Show us your Rattiest Rail Rods !

overlandflyer posted:

probably closer to what you're looking for...

this copper clad locomotive from Hafner has certainly seen better days, but it will never be restored while in my hands.  if i wanted something shiny with zero character i'd buy current production tinplate.

Hard to find high truck tender too. 

Flyer type XIV w broken cowcatcher. Runs like a top. 

Jim O'C posted:

Flyer type XIV w broken cowcatcher. Runs like a top. 

 

I will match that with an Ives No.11 with a complete "nose job "

Probably looks really odd to Americans lol, but as my collection is more Non-U.S. than U.S. it is just pretending to be European

Probably a good place to enter my "Bitzer"

( absolutely no idea who its by, I "think" its an older floortrain(?) modified for clockwork O Gauge at some time in its past , but they way it is built it screams of being done many many moons ago )

This one got a major redo.

Steve

I didn't restore Grandmas until it became apparent that I might outlive it if I left it alone; and that was an unacceptable thought.

It was developing black spots and pitting vs surface rust ... deeply blackened metal like that scares me more than orange surface rust. Black is deep oxidation about to become orange rust as most folks know it, that particular shade of blackness in metal needs to come off if possible. I've done more than enough metal work to know what will last in our climate. (I don't like a closed up house or air conditioning until it's miserable outside, drive with the window down summer or winter, etc.)

Dennis Holler posted:

 

This.
I want this, an engine that shows it's age.
Unlike my Bing and Ives Locos, you can tell this engine is old.
And considering those photos were taken in 2009, the engine must be in far worse condition.
I would gladly buy/trade something for this, so I can fix it enough to make it run whilst keeping as much of the rust as possible.

Edit: I think someone here talked about a rusted marx train that they ran, was it Adriatic?

My rattiest rail rod 😀

The CV Crusader shown was worse than Grandmas, but neither had the "deep sea patina" of Poppa's or Dennis's.  Dennis was likely running some oxide queens and got me really excited and I began foaming over them.

I think if I hit the lotto for a few hun.mill. I'll start a communal home/resort for wayward rusty train lovers.

  Don't worry, you'll all be invited

😀😎😱😍🤗😴🤤😳😋

Steamer posted:

my 262 barely ran when I got it, but it did run. Some time in the shop and a parts engine generously donated by George S and it's almost done.I would have just cleaned it up, but it had a bad repaint that was flaking badly.

I had a 262T tender that looked much like that.  Here is what it looks like now, my first full restoration.

This would have been my rattiest but I got sniped at the last second. Le Roussy engine shell "steampunk" but no motor, clockwork or otherwise. Great oversize wheels and homemade siderails. 

That's something special there!  😎

overlandflyer posted:

wow... i never posted a photo of this before and now twice in one week...

it's feeling much better these days and in good hands.  not surprisingly (with Marx) the motor was never in question.  even at this stage it still ran like a champ.

cheers...gary

That is a blast from the past!  Yes, I acquired this locomotive from Gary and did a restoration.  For those of you who wonder why anyone would rescue a Marx windup, this is an early reversing mechanical Commodore Vanderbilt and as such aren't extremely common, although they certainly aren't rare either.  Still, they can be a challenge to find.  This one was complete, albeit dented and sporting the custom paint job.  Here it is after some TLC:

OK, I know it isn't a ratty locomotive anymore... let's see what I have in the archives:

@Jim O'C  hmmmm I wonder if I should whack some big wheels on another of my rats ?

Nahhhhhhh ..... LOL!

I suppose I should add this little lot I just picked up today ...

A gaggle of Hornby that I picked up with the intent of repurposing into hopefully a replica of the U.S.A. Built 1927  Hornby that I am having so much trouble finding an original of ( over two years of intensive searching so far and not one for sale I can find sadly , it will come .. one day )

So for now these shabby loco's may have to give up their identity

One day to become....

Not in my collection sadly , but Photo for reference

BTW If ANYONE has one they can part with or knows of one , feel free to contact me