Weekend tinplate photos/videos 12/28/18

There was some discussion on the forum about a standard gauge tinplate Orient Express. I thought I show this week some 0 gauge tinplate Wagon-Lits (CIWL) Orient Express cars from different manufacturers showing the different interpretations. The Orient Express consisted, in the period around 1930, of one or two baggage cars, a restaurant car and a couple of sleeping cars:

A JEP and a Hornby sleeping car:

A Paya, a Le Rapide and a Darstaed (Märklin replica) restaurant car:

A Biaggi baggage car:

Many other tinplate and scale models of CIWL cars can be found in my e-book on this subject, which is free to download: http://sncf231e.nl/ciwl-carriages-by-fredsmall/

Regards

Fred

Just to show you that you Americans dont have exclusive rights to Marx trains ... here is a Clockwork ...

BRITISH Marx locomotive

She also has  beaten up big brother ... 3-rail electric British Marx

Scott Smith

ETS "Maggi" reefer with brakeman's platform:

Christmas gift from the family.

PD

It's been a busy holiday season. I did get a chance to snap some photos and a video of The Christmas Special bringing families home for the holidays and shoppers to take advantage of the bargains. 

 The Christmas Special is made up of a number of entry level American Flyer cars and a nice #420 steam engine.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

this was my gift from santa-me,,,,,,,i call it my af Hudson gray hound,,,,i think it looks super with the hi cars and the twins black is single  motor,,green double,,,so ,,,like they say,,i doubled my pleasure,,doubled my fun,,i have two #42's instead of one ,,hahahaha

pd posted:

ETS "Maggi" reefer with brakeman's platform:

Christmas gift from the family.

PD

Gift of the Mag(g)i! 

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

It's been a busy holiday season. I did get a chance to snap some photos and a video of The Christmas Special bringing families home for the holidays and shoppers to take advantage of the bargains. 

 The Christmas Special is made up of a number of entry level American Flyer cars and a nice #420 steam engine.

 

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Hey Greg, were those Blue Streak cars ever blue? Every one I've seen looks like some shade of green!  LOL

Actually Andy they are blue - the issue is that the train is the blue streak which means it is moving very fast so as it approaches you the cars look blue but as it passes - the old redshift/doppler effect kicks in and they look sort of greenish blue as the train recedes from view. 

Another Blue Streak (this, of course, is a going away pan shot).  Seriously - the cars are basically greenish blue.

While technically not tin, these North Pole Express cars from Walmart fit right in with Marx and probably other small sized O-gauge trains. They couple right up to Marx knuckle couplers and with some tweakage, will work with tab and slot couplers too. I think I ended up with 5 sets between my purchases and gifts. For $10 you can throw away the battery powered loco (non-North American prototype), 4 wheel tender and other stuff and just use the two coaches in the set! 

I see some kitbashing fun coming up in the new year. 

Robert S. Butler posted:

Actually Andy they are blue - the issue is that the train is the blue streak which means it is moving very fast so as it approaches you the cars look blue but as it passes - the old redshift/doppler effect kicks in and they look sort of greenish blue as the train recedes from view. 

Another Blue Streak (this, of course, is a going away pan shot).  Seriously - the cars are basically greenish blue.

I'll take your word for it. Grandpa was a bit colorblind and maybe I have a touch of it too. LOL

I've seen some that were maybe teal or aqua blue-green in color, but the cars in this picture are definitely green to me.   

RSB: Frequency shift in COLOR? Not sure that would be true for a relatively short distance! Maybe your comment was meant to be scientific humor! LOL!  ☺

Yes, they are.  The issue with that picture is the lighting and it does make the cars look green.  The actual color is as you mentioned more teal/aqua than anything else.

Yes, TINPLATE, it was.

The type of lighting of course affects the perception of color, but the cars in your photo on my phone are clearly GREEN! NOTE: I had to pass the US Army color blindness screening test to be able to be assigned to the Chemical Corp training program.

Robert,

Put a date of April 1 on your comments and I think the folks will get the humor.

Either that or use this as a disclaimer.

I actually thought the scientific reasoning was quite clever.  Folks, the Blue Streak cars are a teal color, or blue green.  

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Some years ago I bought to a nice forum member, thanks Chris, a couple of Forney standard gauge hoppers, they are very nice and very big.... i just run them behind a Lionel 380 but it seems really small compare to those big cars. They are certainly the only ones in France and I have to find a right loco to match with....

