Weekend tinplate photo's ! 4/15/16.

Here is an old Marklin shell I got a while back.  I need to put together a motor for it at some point since I have little hope actually finding a Marklin motor

Here is an older one of the station area that is still not finished

Photo: Peter Stackpole/LIFE, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

Here is a (very) small tinplate Jouet de Paris (JdeP/JEP) wind-up train that I bought and that arrived yesterday; it is for 28 mm gauge (i.e. between 0 and S):

En here is a video of a run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNkcfq85r30

Regards

Fred

Not sure exactly what Ethyl is pumping into that car???

And an nod to American Graffiti

Great idea Chris!  Thanks for starting this.  I look forward to posting and seeing the posts that others make.  Here is my contribution.

Have a great tinplate weekend!

Greg

This one is more a tinplate project than a actual tinplate photo, but working on a diesel switcher built with a Marx 490 motor, coffin tender shell (shortened), and Lionel 6457 frame. It's a bit farther along than it was when I took this photo, was originally going to sell it. Decided to keep it this morning.

super idea chris,,,,,,since I wasn't able to go to York,recovering from major ear surgery, I got to pick 2 items,,,,,,,,as my consolation prize,,,,,,now all I need is an,,,,,,"end of train money device " ! 

totrainyard posted:

 

Attorney John Francis Neylan, a close associate of William Randolph Hearst, plays with his grandson's model train layout at home in Palo Alto, California, 1947.

Photo: Peter Stackpole/LIFE, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

THIS is what playing with Lionel trains is to me!

My son is coming home on leave in July so I didn't make April York this time around either but a consolation prize is alway's good! I especially like the GE lamp covered hopper.  My father in law retired from GE so he would get a kick out seeing this one. 

Found these Standard Gauge cars at York yesterday -- I'm quite certain they are Robert's Lines cars based on photos I've seen, but I'm unsure of the paint jobs.  I've only ever seen them in black and it seems unusual for the couplers and the wheels to be painted.  Note the size - these babies make my 217 look pretty tiny!  

great idea, and some great looking stuff guys.

Rob Shaubach posted:

Found these Standard Gauge cars at York yesterday -- I'm quite certain they are Robert's Lines cars based on photos I've seen, but I'm unsure of the paint jobs.  I've only ever seen them in black and it seems unusual for the couplers and the wheels to be painted.  Note the size - these babies make my 217 look pretty tiny!  

I use to have a couple of hopper cars that I believe we're the same company that made yours.  They're more like G scale on standard gauge trucks! 

Decided my Std Gauge tinplate needed a couple of 1930s automobiles. Tom chose a 1935 Mercedes, I picked me a 1933 Dusenberg.

I like the Dusenberg.  What scale are they 1/24 th?  

Chris Lonero posted:

I like the Dusenberg.  What scale are they 1/24 th?  

1/24!

Great thread Chris! Here are some recent Christmas memories.

Terry and Chris I do like the GE covered car too. I left GE after 30 years so I got a lot of fond memories there a lot of great people and it was a great job

Yesterday was our local train show in Springfield, Missouri put on by the Ozark Model Railroading Association.  I was there (with help from my friend Rick) displaying windup trains... very interesting how many people came through that didn't even know such a thing existed!  The guys at OMRA put us in a great location - this was our windup train display:

I was just a little tired of winding up trains by the end of the show...

HOLY MOCK-UP, BATMAN!! Mocking up my MTH repro Ives Circus trains and diorama set, with the other assorted pieces arbitrarily placed that I have so far on the in-progress deco style Std. Gauge table top, now in situ. Have a paper litho dollhouse footprint template on there as a reference for litho dollhouses ideas. I think I could fit 3 dollhouses on the space.

The National Limited Pullman at the there is for a reference: A string of 400 passenger cars will run along a 6-1/2" wide x 28 feet long wall shelf at the back of the table, being pulled by a 408E electric. That is Phase TWO.

Hi Chris,

Did you change the way you are loading your Pics. Could not see your pics above as well as the ones in your Flyer Station Post. Would really like to see them.   Maybe I am doing something wrong here. Is anyone else have this issue?

Thanks,

Joe

Trainlover160 posted:

Hi Chris,

Did you change the way you are loading your Pics. Could not see your pics above as well as the ones in your Flyer Station Post. Would really like to see them.   Maybe I am doing something wrong here. Is anyone else have this issue?

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

Hi Joe. It's not you something is up with photo bucket. My albums won't load either? I'll look into it. Thanks. 

Thank you for starting this, Chris.  I used to love the weekly tinplate reviews, which became monthly under Jim Davis's guidance.  He passed away a few years ago, and I sort of fell out of the tinplate photography.  I am still buying tin trains, most recently a Marx set, but have not posed the trains, even if I was running them.  

This is my most recent photo of a tinplate train.  A Marx steamer, inside a toy exhibit for Christmastime.  I think I need to break out some tin!

Tim O'Malley posted:

Thank you for starting this, Chris.  I used to love the weekly tinplate reviews, which became monthly under Jim Davis's guidance.  He passed away a few years ago, and I sort of fell out of the tinplate photography.  I am still buying tin trains, most recently a Marx set, but have not posed the trains, even if I was running them.  

This is my most recent photo of a tinplate train.  A Marx steamer, inside a toy exhibit for Christmastime.  I think I need to break out some tin!