@Don McErlean posted:Wow great pictures everyone...makes for a great Saturday morning. LeapinLarry you pictured my favorite Ford switcher and some really neat B&O Geeps and a UP Genset...cool. Trumptrain, the engine service area is really well done with terrific detail, great modeling. For me today, I have a couple of engines.
First its the "last" of the pre-war Lionel die cast engines, the little 204 pulls his short tinplate train out of the depot and up the line. This poor little fellow never made the catalogue and was never sold separately only in sets and his lifetime was cut short by the war, but he had both whistle and bell features of the time depending on which tender was used. Die cast boiler, metal hand rails, and detailed cab interior. The short but relatively heavy boiler with the weight centered over the drive wheels makes him a pretty good puller even at 80+ years old! Note: the cool thing is that by changing the tender to a postwar variant with Lionel pw couplers, I can pull any of my post war cars as well and he does a very fine job of that!!
A bit on the unusual side is a Japanese origin Alps (brand name) 0-4-0 switcher (simulated 2-4-0) marked for the NYC! She is all sheet metal and lithographed and battery powered. She has rather unusual articulating (moves up and down) loop couplers front and rear. Really made more for "street type" track rather than rail, but she runs well on two "D" batteries and has both forward and reverse. Dates likely to 1960's I think.
Well that's it for me today. I wish everyone a happy and healthy weekend. Thanks to everyone for posting.
Don
Don it’s always a treat to read about the history of the Vintage Engines thanks for sharing
