Weekend tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 10/24/19!

Some modern Marx

Prototype

Production

Chris Lonero posted:

A few shots of Tom Snyder’s layout at the OGR 50th party at the NJHR’s Let’s see your Tinplate! 

Awesome!

A classic french "Autorail" made bu JEP around 1938, they where very popular models and still have a lot of interest for collectors,

Have a nice weekend, Daniel

The French small company BLZ made 0 gauge and H0/00 trains between 1943 and 1951. Daniel has shown most of the 0 gauge products including the "shortened" GG1 previously on the tinplate thread. I found this BLZ H0/00 gauge CIWL Pullman car last week. It is rather rare (well, I had not seen it before):

And here it is coupled to a BLZ CIWL restaurant car:

Regards

Fred

Acquired at York this Marklin No. 2221, hand-painted, crank-up crossing gate made 1910-20.

My Lionel 752 City of Portland Set. Quite chippy, and I don't see a layout with 72" curves in my future....but having a hard time letting it go..... Just love those streamliners.

From the archives:

A Lionel 1681 rebuilt from bits, with help from Don Carver.

PD

The Daylight and The Hiawatha blowing past a rural freight station on my carpet express

If anyone needs help transporting this after purchase, let me know. Accord isn't too far away from me. 

Here are videos from a few years ago...

FRED and JKE: EXQUISITE selections as always! Marklin always seemed a "step ahead" of the pack with their accessories! That CIWL voiture is a beauty!

This week only a bit tinkering. I have made a electric crane. It was a Marklin H0 gauge crane before.

Printed on transfer paper and laminated to tin plate

Nearly finished, needs only a few small parts and a bit colour.

Arne

Fantastic work, Arne!!

Hey Arne,

   Very nice job. When you have time, can you post a video of it operating?

Tom

VERY NICE, creative craftsmanship! ☺

From the archives.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Open House at the Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club tomorrow 10-3. We are located in the basement of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The entrance is at the back of the museum. Admission is free.

  Scott Smith

Thanks to all for sharing.

After seeing converted toy tin trolleys from Steve E. and David from Dearborn it has been on my list of things to do to try my hand at a few of these. The first one is a Powell & Mason 514 with a K-line handcar motor.

The second one is a cheap Paya reproduction with a Marx handcar motor.

Here they are running on my small tinplate layout. The Marx motor in the Paya is having some mechanical problems with a wobbling gear and will have to go back into the service shop. 

I have a couple more of these to convert and hope to get to them this winter.  It will be good fun on a cold day. 

Dean

A Marx Grand Central Station has been overrun 

Steve

Only some non-gauge tinplate coming to the House of Fatman this week , but nevertheless I am excited

As some of you know my clockwork tinplate obsession goes a bit beyond the scope of these forums as I love old clockwork car tracks etc as well ... But today ticks off another from that bucket list .

I have been chasing an Arnold Shunting Train Set for a few years and finally came across one at a "cant pass" price ... this is the ORIGINAL version of the one that Schylling copied for the Lionel Station they released

This one is marked "Foreign" which dates it as pre-war ( they were also made after the war , marked "Made in the U.S. Zone " )

And a stolen video from youtube showing how they work

VERY clever and entertaining device!  ☺

Picked up my first Ace Train today. A nice EMU set.

Steve

How many Ives standard gauge freight cars will the mighty 3242 pull? At least 10 with ease, no doubt the heavy cast frame improves traction. In the background you'll spot my new T-Reproductions Dorfan No. 70 standard gauge crane which has taken the place of a Lionel station that formerly occupied that corner of the layout.

Here are two photos of my new 3-rail O gauge layout.  Due to space restrictions, like many of us I had to limit the layout to 34" x 17 ft.  Makes it the "long and skinny" .  Two loops each with a passing siding, one 0-27 the other 0-31. 

Also my new 249E in gunmetal.  This was, according to my references, the engine most often paired (uncataloged sets) with my Ives/Lionel transition cars.  I just liked these litho freights. 

To John Smatlak:  What a great multi-gauge layout.  I loved the video of the Ives 3242.  However I have a question about the O-gauge (I think) smaller green engine in the background.  I have a similar engine that I have tentatively identified as an American Flyer 3110.  Mine has one of the oval plates but not the number and the two gold painted grills on the sides.  Mine, alas, does  not have the add on railings on the side but it does show slots where they would have been mounted. 

if yours is the same, I can confirm the AF number

Thanks