Weekend tinplate photos/videos 10/27/17!!

Got one of the layouts done for MUZEO. The museum will be responsible for skirting and a backdrop. This one is mostly Marx. Now to get the Thomas layout done.

https://youtu.be/HEzKlniPYI4

The box top cover...

...and the box contents

Bing for the Canadian market ca 1920's.

  It is interesting to note that the engine has holes in the driver for a screw mount to hold driving rods but they are not tapped.  In addition, the headlight on this electric train is a dummy.

looks great as always Steve.

I've been busy with outdoor projects..painting the house...deck repair before the cold hits, so I've not had any time down in the basement...but this hit the mailbox yesterday....

Last week I started to have a closer look at the mail or postal cars I have and making some pictures. Here is a litographed tinplate French "Postes et Telagraphes" 0 gauge car made by AS in France in the eighties:

Regards

Fred

Chris Lonero posted:

Happy Halloween everyone! This is my standard gauge inspection car made from a die cast toy like i had when i was a kid. lets get things started. Let's see your tinplate!

The ol' Photobucket update your account warning. That's certainly a scary picture for the Halloween edition! It seems to be haunting a lot places on the web!   LOL

These two AF 3171 passenger cars showed up and will be restored to go with the other cars I am working on to make a 6 car set...

An uncomon variation of a typically french "autorail" nicknamed the Picasso. This one made by RV ZERO is in the color scheme of a unique one modified by the french railways, SNCF, to make an inspection railway car for personnalities of the SNCF. A very small serie from around 1995.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,    Daniel

lookin good Dennis!

this weeks acquisitions HWN/Wimmer and Bandai

Steamer posted:

looks great as always Steve.

I've been busy with outdoor projects..painting the house...deck repair before the cold hits, so I've not had any time down in the basement...but this hit the mailbox yesterday....

Same here...the mailman leaves me great stuff:

Haven't been down to the basement for ages...too busy buttoning up the house for winter.

PD

Running some trains this afternoon. Those Marx SP and B&O tin F units are just about right size for the few pieces of Allstate knuckle coupler cars on deluxe trucks I have.

woke up to rain! so I headed to the crappy basement, and hung a new light I got a few weeks ago

and added some shelves to my Prewar area...nothing fancy, but I made some more room.

This showed up Friday...

looks like you need a bigger basement as much as I do

Steamer posted:

looks like you need a bigger basement as much as I do

I think your right,  room is 15X13 and stuffed to the rim, but I seem to keep finding ways to stick more in there.  It would help if I could make myself sell a few things too though.

yup...down to moving the furnace and water heater out...

Playing with some trains, or am I playing with this new Nikon lens? 

Dennis Holler posted:

This showed up Friday...

 

some day I hope to have a set, there was an older gentleman at York every time that I would stop and drool,i said I would buy one of his sets when I retire,sadly I haven't seen him in years,also I saw a set with a Hudson at the castle Shannon meet today (that's in Pittsburgh pa area) price was high I thought 

Don't get me wrong, this set is far from perfect but it was a fair price I think, $130.  I have a Hudson and tender project so I need to get busy on it.  These should clean up fairly well, no major rust anywhere but lot of nicks and rubs.  What I do need however, is a Hiawatha engine or parts in any crappy condition for my beater Hiawatha cars...

This arrived over the weekend. Probably more of an accessory for standard gauge or a floor train than for o-gauge. 13-inch tall street light from the Gong Bell Company. Bulb inside the red lenses works off a D-cell battery in the base that touches a steel tube inside the pole that contacts the bulb. The fire bell is inside the fire alarm box and rings when you turn the knob.

on off slide switch in base

should look like new with a little restoration.

Apparently there is also an 8-inch version of the same light but it looks like the lower assembly does not screw off for a battery and it would be an AA-sized battery if it did.