Lets see your tinplate!
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Japanese tinplate today, a KTM boxcab from around 1950 in a spectacular paint color I bought on eBay and repainted in a more classic color.
Have a nice tinplate weekend, Daniel
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Good timing, got a chance to go outside and snap a few photo's of some American Flyer today....
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FRom 1923 till 1932 BING from Nürnberg made the first H0/00 gauge trains called Tischbahn (Table Railway). Recently I bought this tunnel which BING made for their Tischbahn. The tunnel is only 13 cm long and 9 cm high. The tunnel entrances are nicely modelled and each consist of two parts, so this tunnel is made from 5 parts while many other tinplate tunnels just are formed from 1 or 2 parts.
Regards
Fred
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Scott Smith
York find: Marklin George The Fifth set in Gauge 1
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Uncatalogued set American Flyer #120 ca 1933
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That is just as pretty underneath as it is on top Daniel!
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Jim Kelly-Evans posted:York find: Marklin George The Fifth set in Gauge 1
You always find the interesting stuff Jim! Very nice!
Excellent posts this week and last folks. I have been absent for a few weeks but I have been reading each post.
One of the reasons for my absence was York. I left two weeks ago to meet NationWideLines and then drive to York, and then last week I was wandering around the Halls at York - totally amazed at the things that I saw and the volume of toy trains available . It was my first York and all I can say is if you have the chance to go - do!
This is one of the items that I bought at the Billy Budd early show.
I knew that I had one (at least) like this at home, but I liked the color combination. I walked away from it at least 3 times before I convinced myself to add it to the collection. If one is good two are better. 
I finally got around to unpacking it from the loot I brought home from York and went to the boxes of stored cars to find the other(s?). I did have one other just like it.
I went to the Greenberg Guide to check up on the information on it so that I could post it. To my surprise it isn't listed as a variation. I have had the first one for several years, but I don't remember knowing that it was an unlisted variation. I have to go check on the other thread and see if I have it posted there and what I posted about it; and do some more research. American Flyer is still able to surprise me. Does anyone else have a variation like this?
Have a Great Tinplate Weekend
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
This past Sunday, Steamtown in Scranton, PA, ran an excursion to Cresco, PA, 38 miles away in the Pocono region of Pennsylvania. While at the station, we had some time to explore the buildings used by the Barrett Township Historical Society. One of their volunteers, Mason Rascona, was running his 1932 384E and passenger train.
It ran like new. He said an elderly woman gave him the set last year.
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got this American Flyer boxcar from the $5 box at a show last spring. I thought it would go great with O27, so I swapped out the link couplers for Lionel (gasp!) Prewar trucks.
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Jim Kelly-Evans posted:York find: Marklin George The Fifth set in Gauge 1
Jim, you found the big brother to my Bing George the Fifth! I still need to find some appropriate cars though!
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WOW! GREAT trains by Daniel, Fred, jim Kelly, RSB, and Mason's original 384E passenger set! Keep 'em comin! ☺
A collector friend here in Nashville, unfortunately now deceased, once showed me a very nice Bing "Table Top" set, but no tunnel! He also had a like-new assembled Erector Hudson, and a very early Carlisle and Finch brass trolley with a gum-band drive, among other gems! Never had seen such special pieces before visiting his home. He was a retired US Army Colonel, who also had an officer son who was killed in Vietnam, and whose coffin flag was prominently displayed in his living room in a triangular case. I miss my friend!
when I got up this afternoon (midnights this week) these were at my door.
The prize of the lot. A Baggage car to go with the Blue Comet cars I redid this summer.
The other cars are four wheel cars, the caboose and dump have had the sides bent under, but they will get proper four wheel truck frames anyway.
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Nice haul Dave! I did ‘t think it would take too long!
Kinda stumbled onto them. I'd been looking at Baggage cars,not believing some of the prices btw,missed out on a cheap one, but it was missing all the doors and some other stuff, this one is complete just needs a run to the paint shop. Plus the 803 I'd been after, and the others, so a good deal to me.
Again a few new Bing parts in the collection.
The big crane 10/574 made 1930-32
Post box 10/6142 made 1929-32
From 1930-1932 Bing made a colonnade under number 10/6167, with a hairdresser, souvenirs etc. and a police and medical guard.
Presumably it was only sold in germany, it can not be found in any other catalog
I recently got one, but as usual it was a bit of a tinker. Easy was the new window films, one of them with police and the red cross symbol.
More difficult was the missing middle window. On Ebay I had found 1mm glass for fire alarms. Fortunately, I had bought 10 discs, 1mm glass is quite difficult to cut, the first 3 are broken. On the glass came from behind a decal, which was painted white after drying.
Inside are usually two soldered holders for the interior lighting. Since these were missing, the lighting was extended to three lamps. This is now a piece of perforated metal, which could easily be used without modification of the model in the edge under the roof.
