A little playing with the camera before the last of the Christmas stuff goes into the attic.

A passenger set  from BING. It dates from the end so around 1930-32 and the cars are unmarked so they could be sold to different countries, i still have to find the matching locomotive...

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

Our holiday layout included three small dioramas, one of which featured vintage Ives tinplate and characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Our holiday layout included three small dioramas, one of which featured vintage Ives tinplate and characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

 

Where did the nightmare before Christmas characters come from?  My 5 yr old is bonkers about that movie. I would love to have a few things hanging around - they do look a little big though, I think that's all standard gauge stuff in this shot.

The 6 1/2 inch Pennsylvania Merchandise Car

Ives - Yellow

Ives - White

Fandor - White

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A little playing with the camera before the last of the Christmas stuff goes into the attic.

That's a neat station Steve. Who is the manufacturer? Is it German?

George

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

A passenger set  from BING. It dates from the end so around 1930-32 and the cars are unmarked so they could be sold to different countries, i still have to find the matching locomotive...

 

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

Hello Daniel,

very interesting. a „Reichsbahn“ car with faulty lettering for international sale.

Arne

New in the collection only small trains this week.

Schuhmann (Nurnberg) station around 1930

Schuhmann coaches around 1924

Schuhmann coaches around 1924

Issmayer coaches around 1915

And the repair of this week, a Bing station 10/653

Dirty, missing part and a bit damaged.

Made a new chimney

Repair of the fence

After repair and cleaning.

Together with station 10/654 (this was the template for the chimney)

Arne

Happy Weekend Tinplaters!

Not much time this weekend so I am grabbing something from the archives.  Here are some examples of American Flyer's mid-size box cabs.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

A hand painted, lightly embossed, sheet-metal, coaling station... 0/1 - ish in scale. No identifiable makers mark or signature. I assume it to be fairly recent. Maybe something someone made for themself? Recently acquired through a German auction.

PhillyChris posted:

 

A hand painted, lightly embossed, sheet-metal, coaling station... 0/1 - ish in scale. No identifiable makers mark or signature. I assume it to be fairly recent. Maybe something someone made for themself? Recently acquired through a German auction.

Looks like a copy of the Marklin water and coal station 2347 from 1904.

Arne

jhz563 posted:

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Our holiday layout included three small dioramas, one of which featured vintage Ives tinplate and characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

 

Where did the nightmare before Christmas characters come from?  My 5 yr old is bonkers about that movie. I would love to have a few things hanging around - they do look a little big though, I think that's all standard gauge stuff in this shot.

Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Deluxe Figure Play Set

They are too big for 0 gauge but look good with Standard gauge.

Amazon.com $22.00 plus tax

Double Hell Gate Bridge!

In 1929  it was rumored to be an integral part of Lionel's showroom layout.

I picked this up a few years ago. I have a article from a TCA Quarterly that shows that bridge. also talks how it was made. 

I came from the O scale side and made my first standard purchase, I can see many more in my future. Being from long ISland I thought this was an appropriate first purchase

Arne posted:

PhillyChris posted:

 

A hand painted, lightly embossed, sheet-metal, coaling station... 0/1 - ish in scale. No identifiable makers mark or signature. I assume it to be fairly recent. Maybe something someone made for themself? Recently acquired through a German auction.

Looks like a copy of the Marklin water and coal station 2347 from 1904.

 

Arne

Thank you, Sir! This is very helpful. May I ask, from which reference guide does this come? I have significant gaps in my Marklin identification database. Kindly, Chris

Hello Chris,

this comes from the book series "Technical toys in the cours of time". Was printed in the 70s in 15 books and shows the Marklin history from 1859 till around 1960.

Arne

Robert S. Butler posted:

The 6 1/2 inch Pennsylvania Merchandise Car

Ives - Yellow

Ives - White

Fandor - White

Non Pareil 4-wheel

Just in time for the storm to end all storms. 

JIM O'C: Just curious: Who made that delightful little snow plow? 

Daniel: Love the interiors on those Bing passenger cars. RSB: VERY NICE freight cars!

Jim O'C posted:

Non Pareil 4-wheel

 

Hello Jim,

I have 2 Non Pareil cars in this size too. Do you have any idea, why there are the 2 holes in the side wall?

Arne

Arne posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

A passenger set  from BING. It dates from the end so around 1930-32 and the cars are unmarked so they could be sold to different countries, i still have to find the matching locomotive...

 

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

Hello Daniel,

very interesting. a „Reichsbahn“ car with faulty lettering for international sale.

Arne

Thanks Arne, i have never seen this one. My model of the Reichsbahn or Packwagen car doesn't have the German eagle, it seems that there is a lot of variations for those cars.

Do you have an idea of the loco that could match with those cars, i am thinking a 440 or 220 for us with tender could look nice.

Very best,  Daniel

Hello Daniel,

in the 1930 Bing catalog was a similar train with a 4-4-0 and in the 1931 catalog with a 0-6-0. Looks both really good.

Greetings

Arne

Tinplate Art posted:

JIM O'C: Just curious: Who made that delightful little snow plow? 

