Buy/Make Anything Cool Lately (Tinplate Version)

Here I was trying to downsize a set and got this !! Could not let this one pass for 1k brand new for the engine and 4 cars

Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Steam engine :  WOW !  what a set!  Beautiful

Don

WTH??!! Congrats!!!!

Just picked up this baby. It is going to pull my Ives Circus Train.  I've been looking for the Red version forever!

Another beauty. Congrats!

Got a couple of new cars, bought one and made one.

A standard gauge Borden's milk car from CMT

https://sites.google.com/view/cmtllc/home

And finish a coach car for mt Flyer New Haven passenger train.

Next will be the observation car.

Pete:  Great work.  I don't know who CMT is but they did a nice job on the Borden's Milk car.  Your work on the NH coach is outstanding.

Best Wishes

Don

A while ago I found a rare Bing crane 10285, made 1911-1920. But he needed some help.

The crank handle was missing and was rebuild

New handle and new colour

And finished

Arne

Exquisite, and nicely done! :-)

Well this just arrived today in the post...Its a Hornby Type 20 locomotive & tender and 3 type 20 "wagons" as they say in the UK but we would call them cars.  This entire train was first produced in 1954 when Hornby rolled out its first set of trains reflecting British Rail nationalization and the new liveries applied.  Although this actually happened in 1948, they were quite some time in reflecting the change in their 0 gauge train line.  The low price line of Hornby had been called "M 0" trains but when they changed the livery in 1954 they changed the designation to "Type 20" and it remained so until the end of Hornby gauge 0 production in the late 60's.

Here is the little Type 20 (clockwork) loco and her train of type 20 "wagons"

Shown below in close up is the:  Type 20 Crane Truck, the Type 20 Side Tipping Wagon, and the Type 20 Open Wagon, in British Rail regional color (grey).  Crane does swivel (manually) and lift (hand crank) and side tipping wagon does dump (manually).

Here is the Type 20 loco, in British Rail livery with the "Lion and Wheel" tender.

She is designed to run on 1 ft radius curves so I expect she will do fine on my 0-27 (24 inch diameter).  She does have a brake control in the cab and one that can be activated by a track trip although I don't have a brake track.

Well that's my newest acquisition.  Best wishes

Don

This arrived today.  It's all original and including shipping, it cost me less than driving to York!

NWL

Nice; I think it says "American Flyer Lines", but I'm not positive. What's the story on this?

Mark in Oregon

@Strummer posted:

Nice; I think it says "American Flyer Lines", but I'm not positive. What's the story on this?

Mark in Oregon

It is an American Flyer 4006 Wide Gauge hopper car.  Somebody listed it on ebay for a bargain buy-it-now price, so I bought it.  I don't have a lot of Flyer Wide Gauge, but it is in nice condition and the price was low. 

Nice late 4006 hoppah.

@Nation Wide Lines posted:

It is an American Flyer 4006 Wide Gauge hopper car.  Somebody listed it on ebay for a bargain buy-it-now price, so I bought it.  I don't have a lot of Flyer Wide Gauge, but it is in nice condition and the price was low.

Thanks. It's very nice indeed. 🙂

Question: in Standard Gauge, are any of the different brands compatible, coupler-wise? 🤔

Mark in (wet today) Oregon

A brace of Lionel 2620s acquired at York:

1938-39 version in the foreground (Type I "ridged" box-couplers, aluminum-painted floodlight) and the 1940 version (Type II "simulated knuckle-and-lift-pin" box couplers, light gray painted floodlight) behind.

Despite all of the gnashing of teeth, the show was fun...how could it not be?

PD

@Strummer posted:

Thanks. It's very nice indeed. 🙂

Question: in Standard Gauge, are any of the different brands compatible, coupler-wise? 🤔

Mark in (wet today) Oregon

No sir, all different. Ok, some late Ives (made by Lionel) have Lionel couplers.

@Rob English posted:

No sir, all different. Ok, some late Ives (made by Lionel) have Lionel couplers.

So...no mix and match, then? I get it, but it seems like a shame...

Mark in Oregon

@Strummer posted:

So...no mix and match, then? I get it, but it seems like a shame...

Mark in Oregon

Some folks take a common car and install a different type of coupler on each end and use them between cars made by different manufacturers.

Was able to pick up the red/ivory/ silver version of the Hellgate bridge at York.

