Weekend tinplate photos/ videos 4/19/18!

Left over parts from another project.

I had a lot of fun making this video.

Jim Z

Jim Z :

           That is one great layout that you have . Every time that I see it , I want to see more . I hope to utilize many of your technics and incorporate them into my own standard gauge layout . I really like how you have treated your sidewalks and curbs. Please keep showing us more . Thought the video to be great . Thanks , Jim

Nice editing work Jim. Looked like they coupled and uncoupled on there own! 

Jim, I loved it.  Thanks for sharing that video.

It's always new with me.

Find of the week, a matching set of Lionel 309 310 and 312 passenger cars in good condition. I think it was the last passenger cars made by Lionel before they dicontinue standard gauge trains. They will match perfectly with my 1835e.

Have a nice tinplate weekend and show us some of your York find .    Daniel

Excellent.  They look great.  Nice find.

My Bassett-Lowke Royal Scot locomotive is a low voltage DC version with permanent magnet motor. Since it is more then 80 years old it had lost much of its magnetism and could barely run. By adding a Neodymium magnet  the power is restored and now it pulls a train of 4 Exley coaches.

Regards

Fred

I like longer trains, and am getting frustrated with the tractive effort of my new tinplate obsession, so here's a RDG T-1 doing the job

John,

   Got to love that big Red Engine, it will make a Great Christmas Train!

Jim Z,

Loved the video, fantastic Tin Plate Layout, just great!

BeachHead2,

Fantastic #9 Green on Apple Green!  Very serious stuff!  

Fred,

   Love the Royal Scot Engine and Tender!  The Burgundy Big Cars look great with her, especially the Royal Red Mail Car!

PCRR/Dave

Summerdale Junction posted:

Jim Z :

           That is one great layout that you have . Every time that I see it , I want to see more . I hope to utilize many of your technics and incorporate them into my own standard gauge layout . I really like how you have treated your sidewalks and curbs. Please keep showing us more . Thought the video to be great . Thanks , Jim

The streets, sidewalks, signage and curbs were drawn to scale on CAD and printed on heavy weight 11 x17 paper. I taped the paper to a sheet of thin plywood with 2 inch Fastcap double sides Speedtape  and cut woodland scenics grass mat for the green areas. I taped or glued them in place. I installed the lighting and wired the scenic panels upside down off the layout.  When finished I placed them in the final position.

i will check and see if I have any construction photos.

Here is the same video in black and white.

Jim Z

Fred: Love that BL Royal Scot and that fine rake of carriages!

Here is a fun and colorful set from the Lionel-Ives transition era.

The engine is pure Lionel

And the cars are Ives design with Lionel livery

Here you can see their lineage

I wanted to show a video of the set running.  I have to say that the latch coupler can be a trial of a person's patience.  I adjusted and readjusted more times than I can tell you, and I couldn't get them to stay coupled.  I finally resorted to something I would have done when I was 10.  I used rubber bands to hold them together.  Lets just say they are attempts to model air hoses.    I am sure you will be able to see them in the video.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Noorthwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg: THANKS for sharing that nice and interesting set!

BEACHHEAD2: I too am into new and shiny - NICE #9!

I appreciate the TRUE collectors and keepers of train artifacts on this thread, and that makes me a vicarious (armchair?) collector. But I personally run only new and shiny repros: Tinplate Traditions and Lionel Classics standard gauge and accessories.

I'm with you.  I'm pretty bashful about posting pics because I see those vintage trains and consider those cool "finds".  Everything I have was just a click of the mouse.  Now, everything I want is NOT available so it makes me appreciate those finds all the more.

I am somewhat cursed with OCD and I like things to look near perfect. Also, my rationale is I could never afford an original State Set or Blue Comet in the near perfect condition I require. THANKS to Mike Wolfe and others, it is possible to own NEW tinplate! Hey, whatever works!

I just got back from spending a week in Ohio and came back with some goodies ...

Here is a 260e TCA restored matched up with 710 series cars.

NICE SET!

TINPLATE ART, new stuff is also nice to have and run. Even if i am more a collector of old original models, sometime i buy something "new". Five years ago i was in York and in the members Hall a seller had that nice, new condition Williams repro 381e lionel with an original Build a Loco Motor, as the price was really fair, price of the motor, it returned with me in France. After all this model is not so new, now it's something 40 years old....

I keep that loco but ....... i always need to have an original one....

