Weekend tinplate photos/videos 4/28/17!

TTOS Southern Pacific Division's Danny Spendlove is coordinating our participation at the Train Days at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, CA so I took today off to run some trains and spend time helping. The show runs through the week to April 30, 2017.  Towards the end of the day I decided to bring out a real train and show them what to run.......

A McCoy #12 Camden Station Trolley has become the my first recipient of a Ira Keeler under floor motor.

Not spectacular but this bufferstop came along:

It is marked Made in Germany but has no forther trademark. Asyoucan see it can be used for multiple gauges and multiple bufferheights. Here it is with Gauge 1:

and with Gauge 0:

Regards

Fred

Chris,

This Lego minifig "Lionel fan" must've taken the Downeaster to Boston.   I see he is now railfanning on your layout.   Or he has twin brother?

A number of weeks ago we had photos of a metal biplane available through Hobby Lobby that was tinplate train compatible.  I finally got around to taking some photos of the ones I ordered.

That's an American Flyer #401 in the background for comparison.

Have a great Tinplate weekend.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Mike McCutcheon posted:

Chris,

This Lego minifig "Lionel fan" must've taken the Downeaster to Boston.   I see he is now railfanning on your layout.   Or he has twin brother?

He does get around mike! Next stop North station! 

Here's a tinplate electric running in Bronx, NY, circa late 1960 / early 1970s:

The last of these were taken out of service in 1981 ... after 75 years on the job.  Our tinplate models approximate these reasonably well considering the era, the technology, etc. 

Have a great weekend everyone.

Steven J. Serenska

Chris Lonero posted:

Nothing new this week but here are a couple of shots around the layout.  Let's see your tinplate! 

Chris,

Love the Taxi, is that pridelines??

Joe Gozzo

Just finished my Hood's Milk Plant to go with my custom built Hood's tinplate milk car and myother Hood's milk cars.

Today some tinplate passenger cars from a very small french manufacturer named MUNIER. they have been produced in the 50's and represent comon passenger cars with side dors. The original cars dates back from 1895 and they where still in use through the 50's even if many have been destroyed during the second world war.

In their time, those cars where considered as near scale models, in fact they look more tinplate than something else, all steel models and wheels are a little large for scale, they run very well on tinplate tracks. Some of them have certainly been imported in USA, i have seen some on the bay.

Two lenght where made, long with bogies and short ones as the originals.

Have a great tinplate weekend,      Daniel

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

A number of weeks ago we had photos of a metal biplane available through Hobby Lobby that was tinplate train compatible.  I finally got around to taking some photos of the ones I ordered.

That's an American Flyer #401 in the background for comparison.

 

Have a great Tinplate weekend.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Cool planes Greg. The green one looks like the rubber band is loose or broken. That's if they had rubber band wind up propellers!   lol

these new project cars arrived this week. Need to look for the 608 observation.

OK, For you Fandor experts.... what kind of coupler would you call this one?  Some sort of mail bag retrieval hook?

Steamer posted:

these new project cars arrived this week. Need to look for the 608 observation.

Neat, I might have an extra, will try to check this weekend

Hi  Gang,

Didn't make it to York this time, so to console myself I operated two electric and one clockwork 1930s vintage locomotives. They were the American Flyer 1218 pulling 3 American Flyer coaches, the Ives 3253 pulling two Lionel Ives transition coaches, and a Bing clockwork box cab electric.  Here is the evidence:

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Nothing new this week but here are a couple of shots around the layout.  Let's see your tinplate! 

Chris,

Love the Taxi, is that pridelines?? Joe Gozzo

Thanks Joe. Yes it is Pride Lines.  This is what it looked like when I bought it. 

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

A number of weeks ago we had photos of a metal biplane available through Hobby Lobby that was tinplate train compatible.  I finally got around to taking some photos of the ones I ordered.

That's an American Flyer #401 in the background for comparison.

Have a great Tinplate weekend.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Nice Northwoods...I only purchased the biplane, but those triplanes are sharp too!

