Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 11/28/19

I am expanding my tinplate layout at the Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club into the room next door. This is

still a work in progress.

Scott Smith

I purchased this KIBRI crossing a while back. Spent a couple of hours this

afternoon trying to make it work. Repaired a solder joint and made a link for

one of the arms. Works fine now. But then I find it won't fit either layout. So

onto ebay now. 

My standard gauge Ives (faux) "white set". The originals of this set are of course rather rare, so when I happened across this one last year at the local TTOS meet at a good price, it became an impulse purchase! It was done by James Cohen many moons ago, and the engine and cars he started with weren't really the totally correct versions, but it looks awesome and makes a fun holiday train on the layout. Runs great as well, some videos are included. The lighting on the train layout makes it look a bit more yellow than it is, it looks a bit more like the creamy white of the original in person. MTH also reissued this set, and an excellent web page on the real deal can be found here: http://www.ivestrains.org/CD/w.../htmlfiles/white.htm Enjoy!

Hey John, great video!  Near the end of the video is a red and green fence.  I have one of those as well and don't know much about it.  Do you?

Thanks,

TL posted:

Hey John, great video!  Near the end of the video is a red and green fence.  I have one of those as well and don't know much about it.  Do you?

Thanks,

The fence was apparently made by JC Schrey, I only know that because I found this picture on Ebay a few years back:

I had some CR (Rossignol) passenger cars and this week found the matching baggage car (fourgon):

Here are the passenger cars with the CR locomotive:

Regards

Fred

Two Marklin cranes on the layout: a scarce and delicate No. 2541 Hafenkran ( Harbor crane 1930-37); and a No. 1974 Kranwagen (crane car 1925-1938.)

FRED: Love your set and the newly acquired baggage car. JKE: Especially like that intricate-girdered Marklin harbor crane! THANKS for sharing.

Again an unusual newcomer in the collection, found in Belgium.

Two passenger cars of the company Ottmar Beckh, built around 1939/40 for Great Britain. These are the carriages for the streamline train "CORONATION" of the LNER which drove from 1937 the route London-Edinburgh.

And I had found a box of bad rails and points on Ebay with really early parts. Was a hard job. Everything had to be soldered.

Marklin around 1905

Marklin around 1905

Bing around 1910

And a rare Bing star point around 1910

Arne

Arne,

Thanks for sharing the pics of the Coronation and those 110 year old tracks

Those track configurations are some of the coolest I've ever seen!

sncf231e posted:

I had some CR (Rossignol) passenger cars and this week found the matching baggage car (fourgon):

Here are the passenger cars with the CR locomotive:

Regards

Fred

Wow Fred, finding the matching baggage car must have been like finding the pin in the haystack.

Congrats and thanks for sharing

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Two Marklin cranes on the layout: a scarce and delicate No. 2541 Hafenkran ( Harbor crane 1930-37); and a No. 1974 Kranwagen (crane car 1925-1938.)

Jim,

You guys are making my head explode with all of these fantastic finds.

Love the industrial look of these cranes. Even more, I love that you are playing with them on your layout

Arne posted:

Again an unusual newcomer in the collection, found in Belgium.

Two passenger cars of the company Ottmar Beckh, built around 1939/40 for Great Britain. These are the carriages for the streamline train "CORONATION" of the LNER which drove from 1937 the route London-Edinburgh.

 

Arne

Wow- those are pretty neat. Had not seen or heard of these before, thanks for posting!

Lionelski posted:

Arne,

Thanks for sharing the pics of the Coronation and those 110 year old tracks

Those track configurations are some of the coolest I've ever seen!

Arne, you say cars, does that mean the loco is still out there? Very nice

BEARDOG, now I own it!  lol!

beardog49 posted:

Lionelski posted:

Arne,

Thanks for sharing the pics of the Coronation and those 110 year old tracks

Those track configurations are some of the coolest I've ever seen!

Arne, you say cars, does that mean the loco is still out there? Very nice

Yes cars, I don´t have the matching loco. Here a picture from the Schiffmann collectors guide.

Greetings

Arne

Arne posted:

Again an unusual newcomer in the collection, found in Belgium.

Two passenger cars of the company Ottmar Beckh, built around 1939/40 for Great Britain. These are the carriages for the streamline train "CORONATION" of the LNER which drove from 1937 the route London-Edinburgh.

And I had found a box of bad rails and points on Ebay with really early parts. Was a hard job. Everything had to be soldered.

Marklin around 1905

Marklin around 1905

Bing around 1910

And a rare Bing star point around 1910

 

Arne

The star points are ingenious. I wish Hornby had made some. It would make some layouts easier to design. 

Leroof posted:

BEARDOG, now I own it!  lol!

will ship tomorrow, thanks

I picked up a Hornby 501 from a friend recently. It had sat for 30yrs on a very  large layout in a hard to reach engine shed. Sadly the elderly owner had to dismantle the layout due to moving and it was “rediscovered”. Despite some slight surface rusting, it faired fairly well considering the local humidity. It’s had a good clean to remove several decades of dust, as well as  a quick lube of the mechanism. On first  test it ran only one lap less of my small test loop than my other 501’s. I’m sure it will loosen up over time.