Daniel

Daniel, beautiful piece and great stories. Stories that go with our trains just make collecting all that much better.

Miketh

from an auction late last year. Harmon Challenger locomotive and tender. too steep for my wallet. 

Jim O'C posted:

from an auction late last year. Harmon Challenger locomotive and tender. too steep for my wallet. 

 

MTH made an articulated double 400e. I think I saw one at York. Sorry, pictures in the member halls are a no-no.

George

Tinplate Art posted:

I appreciate the TRUE collectors and keepers of train artifacts on this thread, and that makes me a vicarious (armchair?) collector. But I personally run only new and shiny repros: Tinplate Traditions and Lionel Classics standard gauge and accessories.

Guys,

All tinplate is beautiful, even old rusty pieces.

please post pictures. We will admire,not criticize.

George 

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Here is a fun and colorful set from the Lionel-Ives transition era.

The engine is pure Lionel

And the cars are Ives design with Lionel livery

Here you can see their lineage

I wanted to show a video of the set running.  I have to say that the latch coupler can be a trial of a person's patience.  I adjusted and readjusted more times than I can tell you, and I couldn't get them to stay coupled.  I finally resorted to something I would have done when I was 10.  I used rubber bands to hold them together.  Lets just say they are attempts to model air hoses.    I am sure you will be able to see them in the video.

 

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Noorthwoods Flyer

Greg

  

That's awesome Greg!

A bit of an odd duck. These are not what they appear to be. The tenders are Marx but the engines are Australian Dolphin Products. They were made as floor toys and seem to be quite rare even in Australia. I DID not modify them, this is how I got them other than adding the tenders

Wow - they pass for MARX clones!

gotta be copies....wonder if Marx was involved? Thanks for sharing guys, great stuff again.

Just arrived. Beautiful Ives set 500,1926-27. The Green Mountain Express.  Kinda like me, lights are on, nobody’s home. Going to pull the shell and check it out.

Steve

Had to put the Ives sets on the layout for a last run around.

Steve great use of leftover parts! Exactly what I woulda done.

Greg I love those Ives cars (yours too Steve). I've found soe of the Ives passenger cars, but they always seem to have one bad side.The hunt continues.

"All tinplate is beautiful, even old rusty pieces."

funny you should mention that George....got a care package from Dennis Holler....

The Flyer cars has the link coupler trucks, so Dennis sent the tab and slot type to go with my other Flyer cars, but other than that they are ready to go.

The Lionel cars defiantly need some time in the shop. With the 817 projects some others have done, this one will get a repaint, and I already have a two tone green 817.Not sure if I'll go red or maybe something else. Like to find a close match to the tank car, but who knows.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Just arrived. Beautiful Ives set 500,1926-27. The Green Mountain Express.  Kinda like me, lights are on, nobody’s home. Going to pull the shell and check it out.

Steve

Steve, 

Nice Set. It looks like it is in great condition. I have the engine and I am on the lookout for the cars.  Ives recycled that set name.  This is also known as the Green Mountain Express. Its from 1926 according to the Ives Train Society website.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Dave,

Nice additions to your growing tinplate empire (especially the Flyer ).  I look forward to seeing the magic that you work on them.

Greg

Steamer,

David I do not know what it it about that particular Green on Green colored 817 Caboose, either there were an incredible number of them made, or the kids in those era's played incredibly hard with those particular colored Lionel Cabooses.  At the Train Shows I have seen more of those Green on Green colored Cabooses that were played with incredibly hard, and need restored, than any of the other colored 817's. 

I think the next old beat up 817 I pick up, is going to get restored in a nice High Gloss Silver with Black Trim.  I got this idea when I stripped the last 817 to bare metal and had it running in the Consist, prior to painting it Black and Gold.  Maybe it's time I added a nice shinny Silver 817 to the Consist.

PCRR/Dave

just like my road runner....Chrysler must have painted 80% of their cars in the late '60s green...good thing it's my favorite color.

Steamer posted:

gotta be copies....wonder if Marx was involved? Thanks for sharing guys, great stuff again.

Last I heard, there was no Dolphin and Marx connection, but they are almost exactly alike on the outside.

Steve

I picked up some early Ives, Dorian and Flyer at York.

The 124 is going to get a modest restoration. I can run the larger ones with my 9" Flyer and the smaller ones with some O27 Marx or Lionel. 

George