I have some new fun prewar standard gauge trains to share. Stay tuned for some awesome videos.
As always Cheers! W1
Excellent !!!! at @Buco your conversion looks very well made, congrats and many thanks for the idea I do have some worn models that could have a new life.
A video from @William 1 is always a great pleasure for me to look at, hope to see many more in a near future and maybe with some new pieces....
All my best wishes, Daniel
Thanks Daniel......if you need any tech info on these conversions, feel free to ask. I get a lot of help and tech advice from my good friend "Swissjohn" (Hans Schweizer) in Switzerland. He is the expert on modifying Buco trains!!!
Peter....Buco Australia.
This is what it’s all about. My dad’s gray #10 set. 96 years old and is the smoothest running sweetest honey in the fleet. I guess you could call this a reaquisition, spare you the details but I had to wrest her back from my brother in law who tried to claim the set after my dad died. Not happenin bro, she’s comin back home with me where she belongs. Good for me - Yay!
This set is what got me into the prewar std gauge bug, something inherently cool about a 96 year old set that runs and looks like new, with just the right touch of patina from being played with by my dad and my uncles. Doesn’t get any better than this in my world.
Cheers, W1
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Just for fun, another not so hard to find but I found it, this 511 flat car in the darker green with bronze stakes and brake wheels, other guy is all nickel. Now all I need is a 514r with a blue roof and I think I might have all the major color schemes of 500 series freights, in case anybody has one they can part with for a fair price keep me in mind…. Haha There are some rogue 515 tank cars, a yellow shell I see Trainz had for $360, I don’t need it that bad thx. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a blue topped reefer.
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Time for a blue baby state run. This engine is a honey, smooth as hash under glass with a Jim Beam chaser…
Funny, even on a layout of this simplicity some engines run better on the loop one way or the other. She likes it this way, if you’ll pardon the expression, I like it too!
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@William 1- Beautiful Comet William and she does sure seem to run smooth.
My post today, is a repeat of one I put on "Front End Friday" because that was the day I was able to open the box that this gal came in over the Holidays - she arrived while I was out of town. She is a Lionel #253 from 1925-1926 period. After examining her in some detail (details of the motor will have to wait till I get her apart), she is period correct except appears to have aftermarket replacement roof handrails. They are supposed to be brass and these are nickel. Every other detail is correct from the flag pole holders to the name plates and reverse switch handle. She needs a thorough cleaning but that will come later as I work her up to operation. So here she is , my "new" Lionel #253 now about 100 years old.
Best Wishes Everyone...Happy New Year
Don
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@William 1 posted:This is what it’s all about. My dad’s gray #10 set. 96 years old and is the smoothest running sweetest honey in the fleet. I guess you could call this a reaquisition, spare you the details but I had to wrest her back from my brother in law who tried to claim the set after my dad died. Not happenin bro, she’s comin back home with me where she belongs. Good for me - Yay!
This set is what got me into the prewar std gauge bug, something inherently cool about a 96 year old set that runs and looks like new, with just the right touch of patina from being played with by my dad and my uncles. Doesn’t get any better than this in my world.
Cheers, W1
I wanted to revisit this. I suspected that this gray #10 was a bit different because it has a green frame. I’m looking at the Greenburg guide that is telling me that the green frames were used in promotional sets around 1930. This gray with with a dark green frame is part of set PO-99. I think that’s cool. There are also peacock colored models with green frames. Ok, I’m not a freak about collecting but I will keep my eyes out for a smooth running peacock colored Macy’s special #10. I might need one of those in my life some day…
I have a Mojave too, another beauty, #10s have a lot of trim pieces, actually fancier in my opinion to a #8, 318 or 308. Begs the question, what sets ran with the peacock #10s. It had to be a passenger set, I don’t know so I’m askin.
Have a great weekend all you train nuts!
Cheers, W 1
Another in my series of really bad videos of really great trains. My precious 384 pulling a good string. She’s a honey but she takes no prisoners, best hauler in the fleet. It’s her way or no way. Give me all you got she says, I can take it. Well, yes ma’am…
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#384 workin the nite shift haulin commodities. Oil straight from the Straits of Hormuz and lumber sticks from the sticks of Alberta Canada. I don’t know where those two spots are on the planet she says, or how they got here, but let’s get hooked up and take ‘em where they gotta go since they’re here. Trains bring the world together ok.
Pretty as a peach but never a diva, she’s very practical, hard working and always ready to roll, and we all appreciate that on the Floor Layout Central, very much.
Cheers, W1
Btw - don’t know if you noticed or anyone cares but there is a 90 xover that got moved by a crew to the center of the layout. Rumor has us there a big changes afoot for the FLC. Something about new track, switches, maybe more. I think we got some new investors who want to expand operations. Over my pay grade till told otherwise. Kinda would be cool to get off the floor and have a layout in that spare bedroom…
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I just got handed this by mgmt. Here is the layout. I love this plan. 2 remote switches, 2 manual, xover. Can reverse direction. If I have the space I will put a 2 track yard on the LH side. 2 sheets of homasote a few sticks and a burst of motivation this might get done. Might be fun too.
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Well Tinplate fans, I have some "Hafner" for you today. At a recent Train Show just last Saturday I ended up acquiring a Hafner 1010 loco and train. I was interested in just the tender but the seller wanted to sell the entire train and the price was so reasonable I took it all... it turned out well because as well as the tender I got a great operating loco and a somewhat uncommon caboose...so all was good.
Well here is the entire train. The oil car and caboose are late Hafner freight cars made from 1937-1951 (after 1951 Hafner was acquired by Wyandotte toys ...the "All Metal Products Company" and their logo began to appear on the cars). The #81932 PRR lithographed caboose is one of Hafner's short streamlined cars (see today's "Tail End Tuesday for more pictures of the caboose). The 1010 oil car is somewhat common and came in a bewildering number of variations, this one with white ends. The 1010 engine (by the way 1010 was the street number of the Hafner factory in Chicago) in black and silver is a Type 1 (per the reference nomenclature) with the streamlined cowl hiding the domes and stack and the sideboards running the entire length.
Close up pictures of the 1010 loco. Just to be complete, the sideboards would have originally been fastened to the loco body by rivets not screws, screws are likely a later replacement.
TyThis tender was what originally I was most interested in. I did not have any example of a Type Va tender (reference book nomenclature again) in black. The all black sides with the gray / silver lower coming is like the original but the "Hafner" sign is not as best I can tell. Likely added by a user. The original would have either a blank panel under that sign or the word "Hafner" embossed in the sheet. Tenders of this sort while not exactly rare are not easy to find.
"The rounded "wings" on top on either side of the coal pile are called "coal boards".
And here she is...my new Hafner loco and tender.
So that is my new Hafner clockwork tinplate train and loco. OBTW she runs fine.
Don
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Flyer 2005 manual signal:
Looks like a prop from a Dr. Who episode.
PD
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Nice example pd,
As an FYI it comes in green and blue.
Exterminate!
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
