The weekend is here and it's time for tinplate! Starting off this weekend is my "Pride Lines" kit I painted and assembled in a taxi livery. Let's see your tinplate!
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Chris that taxi looks really nice and matches great with the Lionel station. Good job.
This week some british tinplate from Basset Lowke and Bing.
Prince Charles with blood and custard coaches from the 50's, last set of trains made by Basset lowke
Enterprise 440 live steam post war model, a great running engine, 30 minutes of steaming. The major problem is the paint which is suffering from heat....
A very comon model, certainly the most produced of all Basset Lowke models with a rake of Bing cars of the same period, around 1925-30
Bing has produced some very nice passenger coaches for the british market as this one. 1921 serie.
Have a great weekend, Daniel
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After many years since my last visit, I had an opportunity to stop at Roadside America this past weekend. While the layout itself naturally garners the majority of the attention, the gift shop features a variety of impressive tinplate items in different gauges on display. Here are shots I took of some of this equipment. Perhaps you'll see some of your favorites!
Bob
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CNJ 3676 posted:After many years since my last visit, I had an opportunity to stop at Roadside America this past weekend. While the layout itself naturally garners the majority of the attention, the gift shop features a variety of impressive tinplate items in different gauges on display. Here are shots I took of some of this equipment. Perhaps you'll see some of your favorites!
Bob
I just got one of those in the mail yesterday, will post pictures after I'm done with these pancakes. By the way, how do I get the reverse in those to be a bit less temperamental?
Wasnt much wear or tear on the paint job or the pickups, but the headlight and trailing truck are missing, as were the side rods. I dropped a set of Marx rods onto it instead. I don't think the poor bloke that got this when it was new used it very often, as the spoon pickups are almost unworn. On the other hand, it has an awfully temperamental reverse unit and the motor was all lubed on the inside. Ended up using a disinfectant wipe to cut through the grease on the brushes and commuter. UPDATE: This thing is a juice hog! I can get it to crawl at full throttle with my RW, and that usually sends my other engines flying! Is that normal?
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CNJ 3676 posted:
Bob
Your post reminded me that I have a Marx M10000 from 1937 in the collection. Its one of those sets from another maker that sneaked into the American Flyer Collection
Have a great tinplate weekend.
Greg
Northwoods Flyer
Some of the pictures I uploaded here in the weekly posts I used, together with many other pictures, to make a PDF book on toy and model Luxury Trains. It is attached here and free to have a look or download. Be aware before you have a look that it is 240 pages and that it is not only Tinplate.
Have a good weekend and be aware not to spend it on reading my book.
Regards
Fred
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some of my Prewar and Marx tin.
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sncf231e posted:Some of the pictures I uploaded here in the weekly posts I used, together with many other pictures, to make a PDF book on toy and model Luxury Trains. It is attached here and free to have a look or download. Be aware before you have a look that it is 240 pages and that it is not only Tinplate.
Have a good weekend and be aware not to spend it on reading my book.
Regards
Fred
Many thanks Fred. You have done something very interesting. There is always something to learn in your books and the pictures are nice. You have a great selection of beautifull models.
Very best, Daniel
Greg J. Turinetti posted:CNJ 3676 posted:
Bob
Your post reminded me that I have a Marx M10000 from 1937 in the collection. Its one of those sets from another maker that sneaked into the American Flyer Collection
Have a great tinplate weekend.
Greg
Northwoods Flyer
Vintage streamliners rock! That's a nice one Greg
Chris Lonero posted:The weekend is here and it's time for tinplate! Starting off this weekend is my "Pride Lines" kit I painted and assembled in a taxi livery. Let's see your tinplate!
Cool taxi Chris.
Is there something like that closer in size to O-gauge?
handyandy posted:Chris Lonero posted:The weekend is here and it's time for tinplate! Starting off this weekend is my "Pride Lines" kit I painted and assembled in a taxi livery. Let's see your tinplate!
Cool taxi Chris.
Is there something like that closer in size to O-gauge?
Thanks Andy. Pride Lines did make some cars that were closer to O gauge. Check out the link.
Andy, if you don't need to limit yourself to Pride Lines, try this link; there are several pages to scroll through, but some amazing cars, trucks, motorcycles, all old cast iron, different sizes. Very addictive stuff.
So that lovely 401 I posted above might need its stationary field rewound. Yuck. Wish me luck.
hojack posted:Andy, if you don't need to limit yourself to Pride Lines, try this link; there are several pages to scroll through, but some amazing cars, trucks, motorcycles, all old cast iron, different sizes. Very addictive stuff.
Thanks for the link. No, I don't NEED a Pride Lines car. I am just interested in vintage (or vintage looking) toy cars and trucks for my layout/collection.
