Weekend tinplate photo/video 5/13/16 !

these are so gosh darn cute!

A few weeks ago my brother gave me this tinplate house. I looked at it to find the maker or trademark and saw A.J. Made in Germany in the left bottom corner. I started looking for A.J. in my books and on internet and could not find anything and then suddenly saw that the trademark was printed around the corner of the house and is J.A.J. And J.A.J. I knew already; JAJ is the trademark of the company Johann Andreas Issmayer, Nuremberg, Germany. I assume this tinplate house is from around 1930, the same house was also made with a signal and fencing to be used as a station. It measures 15 * 9 * 17 cm and the opening door is about right for an 0 gauge figure.

Regards

Fred

finished the roof of my Hornby Marjorie, made from a Lionel 1682 caboose. Dropped it off at the post office and it's on it's way to our oldest daughter Marjorie. It has been impossible over the years to find anything with her name on it. I sent it to her work, and she knows nothing about this.

sncf231e posted:

A few weeks ago my brother gave me this tinplate house. I looked at it to find the maker or trademark and saw A.J. Made in Germany in the left bottom corner. I started looking for A.J. in my books and on internet and could not find anything and then suddenly saw that the trademark was printed around the corner of the house and is J.A.J. And J.A.J. I knew already; JAJ is the trademark of the company Johann Andreas Issmayer, Nuremberg, Germany. I assume this tinplate house is from around 1930, the same house was also made with a signal and fencing to be used as a station. It measures 15 * 9 * 17 cm and the opening door is about right for an 0 gauge figure.

Regards

Fred

a terrific litho piece!!

Just a couple of random shots.

My contribution this week is the McCoy Canadian Pacific set.  Made for the Canadian TTOS, one car at a time from 1980 to 1986.  Interesting Canadian road names;  "Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway"  anyone?

david

Here are a few new acquisitions...

One of my pre-orders from MTH arrived!

Wow, no more cheap packaging! These are wrapped in microfiber cloth, before being wrapped in plastic and ribbon!

I haven't got power to the track yet and the packing material is still on the engine.

George

Now I'm jealous!    A black Piper; Very nice!

Yes, I almost gave it up, because I spent the money I had 8 months ago when I pre-ordered it.   I also was torn with the red one.  Almost all of my engines are black, but I really like what they did with the boiler. If I win the lottery tonight, I am buying a red one too.  

MTH did a really nice job.  However, I am troubleshooting a firebox light problem.

The main drag in Hallmark.

https://youtu.be/8pHod50__a8

Steve, whats the story on the "GG-Thats Small" or is it a "GG-1/4" .

Does that make any ore dumps classify as semi-shale?

How about some Wittrock from Denmark

Lew Schneider

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

https://youtu.be/8pHod50__a8

Did you make the dinky EP5 I spied with the dump cars? Or was it made by somebody else?

Hello Hojack;  I have never seen the CP engine you have in the Canadian set before.  Was this a custom paint by you?  Very nice.  I have the cars but not an engine.  

I hope you will enjoy some italian trains made by BRAL for Roberto Braglia, a small workshop in Milan around 1950.  Typical italian models, there was also a 040 steam engine but i never had the chance to find one.

Daniel

FRANCE

NJCJOE posted:

Just a couple of random shots.

WOW! great layout and collection, Joe!!! love the blue comet boxcar.

ogaugetrains23 posted:

a great collection of cars, love the diner.

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

I hope you will enjoy some italian trains made by BRAL for Roberto Braglia, a small workshop in Milan around 1950.  Typical italian models, there was also a 040 steam engine but i never had the chance to find one.

Daniel

FRANCE

 

FABULOUS! where did you find them?

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

The main drag in Hallmark.

Such a terrific scene here. A hole in the wall? where does it go to?

 

 

 

 

 

 

FABULOUS! where did you find them?

I founded them in an antique shop in France not far from the italian border. Travels of toy trains seems to be hazardous along their life....

Daniel 

FRANCE

lewrail posted:

How about some Wittrock from Denmark

 

Lew Schneider

Lewrail,

I can see you have some Biller Bahn track on your layout.  Do you have any photos that show how you worked that into your pike?  I have collected several Biller items and a fair amount of track over the years, so I'm looking for ideas as to how I might someday incorporate it into my layout.

Thanks!

Tomorrow is SHOWTIME!!! This pic is showing the full set-up for the cake table at our wedding reception. The metal pan is a stand-in for the cake. As set-up today, my son is coming over later today to view the placement, learn the controls, make sure all is operational for him- and then he packs all pieces for transport. Tom will pack in the 4x4 board in his truck.

Included is a pic of the flowers I picked early Thursday am. from my garden that will be used specifically for the cake.

This little train diorama going to be a stunner at the reception; a delightful surprise to our guests, and joyous for us. 

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone here who have encouraged and helped me on this- with what started out as a wild and crazy idea.

A very special THANK YOU goes out to forum member Thom S. in PA, who was willing to repaint the vintage Barclay wedding trio. Such a wonderful job he did on these- making this lady in CA's vision come true. 

A few rarer parts of my collection.

Bing Chicago Train

Kraus Fandor US Trains

Kibri Station, made in 1946. Base and roof are wood and the most walls are cardboard.

Koester Train from 1946. This was a tin building toy. The cars are mostly homemade in wood, but the frames are Koester too.

Arne

Carey TeaRose posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

The main drag in Hallmark.