Hornby. Pretty hefty thing too. Impeller works but the drive belt is currently just a piece of string. I need to find two buffers for it to be complete.

George S posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A little playing with the camera before the last of the Christmas stuff goes into the attic.

That's a neat station Steve. Who is the manufacturer? Is it German?

George

George, it’s a Kibri Country Station.

Steve

Arne posted:

Jim O'C posted:

Non Pareil 4-wheel

 

Hello Jim,

I have 2 Non Pareil cars in this size too. Do you have any idea, why there are the 2 holes in the side wall?

Arne

Arne, I noticed that too, but it is only on certain cars. Your 2 18271s, my 18271 buffet and the 86 boxcars. Possibly because there was sharing of shells between companies and Non Pareil got these shells intentionally punched by another supplier? Have seen several of these cars in auctions listed under Mohawk too.

Greetings friends

Instead of more Kibri I'm posting two photos of an American Flyer double header from the 1920s and 1930s.  Or sort of double header. The lead locomotive is the large #16  clockwork.  It is being pushed by an electric 1218 so I can't really call it a double header.  Both locomotives run well and could run even better if I wound up the 16.

Lew Schneider

And now some more comment on Kibri.  A variation of Steve's Kibri country station is on Ebay as I type this message.  I have no room for it, so I'll pass.

Lew Schneider

lewrail posted:

And now some more comment on Kibri.  A variation of Steve's Kibri country station is on Ebay as I type this message.  I have no room for it, so I'll pass.

 

Lew Schneider

I saw that one. I believe these were both post and pre war. They are also larger than a lot of other Kibri. I wonder if it was meant for 1 Gauge?

Steve

Two new Non Pareil I have never seen before have been up for auction recently. An orange 2297 LVE Columbia passenger coach, these are usually produced in red no matter what the name is below the window. Both Ansonia and California nameplates are common.

And a 4568 Pocahontas coach in red, these are usually found as Saratoga coaches.

As a follow up, the Non Pareil Toy and Novelty Company purchased Mohawk Toys in December of 1927 and stated they would continue to produce Mohawks popular toys under their name. Only the 10-inch cars and 4 of the 6-inch cars are pictured in the book by Sheldon Weil, (1604 circus, 1254 mail car, 1253 Washington coach and 168917 Santa Fe boxcar without the holes) no reference to the shorter 68 and 18271 cars is in that book.

Could be just an oversight, the book also does not list the large freight cars, the 68 and 10205 boxcars, the 2000 tank car or the D37350 hopper car.

A Marx 10005 articulated passenger train being paced by a Marx Commodore Vanderbilt running light.  Both engines are clockwork driven and the Vandy is a sparkler with a bell.

Last week I showed some Hornby LMS clockwork 4-4-2. This week a Hornby GWR (Great Western Railway) clockwork 4-4-2 with a set of ACE 6-wheel coaches:

Regards

Fred

Only a couple of new things this week ...

Hornby caboose and Pullman carriage created for the U.S. Market when Hornby tried dipping their toes into the US market .... there are two varieties , the earlier ones actually made in the U.S. and some runs made in the UK when the tooling was returned to Britain after they pulled out of the U.S.

Hornby opened a factory in Elizabeth , New Jersey in 1927 but the stock market crash and economy there saw them selling off the plant to A.C.Gilbert in 1929

These particular ones are UK made ... the US versions have made in the US litho'd on them

Oh and also picked up a trio of Bing ... these are still in the UK waiting to be shipped out with a pile of other stuff I have coming

The key to the USA manufacturing is the couplers. The USA production had T couplers similar to Ives and American Flyer.  The British versions had link then the "automatic" couplers.  Some British production has Made in USA on them. What happened was that the sheets with Made in USA were returned to the UK and then produced with British couplers. In other instances true Made in USA cars were returned to the UK and the couplers were exchanged.

Lew Schneider

sncf231e posted:

Last week I showed some Hornby LMS clockwork 4-4-2. This week a Hornby GWR (Great Western Railway) clockwork 4-4-2 with a set of ACE 6-wheel coaches:

Regards

Hi Fred, 

Wish Dirk Hertel and I could bring our stable of Bing super clockwork 0-6-0s and 4-6-0s to your layout for testing. We are reasonably sure that the Bing clockwork mechanism (also found in the early Bassett Lowke 4-6-0s) was the most powerful clockwork mechanism made.

Lew Schneider

Fred

lewrail posted:

sncf231e posted:

 

Hi Fred, 

 

Wish Dirk Hertel and I could bring our stable of Bing super clockwork 0-6-0s and 4-6-0s to your layout for testing. We are reasonably sure that the Bing clockwork mechanism (also found in the early Bassett Lowke 4-6-0s) was the most powerful clockwork mechanism made.

 

Lew Schneider

 

 

Hi Lew,

See the test I did:

The BING 4-6-0 is the winner.

Regards

Fred

From the archives, a northbound Flyer 3315 headed freight emerges from Lionel Lines tunnel #309:

Meanwhile, a different sort of Bing.

PD