Starting off this week are some photos of Trainstock last Saturday at the New Jersey High railers. This is Tom Snyder's standard gauge layout donated and shipped from California to New Jersey. If you haven't been to the NJHR club for Trainstock or any other open house event they hold you owe it to yourself to check it out. Now let's see your tinplate!!
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Chris Lonero posted:Starting off this week are some photos of Trainstock last Saturday at the New Jersey High railers. This is Tom Snyder's standard gauge layout donated and shipped from California to New Jersey. If you haven't been to the NJHR club for Trainstock or any other open house event they hold you owe it to yourself to check it out. Now let's see your tinplate!!
Incredible shots Chris thanks for sharing
Joe Gozzo
I did some track work but expanding the inner standard gauge oval and then opening up the O gauge loop inside. Some buildings were changed around and then I broke out my newer 256 with DCS and the passenger cars to go with it. I have everything running off of DCS and the power bricks. Now if the wifi upgrade would come out to control track power also since I have to use the remote for it right now. I hope everyone enjoys the video:
Thanks to some parts trading with Jim Pastorius, I now have all but one of my Std Gauge Dorfan freights on Lionel 200 series trucks. These are a great substitute for the disintegrated cast ones. Though I'd share a picture of two orange gondola's to show the big color difference.
Steve
One of the latest JEP locomotives is their greatest, the SNCF 141P; JEP made this in 1957 (JEP stopped production in 1964). I do not have this locomotive yet but this week arrived, from an auction in England, one of the coaches JEP made to go with this locomotive. It is a tinplate sleeping car from the Wagon-Lits.
JEP based this coach on their prewar model of the Fleche d'Or coach:
Regards
Fred
This Maerklin gauge 1 boxcab RS 13031 in 20V from about 1926 is a hand-painted favorite.
sncf231e posted:One of the latest JEP locomotives is their greatest, the SNCF 141P; JEP made this in 1957 (JEP stopped production in 1964). I do not have this locomotive yet but this week arrived, from an auction in England, one of the coaches JEP made to go with this locomotive. It is a tinplate sleeping car from the Wagon-Lits.
Fred:
One of these days, my wallet is going to start a petition to ask you to stop posting photos like these... 
In all seriousness, I love these JEP items that you've shown us over the past several months. Is there a website or a book one can look at to learn more about this manufacturer and the products they made?
Fantastic stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Steven J. Serenska
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Thanks to some parts trading with Jim Pastorius, I now have all but one of my Std Gauge Dorfan freights on Lionel 200 series trucks. These are a great substitute for the disintegrated cast ones. Though I'd share a picture of two orange gondola's to show the big color difference.
Steve
Steve, these came out great!! Sorry I didn't have any 200 trucks in my parts stash, but I'm glad you located what you needed. Arno would be proud!!
Steven, Thank you,
Most of the information on JEP and other French toy trains is only available in French. This is an interesting website on JEP and others which you could look and use Google translate: http://www.train-jouet.com/ and this is their JEP page: http://www.train-jouet.com/jep/index.html And the pictures do not need translation! Clive Lamming, who wrote many books in French on real and toy trains, made this book: JEP book which is still available from the publisher lrpresse jep.
Regards
Fred
Fred:
Thanks very much for this info. I actually lived in Paris for one year in the 1980s. I can still read French, although dogs howl and birds fall from the sky when I try to speak it...
I will look into those information sources. Thanks again for the information.
Steven J. Serenska
got a couple new arrivals this week thanks to Dennis Holler. Those along with a blue 1630 I picked up several years ago are headed to the shop for a new paint job. got an idea in mind, and I think it will look pretty good. we'll see.
One from the archives...a late-version Lionel 259E pounds southbound across the 305 bridge with a string of 800-series tankers:
A few refurbished and a few custom jobs in here. I created this one from a basket-case found at the local antique-mall:
Had a lot of fun with these little projects back in the day...
PD
Steamer posted:got a couple new arrivals this week thanks to Dennis Holler. Those along with a blue 1630 I picked up several years ago are headed to the shop for a new paint job. got an idea in mind, and I think it will look pretty good. we'll see.
Can't wait to see em Dave!
I just cannot put it away yet! So from under the Christmas Tree to on top the dining room table.
Wonderfull pictures as usually. I was thinking to show some Hornby but seeing Fred's post and to complete it and geave some ideas .... Here is the famous JEP 141 P loco, i took the pictures before cleaning it, sorry.
