Weekend tinplate photo/video 9/16/16

Good morning and a happy tinplate weekend to everyone!

Upon further review of the archives of Golden Spike International, here we have a boxed Bing Milwaukee Road cog railway set:

Bob

This year the high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris (Thalys) exists 20 years and to celebrate a trip costs only 20 Euro. So we went Tuesday to Paris and of course visited the 4 train shops in the Rue de Douai. I bought there a JEP tinplate station. This JEP station, which is named “Gare de Vaires” and has catalogue number 5343.1, is quite large, i.e. the height of the building and of the doors and windows seems to be to the correct scale (1:43.5) for 0 gauge; it measures 30 * 20 * 25 cm. JEP made versions of this station with and without side-wings:

Also the clock is lighted when the interior lights are on.

Have a nice weekend.

Fred

Its tinplate day!  I mean its Friday!    You can't blame a person for getting excited when the topic is tinplate.  

As I told Steve last week I also have the 1600 series freight cars from the Lionel Ives transition era. So here they are as promised.

Apparently Lionel didn't carry over the Ives stock car into their line.

The representation of the Lionel 1679 box car that I have has Baby Ruth advertising.  There is a variation that has no advertising on it.  I think I have one in a box somewhere, but I couldn't find it for the photo.  I think the Baby Ruth car is about the right time frame.

Have a great tinplate weekend!

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

I've been away from trains at our summer cottage since May, but it's nice to be able to get a tinplate "fix" here each week on Friday. Chris, I've enjoyed all of the various posts over the summer months that reveal such a rich variety of tinplate interests. It's great to see both European and American tinplate represented here each week. That's a lovely JEP station, Fred. Here's a video from 2010 showing two Boucher 2100s double-headed. The small 4-4-0 Boucher 2100 was the hardest Boucher locomotive for me to find, then all of a sudden I found two of them! I still don't have a late Voltamp 2100 in my collection, which is the two-rail twin and immediate precursor to the Boucher 2100.

Jim.  Love the two Boucher's!  Nice proportions and they run beautiful.  Greg & Fred nice Ives litho and the JEP station is awesome!     Keep them coming Guy's. 

Hello tinplate friends,

You all show very niece pieces, it is always a great pleasure to discover new things.

This week i will show you some variations around the classic 240 steam JEP locomotive. They are all intended to be used with all curent motors from 8 to 60 volts. They dates from 1924 to 1935, basically the same model with different colors,cabs, handrails, smoke deflectors.

The last one is just fresh from the attic and needs some fixing especially the missing front bumper but it will be done this weekend, the matching set of cars is just cleaned and after many years of inactivity it is still running great.

Have a nice weekend tinplate 

Daniel

between 12 hour shifts and getting new carpet on my days off, I haven't even been downstairs this week. and it's my weekend to work, so no trains for me!

Love those Ives/Lionel cars Greg. definitely on my wish list.

This week Hornby takes us to three stations --one in France, one in England, and the other in some unknown part of Canada.  The Dijon station is being visited by a PLM express.  A hard to fine red and cream streamliner (I'm still looking for the green version) is coming into Bristol England.  And the very rare Canadian Pacific streamliner is arriving at a goods station, somewhere west of Winnipeg

Lew Schneider

 Lew, Thank you for the great pictures of the Hornby Stations.

 We have never seen the Dijon Station before , would it be possible to post a few more pictures of it ?

 Thanks Gary , Lisa and the Girls

Thanks Gary,

Here are some interesting photos of Hornby's lithographed French stations, made in France.  The #1 simplest station is just like mine, but with no fences.  Some think that mine has been tampered with, but our own  Daniel on the O Gauge Forum is convinced mine is legitimate. He told me back in 2004!!! Unfortunately I have no photo but a review of Live Auctioneers' data base should show one.                                                                                                                                 The pièce de résistance has to be the #2 which I don't own.  You can see that it starts with the same center, but adds side halls and includes fencing.  The station is the property of a British collector.  French Hornby also produced many interesting stations in board and plastic, but that's another story.

I'll add another Hornby station, although not made of tin, but hardboard. #21 Bordeaux Station.

Steve

I mentioned earlier in the thread that I thought that I had another example of the Lionel/Ives transition era #1679 where the Lionel version did not have Baby Ruth advertising on it. 

Picture from above:

I finally found it.

Here are the two versions of the Lionel RR Lines 1679 that I have.

And here are all three variations with the Ives RR on the bottom and the two Lionel RR on the top.

The Lionel without the Baby Ruth must be more of a transition car than I thought.  

The Ives car on the bottom has no advertising and copper journals (all of the other Ives cars have copper journals as well and I purchased them at the same time).

The Lionel car on the top has the Baby Ruth advertising and nickle journals (all of the other Lionel cars that I have -they came in a set with an engine - also have nickle journal.)

The middle car is labeled as Lionel, has no advertising, and has copper journals.  So I'm thinking that it really does represent a transition.

