Weekend tinplate photos/Videos 9/21/18!

Some little trains and accessories from JdP-JEP around 1925. Low range models but always a great litho and fun to collect, there is so many variations.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

What looks like a Union Pacific boxcar graveyard is actually a large batch of cars getting their wheels and axles polished so I can pull all of them. Gotta get rid of the rust and grime. A few of these would not roll on their own at all.

Steve

No real tinplate but some paper this weekend:

I received this week the next book, number 4,  in the series on British Toy Trains by Michael Foster.  The original plan was a series with 4 books, but another book will appear on Mettoy; this book is also, like book 3, largely devoted to Brimtoy, since not  everything fitted in book 3. Book 5, which will really be the last one (?), will appear in December.

The book is available direct from Michael Foster (mdfoster@hotmail.co.uk) but I saw it also available from a seller on eBay.

Regards

Fred

I just received a nice American Flyer Mayflower set.  It is the 1990’s version built by Lionel and sold under the Lionel Classics line.  I have been interested in this set after seeing it on TM’s “ Richard Kughn’s Train Layout & Collections” DVD. 

Does anyone know what happened  Richard Kughn’s standard gauge layout?  It was supposed to be donated to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield  Village but nobody there knows anything about it.  They have a large O scale layout featuring several pre war tinplate buildings with recent rolling stock but no standard gauge.

Jim Z

Jim Z posted:

I just received a nice American Flyer Mayflower set.  It is the 1990’s version built by Lionel and sold under the Lionel Classics line.  I have been interested in this set after seeing it on TM’s “ Richard Kughn’s Train Layout & Collections” DVD. 

Does anyone know what happened  Richard Kughn’s standard gauge layout?  It was supposed to be donated to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield  Village but nobody there knows anything about it.  They have a large O scale layout featuring several pre war tinplate buildings with recent rolling stock but no standard gauge.

Jim Z 

 

 

 

I have a Mohave and Marroon  213 from his collection. A thread from 2014 shows a picture of a layout behind the Allegheny and states that some of it is from Kughn's collection.

https://ogrforum.com/...77#33106235495592177

George

Marx prewar 8 wheel freight set with automatic couplers.  The CRI&P Gurnsey milk car has 4 wooden milk cans held in place with a cardboard insert.

snagged a new Marx 5584 bridge for the L trains although I don't have any Marx L trains.

when Hafner and Flyer split in 1914, it was hard to see a difference for a few years...

two of their earliest tenders, nearly identical aside from lettering and couplers.  members of the true century club.

happy Friday... gary

Hi,   New guy here

Fendermain posted:

Hi,   New guy here

Great stuff! Welcome and thanks for posting the pictures!

George

Welcome to the forum Fenderman!  Great looking layout and trains!

Welcome Fenderman. Great entertaining photos, thanks much.

btw: being Fenderman, might you have photos of telecasters and stratocasters, and tweed amps of the same vintage? 

Just curious.

leroof.

Right on leroof. I do have those items but no photos.

Fendermain

Counting practice 

Pre CBS rules.

awesome, thanks.

Tubes rule.

Tubes are amazing

Fendermain posted:

Hi,   New guy here

Welcome aboard! 🚂

While I find prewar and postwar trains absolutely mesmerizing, there is nothing like that era production of TONE via the warm yellow glow of filament in glass, the Odor of which Definitely has the appeal of toy train ozone in my senses.

Just throwing this out there for those who are in the know.

i really like your layout Fenderman. Kind of like it like a 50's broadcaster on a tweed bassman cranked! soaring through space...

nice balance uncrowded spacious colorful well placed layout. Beautiful. 

leroof

Fenderman, On a closer look, Everything on the layout looks so clean and shiny!

Really NICE to see, thanks for sharing.

leroof.

Thank you all for the kind responses regarding my layout. I built it and chose items with with regards to visual impact. Yes old tube amps do offer olfactory as well as sonic pleasures.      Fendermaln

Fenderman, very Nice to have a train room like yours, play proudly.

Not complaining, but i have a raw basement layout with worn postwar equipment, all good for me.

Yours is grade A showroom standout quality.

AND Yeah Dennis Holler, say it loud! 

Leroof Tonalblissivity

welcome Fendermain, great looking stuff!

JHZ563, your daughters are so cool, and good counters!

nice video, cool prewar looks too.

And the kids  are so lucky to have a cool dad with trains to play with.

Enjoy all your videos, thanks.

leroof

Fendermain. Ok I need glasses and should read slower!

Sorry, i won't call you Fenderman again! Lol.

Leroof       Its all good. Thanks again for pleasant comments.

Steve Papa Eastman, I like your photo of the layout.

The elevated line appears to be Marx 416 prewar tower home made tresslized. 

Those are very sturdy prewar made towers. Really a great idea.

Question: light reflector/ fixtures remove, did you just remove the  platforms or use them for stability?

thanks.

263E pulling 1695 passenger car set

Leroof posted:

Steve Papa Eastman, I like your photo of the layout.

The elevated line appears to be Marx 416 prewar tower home made tresslized. 

Those are very sturdy prewar made towers. Really a great idea.

Question: light reflector/ fixtures remove, did you just remove the  platforms or use them for stability?

thanks.

 

I removed the light assemblies, then bent the railings over to give me a broader platform for the track.

Steve

Robert S. Butler posted:

Marx prewar 8 wheel freight set with automatic couplers.  The CRI&P Gurnsey milk car has 4 wooden milk cans held in place with a cardboard insert.

I have 5-6 boxed auto  coupler sets. Very cool stuff.

Steve

Leroof posted:

JHZ563, your daughters are so cool, and good counters!

nice video, cool prewar looks too.

And the kids  are so lucky to have a cool dad with trains to play with.

Enjoy all your videos, thanks.

leroof

Thanks much.

1 daughter, doing the counting, 2 sons, age 4 and 12.

Steve Papa Eastman I like your marx layout with elevated tower support section. How did you clean those wheels and axles? I have some early lionel prewar with serious rust.    Fendermain

it may take years, but if you see something you like...

keep looking and eventually you may finally get there...

happy Saturday... gary

Fendermain posted:

Steve Papa Eastman I like your marx layout with elevated tower support section. How did you clean those wheels and axles? I have some early lionel prewar with serious rust.    Fendermain

I really should invest in a tumbler. Put em in, let it run then take out shiny parts. I use a fine wire wheel on my bench grinder. Works great but is dirty and time consuming.

Steve

Joy Line sparking clockwork loco.

Steve

This is my portable Marx layout, it's a 4' X 4' with the corners cut off. 

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Joy Line sparking clockwork loco.

Steve

Not the sort of thing you want to be running beneath your dried out Christmas tree in February, lol...

I had to make a make-shift yard to store some rolling stock so I could run trains.

Mickey is still oiling and greasing the NYC 400e...

Sorry Greg, the Ives 1122 can't pull all the litho rolling stock, so I had to put the MTH 260e into service. She can pull anything!

You will also see the MTH NYC AF Piper pulling its consist through the Hellgate and my custom O Gauge Piper pulling its litho freight in the foreground.

It may be hard to believe, but I have more Ives large litho freight not shown here. I will be selling that, because you shouldn't hoard your trains...

George