Have a great tinplate weekend and a safe holyday time,    Daniel

Some tinplate near the tree!

running a Marx freight

Daniel: Those Forney hoppers are most impressive!  ☺

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Some years ago I bought to a nice forum member, thanks Chris, a couple of Forney standard gauge hoppers, they are very nice and very big.... i just run them behind a Lionel 380 but it seems really small compare to those big cars. They are certainly the only ones in France and I have to find a right loco to match with....

Have a great tinplate weekend and a safe holyday time,    Daniel

 

Both the Forney and Roberts Lines freight cars are quite large. A 381 might work, I haven’t tried them together yet. A  392 or 400 are good steam options.

Steve

jhz563 posted:

Some tinplate near the tree!

Love the Ludlow tin.

Steve

Fatman posted:

Just to show you that you Americans dont have exclusive rights to Marx trains ... here is a Clockwork ...

BRITISH Marx locomotive

She also has  beaten up big brother ... 3-rail electric British Marx

Here is one you don't see very often that I just got this week. A 6220 Coronation loco.

Smaller in stature than the 331 Coronation set and this one has floor train-style wheels. 

I later learned it came out of a 245 double track set.  

No idea why it has that looped hole above the front wheel. 

I also picked up a Silver link consist to go with my roofless 2509 Silver link loco. Time to start whipping them all into shape. 

Jim O'C posted:

I also picked up a Silver link consist to go with my roofless 2509 Silver link loco. Time to start whipping them all into shape. 

 

I was thinking of bidding on that one .. Glad I didn't ... it went to a good home

Nice Pickup

Having the loco is an absolute bonus as they are really hard to find ..well done  !

@Jim O'C  I shall have to make do with my Wells Brimtoy Silverlink

My My  Christmas gift 2018

Prosperity engine pulling the Black Diamond.

George 

"Old school" standard gauge operations this evening- a Lionel 51 loco (later 1918-25 variant) pulling three early Lionel freight cars.  This train came together over a period of many years, the No. 17 caboose (1914-18 variant F) was purchased at a TTOS meet back in 1997, the loco came from the estate of Lindley Bothwell in the big 2017 auction, the No. 16 ballast car (1918-22 variant I) was a more recent purchase at a TTOS meet, and the No. 15 tank car (1923-26 variant H) came from Ebay. 

Fatman posted:

@Jim O'C  I shall have to make do with my Wells Brimtoy Silverlink

 

That is one I don't have. Very nice, didn't they make a green version also?

unclelouiesboy posted:

My My  Christmas gift 2018

You must have been a very good boy this year! That's a beaut!

Jim O'C posted:

Fatman posted:

@Jim O'C  I shall have to make do with my Wells Brimtoy Silverlink

 

 

That is one I don't have. Very nice, didn't they make a green version also?

That they did @Jim O'C

also in Blue and Red ... as part of their Golden Eagle sets in both floor and 0 gauge variants

I also have the red from the late 30's

These Wells Brimtoy streamliners were not only made as0-4-0 but also as 2-4-0. The difference in the body is the position of the key hole; in the 0-4-0 the mechanism is placed in the middle of the locomotive. The 0-4-0 version has cast wheels while the wheels of the 2-4-0 are tinplate. The 0-4-0 proofs to be a better runner which I assume is caused by the well-balanced position of the mechanism. 

Regards

Fred

Lionel 153 circa 1920 and a Lionel Corporation/MTH reproduction of the Lionel Ammunition train circa 1918 on my tiny all tinplate layout.

A little late to the party...Happy New Year fellow tinplaters!

Santa brought me these 2 items. The 228 prewar switcher I may have mentioned before. I got it running (it wasn't originally), but it still needs work. 

Also got this Hornby No. 2 Goods Platform.

Tom 

MNCW posted:

A little late to the party...Happy New Year fellow tinplaters!

Santa brought me these 2 items. The 228 prewar switcher I may have mentioned before. I got it running (it wasn't originally), but it still needs work. 

Also got this Hornby No. 2 Goods Platform.

Tom 

 

Now you need a #2 train shed to go with it.

Steve

give'm time Steve.....

No, no, no, never ever. We'll, maybe some day. 

Tom