Weekend tinplate photos and videos 9/23/16!

This small Charles Rossignol or CR clockwork train includes a blue sleeping car so it might even be a CIWL train. This train set has catalog number 8003 and is from 1928, it runs on 30 mm track (a gauge also called 33 mm). This gauge was as far as I know only used for train sets with curved track; extra track and switches/turnouts were not available. The wheels of the locomotive are set such that the locomotive can only run in circles and a small circle of 30 mm track is included. The set is in a very good condition for its age so I assume it was never played with, which is logical since the running qualities are abominable.

Enjoy your tinplate weekend.

Fred

Continuing with selections from the files of Golden Spike International, we see here an example of the Carlisle and Finch elevated railway system. Produced between approximately 1905 and 1908, the system included rolling stock, track components (ribbon rail with ties) and support columns. Power for operation was provided by dry cell batteries.

Bob 

Chris, you did a great job with that!  The wheels are great!  and the extra LED's really make it, love the tail lights!  Here's your photos that you sent me, for everybody to see it up close.  Very high cool factor!!!

This is Chris's #69 inspection car, the same one that is in the video above:

david

Love the inspection car, Chris! The C & F elevated line is a rarity, for sure. The little Rossignol set is very colorful. Here's a photo that my friend Holger sent of a Bing gauge 1 set at the Hans Peter Porsche Tramwerk - a train and toy museum that would be fun to visit, based on a look at their web site:

HP Tramwerk

What a great way to start a weekend.  I love that folks are eager to post each Friday morning.  I am getting quite the education on tinplate.  Thanks everyone for your contributions,  

My offering this week is a continuation of the Lionel/Ives transition era.  Here are the 1690 passenger cars.

They were headed up by a steamer:

And an electric outline engine:

I think there are about 6 different variations of these cars.  Most of them are stored away in boxes, so it might take a week or so to get them out and photograph them.  

Have a great tinplate weekend.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

This is one of my favorite photos from my layout. It's just a Marx CV pulling into my Marx whistling depot, but it reminds me of a scene from an old video I have of N&W 611 (from the '80's I think) making it's return to Roanoke for the first time since it was sent to the VA trans. museum. This photo was taken after I had just gotten the CV (my first one too) and it was like "Going Home" as the CV ran past the old Girard depot pulling a train of Marx 6" cars, so I took this memorial photograph.

FYI, if you want to see the old 611 video, click here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuPEE-Meso

Chris, i need an inspection car as yours, it's a terrific piece, great job. Always a great pleasure to discover some beautifull trains in the thread.

My offer of the weekend is JEP from France and only clockwork models, they are less thought after than electric ones and are not always great runners. The models i present has never been realised in electric mode.

The less comon first dates from 1935, the engine is lighted with a battery in the tender.

Three variations of a simple 040, the tender of the green one is lettered GN for Great Northern, made for the british market.

And to change a little from trains, JEP also produced many models of boats, this one is the biggest model, the "Ruban Bleu" or Blue Ribbon. A great running model from post war.

Have a nice and safe weekend tinplate friends,

Daniel

A few weeks ago I gave the Forum a taste of Danish Wittrock. It's O Gauge but relatively small and might better

be called semi-semi scale.  Wittrock passenger cars were both enameled and lithographed.  I've just completed a swap with a good friend who collects Wittrock and was very much interested in my Carlsberg beer refrigerator car.In turn I received a blue enameled Paris-Copenhagen coach to pair up with my red version.  There is a green one out there so be on the lookout.

Lew Schneider

Hi Daniel.  I love these tinplate boats! Until they got posted on this thread I didn't even know any others existed other than Lionel's version. 

Pennsy Torpedo rounds the curve

got this little gem from pat at patricks trains in wheeling,,,,this is the 1st model prewar I bought when I was a teenage,,,yes we had electricity ,I painted that one red and silver,,,will not do that with this,,,runs like a champ 

I'm really liking the look of those electrics...may have to start looking for one.

