Weekend tinplate photos/videos 5/19/17!

Today a new toy train fresh from the attic, including dust, a gift from a friend two days ago.

It is a little industrial train, O gauge windup, made by the french brand 'La Hotte Saint Nicolas' . The name comes from the manufacturer La Hotte and Saint Nicolas is the name of the small town in the north of France, St Nicolas d'Aliermont where the shop was installed. Dates from 1950-55.

It is made of very light tin, there is no reverse system on the loco, some of them may have one with a command on the track. The box set is marked N°1 so it must be the entry set and the less expensive one. Unfortunately the winding key has been lost but the condition of loco and cars is still nice.

Not a valuable piece but after some TLC it will have a lot of charm.

Last picture is a side by side comparison with a Lionel 153 to geave an idea of size.

Have a great tinplate weekend,   Daniel

Inspired by last weeks post of Daniel who mentioned the tinplate look of early ASTER locomotives I combined my 35 year old ASTER English 6-wheel GER tank locomotive with two 95 years old lithographed tinplate BING for Bassett-Lowke gauge 1 coaches:

And of course I put in water and fuel and had a run:

Regards

Fred

Fred, your Bing cars perfectly match with the little Aster; a great looking train. 

Tinplate at his best,  Daniel

A nice Flyer 478 from Ray over at Vienna Station:

Just need a 476 and the set will be complete.

PD

hot dang Tinplate Friday.

this is the first Prewar tinplate I bought myself, at the first train show I went to. A great guy that always had a cheap Prewar item for me. 

wow,these came this week tca convention cars the 2017 and the 2016 super sharp

I painted this one up a few years ago and then decided to let it go.  Now I wished I hadn't.  may have to do another one.

It's time to visit the Great Western and I've chosen Landore Shed, a relatively modest through running facility built in 1932.  We find three locomotives from three builders.  Hornby is represented by the County of Bedford on the far left.  In the middle is Bing's superclockwork Windsor Castle.  Lionel's Kinlet Hall is on the right. Even though I'm green color blind I can see that Lionel had a different idea about GWR's colors than Bing or Hornby.  This photo sequence is dedicated to my very good friend Stuart Lovell who passed away unexpectedly on May 9.  Stuart was a world class railway photographer who

knew the Great Western well. Lew Schneider

Here we have Lionel promotional outfit #6521WX. This has been in my family since the 70s when my Dad acquired it in a trade. Up until now, it hasn't been documented, but I brought it to York last month for Bruce Greenberg to photograph for his next book. If any of you have items such as this, please contact him. 

John

Dennis Holler posted:

I painted this one up a few years ago and then decided to let it go.  Now I wished I hadn't.  may have to do another one.

 

more projects...that's what you need Dennis....

I thought I would post some photos of American Flyer's love birds.

The bottom set is Flyer's sheet metal Hiawatha passenger set, and the top set is sometimes called the Minnehaha (otherwise known as the steam Streamline and described as the New York Central design). Both appeared in the mid 1930's

Both came in passenger and freight sets, and both engines also came in wind-up versions.  The number of cars varied depending on the set.

Have a Great Tinplate weekend.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Picked this up this week on a lark. Mechanical windup Martian invader from Schylling. Perfect for any Marx military-themed display. Haven't received yet but it supposedly still works.

Looks more similar to the 1906 Alvim Correa illustrations for the original War of the Worlds book by HG Wells than any movie monster.

Also won the British Kay Train boxed set, similar of not identical to the small Ranger trains.

also invested in this book about vintage monorails.

Well PD, since you are within one car of Set #4002 why not go for Set #4001 too?

AF Set #4002

AF#4001

Robert S. Butler posted:

Well PD, since you are within one car of Set #4002 why not go for Set #4001 too?

AF Set #4002

 

AF#4001

I know, I know, but I'm thinking that running down the coach and baggage is going to be a lot tougher! Nice set BTW...

Last week I picked up a nice Dorfan 421 crossing from my friend John Parker.

Steve

pd;

Actually it might be easier than you think. The components show up on ebay fairly often.

You are a collector; you have the gene.  You know that this will be on your mind now.

Happy Collecting

Greg

Tinplate traditions 418 production sample set.

McCoy Pike Place Farmers Market Refrigerator Car.  Been looking for one for a while. Colors and detail are really nice.  My picture does not do it justice.

Saturday run with some new palm trees. 

The (Almost) Great Train Race!

Clyde Andrews, engineer of the Copper Cannonball, got so fed up with those new-fangled infernal combustion locos that have stolen the Cannonball's thunder he challenged Tommy Iverson, engineer of the #6000 to a race! Chet asked if "they were racin' fer pinks?" and Clyde said, "Sure, and when I win I'll run them orange varmints off the rails!"

So on the appointed day the trains lined up at the Girard depot waiting for High Noon. Jimmy "Clock Watch" Perkins had agreed to be the starter.

Even a crown of excited spectators gathered...

But then wouldn't you know it! The local constabulary got wind of the proceedings and before the race could start, Rosco and Barney rolled up in the cruiser and ol' Clock Watch skedaddled.

"No racin' today boys! Kuh, kuh, kuh" Rosco shouted through the bull horn. Barney was heard to say something about nipping the race in the bud and the spectators packed up the cooler and went home.

Tommy and Clyde became good friends, but Clyde never did cotton to them big orange varmints.

Got this today. Great looking car.

say good night John Boy (Andy) you know the Cannonball woulda cleaned that Dismals clock!

Dennis Holler posted:

I painted this one up a few years ago and then decided to let it go.  Now I wished I hadn't.  may have to do another one.

 

I like it..... I have to like it I did the same paint job with a Lionel 259E, plus I made a milk car from a tender. I just found a baggage car to add to the set but it's missing a roof. I think the roof of a a 603 will fit. It certainly brightens up my layout. I would make another one if I were you.....

Thanks Gene,  I remember seeing your 259 a while back, it came out very nice and looks great with the rest of he train!  I think your right, I'll build another one, just need to get all the parts together and finish some other projects like 265E stretch job a started a few weeks back.

Nick from Dayton Ohio posted:

Saturday run with some new palm trees. 

That's funny Nick. I put my palm trees around my power station too!  I got them from Steve. 

Chris Lonero posted:

Nick from Dayton Ohio posted:

Saturday run with some new palm trees. 

That's funny Nick. I put my palm trees around my power station too!  I got them from Steve. 

Good to see the trees showing up on layouts. 

Steve