Such a terrific scene here. A hole in the wall? where does it go to?

Carey, no hole in the wall. That is a photo I took with a black background, cut it to the shape of a tunnel opening and then applied the picture to a foam core board arch I painted gray. The stones are just drawn in with a Sharpie. I figured that was better than the street dead ending at the wall.

Steve

El Classico posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

https://youtu.be/8pHod50__a8

Did you make the dinky EP5 I spied with the dump cars? Or was it made by somebody else?

Adriatic & El Classico, I made that Baby GG years ago using two front ends from a Marx SP 6000. The shell sits on a RMT Beep chassis.

Steve

Interesting Canadian road names;  "Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway"  anyone?

David,

It's the railroad named after the towns found on Vancouver Island, part of Canadian Pacific.  The names are native Haida, if memory serves me.

Bruce

waynew posted:

Hello Hojack;  I have never seen the CP engine you have in the Canadian set before.  Was this a custom paint by you?  Very nice.  I have the cars but not an engine.  

No, I did not paint this, the Canadian Pacific loco is from McCoy.  It is also distinctive in that it has a curved cab roof, unlike McCoy's other 4-4-0's which have the peaked roof.  McCoy made these in 1985-86 to finish out the Canadian TTOS set, but few members ordered them: I believe something on the order 65 were made.  I too had all the cars for several years before I found the matching CP loco and tender.

david

Hi Rob,

Always glad to know there are Biller buffs out there.  And Biller is tinplate to boot.  My original Biller scheme was on a small separate layout consisting of  3 loops connected by switches.  Then I had the idea to move the Biller on to the O Gauge layout where it coexisted with Lionel accessories and included the Biller crane.  But it was too difficult to operate the crane and reach the manual switches near the crane, so I sold the crane, expanded the layout, and replaced the Lionel accessories with Wabanville buildings. The extension incorporated the Lionel accessories.  For awhile I still had sidings on both sides of the loop, but again the problems of reaching the manual switches forced me to abandon  one set of sidings and replace them with the Minitoy station.  Most recently I've replaced a stub siding with my "transfer station" using Lionel platforms.  The attached photos should give you an idea of how my system evolved.

The Ives 1134 pulling some freight instead of the traditional National Limited passenger cars.

Sunrise

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

El Classico posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

https://youtu.be/8pHod50__a8

Did you make the dinky EP5 I spied with the dump cars? Or was it made by somebody else?

Adriatic & El Classico, I made that Baby GG years ago using two front ends from a Marx SP 6000. The shell sits on a RMT Beep chassis.

Steve

Ohh thats tempting.

lewrail posted:

Hi Rob,

 

Always glad to know there are Biller buffs out there.  And Biller is tinplate to boot.  My original Biller scheme was on a small separate layout consisting of  3 loops connected by switches.  Then I had the idea to move the Biller on to the O Gauge layout where it coexisted with Lionel accessories and included the Biller crane.  But it was too difficult to operate the crane and reach the manual switches near the crane, so I sold the crane, expanded the layout, and replaced the Lionel accessories with Wabanville buildings. The extension incorporated the Lionel accessories.  For awhile I still had sidings on both sides of the loop, but again the problems of reaching the manual switches forced me to abandon

Lewrail,

Thanks for taking time to post the photos and explain your "Biller Bahn."  Very nicely done.  They fit in well with the o-gauge and I like the eclectic mix of accessories/buildings you have used.  I'm curious, what was the size of the original 3 loop layout?  

brwebster posted:

Interesting Canadian road names;  "Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway"  anyone? 

David, It's the railroad named after the towns found on Vancouver Island, part of Canadian Pacific.  The names are native Haida, if memory serves me.   Bruce

I will use the pathetic excuse of "full-size tinplate", and post this picture:

http://tinyurl.com/je8dtc4

Rob Shaubach posted:

lewrail posted:

Hi Rob,

 I think it was about 4 feet square, but I'm not sure.  Perhaps you can estimate it by counting the tracks.

Lew

Always glad to know there are Biller buffs out there.  And Biller is tinplate to boot.  My original Biller scheme was on a small separate layout consisting of  3 loops connected by switches.  Then I had the idea to move the Biller on to the O Gauge layout where it coexisted with Lionel accessories and included the Biller crane.  But it was too difficult to operate the crane and reach the manual switches near the crane, so I sold the crane, expanded the layout, and replaced the Lionel accessories with Wabanville buildings. The extension incorporated the Lionel accessories.  For awhile I still had sidings on both sides of the loop, but again the problems of reaching the manual switches forced me to abandon

Lewrail,

Thanks for taking time to post the photos and explain your "Biller Bahn."  Very nicely done.  They fit in well with the o-gauge and I like the eclectic mix of accessories/buildings you have used.  I'm curious, what was the size of the original 3 loop layout?  

American Flyer 1937  Set #1792    Hiawatha

Have a great tinplate weekend.

Greg

Since getting bad news of my wife's breast cancer having come back this week it was hard to look at our Standard Gauge layout upstairs. We got the Standard Gauge trains to celebrate out 30th wedding anniversary the past April 12. Today we were both coping much better so we ran some trains and I did a video. I hope everyone enjoys!

Very nice Jeff, so very sorry to hear about your wife's cancer returning. Our hearts are with you. A beautiful layout.  

thoughts and prayers out to you and your wife Jeff.