Weekend tinplate photos/videos 9/14/18!

The Century heads out of town

JEP set from 1953 with a classic 240 litho loco, particularity this one is stampes on the top of the cab POULT, a cake and biscuits maker still in activity. Impossible to learn more about the history of that specific set, maybe a gift for Christmas to employers.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

Some Hafner passenger coaches

I found this CIWL Pullman car on German eBay made by the small French manufacturer Fournereau. It is not in the best condition and I had to repair and touch up some things, but it is better looking than the one in the book on Fournereau and all lettering was still there. I have never seen another one, so I think it is quite rare in any condition (even in France, Daniel?). I assume this is from the thirties.

Regards

Fred

Nice car Fred and you are right not so comon even in France especially in nice condition.

The paint was apply on metal without any primer so with time it tends to flack.  Another problem is finding the right decals, I must have original ones but they are dry and impossible to use.

Your car with that specific CIWL marking may be from the thirties or even later, they were avalaibles through the fifties. I have a sleeping car similar to your except it has a wooden roof.

Daniel 

A new bulldozer arrived today from the Hubley Corporation plant at East Bay, New Jersey. Signage on the yard office is printed on paper and double sided taped to magnetic paper. 

Joe Lyons posted:

Some Hafner passenger coaches

Joe, recently picked up a few matching observation cars for the blue/silver pullmans. contact me off list if interested.

American Flyer Uncatalogued set from 1937 - Engine has mechanical whistle and the tender is the standard coal tender with an extra long drawbar.

...and the box contents

Eclectic  grouping of new acquisitions recently:

Fandor semaphore

Flyer ICRR woodside 1111 caboose

Hoge tom thumb observation car

Non Pareil combo rail car

Japanese faux substitute for the Marx "critter" I will never own.

Fandor 6879 coach

Robert S. Butler posted:

American Flyer Uncatalogued set from 1937 - Engine has mechanical whistle and the tender is the standard coal tender with an extra long drawbar.

...and the box contents

Beautiful set, Robert. Any idea the popularity or production percentage differences between the round back and the square back locomotives?

American Flyer on the FCC (Filing Cabinet Central)

Jim,

Really like that AF ICRR caboose and the Tom Thumb observation.  Can you tell me more about the Tom Thumb train?  I never heard of it.

The Hoge 990 Tom Thumb trains were offered in turquoise and were headed by black 990 loco and tender. None of its parts interchange with the larger 900,500 or 1000 streamliners although you could play mix and match with the 750 circus trains and the 990 freight sets.

They do however interchange with the yellow 881 tom thumb set, which used a boxcab loco.

Those photos represent about $3000 in sales from auctions in the last 6 years.

Here is a mock up of an Ives Knickerbocker set. (There is one extra car from what would have been in an the original Knickerbocker set)  The cars are repainted 133-134 cars and the engine is a 3254 which may also be a repaint. The real Knickerbocker set was pulled by a black and red 3261.

Sorry for the fuzzy first photo.  I will try to get a better one and post a video later in the weekend.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Jim O'C  I'm not aware of any differences with respect to production quantity of the square vs the rounded end AF tinplate Hiawatha engine. Greenberg doesn't indicate any differences in production quantity either.  My personal observations from various trains shows also does not skew one way or the other with respect to square or round back engines.

Riding the Tinplate Rails...

Tom 

some af things that have found there way to my house lately,4644 runs like a bat,,,,probly repaint but good for me,,,,will do a vid tomorrow with the cars,,,,,orphan blue and chrome streamlines,,,,just pickup the chrome,,,really nice shape,,,,and the small af cars ,were to cute to pass on,,,oh my,,,,,i need help,,calling dr York !!!

A pair of videos on the layout showing a varied selection of O gauge equipment: Lionel 736 "Berkshire" locomotive, MPC-era Milwaukee Road passenger cars, and American Flyer Burlington Zephyr, plus the Detroit Leland monorail in the background.

sncf231e posted:

I found this CIWL Pullman car on German eBay made by the small French manufacturer Fournereau. It is not in the best condition and I had to repair and touch up some things, but it is better looking than the one in the book on Fournereau and all lettering was still there.