@Mallard4468 posted:

Some folks take a common car and install a different type of coupler on each end and use them between cars made by different manufacturers.

Oh sure...a "transition" car. Of course! 🙂

Mark in Oregon

I was bored this week so I pulled a couple of old standard gauge switches out of the junk track box and redid them. One 222 and a 210. I left most of the patina on the rails as it looks better than shiny silver. When I finally get to build a permanent layout these will go on it.

@Strummer posted:

Oh sure...a "transition" car. Of course! 🙂

Mark in Oregon

A bent paper clip, a rubber band, or some string would also (temporarily) serve as a good "universal adaptor" as well.

@Pete in Kansas posted:

I was bored this week so I pulled a couple of old standard gauge switches out of the junk track box and redid them. One 222 and a 210. I left most of the patina on the rails as it looks better than shiny silver. When I finally get to build a permanent layout these will go on it.

Pete these turned out fantastic!! They will certainly look great on your future layout. How easily was the disassembly of the rail from the base and the ability to reuse the insulators? Again….great job.  

They came apart quite easily and most of the insulators were able to be reused. The only difficult part was the sliding points that did require bending the metal a little. I did have to make a few insulators out of double thickness fishpaper that I got on Amazon.

Always looking for rare stuff and finally found a good GM gray 2224W

I just started looking at New Marx Trains and discovered some really nice new tinplate trains. While the vast majority of my collection, including the Marx subset, is all vintage I decided that these are just too nice to ignore.  Here are the first pieces of my new Marx.

I thought they would look great with the Marx William Crooks.

Now I just need to find another one so that I can have a passenger and a freight train.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Next repair, a small Bing loco with missing wheels.

Had made a silicone mold

cast from hard lead

Machined with a lathe

stained black

Inside painted black

Green loco with new wheels and black loco with orginal wheels.

Arne

Arne...Fantastic!

Dunno how "cool" this is; picked up a pair of Standard Gauge gondolas, #12 Rock Island Lines and #112 Lake Shore. Both are numbered "65784". Both need trucks (can't be that hard to find, right?) 🤔 🙂

The 12 is in kinda rough shape, paint-wise; black with a dark green along the bottom edge. Has the number stamped on the bottom with "Made in USA. The Lionel Corporation".

The 112 looks to be almost new; grey with an olive green lower edge. Simply stamped "112" on the bottom.

Different types of brake wheels; both are 11 1/8" in length.

And so it begins...😳😊

Mark in Oregon

Been awhile since I’ve posted here. Nothing too big but picked these two up recently:

Dorfan Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis gondola

and this Stadtlim(East German) coach. Bought this driven by my love for history more so than for the train itself.

Finally found a Lionel Corp O gauge PS3 tinplate set with add on cars.  Everything was new with unopened boxes.  

I finally completed the set.  Sometime back I purchased the prototype TCA C&NW stock car from the Flynn's.  A year or so ago I purchased a regular production version of the C&NW car which has black ends and embossed sides as opposed to sides that were punched out.  These two were joined recently with the production version of the TCA convention car.

This was a total waste of time but........ now that I'm retired I've got plenty, so I redid an Ives standard gauge switch.  I think it will look cool on a layout when I finally get to building one.

@Pete in Kansas posted:

This was a total waste of time but......

I disagree; it looks great! 👍

Mark in Oregon

I think this qualifies as "Tinplate":

Kramer #KP-002. I think I had a set of these about 20 years ago, in the silver paint. Changed the original large round bulbs to these "teardrop" shaped ones... looks really good at about 7 -9 volts.

Mark in Oregon

I've been planning a Bing layout for a long time. Only material from the last 5 years should be used for this, i.e. only from the area 1928-32.

This also includes all the plain buildings. A lot is already there, but some has been on the search list for a long time.

The rare company office has been on the list for a long time, but it's almost impossible to find.

Now there was a ruin to be found on Ebay, just the bare building.

So everything had to be rebuilt.

Pyramid shaped roof

Chimney pipe folded

Canopy made of self-made corrugated iron

For this purpose, press jaws were manufactured for a combination machine

Base itself deep pressed

A tool suitable for a workshop press was built for this purpose

Supports for the canopy

Chimney head soldered in three parts

Tinplate work finished, only paint is missing.

Arne

...fantastic!  

Mark in Oregon

Arne - your craftsmanship is amazing.  Thanks for posting.

Don