Some American Flyer Whistling Billboards

#2029 - Catalog Illustration

...and the item itself

#577 Catalog Illustration

...and the real deal

RSB: LOVE that Hudson one! Wish I had one in that condition! I had the Ringling Brothers version with my Gilbert Flyer as a child in the early 1950's.

Good source for Lionel, Flyer, and Marx billboard inserts:

http://users.zoominternet.net/...ards/Information.htm

Print and mount.

PD

sncf231e posted:

I had some CR (Rossignol) passenger cars and this week found the matching baggage car (fourgon):

Regards

Fred

This afternoon I had a run with this CR train; the end was a bit unexpected (shocking images )

Regards

Fred

well at least you weren't doing a Gomez Addams impression.

After many years away from the hobby ( I was active here in the early 2000s and was one of the original "hobos") I have been getting the trains out for Christmas the last few years and finally started a long envisioned Christmas layout featuring my Dad's trains from the 1920s and 1930s. Rediscovering the simple pleasures of train repair and restorations.

This layout will be all tinplate (restoring my Dad's 012 switches was quite challenging but I decided against the more reliable postwar 022s. All original and Lionel except for the one MTH villa and some very old telegraph poles ( Voltamp?).

I am in the moving things around phase- you can see the pink foam, but will be adding bridges and a pond next, and acquiring a few more pieces.

Eventually a lot of snow,  a Christmas tree, and lots of lights. Feeling like a kid again!

someone seems to like the new real track awfully well ! flying colonel stealing the show,father and son 

The smaller of my pick ups at today’s meet. Colorful Chien piece.

Steve

Time to bring home the tree!

sncf231e posted:

sncf231e posted:

I had some CR (Rossignol) passenger cars and this week found the matching baggage car (fourgon):

Regards

Fred

This afternoon I had a run with this CR train; the end was a bit unexpected (shocking images )

Regards

Fred

" Ohhhhh.... The Humanity!!!! "

( hopefully nothing too dinged up )

Another pick up this weekend. What I believe is a Flyer 213 bridge from 1931-32. Needs some tweaking but still in nice shape.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Another pick up this weekend. What I believe is a Flyer 213 bridge from 1931-32. Needs some tweaking but still in nice shape.

Steve

 

Must be the rare invisible variation.

LOL!

Nation Wide Lines posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Another pick up this weekend. What I believe is a Flyer 213 bridge from 1931-32. Needs some tweaking but still in nice shape.

Steve

 

Must be the rare invisible variation.

LOL!

Picture added. Funny my iPad can be a real pain posting pictures, but my iPhone works fine.

Steve

Nice, I have one without the shed on top. Is that a later addition?

beardog49 posted:

Nice, I have one without the shed on top. Is that a later addition?

The 213 Bridge came with the shed on top.  The center cross-piece has an added piece of wood to accommodate the shack and the lower cross pieces do not come with track attached, nor do they require the wooden ramps.  This bridge was titled the "Universal Bridge" and was made for either O gauge or standard gauge trains.

You likely have a slightly different bridge, or your shack is missing, as the shacks were made to be removed during shipping. 

The bridge on the right is a 213, without the shack in place and it shows the extra piece of wood for the shack.

The picture below shows the bridge, with lights on.

NWL

Here's the catalog illustration for the #213 from the 1936 catalog

  As NWL noted it is a universal bridge and, given the type of litho treatment to the bridge shack I'd say it is probably that year.

  Mine is a #213 also but slightly later vintage.  The shack litho is different and if you look at the base on either end you can see metal strips instead of wood cross sections like you have on your bridge.

  The instruction sheet that comes with the bridge recommends the new owner nail the shack to the piece of wood.  I hope your earlier owner didn't do that because you will have to remove the nail to get at the light bulb inside the shack to replace it.   

Robert S. Butler posted:

Here's the catalog illustration for the #213 from the 1936 catalog

  As NWL noted it is a universal bridge and, given the type of litho treatment to the bridge shack I'd say it is probably that year.

  Mine is a #213 also but slightly later vintage.  The shack litho is different and if you look at the base on either end you can see metal strips instead of wood cross sections like you have on your bridge.

 

  The instruction sheet that comes with the bridge recommends the new owner nail the shack to the piece of wood.  I hope your earlier owner didn't do that because you will have to remove the nail to get at the light bulb inside the shack to replace it.   

My shack is just resting on the block.

Steve

sncf231e posted:

sncf231e posted:

I had some CR (Rossignol) passenger cars and this week found the matching baggage car (fourgon):

Regards

Fred

This afternoon I had a run with this CR train; the end was a bit unexpected (shocking images )

Regards

Fred

still have a tear in my eye! Thanks for the reality check. 

FRED's trains ALWAYS put on a great show on his impressive multi-gauge outdoor layout, whether clockwork, electric or live steam powered! ☺