Weekend tinplate photos and Videos 2/1/19!

VERY NICE CARS! Lederer is indeed a famous Nurnberg bier, along with Tucher and Patrizier Brau. LGB was originally produced at the factory complex at Saganer Strasse in Nurnberg. Most is now made in Hungary, but is still high quality.

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This weekend I will run that little Marklin 040 from the twenties, high voltage model. I have a special love for those HV trains, they have always a great success near visitors when they see those carbon lamps...

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

HIGH VOLTAGE DANIEL - you will definitely get a kick (jolt?) out of his fine vintage trains! LOL! SORRY, could not resist, and sent from my hospital bed on the cardiac recovery floor. They say laughter is the best Rx!

It has happen, a little kick, but not so dangerous and after that you are very careful.... 60-70 volts is not so much.

Take care Art and have a nice day if possible. All my best wishes, Daniel

THANK YOU, Daniel, for your concern and for sharing your splendid collection!

OK I am gonna take this opportunity to knowledge grab ... I found a mystery loco a while back ...

I "think " it is probably something handmade by someone quite a few years ago , but aspects of it kind of give me pause ... I am thinking the flat slot machine screws probably date it pre-war, but it also has brass hex nuts they are mated to ?

The body looks kinda sorta reminiscent of a French Floor train , but the clockwork unit is something I have not seen the likes of , with a sliding forward and reverse gear set up actually on the final drive axle ?

Just wondering if any of you knowledgeable chaps have seen anything like it ...

For now I am classifying it as..... The Frankenloco!!!

Has not been cleaned or lubed so bear withthe grunge

Non key side .. yet has a keyhole ( lol )

Keyed side with fixed ( screw on ) Key

Complete underview ( showing some soldering and re-used tinplate)

Sliding Gear Pinion

Engaged one direction ...

And the other ...

Over to you Gentlemen

The latest (and last) book in the series British Toy Trains by Michael Foster and Michael Bowes has been issued. This tells the story and shows the products of Mettoy.

Now I know that the yellow boxcar I have is from 1951 or later; Mettoy made trains from 1934 until 1960.

Regards

Fred

Chris Lonero posted:

I bought this ETS box car at the Springfield show last weekend. I have some more ETS rolling stock coming that i’ll post in the weeks to come.  Let’s see your tinplate! 🚂 

Very nice car.

ETS make quality items (tinplate).

Does this car have the knuckle couplers? I think your switcher has them. I went on a little buying bing about a year ago when I purchased my engine. All have the 4 wheel trucks with knuckle couplers.

So, last week I posted a picture of The American Flyer Set #1301RT and noted that the contents actually matched the catalog illustration

Catalog illustration

Well, you know Flyer...here's another version - not too much in the way of changes - just a different treatment of the tank car, a larger decal on the flat car, and the decal on the caboose is on straight (the same cannot be said of the tender ).  I guess it should also be noted that neither this caboose nor the one shown last week matches the illustrated caboose with respect to identifying markings.

RonH posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

I bought this ETS box car at the Springfield show last weekend. I have some more ETS rolling stock coming that i’ll post in the weeks to come.  Let’s see your tinplate! 🚂 

Very nice car.

ETS make quality items (tinplate).

Does this car have the knuckle couplers? I think your switcher has them. I went on a little buying bing about a year ago when I purchased my engine. All have the 4 wheel trucks with knuckle couplers.

Yes it has knuckle couplers like my switcher and one other ETS box car I have.  ETS makes quality tinplate engines and rolling stock. 

Bing "Superior" extra large Gauge 1 station with real glass windows. Iit has a home-made lighting array with vintage tipped bulbs. The station was originally designed to be lit by candles but the owner added electric lamps very early on. According to my collector friend in Germany, this station appeared in the 1902-20 Bing catalogs in three versions, with the earlier versions being more elaborate. This version dates to 1909-15. The station includes a clockwork-driven hand-operated bell signal.

Many of us are fortunate to have trains sets that were handed down to us from family members.  And for many those trains were the stimulus to begin collections.  One of the sets that I inherited was in the family before I was.  It was purchased for my older brother from family friends. 

It is an entry level American Flyer Wide Gauge passenger set.

This entry level American Flyer Wide Gauge freight set belonged to my wife's uncle. When I married into the family he passed it on to me to be its caretaker.

While neither of them has great monetary value; I treasure both of these sets because they remind me of family members, and they started me on a hobby that I have pursued throughout my life.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

P.S.  Tinplate Art  you are in my thoughts and prayers.

sncf231e posted:

The latest (and last) book in the series British Toy Trains by Michael Foster and Michael Bowes has been issued. This tells the story and shows the products of Mettoy.

Now I know that the yellow boxcar I have is from 1951 or later; Mettoy made trains from 1934 until 1960.

Regards

Fred

Mine is already in the mail!

ACE Pacific, Hornby hut and a reproduction Marklin furniture van... reproduced by whom, I have no clue as there are no markings, stamps, or initials.

PhillyChris posted:

ACE Pacific, Hornby hut and a reproduction Marklin furniture van... reproduced by whom, I have no clue as there are no markings, stamps, or initials.

 

Oh dude!!! Daddy like, daddy like.......

International acquisition week for me since last check-in. 

Joustra gantry crane

Rossignol tunnel. Love the graphics. 

Bub 2nd 3rd pass coach

French Hornby crossing

Kibri station, the doorway needs a little TLC

my only American purchase recently has been this 4- car Johnson Russell plastic set. No tracks, box or transformer but I just picked these up for the coach names as spares. 

Got my NBN crane from Amsterdam.

George 

Sweet Crane George!!  Love the colors!

Jim O'C posted:

International acquisition week for me since last check-in. 

Kibri station, the doorway needs a little TLC

Hello Jim,

this is no Kibri. Was made by Kraus Fandor in 1937 and with the same tools by Keim from 1938-1963.

The number was 2041 /2 by Fandor and 2041 by Keim.

Arne

Arne posted:

Jim O'C posted:

International acquisition week for me since last check-in. 

Kibri station, the doorway needs a little TLC

Hello Jim,

this is no Kibri. Was made by Kraus Fandor in 1937 and with the same tools by Keim from 1938-1963.

The number was 2041 /2 by Fandor and 2041 by Keim.

Arne

Thank you. the original sale listed no manufacturer just  "US Zone German"

Jim, here's a picture of the same station - yours needs a door and a post.  What is interesting is the railroad map on the wall.  If you look at it the map of Germany is the pre-WWII boundaries.

Arne, thanks for the manufacture ID.  I have this one in an unlabeled box with just a handwritten - "Station .98 cents".  What has always interested me is that the station is a close match for a Bing version (sorry for the poor picture - it's the only one I have available).

Edit: Whups, I just went upstairs and looked over the box again.  On the bottom of one side you can just make out "2041" so Keim it is.

pulled one of the rusty 812 gondolas down off the project shelf yesterday. Got it cleaned and ready for rehab.

anyone got any O Gauge trucks they don't need? 

Some Lionel standard gauge on the layout this weekend, a Lionel 42 pulling a freight train comprised of a Lionel hopper and several Ives cars. This is a single-motor 42, but it hustles around just fine.

Finally got the ramp flat car to use with my Repro critter.

Steve