Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Chris Lonero posted:Trainlover160 posted:Chris Lonero posted:Let’s see your tinplate!
Love it Chris! Where did u find plane and figure?
Joe Gozzo
Mickey came from a small die cast plane I had and the plane I saw on the forum a while back. I can’t recall at the moment where I got it?
Looks like some that Hobby Lobby sells
Steve
Mine came from Hobby Lobby
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
My recently completed standard gauge single-truck Birney trolley (a converted Kingsbury floor toy), zipping around on Hollis Cotton's awesome standard gauge layout. Also in the scene is an amazing early period Lionel freight train led by a 42 loco, the set owned by Larry Pearson.
Robert S. Butler posted:Maybe this will help.
The set below is a boxed set with the ID number 843RCT
The set is complete. The power car has a silver painted nose while the rest of the train is lithographed tin.
All of the components came in separate cardboard sleeves. The coaches are #584
and the observation is #555
It's worth noting the observation has the "holdover" punched holes and slots which served as the anchor points and switch access for the battery powered tail light on the clockwork Zephyr sets. I can't recall ever seeing a tin lithoed Zephyr observation that didn't have these holes and slots which would suggest Flyer never changed the tooling for at least the base part of the tin lithoed Zephyr observations.
Underside of the power car
This train is AWESOME !! I love the look of it . Would be even more awesome in standard gauge .
Working on the railroad again this weekend. Added 3 more terminals underneath and connected a few more accessories.
The Union Station required a bit of work, as after connecting it, I discovered that one of the interior light fixtures had a short. It took a bit to discover which of the 4 interior fixtures it was, and then I ended up removing the tower fixture and putting it in place of the bad interior fixture. The tower fixture will be much easier to replace, when I find an appropriate fixture to replace it with.
The Universal Bridge at the rear of the layout is projecting a great reflection on the wall.
Added another lighted tunnel as well.
Here is a shot of the entire layout, only 3 lighted tunnels, a Universal Bridge, and Union Station are wired at the present time, but in order to light them, I installed 4 different terminals and associated wiring, so adding more accessories to the existing terminals will be easy.
NWL
The station looks brilliant, mate! Just a super job on that.
This is a follow-up to my 7/04/2019 Weekend Tinplate posting in which I mentioned a bunch of odd locomotives from an estate collection. This is about that American flyer 1680. It's the one with the home-built pilot and cylinders.
Along with that engine, there was a set of 1621/1622 passenger cars. Here are some photos of the engine and cars.
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Some research in Greenberg's Guide to American flyer Prewar O gauge shows that these were a set cataloged in 1936-37. The first actual non-articulated streamlined cars were placed in service by the Milwaukee road in May 1935.
The locomotive is a fascinating item and a challenge to figure out how can I get the best sales price from it. Here are some detail photos. The reverse unit obviously needs repair, but the motor itself turned freely on 15 volts. The pilot, cylinders and crosshead guides are an interesting freelance work. So I've got four items to list for sale: boiler, rods, motor and trailing truck. The pilot, cylinders and crosshead guides may go on the free table at the December NETCA meet. I'll give them to anyone willing to pay the $4 for postage.
Remember in the 50's how Model Railroader sold engineers hats with the saying "Model Railroading is Fun" ? Well for me one of the fun parts of model railroading is finding new homes for the parts of old engines.
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regard to the cars, you might be interested in the following from my eBay listing of the cars.
These cars were AF's competition with Lionel's streamliners. I'm a Lionel fan and collector, but in this case I'd say American Flyer had the superior product. The cars look as good as Lionel's but they have much more flexibility in operation. They are not articulated and can be pulled behind any AF (or Lionel) car or locomotive with the usual hook coupler.
These cars have an unusual lighting system and coupling mechanism. There is only one electrical pickup shoe for the train. It is on the observation car. Each vestibule has an electrical contact. The contacts are compressed by the coupling mechanism to provide very good car to car conductivity. You could run only coaches without the observation if you put the pickup shoe on one of them, a simple procedure.
The coupling mechanism is illustrated in two of the photos. There is a tab coupler at the bottom and another tab at the top that maintains vertical alignment. The bent rod hooks pulls the vestibules together to give good electrical contact.
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