Regards

Fred

Had a run with it today:

Regards

Fred

the statesman running !

These two cars came with the lot of Ives cars I got last week. They are variations on cars I already own, but these are in nicer condition.

George

terry hudon posted:

the statesman running !

Really nice Terry!

Got to run some STD Gauge at today’s Southwestern meet.

Steve

A couple gems from today’s Southwestwern meet. 

JEP crossing gate and shed. I need to search for the model and years.

A tall Sakai block signal. I’ve never noticed this tall one before. The one on the left is the type I usually see. 

And another new arrival today.

Steve

Congrats PaPa!

The signal isn't bad either

Congrats, Grandpapa!

Down at the factory!

this was in the mailbox yesterday.Nice $5 e bay find.

Last Sunday at a small train show in the center of France I bought this nice little set from LR.

That makes it interesting is that  it has a classic 040 loco tender with SNCF markings which allows to date it from 1939-40 period with automatic couplers; toy production stopped in 1940-41 due to the war period and this model was never reintroduced after. The first models of this engine bears the PLM logo which dates from 1934-38.

Second interesting fact is the beer refrigerator car. Non prototypical colors but a nice little logo with “Biere du Lion” or lion beer. So much less colorful than the American models but it is the only one model produced in France with a beer logo ….. wine cars are much more common….

Have a great tinplate weekend,    Daniel

Happy Friday!   So it looks like we have taken the thread from last week and changed the date to this week.  That works for me.  It makes for more great tinplate photos in one place.

Last week I was going to try to post a clearer photo of my mock up Ives Knickerbocker set and a video. Obviously that didn't happen so here it is this week. 

The really exciting thing is that the appropriate Ives #3261 showed up to pull the train.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

beautiful set Greg...I've always liked that color scheme for some reason....

Thanks Dave,

I was thinking of the beautiful job you did on your set the whole time I was posting my set last week. I really like this color combination. 

One of the things about playing with vintage trains is that they have their own personality.  One minute they will be running beautifully and the next minute they might throw themselves off the track.  

Shortly after I finished taking the video:

"Oh the humanity!"  

At this rate I might have to rename the set "The Knicked up Knickerbocker"   

(No trains were harmed in the filming of this video.)

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Two of the cars came from the extensive Dennis Holler Collection...

yeah been there done that. For no reason some days the trains just don't want to play nicely. And I look at the chips and scratches on the trains and imagine the joy some kid had putting them there......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxJtMoTnx8

A nice, well played-with Flyer 3008 recently acquired:

Needs a bit of a polish, otherwise good-to-go.

PD

Daniel: LOVE that French beer car!

funny thing happened on the way to the repaint table,,,,i got this repainted #9 ,which was much better than the pix,,,,,only the top was repainted black,i wanted to paint it the special cream/red trim like the rare #8 set,got the paint,then got the loco,,,,,,it matches the franks roundhouse red/black trans cars,,,the cars are abit small,but I will find another donor body,,,,i have one,,,, 

Red and Black day?

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Happy Friday!   So it looks like we have taken the thread from last week and changed the date to this week.  That works for me.  It makes for more great tinplate photos in one place.

 

Greg

Now I see; I thought there was no weekend-tinplate-photos-videos-thread this week.

A friend gave me a small  Hachette crane truck a couple of days ago.  Hornby France made in their M series of smaller 0 gauge trains between 1930 and 1940 a four wheel crane truck. The French publisher Hachette made a series of replicas of French Hornby trains including this crane truck. This crane looks similar to the Hornby M0 crane as the picture shows, but is a bit bigger:

The Hachette replicas do have correct looks, however they are made from very thin tinplate and thus a bit flimsy. Length of the car is 12 cm.

I updated my e-book on cranes, including also this Hachette one. The new version can be seen or downloaded here:

http://sncf231e.nl/crane-trucks/

Regards

Fred