Weekend tinplate photos/videos 8/23/18!

Very Cool Chris!

End of restoration of my original lionel 700e, all original and I also used original replacement parts to have a perfect match. It's a 1937 model and this week i also got an original Lionel catalog in french from the same year.

I know it is not totally tinplate but Lionel sold it with the Rail Chief passenger set, now I have to find one....

Have a great tinplate weekend,    Daniel

I found some figures which match very well with 0 gauge tinplate. They are made by the English company http://www.omen-miniatures.com/. Here are some inside a Elettren tinplate Pullman car, showing a luxury way of travel:

A French couple on a JEP station:

And an English family on a Hornby station:

Regards

Fred

Fred, the figures are great and your photos remind me of those taken on the layout of the late Marcel Darphin. It was probably one of the greatest layouts ever built.

Miketg

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

End of restoration of my original lionel 700e, all original and I also used original replacement parts to have a perfect match. It's a 1937 model and this week i also got an original Lionel catalog in french from the same year.

I know it is not totally tinplate but Lionel sold it with the Rail Chief passenger set, now I have to find one....

Have a great tinplate weekend,    Daniel

 

That looks fabulous Daniel!  You've done very well with Prewar Hudson's in the last month or so with a 700E, 763, and the big Scalecraft.  

Ives action on a busy Friday morning.

got a second 2600 finished.

In regard to Daniel's 700e.  I've never seen one in person.  What is that attached to the tender?  It looks like a 3.5mm headphone plug.

Jim Z posted:

Ives action on a busy Friday morning.

 

Jim,

Looks great, thanks for posting.

What are the dimensions of your layout?

Thanks,

How about some night running on my standard gauge layout...

Daniel: IMPRESSIVE restoration and very cool French language Lionel catalog which includes the scale Hudson! Fred: Stunningly detailed and exquisite figures! A question about your Lionel 219 crane: did you add the chain or did you acquire it that way? Either way, it is an interesting modification!

Dennis Holler posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

 

 

That looks fabulous Daniel!  You've done very well with Prewar Hudson's in the last month or so with a 700E, 763, and the big Scalecraft.  

Thanks Dennis, in the last four months.... three Hudsons, and I am more than happy to have those pieces in the collection. Especially the 700e and the Scale Craft.

Did i tell you I also have another one.....

I founded in a flea market in France that one  also, maybe twenty years ago.  An AC GILBERT erector set from 1935 including a Hudson and her tender. It's always in need of some TLC and there is some missing parts but after doing some cleaning it is not in so bad condition than the pictures may supposed to be. I don't know what i will do with it, restore sell or trade but it is a nice project piece....

Daniel

Tinplate Art posted:

A question about your Lionel 219 crane: did you add the chain or did you acquire it that way?

I acquired it, many years ago, with the chain (and the seller told me it was all original )

Regards

Fred

beachhead2 posted:

In regard to Daniel's 700e.  I've never seen one in person.  What is that attached to the tender?  It looks like a 3.5mm headphone plug.

 

The headphone plug is original, you have two rollers on the loco and one on the tender, it allows electric continuity on a good length. 

Daniel

Tinplate Art posted:

Daniel: IMPRESSIVE restoration and very cool French language Lionel catalog which includes the scale Hudson! Fred: Stunningly detailed and exquisite figures! A question about your Lionel 219 crane: did you add the chain or did you acquire it that way?

Thank you Art, i wanted to have an all original piece. It's done, price of spare parts is high but the result is here.

Daniel

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Thanks Dennis, in the last four months.... three Hudsons, and I am more than happy to have those pieces in the collection. Especially the 700e and the Scale Craft.

Did i tell you I also have another one.....

I founded in a flea market in France that one  also, maybe twenty years ago.  An AC GILBERT erector set from 1935 including a Hudson and her tender. It's always in need of some TLC and there is some missing parts but after doing some cleaning it is not in so bad condition than the pictures may supposed to be. I don't know what i will do with it, restore sell or trade but it is a nice project piece....

Daniel

 

great find! I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in Indiana.......

Craignor posted:

Jim Z posted:

Ives action on a busy Friday morning.

Craig,

My layout is 12 ft x 8 ft. I posted a track plan a few months ago.  Try searching for my posts if this is of interest.

Jim Z

 

 

 

Jim,

Looks great, thanks for posting.

What are the dimensions of your layout?

Thanks,

Two years ago, I built a French train for a carette elevated railway.

Now I have started to build a suitable train station.

it's a custom design, but some details come from the french station Sèvres - Lecourbe (métro de Paris).

Greetings

Arne

How to handle a long tinplate train without breaking a sweat...

Also available in internal combustion form if you prefer... 

Have really been enjoying my layout after the redo. 