The pullman car matching Fred's one, note there is several variations of the blue color,
And three classic cars from the same period, blue and cream restaurant, coach and baggage
All those cars design is based on modified models from pre war, different colors and boggies to geave them a more modern look.
Finally i want to apologise if posts from the old Europe geave some ideas to you collectors from USA. It has been the same for me seeing all your great Lionel Standard Gauge trains and i have bought with time and "some money" a good selection of them.....
Have a great tinplate weekend,
Daniel
those look great Daniel!
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Thanks to some parts trading with Jim Pastorius, I now have all but one of my Std Gauge Dorfan freights on Lionel 200 series trucks. These are a great substitute for the disintegrated cast ones. Though I'd share a picture of two orange gondola's to show the big color difference.
Steve
Wow! Steve, I had no idea there were color variations in the beautiful Dorfan wide gauge freight series. My gondola looks like the top orange one. I put MTH repro Dorfan trucks on my Dorfan frieghts. I'm working on a video of the set running. I saw your video which i like.
Jim
Might add that the JEP 2-8-2 141P has two motors each driving four wheels. I remember helping a friend sell his to a purchaser in Paris at least 20 years ago. Haven't seen another on this side of the Atlantic since.
Lew Schneider
Courtesy of Chris Lonero from the OGR Buy/sell forum a trio of well preserved circa 1949 tinplate 6442/6443 passenger cars being pulled by a nicely restored Lionel 675 "Pacific" I picked up at York a few years back. Passengers are waiting to board from an LCT 134 Station.
OKHIKER posted:Courtesy of Chris Lonero from the OGR Buy/sell forum a trio of well preserved circa 1949 tinplate 6442/6443 passenger cars being pulled by a nicely restored Lionel 675 "Pacific" I picked up at York a few years back. Passengers are waiting to board from an LCT 134 Station.
OKHiker:
What are those extra ties in you're using in your tubular track? Are those the ones from Moondog? They look very good.
Steven J. Serenska
running the bulls ,aka 408e's
They look great! Enjoy.
Serenska posted:OKHIKER posted:Courtesy of Chris Lonero from the OGR Buy/sell forum a trio of well preserved circa 1949 tinplate 6442/6443 passenger cars being pulled by a nicely restored Lionel 675 "Pacific" I picked up at York a few years back. Passengers are waiting to board from an LCT 134 Station.
OKHiker:
What are those extra ties in you're using in your tubular track? Are those the ones from Moondog? They look very good.
Steven J. Serenska
Steven,
Yep, they are Moondog ties which I bought many, many years ago. They really do look half decent with tubular track and the grey ballast helps them stand out. Thanks for the complement.
OKHIKER posted:
Steven,Yep, they are Moondog ties which I bought many, many years ago. They really do look half decent with tubular track and the grey ballast helps them stand out. Thanks for the complement.
Thanks for letting us know.
It's funny, I can often tell when someone's using Moondog ties because they just look "right". To my eye, there's something about Moondog's design specification that just nailed it. Each one by itself doesn't look exactly like a prototypical wooden railroad tie, but when a group of them are placed in a row among the black tinplate ties, it somehow causes the viewer's mind to "complete the picture" and accept them as railroad ties.
Without meaning to offend anyone, I find that the plastic ties from 3R, ones cut from wood and painted black, and other alternatives just don't look the same as Moondog ties.
I managed to score a reasonably priced bag of Moondog ties on eBay not too long ago. They can often go for $35-40 a bag which isn't going to work for me because I need several thousand ties for my layout. I will send a few to a custom rubber manufacturer I found in California to see if they can cut sheet rubber to the same specification and hopefully at a reasonable price point. I will let everyone here know how it goes.
Steven J. Serenska
Got a good haul of tinplate from family searching across the country. Don't recognize some pieces, however. Help?
I don't know who made these buildings. Looks like Marx or Flyer on the switch tower, and Marx or Lionel for the light tower.
A few Marx sets (or a single set?). Some have silver trucks, others have a grey side frame. Any uncommon ones either?
Here's my latest Marx resto-mod. Parts from a couple of CP locos with the drive train from a 999. Side panels got all scratched up during surgery and the cab had been brush painted by a previous owner so I repainted them while leaving the boiler original. Graphics were drawn up in MS PowerPoint. Need to do a little more weathering to blend the new with the old...