Despite the simplicity of the models of the 30s, the colonnade is a really nice model, which is not easy to find.
Greetings
Arne
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some different versions of the Marx #553 - Middle States Oil tank car...
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Jim Kelly-Evans posted:York find: Marklin George The Fifth set in Gauge 1
Jim,
Looks like you had some success at York. Very sharp!
Tom
MTH Stephen Girard set (10-1068). New to me. I need a gray #9E now.
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My only piece of prewar rolling stock is a 517 caboose I bought in April. I posted pics in the weekend tinplate pics for 4/27/18. Later, I exchanged a few emails with our own, George S. He gave me a tutorial on restoring old tinplate. Thank you, George. As promised, here are the before and after pics:
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Beachhead2...I'm thinking you need some more prewar rolling stock because what a beautiful job you did on that!
mtj54 posted:Beachhead2...I'm thinking you need some more prewar rolling stock because what a beautiful job you did on that!
Thank you, sir. I was thinking the same thing because it was easy! Of course, I had it all worked out because all did was follow George's instructions. But I would have started sooner if I'd known how easily that old paint would strip off. I wasted a lot of money on MTH repro's! I could've bought $25 originals and repainted them. 
Here's a French Hornby loco. I don't own it but saw it behind glass in an antique store. It was labelled TBB BO-BO SNCF 1957-63.
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beachhead2 posted:My only piece of prewar rolling stock is a 517 caboose I bought in April. I posted pics in the weekend tinplate pics for 4/27/18. Later, I exchanged a few emails with our own, George S. He gave me a tutorial on restoring old tinplate. Thank you, George. As promised, here are the before and after pics:
Wow! Great job! It shows you took your time. That caboose will live on many more years!
George
beachhead2 posted:mtj54 posted:Beachhead2...I'm thinking you need some more prewar rolling stock because what a beautiful job you did on that!
Thank you, sir. I was thinking the same thing because it was easy! Of course, I had it all worked out because all did was follow George's instructions. But I would have started sooner if I'd known how easily that old paint would strip off. I wasted a lot of money on MTH repro's! I could've bought $25 originals and repainted them.
It's great that one worked out. Some cars are more frustrating than others. For example, I did a 218 dump car. It has a lot more pieces to disassemble and I could not get some of it disassembled, so had to tape off sections to paint. I also had a 214 where the tabs broke on the door slides. The refrigerator car doors are tricky too. 216 coal cars can be difficult to paint the interior sections.
It's still fun and works out best with patience.
George
George, good point. I had almost zero problems and not one tab broke so I was lucky. In fact, the only real issue I had during the whole process was a gnat flew into the wet paint on the roof. I had to restrip it and paint it again.
The Boucher Blue Comet set just sold on Stout for $11,000! Hope the lucky winner posts some pictures and videos here. 
The Erector Hudson is up next!
George
George S posted:The Boucher Blue Comet set just sold on Stout for $11,000! Hope the lucky winner posts some pictures and videos here.
The Erector Hudson is up next!
George
I guess you're saying it wasn't you?
George S posted:The Boucher Blue Comet set just sold on Stout for $11,000! Hope the lucky winner posts some pictures and videos here.
The Erector Hudson is up next!
George
I didn't expect the State Cars to go for that much, but the boxes were in great condition. This auction included some really beautiful items!
George
beachhead2 posted:George S posted:The Boucher Blue Comet set just sold on Stout for $11,000! Hope the lucky winner posts some pictures and videos here.
The Erector Hudson is up next!
George
I guess you're saying it wasn't you?
Nope. That's out of my league (right now). I did buy the Dorfan Crane though...
Trying to decide whether I need to drive 170 miles to go pick it up...
George
George S posted:Trying to decide whether I need to drive 170 miles to go pick it up...George
Remember Steve Eastman's experience with this item last month? 
I think you should head towards Indiana!
jhz563 posted:
What is that? 
George S posted:beachhead2 posted:George S posted:The Boucher Blue Comet set just sold on Stout for $11,000! Hope the lucky winner posts some pictures and videos here.
The Erector Hudson is up next!
George
I guess you're saying it wasn't you?
Nope. That's out of my league (right now). I did buy the Dorfan Crane though...
George
I gave up on this auction, too rich for me!
jhz563 posted:George S posted:beachhead2 posted:George S posted:The Boucher Blue Comet set just sold on Stout for $11,000! Hope the lucky winner posts some pictures and videos here.
The Erector Hudson is up next!
George
I guess you're saying it wasn't you?
Nope. That's out of my league (right now). I did buy the Dorfan Crane though...
George
I gave up on this auction, too rich for me!
Many of the items were high grade with original boxes. It is a very impressive collection. There were a couple of finds though. A few I missed by getting distracted. An American Flyer Chrome silver bullet went for $120, which I think is quite reasonable. There were many holy grail pieces in the collection that expectedly got top dollar.
George
