Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 5/7/20!

Ives green 123 with chains from Hennings.

Bing Werke/KBN and just KBN Tank Cars - same sheet metal stampings but litho with a difference.

  Awhile back I posted this picture of a KBN/Bing Werke Dapoline tank car

An examination of the details of the reporting marks is interesting.  In addition to the mixed KB/BW manufacturing marks the tank car simulates the reporting marks of the real thing - Berlin on one side and Dapoline-Werke in Hamburg on the other.

Dapoline Side Detail

I recently purchased the same car with Shell markings made slightly later because it only has the windmill markings of KBN and the couplers are the standard KBN coupler from the period.

An examination of its reporting marks show the completely different but true-to-prototype reporting markings of Elberfeld on one side and Dusseldorf on the other.

I bought these two cars a couple of weeks ago. Both are great additions to my freight rig. I really like the Christmas boxcar, I wanted one for the holidays, and this one is so understated it can be run all year. The gondola, love the dark green color of the containers against the maroon gondola. 

Its been a bit of a "Parts" week for me ... no idea what I am going to use them on , but better in my parts bin now than chasing them later ( famous last words LOL! )

So this week the focus was on wheels a bit ... as most will probably know my collection is far more Euro-centric  so these wheels are all for UK or European locos

You have to love a seller that goes to such lengths in his photos , listing sizes etc !

However focusing seems to be a lost art on a few LOL!!!

While I was there I added in a spare M1 clockwork motor ( with wrong wheels lol ) to the mix

Again you have to love the fact he puts in writing the fact its a goer!

And in the "Kinda " parts mood ... I also stumped up some cash for a bit of rarity, esp here in Australia .. and uber apologies for the crappy seller photo quality ...

Apparently under all the scan lines and poor white balance is a Lionel CLOCKWORK #1588 from C1936

It's Ruff and it's Tuff ,  but it survives ... loco has some "issues" which I am hoping is limited to the missing wheel, and possibly spring/rachet ... if its the dreaded whistledrive cog , then I am in for a whole world of pain ... but I paid a fair price for it considering its faults and just the carriages themselves are probably worth the investment ???

Anyone got a spare lionel 1930's clockwork wheel??? ( I am sure they were used on others of the time period apart from the clockworks )

This was the only motor shot annnnd I cant see the whistledrive cog lol although the drive wheel for it looks ok-ish ... I pays me money and I takes my chances ... nice to have anyway !

I found some Pride Line clowns that just had to have a new home. 

Nothing new actually as all is stopped due to covid19, no train show, antique fairs and auction sites are very poor quality so time to do a little cleaning on shelves. Some of my preferred standard gauge Lionel.

And take some better pictures of an old English Hornby set from 1926-27. 

Totally different kind of trains but they date from the same time period and are so representative of their original countries.

Have a nice weekend,   Daniel

A nice looking car, a Bassett-Lowke gauge 1 LMS Dining Car with six wheel trucks. The trucks are heavy diecast metal that are suspended from the car body by brass fixtures screwed to wood blocks. The litho is really nice.

Main Street 1928.

Two years ago I bought this mill at Michael's. I took it apart and the water wheel disappeared. I searched for it for months and gave up. This past December the part showed up mixed in the Christmas decorations. So finally I got to paint it.

Now where do I put it?

Scott Smith

@scott.smith posted:

Two years ago I bought this mill at Michael's. I took it part and the water wheel disappeared. I searched for it for months and gave up. This past December the part showed up mixed in the Christmas decorations. So finally I got to paint it.

 

Now where do I put it?

 

Scott Smith

Is that an old picture from the Museum or are you allowed back in?

George

@George S posted:

Is that an old picture from the Museum or are you allowed back in?

George

We are not suppose to be in the museum. I do have a key. My wife is getting upset with all the tinplate buildings being left all over the family room. I have gone down and placed them on the layout and left. That's the reason there are no trains in the pictures. I have lots to do in my two rooms. I have curtains that are just laying across a chair that need to be hung (I want the direct sunlight off the layout and trains when I'm not there). I have 50 ceiling tiles placed against the wall ready to be installed. I want to work on the tree line on the mountains between the rooms.

However I am not suppose to be working on the layout or the room or running trains. So I just drop and go and hope nothing is said by the museum management.

Scott Smith

@scott.smith posted:

We are not suppose to be in the museum. I do have a key. My wife is getting upset with all the tinplate buildings being left all over the family room. I have gone down and placed them on the layout and left. That's the reason there are no trains in the pictures. I have lots to do in my two rooms. I have curtains that are just laying across a chair that need to be hung (I want the direct sunlight off the layout and trains when I a not there). I have 50 ceiling tiles placed against the wall ready to be installed. I want to work on the tree line on the mountains between the rooms.

However I am not suppose to be working on the layout or the room or running trains. So I just drop and go and hope nothing is said by the museum management.

Scott Smith

That sounds reasonable. I was just curious, since I am many miles away. BTW, it looks great!

George

@George S posted:

That sounds reasonable. I was just curious, since I am many miles away. BTW, it looks great!

George

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCB0qtwIxE

ahahahaha!

Schultz even looks a little like me.

George

Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction.  Forget about your cares, it is time to relax at the junction....

It seems fitting that there was a water tower at the Junction!  Only wish there were more Hee Haw girls to fill it 

Not sure as to the reason for the decal on the platform, as it is the only one that I am aware of with the Mack's Junction decal.  To my knowledge the platform was never offered with the decal, yet there it is.  

For more on the water towers, see an upcoming post under the Tinplate section.  

NWL

Below, is my Lionel 252 loco and cars (1926-32), they have been in the family for about 100 years. My Grandfather bought the trains for my dad when he was a kid, and then set up a Christmas layout in our home every year when my brother and I were little. I inherited the family trains when my Grandfather passed away.  My earliest memories are of the basement lights being off, laying next to the layout and watching the bright headlight move around the room, and cast strange shadows on the walls.

The 252 is O Gauge tinplate, but looks almost identical to the Standard Gauge 402/408 locos, and shares the same latch couplers too. The flanges in both sets are very deep, the light cars buck and derail on switches. I built the elevated loop and purposely included no switches, so I could run these sets up there smoothly.

In addition to the 252, we had and I still have and run a Lionel 204 steam engine freight set.

I thought I would add a video of my family O Gauge tinplate Lionel 204 loco 2-4-2 (1940-42) and freight set to go with the 252 passenger set shown above. My dad received these two trains as gifts as a kid, and later on they were set up for me and my brother when we were kids during Christmas.

As you will see these cars also resemble Lionel Standard Gauge cars. Improvements on the 204 and cars are an e unit for changing directions (versus a lever), shrouded electronic couplers/uncouplers, and sound (air whistle in the tender), and four wheel trucks. This engine and cars have sliding shoes to pick up power for the uncouplers, the shoes are notorious for snagging on switches. Another reason for the elevated loop without switches.

No smoke yet, smoke and the knuckle coupler come after the war is won.

I remember one time I was running the 204 when I was a kid, I gave it too much juice and it flew off the curve,  hit something and knocked the marker light Jewel housing off the smoke box. The old man was furious at me, and never let me live it down. I put my mark on the 204.