This thread is always a visual delight. Its a treat each weekend to see so much tinplate. I think I ought to go back and save each thread so that I can go back and view everyone's postings. Haven't I read a thread somewhere that gives instructions for saving an entire thread? Chris, when did you make the first posting for "Weekend Tinplate Photos/Videos"?
My offering is an Ives set from 1923 - 1924. The only piece I question is the Observation. According to the information on the Ives Train Society Site it doesn't look like the Observation should have those beautiful brass journals.
Have a Great Tinplate Weekend
Greg
Northwoods Flyer
El Classico posted:Got a good haul of tinplate from family searching across the country. Don't recognize some pieces, however. Help?
I don't know who made these buildings. Looks like Marx or Flyer on the switch tower, and Marx or Lionel for the light tower.
A few Marx sets (or a single set?). Some have silver trucks, others have a grey side frame. Any uncommon ones either?
The light and switch tower are both Marx.
Steve
Been a member of this forum for a while now,but never really posted anything,so here are a few photos of the gauge 1 at the bi-annual Bassett Lowke Society meeting at Tewin,Herstfordshire,UK,by way of an apology for a lack of contribution.
I don't have any pictures of Venice to offer...how about a few of some gondolas?
American Flyer
Bing
Fandor
Hafner
Hornby
Ives
KBN
Lionel
Marx
Unique
bigmark75f posted:Been a member of this forum for a while now,but never really posted anything,so here are a few photos of the gauge 1 at the bi-annual Bassett Lowke Society meeting at Tewin,Herstfordshire,UK,by way of an apology for a lack of contribution.
Wow, what a great gathering. I don't think I've seen so much British G1 in one place. Thanks for the pics and vids.
bigmark75f posted:Been a member of this forum for a while now,but never really posted anything,so here are a few photos of the gauge 1 at the bi-annual Bassett Lowke Society meeting at Tewin,Herstfordshire,UK,by way of an apology for a lack of contribution.
Many thanks for all those pictures, incredible amount of 1 gauge trains which are not so comon to find. A temporary layout with so many vintage pieces is really exceptionnal, certainly possible only in Great Britain.
Daniel
Firewood posted:bigmark75f posted:Been a member of this forum for a while now,but never really posted anything,so here are a few photos of the gauge 1 at the bi-annual Bassett Lowke Society meeting at Tewin,Herstfordshire,UK,by way of an apology for a lack of contribution.
Wow, what a great gathering. I don't think I've seen so much British G1 in one place. Thanks for the pics and vids.
Agreed! Outstanding pictures and videos this week guy's! 
Chris Lonero posted:Firewood posted:bigmark75f posted:Been a member of this forum for a while now,but never really posted anything,so here are a few photos of the gauge 1 at the bi-annual Bassett Lowke Society meeting at Tewin,Herstfordshire,UK,by way of an apology for a lack of contribution.
Wow, what a great gathering. I don't think I've seen so much British G1 in one place. Thanks for the pics and vids.
Agreed! Outstanding pictures and videos this week guy's!
Hey Chris not sure if your email address changed can you go to my profile and send me an email thanks.
Joe Gozzo
Email address is the same. Email sent.
Here's some new gondola loads I was working on today. I have been buying super glue gel in these swanky looking containers lately and just couldn't make myself throw them out when empty. So I decided to make loads for my train cars. I painted the "gills" (really the places you press to squeeze out the glue) with a metallic copper color. #8 screws, rubber plumbing washers and acorn nuts make up the tops of the loads.
I have to admit, I don't really have an idea of what I made, but they do look a bit sci-fi to me, like some kind of weird power transformers or something. Maybe something from Dr Who? Maybe with a generous dose of rivets and loaded in a prewar or old west style gondola they could be something from the old "Wild, Wild West" TV show. I probably need to make up some warning signs and maybe a control panel or something to finish them off.
Andy,
I like them. Great color choices, too, especially for the gondolas that you've chosen for display. However, I must say that the black one looks a bit like Darth Vader. Is that labored breathing that I hear? :-).
There's something about found objects that often suggest "transformer-like" objects, at least to me anyway, and you've captured it well with a bit of fun thrown in.
Keep that creativity flowing!
Tomlinson Run RR
those look great Andy. I agree, they look like some kind of transformers, the side look like cooling fins.
In this video, two 141 P JEP in action and also other models from the same period. Video is not mine.
Daniel
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