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

End of restoration of my original lionel 700e, all original and I also used original replacement parts to have a perfect match. It's a 1937 model and this week i also got an original Lionel catalog in french from the same year.

I know it is not totally tinplate but Lionel sold it with the Rail Chief passenger set, now I have to find one....

Have a great tinplate weekend,    Daniel

 

Daniel, 

  Very nice. How does she run?

  Tom 

DOC posted:

Have really been enjoying my layout after the redo. 

I can see why.  That is very cool. 

MNCW posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

 

Daniel, 

  Very nice. How does she run?

  Tom 

Tom,

It is a very smooth running loco. It needs 072 curves and perfect condition track otherwise the cow catcher hit the center rail and it shorts. Lionel T rail tracks or similar are of course perfect.

When you think that this piece is 1937 technology even today many modern production cannot compare to, it really is a work of art. 

Daniel

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

MNCW posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

 

Daniel, 

  Very nice. How does she run?

  Tom 

Tom,

It is a very smooth running loco. It needs 072 curves and perfect condition track otherwise the cow catcher hit the center rail and it shorts. Lionel T rail tracks or similar are of course perfect.

When you think that this piece is 1937 technology even today many modern production cannot compare to, it really is a work of art. 

Daniel

Yes Daniel,

   Some of my switchers were made starting as early as 1939. They were both built to last, with proper maintenance.

Tom

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Dennis Holler posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

 

 

That looks fabulous Daniel!  You've done very well with Prewar Hudson's in the last month or so with a 700E, 763, and the big Scalecraft.  

Thanks Dennis, in the last four months.... three Hudsons, and I am more than happy to have those pieces in the collection. Especially the 700e and the Scale Craft.

Did i tell you I also have another one.....

I founded in a flea market in France that one  also, maybe twenty years ago.  An AC GILBERT erector set from 1935 including a Hudson and her tender. It's always in need of some TLC and there is some missing parts but after doing some cleaning it is not in so bad condition than the pictures may supposed to be. I don't know what i will do with it, restore sell or trade but it is a nice project piece....

Daniel

 

That Erector Hudson looks like a great project Daniel!  Based on some of your past work, I am certain you could turn that into a very nice looking loco!  It looks like the wheels are in good shape although it will still be a big project!  Very worthwhile.  Those are hard to come by even over in the US.  You certainly make some god finds!!!!

 

 

 

Daniel

 

That Erector Hudson looks like a great project Daniel!  Based on some of your past work, I am certain you could turn that into a very nice looking loco!  It looks like the wheels are in good shape although it will still be a big project!  Very worthwhile.  Those are hard to come by even over in the US.  You certainly make some god finds!!!!

I spend many time searching rare pieces..... this one is a rare find, maybe the only one in France, it comes from a US military base near my hometown, certainly left here when the base closed around 1963.

I don't know if i will do it, i have it since so many time and done nothing on it.... there is very few parts missing, i have the tracks, tender... The most important missing thing is time to do it.....

Maybe i will try to trade it for something else,

Daniel

Skyline Tin

got a little time in downstairs today thanks to some rain...and now we have three refurbished 2600. Now to find a rusty 2615 Baggage....

Nice work Dave, the Blue Comet is one of the nicest trains to have, so representative of his time.

Maybe Dennis has an extra baggage car ....

Daniel

Doing a little testing with my new MTH DCS Explorer. This is a neat and fairly inexpensive way to be able to run your Proto2 or 3 engines with your IPhone.

Our local SGMA MD modular group will use this at public shows to run Proto 2 or 3 engines. I bought one for the club, I liked it so much that I bought another for my Carpet Central line.

The unit is a Wi-Fi and TIU together in a small package.

Craignor posted:

Doing a little testing with my new MTH DCS Explorer. This is a neat and fairly inexpensive way to be able to run your Proto2 or 3 engines with your IPhone.

 

Craig, I bought one for that very reason.  And it will be an easy way to have basic DCS on my standard gauge Christmas tree layout.  Cool device.

Playing around with the 1835E caused me to go dig out my 402E. I think it was tge first standard gauge loco I got. Nice big engine although I wish it were a different color than Mojave. 

Picked up this Marx 897 Army loco a few weeks ago.  It was missing the handrail and marker lights.  Picked them up from Robert Grossman and had something to do while waiting for Hurricane Lane to pass this weekend.

A little something else with the transition car.  Not quite as outlandish. Wait for the train on the near track.

Not sure where to post this one... a real mixed era freight

Video and a few stills of my Lionel 408E pulling a long freight train of mixed MTH, Lionel, Ives and Dorfan cars. Enjoy.

DOC posted:

Have really been enjoying my layout after the redo. 

Nice Doc!! Is it 8 x 12?

Joe Gozzo

7x12 wish I had more space.