Weekend tinplate photos 📸 videos 📽 3/28/19!

My new, and first, Standard Gauge layout in action:

This week its a few items for display rather than running as they are a little outside my normal collecting sphere... but thanks to a nice fellow in the UK I deal with often , he managed to secure a few items from the Michael Foster Brimtoy book clearing sale for me

First lot Brimtoy Floor Locomotive (piano wire spring drive) and carriages along with Brimtoy pull train and carriages ( unpowered )

And Next a small set I can actually run

Brimtoy Cock of the North set with freight wagon set  and passenger carriages ...

Not high value items but charming and now just a little bit famous as they are published in the book LOL!

Ok, a bit of a departure for me, but the scenery structures are tinplate

Steve

https://youtu.be/BTHQ7v2sP0A

E. Bugatti, one of the greatest car builder, also built a serie of rail cars using the motors of the most powerful car he realized. So here is a tinplate version of the Presidential model, made in small serie by a friend who passed some years ago. Modern tinplate in the spirit of old models. And three rail O gauge of course.

Have a great tinplate weekend,  Daniel

Beautiful Daniel

Two weeks ago on a swapmeet there was some Gauge 1 Märklin tinplate; most of it not very interesting but this 1 gauge 4-wheel 1/2 class carriage with opening doors I liked and thus I bought.

It has no markings of any railway company, so I can include it in British or German trains.

Regards

Fred

Fatman posted:

This week its a few items for display rather than running as they are a little outside my normal collecting sphere... but thanks to a nice fellow in the UK I deal with often , he managed to secure a few items from the Michael Foster Brimtoy book clearing sale for me

 

Fatman,

I thought you were located "down-under"? I am still waiting on my stuff from this auction and located much nearer

Regards

Fred

Love it Steve. That bridge is a work of art!

 Picked up my fourth piece of Dorfan, a UP Boxcar.

and the wife and I went antiquing last weekend and I spotted this Marx 391. A few scratches in the paint, but it shines like a new penny.

I don't have any cars with the one way couplers, so I'll have no choice but to start the hunt for some of those.

A few stills from the new layout.

sncf231e posted:

Fatman,

I thought you were located "down-under"? I am still waiting on my stuff from this auction and located much nearer

Regards

Fred

Yep I am downunder .. but my man in the UK lives close enough to the Vectis salerooms to pick them up personally , and he buys a lot of stuff from there as well , we had talked before the auction and I mentioned I would like to have bid , but apparently their shipping is quite slow and expensive, so he put in blanket bids on a few things ... those two lots were the only ones he got in that sale ... they are still in the UK but he took pics for me before packing them into the box of goodies he has for me ... I save a fair bit buying off him because he will accumulate my purchases and wait til he has about 4-5 kilo of stuff to send on in the one bulk package ... to give you an idea this was a smaller lot (2 kg)  he sent me just before Xmas lol

1930 American Flyer Steel Mogul ...Take 2

  Last week I posted a picture of the Steel Mogul Set with black trucks.  In addition to the black trucks there were some other differences.

The brake wheel supports for the lumber car are also painted black

and the headlight cover for the engine is chromed instead of painted black.  When I saw this engine my first thought was the hood was a replacement but, as you can see, the replacement hood (lower right) is very different.

 Sometime during the 1930 year Flyer transitioned to gray trucks, black painted headlight cover, and chrome treatment for the brakewheel supports

Later 1930 Steel Mogul Set

Ives National Limited wide gauge by MTH.

Hello Fellow Tinplaters...

I took this photo back in 2011 and the Toy & Train Show in White Plains, NY and yes, I bought the locomotive. 

Tom

There was no doubt in my mind........ Lucky Son of a Gun.....

WOW! You ALL have contributed some unique and wonderful gems to this week's edition of this thread! THANK YOU! I do have a question for Chris Lonero: Who made that gorgeous "Victoria Station" in your video? 

I also continue to be blown away by JKE's super-fantastic elevated layout and accompanying trains (jewels?)! BRAVO, Sir! I believe Mr. Hertz would be most proud of your achievements!

Excellent photos again this week folks.  Thanks.

Since Mint Condition Prohibition has been soliciting information about Wide/Standard Gauge equipment on other threads, I thought I would post some tinplate options that aren't Lionel.

And just to show that I am not a total American Flyer snob; here is an example from another Wide Gauge manufacturer:

Ives

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

My local dealer had these for sale. Who made these?

Scott Smith

scott.smith posted:

My local dealer had these for sale. Who made these?

 

Scott Smith

Jayline and he wants way too much.

Steve

The tinplate buildings were made by Jayline. I have the tower.

Tom

Marklin ‘Berlin’ #2926. Last of the American-type ‘0’ freight that was on my list. Now, if I could just find a Mundhenke box-cab e-lok.

A few news in the collection.

Brimtoy trainset

Karl Bub ticket office 1726 , build 1931-1936

Ernst Plank station, made in the late 20s.

Bing small stations for UK. 2x the same, but with small differences.

Issmayer coaches of the early 20s.

Arne

PhillyChris posted:

Marklin ‘Berlin’ #2926. Last of the American-type ‘0’ freight that was on my list. Now, if I could just find a Mundhenke box-cab e-lok.

