Chris,

Love the work caboose!

I still would like the clock tower you have. Are they still available anywhere?

JoeG

Bruce

These guys showed up this morning.

Steve

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris,

 

Love the work caboose!

I still would like the clock tower you have. Are they still available anywhere?

 

JoeG

Use this description on Amazon.

New Walkers Chocolate Mints 16" Tall Big Ben St. Stephen Tower with Clock

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris,

 

Love the work caboose!

I still would like the clock tower you have. Are they still available anywhere?

 

JoeG

Joe.  Shoot me an email. I found one for you! 

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

These guys showed up this morning.

Steve

Nice!    I've always liked the closed trolleys better.  

I hope S Gauge tinplate is also allowed here.

The German company BUB made some S Gauge (Spur S) after WW II. This sleeping car is lithographed tinplate but with plastic wheels (it was a 2-rail electric system). I think it is the nicest product of the BUB S Gauge range.

Regards

Fred

The layout needed a new bridge with higher clearances for some of the modern era standard gauge trains.  A local metal shop sold me some lengths of 1/2" square steel tubing.  I cut the pieces and then made a jig to hold them while we welded them together with a MIG welder.  Lots of grinding and spray painting later, we have a 48" long Parker Truss bridge with 11" inside height clearance!!

david

Last weekend the historical society in the town just to the north of me, Merrill Wisconsin, had the dedication of their new railroad reference library.

 They invited me to put up a display of trains from my collection.  It was an offer I couldn't refuse.  I had American Flyer (of course ), Lionel, Ives and Marx trains running.  I met some very interesting people, including a 94 year old man who got  his first electric train when he was 70 and is still running some of the trains he collected.  He drove to the dedication by himself in his convertible. 

Have a great tinplate weekend.

Greg

... and here's one minute of a frenetically paced Lionel Classics brass #7 yanking some restored 29 day coaches around the south oval.  Have a great weekend everybody!

david

And now for some of Hornby's finest (though not necessarily the rarest) locomotives including the only six coupled locomotive produced ---the Princess Elizabeth. Others are the four Number 2 Special locomotives representing the London Midland and Scottish, Great Western, Southern, and London & Northeastern.  Rounding out the list is the only Number 4 locomotive produced --the beautiful Southern Eton.

Woops.  Forgot the London & Northeastern.

Lew

Chris Lonero posted:

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris,

 

Love the work caboose!

I still would like the clock tower you have. Are they still available anywhere?

 

JoeG

Joe.  Shoot me an email. I found one for you! 

Thanks Guys, I found one on Amazon for $20!! Cant wait to get it.

hojack posted:

The layout needed a new bridge with higher clearances for some of the modern era standard gauge trains.  A local metal shop sold me some lengths of 1/2" square steel tubing.  I cut the pieces and then made a jig to hold them while we welded them together with a MIG welder.  Lots of grinding and spray painting later, we have a 48" long Parker Truss bridge with 11" inside height clearance!!

david

David,

Really nice job!!! I can appreciate all of your hard work. Did you buy enough material to make more than one?? These bridges on your layout have given me some great ideas for mine, since I am in the design phase.

JoeG

Trainlover160 posted:

Really nice job!!! I can appreciate all of your hard work. Did you buy enough material to make more than one?? These bridges on your layout have given me some great ideas for mine, since I am in the design phase.

JoeG

Thanks Joe.  No, this guy is just a one-off... but I have the jig now and I know where to get the square tubing, so who's to say?

If you're in the design stage, be sure to allow more height clearance than you would think.  The standard gauge bridges and tunnels were built for earlier, smaller standard gauge equipment.  Some of the later stuff, and especially MESG (McCoy for example) is a lot taller!   Use the traditional standard gauge accessories on some loops, but you might want to plan to have one loop that can accommodate the larger equipment - I have had good luck using some larger G scale bridges, tunnel portals, and so on.

david

a few new arrivals this week. gotta love the inexpensive Marx.

Beautiful job David!

F&G RY posted:

My scenic park that I need to fit on the layout. Hopefully someone will flip it.

 Nice Jim!... finding room could be an issue, that's a lot of acreage!

Chris Lonero posted:

Beautiful job David!

Thanks Chris, I'm pretty much pleased myself... the engineering of trusses never ceases to amaze me:  you and I could stand together on top of this without a bend or a tremor.  Kind of overkill for a layout, but fun nonetheless.  

Carette automatic train from 1905

Early Brimtoy around 1915

I like the Hellgate Bridge. In the future one of Lionel or MTH will add to my collection.

For a Lego layout, I had build one some years ago

Arne

Nice bridge, David!! A great addition to an already awesome layout. 

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris,

 

Love the work caboose!

I still would like the clock tower you have. Are they still available anywhere?

 

JoeG

Joe.  Shoot me an email. I found one for you! 

Thanks Guys, I found one on Amazon for $20!! Cant wait to get it.

Thanks Chris not sure why my email is not there I will add it

Some french tinplate made by JEP the biggest french toy train manufacturer.

All models from 1925-1935

Daniel

France

now those are nice!

This is pretty cool. I'd like to see it work. 

Steve, were these in a recent catalog or private purchase. I do not remember seeing them in the catalog. Very nice addition to your fleet.

JoeG

Arne posted:

Carette automatic train from 1905

That's pretty ingenious! Is it all reverse track trips and sprung switches?

Trainlover160 posted:

Steve, were these in a recent catalog or private purchase. I do not remember seeing them in the catalog. Very nice addition to your fleet.

 

JoeG

Joe, They are Lionel Classics from 1989, but WERE new in the box

Steve

Here's a few pictures of my layout at The Big Train Show in Ontario CA today.

Steve

Firewood posted:

Arne posted:

That's pretty ingenious! Is it all reverse track trips and sprung switches?

On the bottom of the loco is the direction-switch which worked with the rail.

Arne

Some progress on my 259e...

Busy time at the Stations

Great stuff this week everybody! 

Lionel tinplate with lithographed 1600 series cars.  Tender is waiting on parts or I would have it running on Carpet Central.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Here's a few pictures of my layout at The Big Train Show in Ontario CA today.

Steve

Papa, where did you find the tall skyscraper building?? Would love to find one.

Carey TeaRose posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Here's a few pictures of my layout at The Big Train Show in Ontario CA today.

Steve

 

Papa, where did you find the tall skyscraper building?? Would love to find one.

Carey, that is the Marx Skyscraper. They are about 28" tall, tough to find.

Steve