Weekend tinplate photos/videos 10/20/16!

Last week I made a video of a new acquisition: The small French company GMP, which was located in Paris and made trains from 1950 till 1958, made a colorful train called the "Vire Caen" express, I had only seen this in pictures in books on French toy trains by Clive Lamming; GMP never made a matching locomotive, but the Merkur French 140C seems to be made for this train.

Have a good weekend

Fred

Here a few news in my collection.

Bing cars with wooden body

Fandor passenger bridge

Fandor level crossing

And, I have made a Bing beer car again, now a copy of the Pabst Blue Ribbon 8-wheel car.

Arne

This week we'll take a look at some rare boxed sets.  The Hornby Canadian Pacific boxed set is extraordinarily rare. Indeed I know of no other.  The Hornby blue Caledonian set from the early 1920s is also very rare.  The Bing Flying Scotsman boxed set is less rare, but enjoyable nevertheless. Note the tracks with wooden ties. And, finally, a real curiousity, the Biller circus set missing some pieces but rare nevertheless.

Lew Schneider

Hello tinplaters, i hope some of you will show us their latests acquisitions at the York TCA show.

I will complete what Fred has shown with the french brand GMP.  Despite a short life production they have only made one model of the famous post french locomotive BB 8100 and a good range of freight and passenger cars to match with that engine. They also produced an important quantity of signals which where with a bumper all the production.

In that period they where considered as semi scale models in regards of more classic toy look of mainly JEP and HORNBY.  Quality was excellent and sophisticated, the brand name was GMP Scientific Toys as opposed to real toys. As said Fred unfortunately they didn't produces a matching locomotive for the small passenger cars.

The BB 8100 electric 20volts,

Passenger and freight cars,

Some of the typical french signals,

And an original set.

I hope you will have some pleasure to discover those french models of the 50's.

Have a great tinplate weekend,      Daniel.

2055 at rest

New addition to the roundhouse. With the traction tires this Kline version of the 333 is a good puller. I believe Kline put the same type of smoke unit in the 333 look alike as I have in my Williams steamers but the Kline smokes much better than any of my Williams do.

Its the weekend!  Time for tinplate.

This is the Iron Horse.  

It appeared in the American Flyer catalog in 1930 and 1931.

Have a great tinplate weekend!

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Paid a bit too much for this, but as president of the Western Division, I thought it would be fun to have. This was a prototype for the 1979 convention sponsored by our division. In the end, the car looked nothing like this. A bonus for me is the shipping label to John Parker, who was chairman of the convention committee. John is a good friend of mine and I visit him a few times a month. I will have to ask him why the prototype had no resemblance to the production car. This looks much nicer in my opinion.

Steve

Here is a little pre-war American Flyer O gauge passenger set I picked up at last Months TCA Weston meet auction. I spent some time tonight doing some clean and polishing. All works well now.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Its the weekend!  Time for tinplate.

This is the Iron Horse.  

It appeared in the American Flyer catalog in 1930 and 1931.

Have a great tinplate weekend!

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Nice Northwoods...I picked up a 3192 (3195 loco, 3196 tender) at York yesterday. I lucked out and found one with the bell/hood over the light:

A bit dirty, but should clean up nice. Great little runner...I have a set of freights as catalogued, but I kinda like the look of a few four-wheel freights with matching journal boxes.

PD

CaptainCog/Jeff

Good looking 1121 train set. Your whistle sounds stronger than mine. Thanks for sharing.

Jeff/Captaincog,  That is a beautiful Flyer set.  I have several of the Type XX engines with whistles and none of their whistles sound as good as yours  . PW53INVA, your engine sounds pretty good too.  For being an  uncataloged engine there are plenty of those engines around.  They must have been in many entry level sets sold through other outlets.  I am envious of both of you that you have the red baggage car.  Those seem to be harder to find.  I've been looking for several years and haven't found one in good condition.   Thanks for posting them.

