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Not much new in the collection.

A Bing train for UK, uncataloged but possibly around 1925.

A tunnel, made by Karl Bub around 1931 - 1933 for train sets.

Arne

@Arne- Well that train is really nice but the scenes on the tunnel are just wonderful.  Thanks for sharing!!

Best Wishes

Don

On a cold day in France, time to run a train, here a restored LIONEL 42 with a set of original cars

Have a nice weekend,  Daniel

@FRENCHTRAINS - That is a great looking set Daniel !  What are the product numbers for the cars? are they also Lionel?

Best Wishes for a wonderful New Year

Don

Nice new set into the collection ... a Kraus Fandor clockwork from around 1937-

I don't know where you find these "little gems" Fatman, but this one is something else!!!

Congratulations on your new addition to the wind-up railroad empire.

Peter.......Buco Australia

Lovely little "carpet layout" Daniel @FRENCHTRAINS.

I must admit I have nothing as old as that in the Lionel brand of tinplate.

There wasn't a lot of Lionel imported into Australia in the early days due to the difference in voltage supply and their transformers.......we run 240V here in Australia (enough to kill you in a heart beat) and America only runs 110V (whimps!!!)

Peter.......Buco Australia.

@Don McErlean posted:

@FRENCHTRAINS - That is a great looking set Daniel !  What are the product numbers for the cars? are they also Lionel?

Best Wishes for a wonderful New Year

Don

Thanks Don,  the passenger cars are the most common 18 19 and 190, there is some older ones that I would enjoy to have as I have another 42 loco which is a little older.

All my best Wishes,  Daniel

@Buco posted:

Lovely little "carpet layout" Daniel @FRENCHTRAINS.

I must admit I have nothing as old as that in the Lionel brand of tinplate.

There wasn't a lot of Lionel imported into Australia in the early days due to the difference in voltage supply and their transformers.......we run 240V here in Australia (enough to kill you in a heart beat) and America only runs 110V (whimps!!!)

Peter.......Buco Australia.

Hello Peter,

Those Lionel trains have never been imported in France in their time.  From this set the loco came from Germany some years ago and I bought the cars on eBay in the USA.

Very best, Daniel

@Fatman posted:

Nice new set into the collection ... a Kraus Fandor clockwork from around 1937-

Hello Simon,

Congratulations, a really lovely set.  2025 has a great beginning so I wait to see more......

All my best wishes,  Daniel

Thanks Chaps ... Apparently my decision to slow down collecting a little has been blown out of the water lately lol

I really suck at self control

@Fatman - I am definitely slowing down in 2025...Oh wait a minute, there is something I don't have on e-bay...oh well so much for New Year's Resolutions !

Don

After a long time I had built table train cars again. Resizing 0 gauge to 00 gauge. These now even have functional sliding doors.

Arne

@Arne posted:

After a long time I had built table train cars again. Resizing 0 gauge to 00 gauge. These now even have functional sliding doors.

Arne

Great work - home made lithography is interesting.  Have you ever posted information regarding your process for doing this?

The design is drawn on the computer. It is then printed onto transfer paper using a laser printer.

The sheet metal was previously primed white. Then the color from the transfer paper is applied to the sheet using a laminator

Arne

@Fatman - I just realized that I had not commented on your beautiful Kraus Fandor set from around 1937.  It's interesting as the Forchheimer brothers came to the US in 1924 hoping to make up for lost sales due to the embargo on German products caused by WW I .  Their US company was called Dorfan (Fandor in reverse).  They went out of business in the US in 1936. So the Fandor name continued in Germany and they made your beautiful train.

@Arne - What can I say your craftsmanship is superb.  The 00 cars are beautiful and are a perfect match to the 0 scale ones you made before.  Beautiful Work!

My offering today that I did post on "Rolling Stock Monday" is this Ives #65 Livestock Transport Car.  This type of car was made by Ives between 1910 and 1925 in a bewildering number of variations.  My Ives book devotes over 2 pages of pictures just to capture those changes.  This specific car with its open slatted sides, yellow orange lithography, and 8 wheels was made between 1918 and 1925.  It is marked the New York Central and Harlem River RR as can be seen on the end view.  The diagonal braces on the side say:  "Live Stock" to the left of the door and "Transportation" to the right side.

Best Wishes everyone

Don

Well we have not been posting on this thread very much this month, I noted that my last post was over a month ago.  However at a train show yesterday, I encountered this little item which was sort of fascinating.  This is a "circuit breaker" designed to go between the power supply and the trains to protect them in case of a short circuit (like from a derailment).  These were almost exclusively pre war items as in the post war period, the circuit breaker was most often included in the transformer.  So here is a  Marx circuit breaker that I first noted in the Marx 1938 catalog as a "type 420" circuit breaker.  It was advertised as a safety device.  It is about 4 1/2 " high and the circular part at the top is about 1 1/2 " in diameter.  When it detects a short circuit it disconnects the circuit and the top lights up and sayes "Short Circuit" inside the red center piece.  That by the way is how the operation is described, I have no intention of creating a short circuit to see if it still works !

Best Wishes

Don

I have one of these that I use on my Christmas layout every year .  Works great!

@Pete in Kansas:  Thsnks Pete good to know. Best wishes. Don