drives for the Ives of March 😎

Steve

A selection of my clockwork video's: http://sncf231e.nl/clockwork-or-wind-up-trains/

Clockwork trains from the UK, USA, Germany and France.

Regards

Fred

Flyer Type XV... "Do you have all of them?" ... oh wait, wrong guy ...

No. 4(A) - button headlight, no firebox, no rod guides, brake (1927-1929).

No. 4(B) - box headlight, firebox, no rod guides, brake (1930-1931).

No. 9(A) - button headlight, no firebox, no rod guides, no brake (1926-1927).

No. 8(B) - box headlight, firebox, no rod guides, no brake (1930-1932).

No. 34(A) - box headlight, firebox, rod guides, brake (1930-1931).

No. 34(B) - box headlight, firebox, rod guides, no brake (1930-1931).

No. 35 - w/ bell (Sommers Catalog 1932)

No. 37 - w/ headlight (Sommers Catalog 1933)

cheers...gary

A small BING for the US market,

Another one for the British market,

and one for Germany,

Windup-clockwork are always fun to use....

Daniel

I've posted this before but it's still one of my favorite clockwork sets.

KBN

the seemingly endless variations in color by Hafner Trains...

No. 1110, Type I locomotive & No. 1190, Type Ie(F) tender w/ lighted observation (Ca. 1930)

WhooHooooo Spring is sproinging ( for you Northern guys anyway ... Autumn cometh here)

1937 Lionel

KBN

Bing British ( Made in UK by Stephan Bing c1930-32)

Marklin R950

Hornby Compound No.2 Special

Bing tabletop track ... Minty

For this little Bugga ..

Red ones go FASTER!!!

Wells, Brimtoy, & Bub

Louis Roussy Le Rapide

Jouef Bakelite streamliner ( Boo Hiss not tin )

Czech Igra

American Market Bing

British Marx

Early Technofix  240 Rangierende Lok  (1938) shuttles on a straight length of track with tabs each end to swap directions by moving drive axles

( looking for original track ... loco is very uncommon , track is rockinghorse poo ! )

Need a break from trains ... lets go Sailing ....

OK Apologies ... just be thankful I didnt deviate into cars and tracks

Oops

Fatman posted:

 

Hornby Compound No.2 Special

 

Nice loco, but clockwork? To me this looks like the electric version.

Regards

Fred

sncf231e posted:

Fatman posted:

 

Hornby Compound No.2 Special

 

Nice loco, but clockwork? To me this looks like the electric version.

Regards

Fred

Argggghhh ... ok did anyone else spot the deliberate mistake   ( I have both versions lol )

My circa-1928 Hornby clockwork LMS tank engine; the key is stored in the cab.

A "late" AF No. 1 (circa 1915, I believe) with 10 spoke cast drivers, but without boiler rivets or drive rods. Mated with a 328 tender. Runs like the dickens.

Bob

I love this topic. I don’t run the clockworks a lot, but have tons of them. They are real attention getters at shows with the general public. At meets with train guys, not a lot of interest.

Steve

great stuff so far... keep 'em comin'... !

a few more from the random shot collection...

Dorfan Set No. 99 (Ca. 1925)

Flyer, Empire Express #7 (Ca. 1928)

bringing two old friends back together.... Flyer Type XVIII w/ Hafner 1190 tender

Marx, #200 Rapid Transit (Ca. 1930)

The oldest train in my collection is a clockwork from the french brand F V . It dates from around 1890 and still in working condition.

And a more "modern"one made by Jdp (Jouets de Paris) in the twenties.

Daniel

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

I love this topic. I don’t run the clockworks a lot, but have tons of them. They are real attention getters at shows with the general public. ...

i always enjoy running Hafner for the public.  with that mechanism, the key does not unwind as it moves and many folks believe the key is just a dummy/ decoration when they first see it running... until it stops, i wind it up and send it on its way again...

fun stuff...!

Has spring sprung?! LOL!

NICE!  ☺

My whole collection   

Where do I begin?  My little layout doesn't even have power to the tinplate rails, and 99% of my collection is powered by springs...  

So, here is a view of the layout and some of the windups on and below it:

ALL GREAT locos! PLEASE forgive my spring humor!

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

The oldest train in my collection is a clockwork from the french brand F V . It dates from around 1890 and still in working condition.

And a more "modern"one made by Jdp (Jouets de Paris) in the twenties.

Daniel

Lovely Daniel , I especially have a fondness for French clockwork, and have a few JdeP items that I really need to dig out and photograph properly , but there is often some "art" to them which I appreciate

Like James @WindupGuy This thread was a "where do I begin" moment , but unlike him I havent yet dedicated a room to display yet ( its on the before I die list lol ) so the vast amount of my collection is in storage awaiting its time in the sun.