PD,

That is a great looking 3195 and tender.  There is a great deal of charm to those engines and the sets that they pulled.  Its one of my favorite eras of Flyer production.  Nice catch on the headlight on the engine.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Nice to see the 3195's!  Just for fun, here is a 3195 that has been converted to windup:

The 3195 is a big, beefy locomotive, at least when compared to its smaller windup cast iron brethren:

Greg/Northwoods Flyer, thank you. I enjoyed, and learned a great deal about american flyers on the thread you have on pre war American Flyer. Great pictures and information.  I never knew flyer made 3 rail o gauge and really like the pre war tin freight cars. I have a few of the prewar freight cars and they work well with the 3/16 Marx cars. My little Type XX engine (3303 maybe ,2-4-0, 1934 vintage maybe) is missing the side rods. Do you know where I might be able to get a set  of side rods or if something from Marx might work. It is not a collector piece, just think it would look a little nicer running with some side rods. 

Thanks

Dean

1689E got a trailing truck, and the tender for 221 recieved some work.

and Jack came down to tell me it was 11 o'clock, and it was time for his can....

The train has stopped with a load of freight blocking the diamond and the main road through town. So where is the crew to do the unloading????

One of the harder to find Sakai sets. O gauge diesels just don't show up.

Steve

Here are 2 tinplate additions I just picked up at York. 

since i'm totally smitten with new af wide gauge,,,i got these from sidetrack hobbie's  at York, they are usually on my 1st stop,,,,,great to deal with,,, 

PW53inVa posted:

CaptainCog/Jeff

Good looking 1121 train set. Your whistle sounds stronger than mine. Thanks for sharing.

 

If your whistle is weak, make sure the gear on the bottom is tight. The gear has a couple of cams underneath and if the gear is loose, the cams can't push down on the flap. I had to trim a bit of the fiber off the pick up assemble to let me get a screwdriver in to tighten one.

Steve

Steve

Thanks for the tip, I will give that a try. That is a very nice Sakai set you have there. Don't see the Diesel with the set very often. 

Dean

PW53inVa posted:

Greg/Northwoods Flyer, thank you. I enjoyed, and learned a great deal about american flyers on the thread you have on pre war American Flyer. Great pictures and information.  I never knew flyer made 3 rail o gauge and really like the pre war tin freight cars. I have a few of the prewar freight cars and they work well with the 3/16 Marx cars. My little Type XX engine (3303 maybe ,2-4-0, 1934 vintage maybe) is missing the side rods. Do you know where I might be able to get a set  of side rods or if something from Marx might work. It is not a collector piece, just think it would look a little nicer running with some side rods. 

Thanks

Dean

Thanks for the compliment Dean.  The Pre War American Flyer thread has been a lot of fun to host. Its nice to know that you benefit from the information posted there.   As far as parts go, I am not a good source of information.  Start with the sponsors of this forum.  Not too long ago I ran across someone who does reproduce a number of parts, but I don't remember who it is.  Sometimes the best source is a donor engine on ebay.  A google search will provide some other leads.  

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

PW53inVa posted:

Greg/Northwoods Flyer, thank you. I enjoyed, and learned a great deal about american flyers on the thread you have on pre war American Flyer. Great pictures and information.  I never knew flyer made 3 rail o gauge and really like the pre war tin freight cars. I have a few of the prewar freight cars and they work well with the 3/16 Marx cars. My little Type XX engine (3303 maybe ,2-4-0, 1934 vintage maybe) is missing the side rods. Do you know where I might be able to get a set  of side rods or if something from Marx might work. It is not a collector piece, just think it would look a little nicer running with some side rods. 

Thanks

Dean

Thanks for the compliment Dean.  The Pre War American Flyer thread has been a lot of fun to host. Its nice to know that you benefit from the information posted there.   As far as parts go, I am not a good source of information.  Start with the sponsors of this forum.  Not too long ago I ran across someone who does reproduce a number of parts, but I don't remember who it is.  Sometimes the best source is a donor engine on ebay.  A google search will provide some other leads.  

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

I do not know where you can get AF siderods, but if you use Marx rods, you will have to cut them shorter. The appearance, however, is improved in my opinion

Greg and El Classico

Thank you for the advice on the side rods. The search will continue, but the search and the tinkering around with these old trains is part of the fun. 

Have a good Tuesday

Dean

Trickel sells a few types of Flyer side rods.

Steve