Weekend tinplate photos/videos 4/7/17!

Variations around french HORNBY box cars and cattle cars, many color variations for the pre war models, from semi realistic colors to flashy ones, The first ones are from 1925-30.

Then around 1932 automatic couplers appears,

The very colorfull models around 1938 have a short production time due to the second xorld war,

And finally after the war only two models survive, the first one has still the long boggies and the last one is the latest one with simplifies boggies and ended around 1958. A long production time around the same bodies.

Have a great tinplate weekend,  Daniel

A before and after of a Roberts Lines Gondola. A prior owner painted it red. I just added some G scale decals.

In all of the time that I have been collecting I have tried to keep my energies focused on American Flyer production.  I have strayed from that focus on occasion.  Here are two of those items.

Have a great tinplate weekend

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Some random tinplate around the layout.

A few from last weekends Ralston auction.

TWO Turnervile Trolleys from 1919.

Mohawk assortment, tough to find in this condition

Hoge 900 3-car set went relatively cheap at under 200.00

Nonpareil assortment, again, tough to find in this condition

Chein assortment

1933-'34 General M10000 123 set

Marx NYC set with polished chrome or nickel plate CV and tender

Nothing substantial to report/share...found this Flyer prewar tank car at a local antique mall:

Cost a buck. Despite the fact that it looks like it was once stored in a rock-tumbler, I couldn't leave it there.

PD

Another obscure Italian toy train maker after WW2 was F.A.G.E. (Fabbrica Artigiana Giocatolli Elettrici - Artisan Electrical Toys Factory). Here is a F.A.G.E. crane car in 0 gauge; apparently F.A.G.E. also made S gauge trains.

Regards

Fred

Hi Gang,

Finally back from Florida to Waban (Boston).  Happy to see my trains again.  Here are two photos whichshow some items I obtained. The first shows my latest "Biller Table" which I squeezed into my office/museum.  One of my new Kibri stations is on the table.  It is pre WWII as is another Kibri station in the cabinet behindthe table.

The second shows my new Lionel 1688 pulling original coaches 1685 and 1687. The coaches were originally produced by Ives. All sorts of reproductions can be found today.

Lew Schneider

lewrail posted:

Hi Gang,

 

Finally back from Florida to Waban (Boston).  Happy to see my trains again.  Here are two photos whichshow some items I obtained. The first shows my latest "Biller Table" which I squeezed into my office/museum.  One of my new Kibri stations is on the table.  It is pre WWII as is another Kibri station in the cabinet behindthe table.

The second shows my new Lionel 1688 pulling original coaches 1685 and 1687. The coaches were originally produced by Ives. All sorts of reproductions can be found today.

 

Lew Schneider

 

 

The unloader track in the center is Technofix? or another of the 10 companies who marketed it in 15 other countries. I think I still have a few Cragstan in their OE boxes.

ALL cool items! :-)

Lionel,Lionel,Ives,Dorfan,American Flyer,American Flyer

since my 4-8-4 is about done, I'm trying to get back to some other projects. I had 1689 out for a few runs today. This is another one of my put togethers. I put Marx 3/16 trucks on the tender to run Marx cars since they go with the gunmetal on the engine. It runs great, until I put the third car on, and then it's like Errol Flynn buttered the rails. Hope to get this sorted out.

Some more orphans and a matching across manufacturers

Wabash - Ives

Rock Island - Ives

ACL - Ives

Champ Decals - Paya

The Cotton Belt - Ives 

The Cotton Belt - Marx

snowy day in pgh,so cleaned shelves and moved stuff around,,,these are my very,very favorite cars,,,i just wish I could find the red/back set,,,,,some day !

Tonights work - another set of new SP Daylight cars in standard gauge

#5 on the line

I picked up some repainted Wide Gauge Dorfan passenger cars and decided to change the baggage car coupler to a universal Lionel style tab/slot/latch coupler to run them with some engines I already have. Some day I will get a Dorfan engine but this will do for now.

crews seem to have the traction issue with 1689E sorted out......but the engineer ran into another issue. While the wreck crew does there thing.....the road supervisor is having a "chat" with the heavy handed hogger. 

Jim O'C posted:

lewrail posted:

Hi Gang,

 

Finally back from Florida to Waban (Boston).  Happy to see my trains again.  Here are two photos whichshow some items I obtained. The first shows my latest "Biller Table" which I squeezed into my office/museum.  One of my new Kibri stations is on the table.  It is pre WWII as is another Kibri station in the cabinet behindthe table.

The second shows my new Lionel 1688 pulling original coaches 1685 and 1687. The coaches were originally produced by Ives. All sorts of reproductions can be found today.

 

Lew Schneider

 

 

The unloader track in the center is Technofix? or another of the 10 companies who marketed it in 15 other countries. I think I still have a few Cragstan in their OE boxes.

I doubt that mine is Technofix.  It has an L as the only trademark and has "Foreign" printed on the bottom

of the track.  I also have a similar item which was definitely made in Hungary featuring an MAV steam locomotive and two box cars.  The engine switches the cars while reversing direction.

Lew

Got my taxes done today and was able to get the headlight rewired in my Milwaukee M10000. Here's a video with everything working.

George 

My bridge is finally done--and I've decided to name it in memory of our departed friend, Arno Baars. Here are a few shots of the finished product. 

Well done on the bridge Chris. Looks great.

Chris Lonero posted:

One of my favorite pieces is my Hell gate bridge restored by yours truly.   Now let's see your tinplate!! 

Hey Chris you should be proud the finish product is awesome,  Joe Gozzo

Thanks guy's. She was pretty sad when I bought it but it had no dents. Some of the original brass plates were hand painted over like the rest of the bridge was!

BlueComet400 posted:

My bridge is finally done--and I've decided to name it in memory of our departed friend, Arno Baars. Here are a few shots of the finishedproduct. 

 

Arno's dedication to toy trains certainly had a wide impact on our hobby.  I really miss him and particularly not being able to exchange emails with him on our favorite subject, MESG.  Your naming your bridge after him is a wonderful gesture!

Bob Nelson

Bob - I'm with you, I miss the guy so much! The rest of us will have to carry the flag for MESG. Arno had a big hand in getting me fired up about the stuff. And this forum has provided an excellent education along the way. We need that book!

navy.seal posted:

BlueComet400 posted:

My bridge is finally done--and I've decided to name it in memory of our departed friend, Arno Baars. Here are a few shots of the finishedproduct. 

 

Arno's dedication to toy trains certainly had a wide impact on our hobby.  I really miss him and particularly not being able to exchange emails with him on our favorite subject, MESG.  Your naming your bridge after him is a wonderful gesture!

Bob Nelson

Thanks, Bob! I miss him too.