(Crappy auction photos to follow lol )

20's JdeP

Jep 50's

Joustra Autorail and bits n bobs

Charles Rossignol CR20

Louis Roussy

And even a modern Hachette

I have several other early J De P sets that need photo-ing as I didnt even save auction photos at the time they were acquired ... Sadly French sellers seem to be following the Americans in wildly fluctuating shipping quotes that price me out of the market more and more these days .. I just cant figure out why some shipping is three times more than the other, and why sellers are so unwilling to deviate from whats "easy" ( expensive) to make a sale

Insert grumpy old man gif here lol !

Fatman posted:

I have several other early J De P sets that need photo-ing as I didnt even save auction photos at the time they were acquired ... Sadly French sellers seem to be following the Americans in wildly fluctuating shipping quotes that price me out of the market more and more these days .. I just cant figure out why some shipping is three times more than the other, and why sellers are so unwilling to deviate from whats "easy" ( expensive) to make a sale

Insert grumpy old man gif here lol !

 

 

Shipping charges are now a major problem for all of us, since they are going sometime very high I have limited my buys in USA, a hundred dollards for a standard gauge engine or a large o gauge one and adding custom charges is too much. 

Some more JdP,  JEP pieces for today and next post will be Hornby....

1925-30 variations,

A war time production for Germany,

And a 1935 set, 

Daniel

Dorfan Clockwork

Steve

French HORNBY from 1930 to 1935.

Daniel

Today is a cold but sunny spring day, so I did wind-up the spring of this Märklin gauge 1 locomotive:

Regards

Fred

certainly enjoying all the colorful European trains.
a shame black became the de facto engine color in the US...

Hornby from Great Britain, black locos where used for freight trains and other colors for passenger service. Trains from Hornby are always very colorful.

And some more french models, 1930-35

Daniel

I LOVE the NORD and PLM locos ( sadly I dont have any ... yet )

Just finished sourcing spares to complete this lovely Lord Nelson Hornby No3. that I bought without the front and rear pony's

Sadly many sellers realise their is more profit removing them and selling as "spares" rather than leaving the loco complete. Good for them , not so good for us

A couple of Karl Bub ( KBN ) sets

A Little "Mystery " ( to me anyway) Loco .. O gauge German with Bellows in cab driven off rear axle whoooot whoot!

Wells O London Mickey and Minnie Handcar , made in the UK

And did someone say Hornby was more colourful ?

( A less common M1 tricolour set , with frames and roof's in matching colours)

This Marx 591/533/5XX windup seems like it should be very common, but this particular motor is perhaps one of the most difficult Marx mechanical motors to find... the two-speed ratchet motor.  The brake lever has three positions, with back being stopped, mid-position is slow, and all the way forward is fast.  The slow speed isn't much slower than the fast speed, and certain parts of the mechanism are prone to wearing out quickly.  I know of a handful that exist, and I have only found this one example for my collection:

wow. 

WindupGuy posted:

...  I know of a handful that exist, ...:

ok James, fess up... this is really one of your home-brew mechanical concoctions, right? ...

so let's do something about these steam-biased postings.
Marx to the rescue...!

the Monon clockwork diesel is easy to spot if you look at the pilot.  when the drive is the standard Marx electric motor (engine on the left), the pilot is a gray color.  on small/ 2wh motor and clockwork versions, the pilot should be black.

the Seaboard diesel is the easier clockwork locomotive to find.  to see what would happen, i took a fair condition dummy A unit, cut a hole for the key and a slot for the brake and reverse-mounted a spare motor.  interestingly, the tandem unit pulls more than twice what a single unit can... twice as many cars farther or the same drag more than twice the distance.

1 + 1 = 2.x where x>0 ... let's see core curriculum 'splain that one...

fun stuff...!

Really great idea for a topic Overland Flyer! Here's some Bing clockwork.

streamliners?

minnehaha

Zephyr

Hiawatha

635 Marx Mercury w/ whistle

M10000

M10005

Hachette PLM

Jim O'C posted:

streamliners?

minnehaha

 

I overbid your Minnehawa with 2 coaches:

And it still runs much too fast:

Regards

Fred

Fred,

Nice example of the Minnehaha.  You know how those Americans are...always in a hurry.  

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

A little boxcab electric from Buco, Switzerland, two speeds slow and fast; a swiss quality clockwork....

A classic from Marklin, the Flying Hamburger from 1935,

And a little Marklin gauge One, from 1915

Daniel