Weekend tinplate photos/videos 11/5/17!!

I have been getting things ready for a Christmas display of trains at a local Historical Society.  It always amazes me how much time it takes to prepare everything.  The display is different every year.  This year I am adding a new item.

I had to make sure that all the lights were working.

This is a T-Reproductions copy of Lionel's 116 station and the terrace. The reproduction itself is approximately 30 years old.  My how time flies.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

A little something from across the pond - French Hornby ca. 1959

The box

...and the contents

1959 was a nice year for Hornby with strong sales. The freight set from that year.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,    Daniel

Picked up a few items this week. I don't know why I keep biting on Non Pariel stuff, but I got a few more.

Loco needs wheels or will maybe donate them

Also a nice Unique Art 742 windup loco that still works but needs a key and sparker flint

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

I have been getting things ready for a Christmas display of trains at a local Historical Society.  It always amazes me how much time it takes to prepare everything.  The display is different every year.  This year I am adding a new item.

I had to make sure that all the lights were working.

This is a T-Reproductions copy of Lionel's 116 station and the terrace. The reproduction itself is approximately 30 years old.  My how time flies.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

looks so correct with the tree !!

Oh, almost forgot my AF 4-car freight set with battery tender should be here tomorrow.

The Dutch section of the HRCA (Hornby Railway Collectoers Association) has a tinplate layout as part of the Eurospoor Modelrailway exhibition this weekend. Yesterday I went there to help with the set-up and today we played trains:

Moving pictures might follow.

Regards

Fred

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

1959 was a nice year for Hornby with strong sales. The freight set from that year.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,    Daniel

I had that boxed set at one time, nice.

Steve

Picked up a Lionel Classics 408 this week. Will have to get a set of cars to go with it.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

I have been getting things ready for a Christmas display of trains at a local Historical Society.  It always amazes me how much time it takes to prepare everything.  The display is different every year.  This year I am adding a new item.

 

Greg

I looked at that T-Reproductions terrace about 10 years ago.  I think it's the bee's knees, but the footprint is too large for the space I have available.  Only the station fits. 

It looks great.  Thanks for sharing.

Steven J. Serenska

My first delivery of new CMT has arrived. More on the way. I love the date stamp on the bottom.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

My first delivery of new CMT has arrived. More on the way. I love the date stamp on the bottom.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your killin me

video of the smaller blue comet,392 and girard cars,love it 

got this on the way...

sncf231e posted:

The Dutch section of the HRCA (Hornby Railway Collectors Association) has a tinplate layout as part of the Eurospoor Modelrailway exhibition this weekend.

Moving pictures might follow.

Regards

Fred

Here are the moving pictures:

Regards

Fred

I never or didn't remember how big the 800 cars are.....looks great though.

Just now realized the Non Pareil gondola and tender I received this week have recycled tin wheels on them from some sort of delft tea set or dishes. The recycled material was used on the inside half of each hollow wheel and would normally not be seen unless you held the pieces upside down.

and I thought Marx was the only one to do that.

Steamer posted:

and I thought Marx was the only one to do that.

Hafner was well-known for saving a few bucks re-using bottle cap pressings, etc.

too bad the management at my litho plant can't see the wisdom in this..they are always ranting about scrap. But people today would probably freak if they opened their baby food jar and found a salsa print underneath.

Steamer posted:

too bad the management at my litho plant can't see the wisdom in this..they are always ranting about scrap. But people today would probably freak if they opened their baby food jar and found a salsa print underneath.

My uncle used to run a printing press in Springfield, MA for Western Publishing. They produced the coloring books for the 1964 Worlds Fair and he used to bring home sheetmetal sheets off of the press that had the ink images of the color covers imbedded into the metal. We used to make all sorts of tin toys out of the sheets, no painting required!

There was a difference between Marx and Hafner though. Marx reused their in house defective litho sheets. Hafner bought defective litho sheets from a company making the can and bottle tops, then used the clean side and usually hid the already printed side.

Steve

sncf231e posted:

sncf231e posted:

The Dutch section of the HRCA (Hornby Railway Collectors Association) has a tinplate layout as part of the Eurospoor Modelrailway exhibition this weekend.

Moving pictures might follow.

Regards

Fred

Here are the moving pictures:

Regards

Fred

Here is a full pictorial report on the Hornby meeting of last week:

http://www.dutchhrca.nl/eur-171.htm

Regards

Fred

Went to the Allentown Show and took delivery of this very strange looking loco. Was in the movie 'John Goldfarb Please Come Home', a very silly late 60's movie (Shirley McLaine, Peter Ustinov as the rich Arab running the trains). One of two that were in the movie - this one burst into flames, and is set to run only on straight track - so far.

Model is a pretty good approximation of a PRR O-1 electric and uses a Super Motor as the drive.

So do I keep it intact as a surviving movie prop, so strip off all that junk and paint in Brunswick Green with proper lettering?

Jim, That is outstanding!..  It would be hard for me not to strip that stuff off to tell you the truth.

If it were mine......since it's from a movie I had never heard of...and no stars I really cared for....Brunswick Green and Keystones!

Might want to consider the provenance.  It might be cooler as is with the story behind it.  Having it running would seem to be the priority to me.  The shell just adds character.  Painting it just makes it another engine.

I like Shirley McClain, I think.  Why wouldn't I like Shirley McClain.  Don't answer that, I would rather keep whatever memory I have of Shirley McClain in a positive light.  

Jim,

that was a great movie and it is cool that you have a surviving prop from the show, congratulations!

Keep it as is and find a clip of the movie online and print a still of the scene off to keep with the loco.

Roland

To see this actual engine in action (and Peter Ustinov through it),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzfPdpTODiM

Scene starts at 5:25 and he throws it at about 6:04. Didn't know an O-1 had a steam whistle either.

Jim