All three cars have different colored roofs by the way.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

 A Round Of Thanks

 Lew , Thank you for posting the extra  pictures of the wonderful Hornby Stations . Some day I hope we can add one to our collection.

 Steve , Thank you for the additional station pictures however , it does bring a question to mind. The red engine and tender in the background is that Marx ?

 Andy , You need to have a talk with the fellow in the pick up truck, he was in such a hurry to get a burger he flipped his cargo over on its side. I sure hope it wasn't a shipment of tinplate trains. Seriously you always have the neatest stuff and you my friend are a true craftsman.

Chris, To you Sir a big Thank You , My wife and I have collected toys and trains for the entire time we have been together some 40 plus years. As time passes us buy, her failing health  {altzhimers} keeps us from traveling to many of the meets and social activity's that we once enjoyed. But through this topic and the friendship of others on this forum we continue to enjoy our Marx trains and the comradely of others.

 Last but certainly not  the least a Thank You to all who post here as i know it is not us alone that looks forward to hearing about as well as seeing some of the precious gems from your collections each week .

Gary , Lisa and the Girls 

I know that we all enjoy hearing from those who enjoy the photos we post.  Perhaps it could lead to more person to person communication. I ,for one, would enjoy that.  

Any member of the O gauge forum coming to Boston is always invited to view my trains. Hope to see many of you in the years to come.

Lew

unclelouiesboy posted:

 A Round Of Thanks

 Lew , Thank you for posting the extra  pictures of the wonderful Hornby Stations . Some day I hope we can add one to our collection.

 Steve , Thank you for the additional station pictures however , it does bring a question to mind. The red engine and tender in the background is that Marx ?

 Andy , You need to have a talk with the fellow in the pick up truck, he was in such a hurry to get a burger he flipped his cargo over on its side. I sure hope it wasn't a shipment of tinplate trains. Seriously you always have the neatest stuff and you my friend are a true craftsman.

Chris, To you Sir a big Thank You , My wife and I have collected toys and trains for the entire time we have been together some 40 plus years. As time passes us buy, her failing health  {altzhimers} keeps us from traveling to many of the meets and social activity's that we once enjoyed. But through this topic and the friendship of others on this forum we continue to enjoy our Marx trains and the comradely of others.

 Last but certainly not  the least a Thank You to all who post here as i know it is not us alone that looks forward to hearing about as well as seeing some of the precious gems from your collections each week .

Gary , Lisa and the Girls 

 

 

Gary, the passenger cars and tender are British Marx. The motor is from a Marx 333 inside a Japanese friction toy engine shell. The colors and trim on the engine shell were a near perfect match for the colors of the tender.

Steve

https://youtu.be/Nw1oAprWtN4

The tinplate diner. Love it Andy!  

lewrail posted:

I know that we all enjoy hearing from those who enjoy the photos we post.  Perhaps it could lead to more person to person communication. I ,for one, would enjoy that.  

Any member of the O gauge forum coming to Boston is always invited to view my trains. Hope to see many of you in the years to come.

Lew

Hey Lew:

I live next door in Rhode Island, so you're kind offer may be taken up.

I have a question: What kind of switch is that in the right-center of the photo?  I'm talking about the one with the large plastic with what appear to be 5 terminal posts.  Who is the manufacturer and what's the radius of the turnout?

Thanks.

Steven J. Serenska

Not tinplate, but aluminum plate, maybe.  A Lee Lines GS-4 in tribute to Arno.  RIP, friend.  

asmith1440 posted:

Not tinplate, but aluminum plate, maybe.  A Lee Lines GS-4 in tribute to Arno.  RIP, friend.  

Quite a fitting tribute, asmith1440!  I saw at least one Lee Lines GS-4 in Arno's collection -- can't remember if it was the Daylight paint or Freedom Train scheme-- have to check my photos.   Those are not easy to come by -- I'd love to know more about where you got it and how it runs.

Thanks for sharing the photo!

Hello all

I had fun setting a loop of of track to see the Randall Hudson run , then added the JAD Hiawatha .  The Randall is running on a 96" circle ....  and would like about 100' straight away  to blow the cinders out the flues.

Inspired by Arno's interest in the little guys of standard gauge. 

I had a video but I exceeded the max ...so a shorter one will follow .

Hello all here is the video that should have gone with the photos ..a bit shorter so it would up load

Carey Williams

Rob Shaubach posted:

asmith1440 posted:

Not tinplate, but aluminum plate, maybe.  A Lee Lines GS-4 in tribute to Arno.  RIP, friend.  

Quite a fitting tribute, asmith1440!  I saw at least one Lee Lines GS-4 in Arno's collection -- can't remember if it was the Daylight paint or Freedom Train scheme-- have to check my photos.   Those are not easy to come by -- I'd love to know more about where you got it and how it runs.

Thanks for sharing the photo!

 

Rob, Arno had both the SP and the Lee Lines engines. He also had a string of the SP cars and a set of Tuscan Red painted PRR cars. I have detailed pictures of each, and they were very helpful in enabling me to understand the construction of the engine, since the aluminum castings are undrilled.

Jim Waterman