Waiting on the train...
This week I'm posting an interesting British consist with a Lionel Kinlet Hall (son of Hogwarts) pulling a transition car made for me by Colin Duthie in far off New Zealand and 3 Hornby #2 Corridor Coaches. Kinlet Hall's tender might not be pure GWR and the color seems a bit off (but how can I tell, I'm green color blind), but Lionel got the GWR peanut whistle right on. And it smokes as well.
Lew Schneider
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handyandy posted:Waiting on the train...
Andy , The red Ford truck at the crossing , I know its not a Tootsietoy however, is it a Midgetoy ? Whatever the mfg it looks great with the Marx . Thanks for posting. Gary
El Classico posted:So that lovely 401 I posted above might need its stationary field rewound. Yuck. Wish me luck.
I rewound a Marx field with Radio Shack magnet wire and it worked fine. I would send armatures out. Try to match gauge and length as best as possible. Go slow and keep the windings tight. Best of luck.
George
Chris Lonero posted:The weekend is here and it's time for tinplate! Starting off this weekend is my "Pride Lines" kit I painted and assembled in a taxi livery. Let's see your tinplate!
Very nice! Looks great on your layout.
George
George S posted:El Classico posted:So that lovely 401 I posted above might need its stationary field rewound. Yuck. Wish me luck.
I rewound a Marx field with Radio Shack magnet wire and it worked fine. I would send armatures out. Try to match gauge and length as best as possible. Go slow and keep the windings tight. Best of luck.
George
I ended up partly fixing it by gutting the reverse. But in the process I burned the wire to the spoon pickups, so might still end up opening it.
UPDATE: Wrong wire burned. Turns out it was in the armature, so I'll need to take the wheels off. How should I do that?
unclelouiesboy posted:handyandy posted:Waiting on the train...
Andy , The red Ford truck at the crossing , I know its not a Tootsietoy however, is it a Midgetoy ? Whatever the mfg it looks great with the Marx . Thanks for posting. Gary
Gary, it's a Midgetoy alright. I like the 4 wheel fender skirts of Midgetoys. They remind me of postwar Nash cars. LOL
handyandy posted:unclelouiesboy posted:handyandy posted:Waiting on the train...
Andy , The red Ford truck at the crossing , I know its not a Tootsietoy however, is it a Midgetoy ? Whatever the mfg it looks great with the Marx . Thanks for posting. Gary
Gary, it's a Midgetoy alright. I like the 4 wheel fender skirts of Midgetoys. They remind me of postwar Nash cars. LOL
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I'm am not sure what happened . but this is one om my favorite Tootsietoys with some of my Tinplate Trains Gary
Chris, that taxi looks sweet!
A picture from a couple of years ago.
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unclelouiesboy posted:
Gary, I love the photo - looks like the car is pulling a very funky Airstream trailer!
El Classico posted:George S posted:El Classico posted:So that lovely 401 I posted above might need its stationary field rewound. Yuck. Wish me luck.
I rewound a Marx field with Radio Shack magnet wire and it worked fine. I would send armatures out. Try to match gauge and length as best as possible. Go slow and keep the windings tight. Best of luck.
George
I ended up partly fixing it by gutting the reverse. But in the process I burned the wire to the spoon pickups, so might still end up opening it.
UPDATE: Wrong wire burned. Turns out it was in the armature, so I'll need to take the wheels off. How should I do that?
I haven't had one of those apart. It looks like you might need to pull a wheel off the shaft on one side. On my Marx, I did this by wedging a flat head screw driver between the frame and the wheel and slowly and evenly working it off. They make wheel pullers as well, but I didn't have one. Putting it back on, I lightly tapped it with a mallet against a block of wood. There is some art to this, so you might want to research this a little. Maybe open a separate thread on engine repair. Also, there is an armature repair company folks recommend if you search the forum. (I can't recall offhand.)
George
I have done armature repair before, so hopefully won't be a problem. Looking at a wheel puller for it, as cannot remove the armature for work unless I do that. Screwdrivers aren't doing it this time lol.
El Classico posted:I have done armature repair before, so hopefully won't be a problem. Looking at a wheel puller for it, as cannot remove the armature for work unless I do that. Screwdrivers aren't doing it this time lol.
You may also need a wheel press to put it back together. Maybe a table vice would work?
George
George S posted:El Classico posted:I have done armature repair before, so hopefully won't be a problem. Looking at a wheel puller for it, as cannot remove the armature for work unless I do that. Screwdrivers aren't doing it this time lol.
You may also need a wheel press to put it back together. Maybe a table vice would work?
George
I have used channel locks before; guess we will see what happens in this saga.
a small block of wood, a small hammer, and a little bit at a time.
