Weekend tinplate photos/videos 5/25/18!

Some time ago I bought a Fournereau passenger car that was in a very bad state. Lots of rust and paint damage. Fournereau is a French model-train maker family who followed up Marescot and made trains from the thirties until the sixties. They started the French model railway magazine Loco Revue and as far as I know someone of the Fournereau family is still connected with this magazine.

Recently I finished restoring, repainting and re-lettering the passenger car:

The Fournereau tredemark (JF) was still present on the car and I covered that while repainting:

This trademark was used between 1932 and 1942 according to the book on Fournereau: Fournereau book

And here the car is added to my Marescot/Founereau train running in the garden:

Regards

Fred

Ready to roll for the morning commute.

These arrived this week. Working on my collection of 120 series Ives cars.

I really like the 125 box cars! I missed out on a Frisco car earlier this year, because I didn't know what it was worth at the time. I liked it, but didn't realize how much I had to bid. I'm learning that it pays to do the research and narrow my collecting focus.

George

I also got this engine.

I'm planning a restoration with glossy black paint and potentially custom brass piping on the side like the AF Piper Wide Gauge engine. Just discovered one of the drive wheels has a chunk missing on the flange. Will see if I can get her to run.

George

Nice restoration Fred, your car looks nice.

Not tinplate today but brassplate.....  Last sunday at a train show in France I had the opportunity to buy that lovely little steam loco in 3 rail O gauge. More coarse scale model than a scale version.
It has been made by a tallented builder and runs great, not powerfull as it is a small engine, and will not pull many cars but as i don't have any from the same period... not a problem.
Unfortunately the seller didn't know the name of the maker, just that it has been made in the 60's 70's.
It is a good representation of the firsts steam engines around 1840-50, i didn't yet have the time to search to what model may have inspired the manufacturer but i have ever seen drawings of similar ones.
Anyway a nice looking piece that maybe will have a new coat of paint in the future and more nice spoked wheels on the front bogie.

Have a great tinplate weekend, Daniel

Welllll....lesseee...last week we checked out the Bing Pennsylvania Lines passenger set headed by a Bing PL cast iron electric outline locomotive...so this week what's say we look at the electric cast iron steam engine version?

The offering this week is an American Flyer Lines Passenger Train of mixed lineage.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

and a restful Memorial Day

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Gentlemen: ALL well done! THANKS for sharing your treasures!

Been awhile since I posted. Summer activities keeping me extra busy this year.

Anyway, it's been a few weeks, but there were some posts of tinplate coal trains and I remarked that we needed one from Marx. I rounded up an assortment of Marx tin that looks like it could haul coal. The Norfolk and Western is my favorite coal hauler, but I don't have an N&W in Marx, so I went with the next closest thing, the Nickel Plate

Yeah, I know coal usually ships in hoppers, but the big gondola is marked C&O, which is well know for hauling coal, and I needed it's plastic tilt couplers so I could get the little NP hopper in the train!  lol

custom blue comet.

Went to the train store for a bottle of Plastistruct cement. Decided to add these while I was there. Very expensive bottle of glue 😱😱

Very Nice Steve!  Who made them?

Greg

They are Rich Art reproductions with the litho decoration done by Nostalgia Train Works. So much nicer than the painted reproduction’s

picked up a couple more candidates for frame swaps off the forum.

My O gauge Bing 2-B-2 electric outline locomotive (number unknown) pulling a set of American Flyer Columbia coaches. Taken during a visit to John Pincus's layout last night. This same basic type of engine appears to have been made in several variations by Bing, in both O gauge and 1 gauge. Is anyone aware of any online or printed listings of Bing locomotives of the prewar period?

John Smatlak posted:

My O gauge Bing 2-B-2 electric outline locomotive (number unknown) pulling a set of American Flyer Columbia coaches. Taken during a visit to John Pincus's layout last night. This same basic type of engine appears to have been made in several variations by Bing, in both O gauge and 1 gauge. Is anyone aware of any online or printed listings of Bing locomotives of the prewar period?

Some good info here John, https://www.historytoy.com/toy...way-Locomotives-Bing

Steve

John S,

Love the 2B2 set, great look stuff!

Nothing from me this week, busy prepping our old home to sell her!

PCRR/Dave

John Smatlak posted:

My O gauge Bing 2-B-2 electric outline locomotive (number unknown) pulling a set of American Flyer Columbia coaches. Taken during a visit to John Pincus's layout last night. This same basic type of engine appears to have been made in several variations by Bing, in both O gauge and 1 gauge. Is anyone aware of any online or printed listings of Bing locomotives of the prewar period?

that is a beauty! I want one.

Nice ones this weekend gentlemen!

started the transformation of the gondola

need to pick up some coupler trucks and it's done.

Got the 817 finished, and need some piecey parts for the 815.

Steamer posted:

started the transformation of the gondola

need to pick up some coupler trucks and it's done.

Got the 817 finished, and need some piecey parts for the 815.

 

 

Pretty cool. Pretty neat how the manufacturers would use the same shell on both 4 and 8 wheel frames.

Now what mischief have you in store for the four wheel frames?  LOL

nothing yet...they have been donors of couplers,journal boxes,brake stands. Maybe you could come up with something? you've been quiet on the projects front lately....

recent acqs

French Hornby mail car

Hafner hopper

Flyer X-1128 Texaco tanker

Bing 250 Observation car (also found a 501 baggage and to 210 coaches to add to it)

and a British Marx 1312 tender for the 3978 shell I will be motorizing.

I actually found two of these but one had been stripped and primered.

Steamer posted:

nothing yet...they have been donors of couplers,journal boxes,brake stands. Maybe you could come up with something? you've been quiet on the projects front lately....

My latest project has been off topic. Building a bicycle from parts and other odds and ends. It does have tin fenders though...  

Jim O'C posted:

recent acqs

French Hornby mail car

 

Jim,

A small correction; That is not a mail car but a baggage/luggage car (Fourgon in French); here is the mail car of the French Hornby series: