Weekend tinplate photos/videos 8/26/16!!

Mom has been in/out/in/out of the hospital the past 3 weeks, so not paying a lot of attention nor time to take pictures. Did get this today. Been wanting the 200 series work caboose for a while and was pleased to finally get one. This one is especially cool, it's Southern Pacific, which is my TTOS Division and it's the TCA 2003 convention car hosted by the Western Division, which I am president of.

Steve

Here are "roster" shots of one of my Dad's 710 Pullmans and 712 observation. This particular variation of two tone blue with six wheel trucks was offered in 1933 and '34.  Together with the Hiawatha, the consist of three 710s and the 712 powered by the 260E covered passenger services on our family's railroad during the prewar era  

Bob

Please forgive me if I have posted these photos before.  I'm going to have to start keeping track of the photos that I have posted in the Weekend thread.

This is American Flyer's Wide Gauge set  #1469  Frontier Town.

 It was cataloged in !931 and 1932.

As you can see in the catalog illustration it came with a number of accessories.

I've managed to assemble most of the accessories in the set for a reasonable representation of what it looks like.

Have a great tinplate weekend.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Greg, The way you re-enact the catalog picture is great!

This week some CV's (Commodore Vanderbilt's). You all know the Marx and Lionel versions:

A German toy maker (I assume Bub) made a very colorful small lithographed tinplate clockwork 0 gauge version of a CV:

And this next version is of course not tinplate at all (but brass and stainless steel)!

Have a good weekend.

Fred

did someone say Commodore?

a modified 2037 trailing truck got turned into a pilot, and another will be the trailing tuck.

parked along side Uncle Jim's Marx CV.

Greg your presentation is really first class, it geaves mo some ideas for the future.....

A little selection of Bitish Hornby clocwork O gauge, all pre-war from around 1926 to 1934

1927 sets

And some individuals engines

All of them are very good running engines and it is a lot of fun to make them run.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,

Daniel

sncf231e posted:

Greg, The way you re-enact the catalog picture is great!

This week some CV's (Commodore Vanderbilt's). You all know the Marx and Lionel versions:

 

A German toy maker (I assume Bub) made a very colorful small lithographed tinplate clockwork 0 gauge version of a CV:

And this next version is of course not tinplate at all (but brass and stainless steel)!

 

Have a good weekend.

Fred

 

Wow, the graphics on that little wind-up critter makes it look like it was part of a Buck Rogers train set.

handyandy posted:

sncf231e posted:

Greg, The way you re-enact the catalog picture is great!

This week some CV's (Commodore Vanderbilt's). You all know the Marx and Lionel versions:

 

A German toy maker (I assume Bub) made a very colorful small lithographed tinplate clockwork 0 gauge version of a CV:

And this next version is of course not tinplate at all (but brass and stainless steel)!

 

Have a good weekend.

Fred

 

Wow, the graphics on that little wind-up critter makes it look like it was part of a Buck Rogers train set.

Walt Hiteshew identifies this German loco as Dressler. There was also a black version with red wheels numbered 62022 and had the Dressler logo at the peak of the nose.

Jim O'C posted:

Walt Hiteshew identifies this German loco as Dressler. There was also a black version with red wheels numbered 62022 and had the Dressler logo at the peak of the nose.

Jim,

Dressler indeed also made a tinplate version of the Commodore Vanderbilt, but that uses different tooling. Renwal sold a locomotive similar to the one I pictured but in another livery; Renwal however imported this and did not produce it themselves.

Dressler:

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Renwal:

So until now I still assume my loco is made by Bub.

Regards

Fred

Okay, this one is a little off the wall.  Remember Lionel's postwar #68 "track inspection car"?  

Here's my standard gauge answer to that.  

It started as a Hubley #476 diecast Studebaker station wagon, it's about 8-1/2" long, so it's close to 1:24 scale.  Installed one DC motor and axle from a Lionel RS-385SH G-scale two-motor block; the front axle of the station wagon is not powered.  Added wheels and center rail pickups.  No lights yet...

Thanks for watching!

david

Here's a Lionel 116 hopper I finished this week. It started out as an E bay buy that had been painted over. I repainted it with rustoleum and decaled it for the B&M. When I put  it back together I used a set of 500 series trucks and mounted the couplers over the truck mounting pins. This shortened the coupler swing quite a bit but so far I've noticed no issues in running the car and now it can be coupled with all my 500 series freight cars.

Pete.  Your making me nuts with all the cool B&M stuff!

hojack posted:

Okay, this one is a little off the wall.  Remember Lionel's postwar #68 "track inspection car"?  

Here's my standard gauge answer to that.  

It started as a Hubley #476 diecast Studebaker station wagon, it's about 8-1/2" long, so it's close to 1:24 scale.  Installed one DC motor and axle from a Lionel RS-385SH G-scale two-motor block; the front axle of the station wagon is not powered.  Added wheels and center rail pickups.  No lights yet...

Thanks for watching!

david

David.  I have to have one of those!  I had a red Hubley Studebaker when I was a kid!  Got to build one this winter. Getting the parts may be a challenge.

Found this beautiful pre war Lionel pacific on display at my meeting tonight

Chris Lonero posted:

The weekend;Finally!  Nothing new this week for me I'm in my busy season at work and I've hardly seen the layout this week.  Here is an oldie but a goodie from a few years back.      Let's see your tinplate!  

Hey Chris nice pic like the Sears card

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Mom has been in/out/in/out of the hospital the past 3 weeks, so not paying a lot of attention nor time to take pictures. Did get this today. Been wanting the 200 series work caboose for a while and was pleased to finally get one. This one is especially cool, it's Southern Pacific, which is my TTOS Division and it's the TCA 2003 convention car hosted by the Western Division, which I am president of.

Steve

Congratulations Steve I'm jealous I've wanted one of those for a long time hope you enjoy

Not sure if I've given my tutorial on USA Hornby for the O Gauge Forum.  If you've already seen it, scroll on. Otherwise here's how to tell the difference between true  USA manufactured Hornby versus the items made in the UK after the USA factory closed in 1930.  The true USA car has T couplers and "Made in USA" lettered on the side. When the factory closed a batch of USA cars had the USA repainted out and link couplers substituted for the T couplers.  The final run had only a space where" Made in USA" once had been lettered and the link couplers were replaced by the Hornby automatics.  Here are 3 photos showing the transition. The automatics are most common followed by the link couplers. The T couplers are by far the rarest. Lew Schneider

Lots of great stuff this week!

Pete, as I've said before, I'm really impressed with yout paint jobs on the B&M cars you're doing.  And converting the ballast car to go with the 500 series is brilliant: it's completely different from the 500 hopper so it makes a great addition.  The couplers were always too long on the 116 anyway, your idea is a big improvement!

Lewrail, thank you for this... I have different variations of Hornby's "American style" goods wagons, but I was not aware that some were made here and some were not... now I have to go look at mine and see which they are...

Chris, I plan to make a couple more of the track inspection cars, I kind of hacked this first one up before I got it right... now I know what to do, I think it will go easier next time.  I want to put a blinking red bulb on the roof, and also some frosted windows would help hide the motor and wiring inside.  

david

David. If you're ever interested in selling one or some parts  so I can build one please let me know.  I have some Studebaker's I'm keeping an eye on.  Email is in my profile.

Showed this pic a few years ago. Some 'new stuff' but maybe worth a view.

Bob

New Edition

Trainlover160 posted:

New Edition

uh oh - now you caught the bug!

Bob - nice bridges!

Sending you an email Chris.

d

Great stuff this week so far Guy's!  

Here is a video I created from the TCA Western Division meet today. The theme was tank cars so I created an O gauge Dorfan consist and Steve Eastman was running is Mc Flyer Canadian themed consist.

Trainlover160 posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Mom has been in/out/in/out of the hospital the past 3 weeks, so not paying a lot of attention nor time to take pictures. Did get this today. Been wanting the 200 series work caboose for a while and was pleased to finally get one. This one is especially cool, it's Southern Pacific, which is my TTOS Division and it's the TCA 2003 convention car hosted by the Western Division, which I am president of.

Steve

Congratulations Steve I'm jealous I've wanted one of those for a long time hope you enjoy

Hi Steve I was just wondering where did you find that were Caboose was it at a train show or online or just curious and hoping your days at the hospital are fewer or non existent these days

Joeg

Trainlover160 posted:

Trainlover160 posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Mom has been in/out/in/out of the hospital the past 3 weeks, so not paying a lot of attention nor time to take pictures. Did get this today. Been wanting the 200 series work caboose for a while and was pleased to finally get one. This one is especially cool, it's Southern Pacific, which is my TTOS Division and it's the TCA 2003 convention car hosted by the Western Division, which I am president of.

Steve

Congratulations Steve I'm jealous I've wanted one of those for a long time hope you enjoy

Hi Steve I was just wondering where did you find that were Caboose was it at a train show or online or just curious and hoping your days at the hospital are fewer or non existent these days

Joeg

Joe, picked it up from e-bay.

Steve

Newly acquired all original (down to the wheels) 'Nickel', being chased by 390. Both still on the temporary carpet tester.

I picked up some additional O gauge Dorfan today at the TTOS Southern Pacific Division meet. My goal was this Dorfan 55 steam engine. The wheels look pretty good and after some oiling and a little cleaning she runs.....not greet yet but getting better. Does anyone have a cow catcher repair section for one of these? I have been looking for a while to find a steam Dorfan. I have quite a few of the electrics already.

Captaincog posted:

I picked up some additional O gauge Dorfan today at the TTOS Southern Pacific Division meet. My goal was this Dorfan 55 steam engine. The wheels look pretty good and after some oiling and a little cleaning she runs.....not greet yet but getting better. Does anyone have a cow catcher repair section for one of these? I have been looking for a while to find a steam Dorfan. I have quite a few of the electrics already.

Trickel part number DO14

Steve

Trainlover160 posted:

Trainlover160 posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Mom has been in/out/in/out of the hospital the past 3 weeks, so not paying a lot of attention nor time to take pictures. Did get this today. Been wanting the 200 series work caboose for a while and was pleased to finally get one. This one is especially cool, it's Southern Pacific, which is my TTOS Division and it's the TCA 2003 convention car hosted by the Western Division, which I am president of.

Steve

Congratulations Steve I'm jealous I've wanted one of those for a long time hope you enjoy

Hi Steve I was just wondering where did you find that were Caboose was it at a train show or online or just curious and hoping your days at the hospital are fewer or non existent these days

Joeg

Joe,

There is another one for sale now, click here.

d