Nice loco...coincidentally I picked up this at York today (put the 1201 proceeds to work):

Presume this is a 401 as well. The tender's a bit rough.

I found this early Lionel 804 as well:

A bit dirty but should clean up nice.

Attendance didn't seem one bit different from prior meets...opening to the public may have been a bust.

PD

If I understand it correctly, the public gets access only to the halls where the new stuff is? If so, woulda been a wasted trip for me.

and Houston, we have rods! and with two little green jewels, and a number board..9991 is done.This was the first time I did a project like this. It'll never be at the TCA Museum, but I'm pleased with how it turned out. It stalled out for a few years, but I really put an effort to finish it this year.

Picked up a McCoy Great Northern Bulkhead Flatcar. These normally came with a PVC pipe load. Someone made this neat removable log load for this one.

Steve

Chris Lonero posted:

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Nothing new this week but here are a couple of shots around the layout.  Let's see your tinplate! 

Chris,

Love the Taxi, is that pridelines?? Joe Gozzo

Thanks Joe. Yes it is Pride Lines.  This is what it looked like when I bought it. 

I wonder if I could find one....and the hunt starts!!

Joe

pd posted:

 I picked up this at York today (put the 1201 proceeds to work):

Presume this is a 401 as well. The tender's a bit rough.

PD

PD,

Nice find on the #401.  Is it in running condition?  That should look great pulling some of your other Flyer equipment.

BTW your #1201 with the sheet metal headlight made its debut in the Northwoods Flyer Collection.

 Thanks again.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

I recently ran across a few photos of previous layouts both of which I kind of miss.  That said, I like my current one as well and am not anywhere near tearing it down lol

I bought this ives repo from Williams awhile back with a dummy motor,got a good price on it,took awhile to find a motor that would fit,and someone to retro fit it in,bingo,,,,,runs like a jewel,and now I have something to pull my ives cars with!

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A McCoy #12 Camden Station Trolley has become the my first recipient of a Ira Keeler under floor motor.

Mine too !! Now I have a running trolley instead of a shelf piece. What a nice guy!! I have spoken with him a few times and now need to send him a photo of the trolley full of people. Still looking for an trolley operator though.

I also got a red LED light for the back light, and a Lionel bell for the roof at YORK yesterday. I attached the bell to the roof using a mini rare earth magnet. Perfect size and no drilling of any holes.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A McCoy #12 Camden Station Trolley has become the my first recipient of a Ira Keeler under floor motor.

Steve, Who made the nice looking tinplate engine house behind your neat trolley.

 Tom 

MNCW posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A McCoy #12 Camden Station Trolley has become the my first recipient of a Ira Keeler under floor motor.

Steve, Who made the nice looking tinplate engine house behind your neat trolley.

 Tom 

Tom, It's Hornby.

Steve

Thanks Greg...haven't had the 401 on the track yet but it looks complete and should be serviceable. The 1201 looks good...now you can double-head. I see from your pics that the hand-rails are different...what's your thought on that? 

Paul

Paul,

Flyer used both types of handrails on their steeple cabs, and in some cases they didn't use any handrails at all.  I did some quick research but I couldn't find any definitive information on which steeple cabs (and there are a lot of variations) used which handrails.

My guess is that one might have been a bit less expensive to produce because of the number of bends.  Nationwidelines has some additional information on the 1201 that he recently posted over on the thread I host.

I am looking forward to a report on the 401 once you try it out.  You are probably aware that the Type XX was given nickel hardware in 1940 as was its tender.  Flyer did that to a number of its engines and other equipment that year.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

JohnnieWalker posted:

I also got a red LED light for the back light, and a Lionel bell for the roof at YORK yesterday. I attached the bell to the roof using a mini rare earth magnet. Perfect size and no drilling of any holes.

Here are a few shots of my trolley with the red LED rear light, passengers and the bell. Next thing to find and add is an engineer.

Thanks for that info, Greg...I didn't realize 401 production ran as late as 1940.

Hoping to get it on the track in a few days.

Paul