Here's a B&M milk car that I painted a few weeks ago but just got time to reassemble. The real B&M milk cars wee all black and rather ugly so I took a little license on this one and did the roof and end panels in B&M blue and kept the body black. The contrasting colors set it off and look good for a "toy" train. The only thing I messed up was I forgot to order a nickel brake whell and shaft on my last parts order so for the moment I'm using a brass one colored silver with a Sharpie. 

Looks great Pete!

A set of Ives freights acquired a while back:

PD

beautiful Ives!

Chris Lonero posted:

it's been a long week but the weekend and tinplate has arrived so let's get started!   This week I have a video of a Hubley metal wagon just like I had as a kid. I do have some photos but Photo Bucket is not cooperating with me tonight.  "I'll work on it" I  acquired this car from a forum member who did the build itself and did an awesome job on it.   What I did was add LED's front and back and installed a different one in the roof beacon than what was there.  I call it the #69 executive inspection car because it resembles it's smaller cousin the post war #68 car.  Going with that theme I repainted the red and did the roof in an off white and just for giggles I glued wheels from a 1/24 die cast car again similar to the old #68.   Here is a short video of the finished product.   Let's see your tinplate!! 

Nice job Chris! What did you end up using for a motor?

JoeG

Thanks Joe. It has a D.C. can motor with a rectifier.   

Here are some pictures of a set of tinplate freight cars I picked up recently.  They are German, made by Marklin, 1920's, and they are Gauge 1, so I will not be running them on my standard gauge layout.  They do not have trucks that can be exchanged for standard gauge trucks; they are 8" long, 4-wheel cars that have fixed axles, made the same way some smaller O Gauge cars were made.

The interesting thing about these cars is that although they are German-made, they were made for export to the British market.  So they are lettered with British railroad names: British Great Northern, London North Eastern, and Midland railroads.

But here's the real reason I bought this set.  Notice the lettering on that last car?  "Goods Break".  This is a very true observation, and something to keep in mind in the train room: goods do indeed break.  But what's it doing on this train car?

These were made for the British market.  The Brits refer to a "freight train" as a "goods train".  And, the car at the end, where the brakeman rides, more or less what we call the caboose, is known as the "brake van".

I would be very interested to know if any of our European contributors have another explanation, but it seems to me that maybe something was lost in translation.  It seems that someone in the Marklin factory was confident enough of his English to be convinced that the brake van on a British goods train should be lettered "Goods Break"?  It's a delightful bit of tinplate history, captured in the lithography.  

As far as I know Break was not a spelling error made by Märklin; a brake van or break van had use for braking but also when there was a breaking of a coupling or a breakdown etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_van and the discussion here: http://www.classicogauge.net/f....php?f=21&t=1146

Regards

Fred

pete hits a home run,,with the b&m box car !!

Some strange critters have taken over the loading dock this weekend.

Steve

picked up this pair of 6-inch West German-made LNER clockwork floor locos last week.

I believe them to be Arnold as the stampings look the same as the Arnold 670 and 303 locos.

This 5781 version I saw online may be another from the same stampings.

Have also seen a silver link 2509  that looks similar that was marked made in japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXqnzxZbq5k

did some mock up on my 221. I've got a motor on the way, so I worked on another extended coffin type tender.made up another set of six wheeled trucks. I've been kicking around using the extra set of Marx passenger cars behind it. they're banged up enough a new paint job wouldn't hurt. thinking about black with a silver/grey stripe. hafta check on NYC decals.

sncf231e posted:

This small Charles Rossignol or CR clockwork train includes a blue sleeping car so it might even be a CIWL train. This train set has catalog number 8003 and is from 1928, it runs on 30 mm track (a gauge also called 33 mm). This gauge was as far as I know only used for train sets with curved track; extra track and switches/turnouts were not available. The wheels of the locomotive are set such that the locomotive can only run in circles and a small circle of 30 mm track is included. The set is in a very good condition for its age so I assume it was never played with, which is logical since the running qualities are abominable.

Enjoy your tinplate weekend.

Fred

I tried again to have a run with this train and the spring broke (I thought); however it just came loose and was repairable. But it still does not run great:

Regards

Fred