Weekend tinplate photos/videos 9/7/17!!

This arrived today, looking forward to wiring it all up soon. Its really looking more like a railroad now.

I am the Railroad Baroness of my little SG toy train empire, the TeaRose RailRoad (TRRR). 

Eventually, I want to get an 124 or 126 original station and a repro or original 155 freight shed to be on the opposite side of my 116 station and the 129B platform.

The boys have pulled in a set of Hiawatha passenger cars.  Now if only they can track down the locomotive!

Chris Lonero posted:

This week I have some cars I finished in John Deere colors. Just need to figure out what to put in the dump cars for loads? Let's see your tinplate! 

Nice cars Chris how about tractor tires in those dump cars??

Joe Gozzo 

great find Dennis...keep hunting for the engine.Maybe do up a 1689E like someone else on the forum did until you find the Flyer engine.

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

This week I have some cars I finished in John Deere colors. Just need to figure out what to put in the dump cars for loads? Let's see your tinplate! 

Nice cars Chris how about tractor tires in those dump cars??

Joe Gozzo 

That's a good idea Joe. I'm going to the craft store and see if I can maybe find some bails of hay or something on that line. Usually the stuff where they keep the doll house accessories have some interesting things.  

Two weeks ago I found this very small tinplate 0 gauge clockwork trainset. This is a set made by Beckh in Nurnberg, Germany, somewhere around 1955. Beckh also used plastic in its trains, but this is one is completely tinplate; later they also made simple plastic H0 trains; in 1973 the production stopped. The set includes a station and a tunnel and a very small circle of track. Most of this kind of small trains will not stay on the track but this one does as you can see in the video.

Regards

Fred

Chris Lonero posted:

This week I have some cars I finished in John Deere colors. Just need to figure out what to put in the dump cars for loads? Let's see your tinplate! 

How about some corn ,especially in the green hoppers ?

NJCJOE posted:

Wow, you even have a hole/tunnel in the wall! What is the extra box car please? And HOW did you get the smoke puffs perfectly timed??

Carey,

Absolutely! If you need more room, open a hole in a wall. 

The box car is from MTH. Here is the link to their site.

https://mthtrains.com/11-30147

The engine is a PS2 model with synchronized smoke. 

NJCJOE posted:

Carey,

Absolutely! If you need more room, open a hole in a wall. 

The box car is from MTH. Here is the link to their site.

https://mthtrains.com/11-30147

The engine is a PS2 model with synchronized smoke. 

synchronized smoke, holycats!

JohnnieWalker posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

This week I have some cars I finished in John Deere colors. Just need to figure out what to put in the dump cars for loads? Let's see your tinplate! 

How about some corn ,especially in the green hoppers ?

Corn is a good idea too.  Maybe some pumpkins. 

In 1935 Hornby France has produced a specific line of boxcars for the french market. It was the 1 S serie, those boxcars are for milk, cattle, vegetables and frigorific. They make a nice composition for freight trains but unfortunately production stopped during the second world war and they didn't reapeared after. Certainly some of the best Hornby tinplate lithographed models.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

The box top promise

and the box contents

I have that set and it has a great whistle as well! I did not like the way MTH chose to put passenger doors on that baggage car so I sold mine. They did a better job with the state baggage car: NO passenger doors!

Chris,

Got the pumpkins on the right side of the photo from Michael's craft store a few years ago.

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

In 1935 Hornby France has produced a specific line of boxcars for the french market. It was the 1 S serie, those boxcars are for milk, cattle, vegetables and frigorific. They make a nice composition for freight trains but unfortunately production stopped during the second world war and they didn't reapeared after. Certainly some of the best Hornby tinplate lithographed models.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

some were reproduced in their Hachette line but with nowhere near the workmanship.

NJCJOE posted:

Chris,

Got the pumpkins on the right side of the photo from Michael's craft store a few years ago.

Awesome!    I'm going to AC Moore tomorrow to see what they have.  Thanks Joe. 

From the archives, a Flyer 3315 hi-balling northbound toward Hellgate:

This part of the layout is currently under reconstruction. Hoping to have that wrapped up by the holidays.

PD

Here are some photos from the archives.  I don't remember if I have posted them before.  Please forgive me if I have. I haven't kept track of what I have posted and what I haven't

Have a great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

even if you had posted these before...we never tire of looking at great tinplate.

Great stuff Greg!  Somehow I suspect that I would be happy to just to look at that shelf of prewar boxes and setboxes    I also really appreciate all your photos as a fantastic reference for determining correct details and variations based on year released etc.  Since I try and put a lot of trains back together from junk, I like to try and get the details and variations correct and honestly your photos have helped quite a few times. 

what Dennis said!

Thanks for the kind words Dennis and Dave.  Its nice to know that my postings here and on the other thread have been helpful.  I enjoy helping expand the knowledge base of American Flyer Trains for others.  When I started collecting in earnest the internet didn't exist and my only resources were the great (but out of print) books that had been published.  I have benefited from the work/fun that others have had gathering information. I have used those references and catalogs to "put together" as many sets as I can.  It is rare that I will buy a complete set, or a boxed  set.  Sometimes it is just one piece at a time. I have also benefited from the friendships I have made with collectors who are far more knowledgeable than I am.

I enjoy watching the projects that you both share with us.  I learn a lot from you as well.  "Reclaiming the lost and hopeless" is a segment of the hobby that I have not engaged in yet.  Ah, the joys of retirement!

Let your imagination run wild.  

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

where do we sign up for the tour? 

Greg, your posts are always so informatives that they are a great pleasure to look at. And your pictures are really nice quality. Please don't hesitate to post more....Collecting American Flyer is so less easy than Lionel ....

All my best wishes,  Daniel

kinda,sorta tinplateish..my mth Hudson with modern railking cars with coupler adapter

Cleaned and painted some Marx eight wheel frames, added some vehicle load clips from Grossmans, my custom Marx vans are ready for delivery.

Steve