Ahh, but I’m looking at that Onion Dome station in the background. Can’t swing one right now, so I am plotting how to build a replica.

George

after a couple of weeks staring and coddling the "eagle" set,thought I better run it,,alittle lub,,,runs like a champ,also couple of weeks ago pickup this 4019 ,needs some motor cleaning, and lastly,the 423,runs great,just needs some siderods,,,,and pictured with its stablemates 

Lionel #300 Hellgate Bridge 1934, Lionel Mickey Mouse Hand Car 1935 & Lionel Mfg co. 203 Armored Engine 1917.

eddie g posted:

Lionel #300 Hellgate Bridge 1934, Lionel Mickey Mouse Hand Car 1935 & Lionel Mfg co. 203 Armored Engine 1917.

 Nice contribution Eddie! Wonderful items. I knew you were holding out on us...

George

Once again, another very cool week of stuff. I have too much, but you all have a serious problem .

George.. if there is anything I can do with photos or measurements or whatever.. let me know. I got really lucky with the station. I’ll be happy to help if I can.

Happy Saturday Morning 

Great to see all the different types of tinplate. Here's my small contribution. Marx UP Diesel tinplate power pulling some Marx plastic tin. Track 2 had some MOW out early to do some track maint.

Dean

George S posted:

eddie g posted:

Lionel #300 Hellgate Bridge 1934, Lionel Mickey Mouse Hand Car 1935 & Lionel Mfg co. 203 Armored Engine 1917.

 Nice contribution Eddie! Wonderful items. I knew you were holding out on us...

George

Very nice Eddie!  Nice to see you drop in on the shiny side of the forum! 😁

My 4x8 Standard Gauge layout. 

PhillyChris posted:

Once again, another very cool week of stuff. I have too much, but you all have a serious problem .

George.. if there is anything I can do with photos or measurements or whatever.. let me know. I got really lucky with the station. I’ll be happy to help if I can.

Thanks Chris. I'll let you know. I have already photoshopped most of the pictures and have rough measurements.

This will not be a Santhion quality replica. There is a lot of intricacy in the station. I'm still trying to figure out how to cut all the tin windows with curved tops. I have no idea how Marklin did this over one hundred years ago. There was no laser cutting then.

George

George S posted:

PhillyChris posted:

Once again, another very cool week of stuff. I have too much, but you all have a serious problem .

George.. if there is anything I can do with photos or measurements or whatever.. let me know. I got really lucky with the station. I’ll be happy to help if I can.

Thanks Chris. I'll let you know. I have already photoshopped most of the pictures and have rough measurements.

This will not be a Santhion quality replica. There is a lot of intricacy in the station. I'm still trying to figure out how to cut all the tin windows with curved tops. I have no idea how Marklin did this over one hundred years ago. There was no laser cutting then.

George

It would be fun to make a paperplate version.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

George S posted:

PhillyChris posted:

Once again, another very cool week of stuff. I have too much, but you all have a serious problem .

George.. if there is anything I can do with photos or measurements or whatever.. let me know. I got really lucky with the station. I’ll be happy to help if I can.

Thanks Chris. I'll let you know. I have already photoshopped most of the pictures and have rough measurements.

This will not be a Santhion quality replica. There is a lot of intricacy in the station. I'm still trying to figure out how to cut all the tin windows with curved tops. I have no idea how Marklin did this over one hundred years ago. There was no laser cutting then.

George

It would be fun to make a paperplate version.

Steve

 

I will be paperplating tin. I saw what Arne was able to do with contact paper, but I don't think I can do what he did. I'll be gluing sealed photopaper to a tin model. It worked well when I made the Ives Powerstation.

George

once in a while i don't mind friends dropping by ... as long as they bring along a box of trains for me to look at...

i'm encouraged in that all the locomotive wheels move freely, but i haven't tested any yet.  the good news is that i believe i talked them into letting me keep the Flyer Type XVI (425... i believe with the wrong tender, but research ahead) if i can sell the others and let them keep all that.

the two gray tenders are both 2689W or WX... not in the best shape functionally.  one has a missing roller and the other has similarly deteriorated wiring and a missing coupler.  are those correct for the two gray locomotives, the 1668E and the 1666E, though?

 thanks...gary

overlandflyer posted:

huh... looking at these pictures, i just noticed that one of these two tenders looks as if it was assembled backwards.... no?  frankly i have no idea which way would be correct.

I could be wrong, but aren't the waffles always on the locomotive side (side closest to the loco)?

Tom 

we had this discussion about these coffin tenders before, IIRC it seemed like the Prewar tenders had the holes towards the engine, and the Postwar towards the back, but not always true.

Steamer posted:

we had this discussion about these coffin tenders before, IIRC it seemed like the Prewar tenders had the holes towards the engine, and the Postwar towards the back, but not always true.

they both have auto box couplers, the coupler mechs are different, though...

vents on drawbar side.

vents on coupler side.

Picked up this Animate tractor last week on the cheap. Same address as Louis Marx in NYC but it was a big building full of toy companies. Looks similar to the Marx crawling tractor, however there is no key. Instead a hand crank that folds in the rear. 

Quick searching online, I only found a few toys that they manufactured

apparently the baby tractor had a spring wound around the rear axle and you dragged the wheels on the floor one way to get the tractor to roll the other way.