Well on this side of the world it's officially Friday so let's get the tinplate photo's going! I thought I would add video's to the title. Post them if you got them! This week I have my new Lionel Lines monorail and Charlie Brown and the gang are going on a trip from the American Flyer station. Let's see your tinplate!
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This CR (Charles Rossignol) French station from around 1930 I found at the latest modeltrain fair over-here:
There is some similarity with the JdeP (Jouets de Paris or JEP) station from the same period I already had in the collection. I do not know whether JdeP copied CR or the other way around. They were competitors.
Regards
Fred
... more European stations:
Ives Commodore Vanderbilt Set
Have a great tinplate weekend
Greg
Hello thanks for posting your pictures. SNCF231E, HOJACK, Chris Lonero; Love your tinplate photos. Hoack, who made the tinplate station with the drive-through center.. I've never seen this before. SNCF231E, Great station. Chris as always, like your layout photos. Tinplate stations and buildings, whether commercially or homemade add so much to layouts. Would love to seen additional tinplate building photos if anyone else would like ti post them.
No kidding they are big!
Chris, this thread is an excellent idea. It also allows to remember of a friend RJ Davis who passed some years ago and who was the creator of "celebrate tinplate".
Some pictures of models in the collection,
First a BING small station from the twenties, when the train pass it activates the pedal which ring the bell and change the signal position.
A BING freight station from the same period,
A french LR freight station from pre WWII named Trappes, the town where the factorie was sitting
Another french freight station and water tower from the 50's made by MDM, all wood models, simple ones but with a lot of charm even if they are not really tin plate......
And as Hojack and fred have presented the french JEP stations i will add some french HORNBY ones, all pre-war models.
Very best, Daniel
FRANCE
Bought this little AF clockwork engine and tender at the local train show last weekend. Motor needed a mainspring and some TLC. It is now running happily around my windup layout:
Hojack. I would love to see your layout some time. Great pics guy's keep them coming!
waynew posted:Hoack, who made the tinplate station with the drive-through center.. I've never seen this before.
As the sign on the roof says, the drive-through arch was made by Kibri (Kindler & Briel, German, 1920's). I don't think it's a station, maybe a signal tower that straddles the track? Anyway it makes a nice gateway. The top cabin was in very bad shape, I had to straighten and repaint it; but the bottom arch is all original,it even has the flags!
Chris, you are certainly invited, if you ever find yourself heading up to the northeast corner, let me know and you can come and run trains all day!
Here's the farm area... the green Rutland Railroad bridge is by modern Marx (Jim & Debbie Flynn, Ameritrains); the metal corral fence and cattle loading ramp are vintage Marx, as are the milk can stand and the small chickenhouse. The animals are all prewar lead. The Barn and silo are lithographed tin by Ohio Art from the 1950's; it was the one I had as a kid.
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couple of mine...found this years ago in a junk box for $1
and moving some Cabin Cars to the yard
mix and match 392 with af cars 
Since the title of this topic now includes videos here is a video I made yesterday when my brother visited to run his ETS tinplate train in my garden:
Regards
Fred
Whaty a great idea for a weekly thread! The Lionel Lines monorail is nice. All the photos are really interesting. A late winter project was finally acquiring and rehabilitating a set of beautiful Bing long (19") cars to go with the Bing Pacific that I had in my collection for several years. Here's a video of the set running on my layout.
Fred. Your garden rail road is perfect in my opinion. It looks to be aluminum construction and is waist level much better than crawling around on the ground!
Jim. You always come up with the coolest toy's! Thanks for posting the videos.
Chris Lonero posted:Fred. Your garden rail road is perfect in my opinion. It looks to be aluminum construction and is waist level much better than crawling around on the ground!
Chris, Thank you; the construction material is galvanized iron (no tinplate
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Regards, Fred
Gene those look great!
Steamer posted:Gene those look great!
Ditto. Great job! 
Hojack,
you´re right. The Kibri model is not a station. This is the signal tower 48/3 made 1930-32.
Arne
How long did the German companies last (esp. Bing?)?
El Classico posted:How long did the German companies last (esp. Bing?)?
There were several depression/pre-WW2 fold-ups. Bing was done by 1932, with Karl Bub taking over and lasting till the mid-60s. Marklin still around of course. I run a little American Flyer on S gauge Stadtilm track, made in East Germany - not sure how long companies like VEB Stadtilm and Zeuke lasted. Here's one of my Youtube favorites: a Karl Bub operating session showing a clockwork station stop device at 2:35.
265E with 2600 freight cars:
Firewood posted:El Classico posted:How long did the German companies last (esp. Bing?)?
There were several depression/pre-WW2 fold-ups. Bing was done by 1932, with Karl Bub taking over and lasting till the mid-60s. Marklin still around of course. I run a little American Flyer on S gauge Stadtilm track, made in East Germany - not sure how long companies like VEB Stadtilm and Zeuke lasted. Here's one of my Youtube favorites: a Karl Bub operating session showing a clockwork station stop device at 2:35.
That is some of the coolest clock work I have ever seen! 
Chris Lonero posted:Firewood posted:El Classico posted:How long did the German companies last (esp. Bing?)?
clockwork station stop device at 2:35.
That is some of the coolest clock work I have ever seen!
Can't disagree there! I think the 'hump' layout is actually a cog rail with an extra spur gear on the locomotive. That railway cannon and the turntable are really something too.
Here a few pictures from the Bub players meeting.
http://alte-modellbahnen.xobor...ffen-in-Ansbach.html
Arne
Better late than never.
A couple more.
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