Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 7/21/20!

Ok, Chris - here it is... 

Down by the station early in the morning...

Much less prestigious offer than Robert, a small die cast BING loco for the American market from around 1920. Forward only mech, the front coupler is not very useful... Tender is lettered for The New York Central and Hudson River. Bing has produced some bigger ones in the same style and clockwork and electric may be founded.

Have a nice weekend and stay safe,  Daniel

More Bing...a baggage car for the clockwork set:

Not sure of the number/vintage, but likely quite a bit newer than the coaches I have.

PD

Mine WOULD have been as prestigeous if it wasnt a repainted , wheels stuck on with epoxy, and a bodgy wood front pony mount shadow of its former greatness ... All these can be remidied though , and at least the paint is almost the right colour lol

So my latest addition ... A Hornby No3C Riviera locomotive, which  is probably the least produced of the Hornby larger locomotives of the period and the set attracts quite a premium today , with even ratty coaches usually appear into a price bracket that is  prohibitive to me normally ...

An earlier production model as it has push on wheels rather than nut and bolt ones and doesnt have the wind deflectors at the boiler front ... It might not be the most glamorous incarnation but its 100% better than the one I never had LOL!

It will look good carting my later model Hornby CIWL carriages ( once I line up a tender ! )

Notre bad Fatmann.

The color seems wright which is a good start. Repro decals are available in GB. Front coupler is wrong but easy change. Interesting red wheels, not the most comons, it dates from 1928-29. You will have to find a Nord tender and blue coaches with brass bumpers.  

Take care Hornby is very addictive.... Daniel

Just arrived in excellent condition from Krefeld.de transit time 1 month: Marklin 2037 version with embossed roof (1925-31.)  I  have to wait until autumn to install it on my layout back in the city, but I can enjoy looking at it in the meantime.

Wow, that is pretty fabulous, Jim. Remarkable interior details!

PD

Tom Snyder and the Tomorrow show visit Ward Kimball, jump in the way back machine and enjoy...

WOW! You’ve got the golden touch Jim.  Gorgeous! 

I have been getting to many of my long, set-aside, unfinished projects recently.  I am not sure how long this project has sat apart.  All I know is that when I started it, many years ago, I made 6 pieces, only to find out I was limited by the 3 bases I had.  So 3 of these pieces have sat for years.  I did acquire the 3 needed bases over that time, but never got around to stripping the paint or repainting the bases, until now.  Here are the 3 bases, painted.

I then assembled 2 of the 3 unfinished projects and could not complete the last one, as I ran out of eyelets used to attach the items to the bases.  I did order some eyelets, so the last one should be finished in a week or two.

So here is the total project.  The nearest 2 items are originals, plus the single remaining unfinished item.  In between the nearest 2 sets of tracks are the 5 reproduction pieces, and then in the background are 2 more mystery originals.

Here is a closeup of the mystery originals, with one of the previously pictured originals in between.  Note that these two originals are significantly taller and have no bases.  I simply drilled holes in the piece of wood in order to mount these.  Note that the mystery poles are unpainted below the cross arms and painted green above the cross arms.  I believe that these may have been used on some sort of factory produced layout and were designed to simply slide into a hole in the layout.  All I know is that I purchased them at York a few years ago.

NWL

Wow, Jim, that is incredible!

@Craignor posted:

Tom Snyder and the Tomorrow show visit Ward Kimball, jump in the way back machine and enjoy...

 

Thanks for posting that! I will enjoy it. Love Ward Kimball and Tom Snyder. It's a shame that the tapes of so many of these old TV shows are of such bad quality though. We are all definitely spoiled now by High Def.

Was able to get a few minutes upstairs to run a few trains. Excuse the video operator, he will need some additional OJT. Hope you enjoy!

Will,

I am pretty sure I watched that episode live in my teenage bedroom at my parents house late one night in the 70’s. Hard to believe that was over 40 years ago.

Pretty funny when Tom complains about opening a new Lionel engine as a kid in the fifties and finds it DOA.

@Rich Wiemann posted:

Was able to get a few minutes upstairs to run a few trains. Excuse the video operator, he will need some additional OJT. Hope you enjoy!

Nice layout, and movie. Running at Lionel speed!

Craignor :  THANK YOU ! for the Ward Kimbal piece...I was wondering when it was done and then they mentioned going to the White House and visiting Mr. Carter!  Wow hard to believe it was the 1970s.  It was great, I never had seen this before. 

Don

Don,

Funny that all the conversations between Tom and Ward could have been overheard today between all of us, Time has marched on, but the fundamentals of the hobby haven't changed, and the fun rolls on.

I wish I could have had the opportunity to hang out in Ward’s or Tom’s trainroom while they were still alive. 

Craig you are so right. The forum has really filled an empty space left from meetings, conventions, and train shows all cancelled  

Good “talking “ to you 

Don

The passenger cars to go with my STD Gauge N&W J just showed up after being lost by Fed X.

Steve

@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

The passenger cars to go with my STD Gauge N&W J just showed up after being lost by Fed X.

Steve

Glad to see that a lost package made its way to you.  How long were they missing in transit?

@Craignor posted:

Will,

I am pretty sure I watched that episode live in my teenage bedroom at my parents house late one night in the 70’s. Hard to believe that was over 40 years ago.

Pretty funny when Tom complains about opening a new Lionel engine as a kid in the fifties and finds it DOA.

At least Tom Snyder wasn't smoking a cigarette in that segment.

@Mallard4468 posted:

Glad to see that a lost package made its way to you.  How long were they missing in transit?

It made to the receiving facility on schedule, but they lost it within their walls.