This is The final weekend tinplate thread of 2016. Happy new year everyone! Now let's see your tinplate!!
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Wellllll....since we're looking at the end of the year how about some pictures of the end of the train?
American Flyer
Bing
Fandor
Hafner
Ives
KBN
Lionel
Marx
New Marx
Unique
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Now for something really different--at least from myself. Dirk Hertel was over the other day and made
this neat video of my Right of Way Shay roaring around my elongated figure 8 layout. Let's see if I can
upload it successfully.
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That's a pretty nice idea, end of the year so end of the train, so let us see some euro models,
Jep has made a great choice of them through the years,
Some HORNBY models, french and british,
And a classic french model by AS
All my best wishes for the New Year every tinplaters and have a great tinplate year,
Daniel
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Yesterday I came across (and bought) two very small tinplate items: A Hornby signal box and a French CR station. I updated my book (Tin stuff from Fred v4.pdf) on accessories with this and previous finds and the "book" can be downloaded if you are interested; be aware it is a large attachment and will take some time to download.
Have a good new years weekend all! More tinplate in 2017.
Fred
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I'm new to tinplate this Christmas season and am really enjoying learning about these wonderful trains. Here's a short clip of under my Christmas tree:
-Greg
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my new to me first Dorfan from Santa (my wife)
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New to me this week, a Hafner 1010 somebody painted up in the blood red LMS paint scheme. I plan on completing their efforts.
Also a pair of French Hornby passenger coaches arrived from the great white north.
and another T-P-K floor train from Sophia, Bulgaria needing a new roof on the loco. Otherwise in excellent condition.
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Here are a couple of prewar AF 3/16ths passenger sets both would be from 1941.
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Here in the northeast-"baby it's cold outside"
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The Great Orange Pumpkin!
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Lionel 225E and in house Vandy tender
Lionel 1719
Ives 128
American Flyer 3208
Dorfan 14048
Marx 21012
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Great tinplate everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR!! BE SAFE!!
Joe Gozzo
runnin some tin
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Thanks folks. There have been so many great photos of tinplate again this week. I look forward to the start of the weekend on Friday even more now because of this thread. Thanks especially to Chris for coming up with the concept of this thread and starting it each week.
Today is the end of 2016, so lets visit some additional end shots.
Wishing you all a Happy and Blessed New Year in 2017.
Have a Great Tinplate New Year
Greg Northwoods Flyer
PS Farewell Mr. President. May you have a safe journey into the future.
Happy New Year all from on board the QM2 in the Caribbean...got to ride the wonderful St. Kitts scenic railway...this would be a fun tinplate model!
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Greg J. Turinetti posted:Thanks folks. There have been so many great photos of tinplate again this week. I look forward to the start of the weekend on Friday even more now because of this thread. Thanks especially to Chris for coming up with the concept of this thread and starting it each week.
Today is the end of 2016, so lets visit some additional end shots.
Wishing you all a Happy and Blessed New Year in 2017.
Have a Great Tinplate New Year
Greg Northwoods Flyer
PS Farewell Mr. President. May you have a safe journey into the future.
Thanks for your post Greg I've always had a passion for passenger trains and Passenger cars.
Joe Gozzo
great looking Flyer.....stop tempting me....gonna need a backhoe to dig the basement out....
I decided to take some pics after putting up a couple of shelves that Steve Eastman had given me, thank you Steve, I then was able to move some trains around and put out my Christmas/birthday present of my new old stock Flying Yankee. I 
hope everybody enjoys
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looks great Jeff! Howz the Mrs doing?
Steamer posted:looks great Jeff! Howz the Mrs doing?
She is doing pretty well. We are enjoying the rain at home today. Her surgery went well even though there was still a small amount of cancer in one lymph node. We went from inoperable to this far so that is good. She will be getting radiation in January for about 6 weeks and then we go from there. Thank you for asking.
good to hear. and don't take 100% of what the docs say...smart as they are, they aren't in control. My youngest is sitting behind me as I type, and 23 years ago, when she popped out four months early, the docs gave her less than 10% of surviving the birth, and if she did there would be a ton of problems. wasn't a joy ride, but she's in her junior year at collage and completely healthy.
prayers sent.
Making a little progress on my "cast iron" steamer project.
In addition to the .45 ACP casings for the headlight and stack, a .22lr hull fills the former headlight opening just right! The rear of the 999 was shortened so the cab is brought forward a little. Also the details under the center part of the running boards was removed for more of a "high water" look like the old cast iron locos. Cylinders seem a little small now, but I'm not sure of how to enlarge them. The new pilot is proving to be a challenge. I'm on the second version and still not sure if there won't be a third.
Even if it never does really look like a vintage cast iron loco, it definitely will look better than a stock Marx 999 pulling mid '20's tin! 
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Dennis Holler posted:Here are a couple of prewar AF 3/16ths passenger sets both would be from 1941.
Great photo of the NYC and PRR racing over the bridges ... on the south side of Chicago ( land of big bad Leroy Brown) at about 96th street crossing the Calumet river , there were 4 lift bridges and one bascule bridge ... NYC on two of the lift bridges, PRR on the other two lift bridges and the B&O on the bascule. The Broadway Limited and Twentieth Century would leave downtown at the same time ( two different stations) and meet at Englewood, stop and take off at the same time , along miles of parallel track through the wastelands of south Chicago steaming across the bridges in a race daily ( that was then). With all the consolidation of the railroads .... one of the lift bridges remains active. Back in the 60's they scrapped one of the lift bridges killing two workers... so they decided to leave the others in place. A run away barge ran in to the B&O bascule bridge ... so it was scrapped ..Chessie main ties into old PRR main to cross the Calumet and returns on the other side. In my youth rode the lift bridge several times ...the operator had to leave his track side office and climb atop the the raising section of the bridge to the house in the center to operate the bridge ....the action of the bridge raising and lower was so smooth ... perfectly balanced with counter weights . Operating lift bridge dates to 1911 + - .
for some photos of the bridges in the south side please see link
http://www.inlandmariners.com/...ges_95th-st_2014.htm
for photos of the daily races NYC vs PRR please see link
http://industrialscenery.blogs...utes-in-chicago.html
Happy New Years
Carey
lookin really good Andy!
Inasmuch as the theme is the south end of a northbound train I'll post these two prewar AF photos that I used a couple of months ago. The real Comet of course was double ended, just like the Flyer version.
On to the plane southbound in about 7 hours.
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Had to put the Ives 3217 on the track for a run. Pretty smooth for a toy that's over 100 years old (c1916). The Boston & Maine diesel is a Williams pulling some postwar Lionel rolling stock.
Tim
Clearing out the camera. This is a combined TCA-TTOS effort at the November Cal-Stewart meet in Pomona CA.
Steve
Some of my latest Tin! The Military HQ building is very tough to find in absolutely perfect shape, I was real lucky to find her in one of my Western Pa Antique stores. Had been looking for one in absolutely perfect condition for years.
PCRR/Dave
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I get the OSH calendar every year. Great paintings of trains for each month. The back cover of the 2016 calendar had this toy train painting.
Steve
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Wonderful stuff this week, folks. Not much happening here...we have a number of projects tee'd up for this winter, not the least of which is this set of Lionel 600-series passenger cars picked up at York a couple of years ago:
Nothing major planned, just a rewire and polish for two of the three. The 601 has some corrosion on the insert on one side...we'll need to disassemble, strip, repaint, re-decal the insert, then reassemble:
Otherwise they should clean up nice.
Hope everyone has/had a great New Year!
PD
now there's something I'd like to find, those will look great.
To follow up on Greg's end of the year post,
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