Buy/Make Anything Cool Lately (Tinplate Version)

Trainlover160 posted:

Daughter and son in law ordered this on Zulily. Came on sat in a huge box. About the size of a train set. When they opened the box  They were just as surprised as I was because when my daughter ordered it she thought it was gonna be a little tiny thing and it's about the size of a regular street sign and it actually is a little rustic it's pretty cool look in. I wanna do pay them for it and she said dad don't worry about it it was only 8 bucks! Score!!

Joe Gozzo

Cool, Joe.  Looks legit!

George S posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Nice to see your work George, very well done !

I have repainted my Lionel 763e, not a perfect match but it will work for me.  Still have to find a matching tender, 2263w.

Daniel

Thank you for the kind words Daniel, Dennis and Dave.

Daniel, that looks really nice. These engines look too realistic for tinplate.

After painting, how did you do the lettering on the back of the cab? It looks rubber stamped. Also, does this engine require T-rail track due to the scale flanged wheels? 

George

George,

 What a beautiful job on the engine.  I was just getting use the idea that you made the door for the Box car that came out really nice.

 I have always wanted to get one of these what is it happy running on 54 or 0 72?

Joe Gozzo

Hi Joe, it if's like the modern 783/785's it'll run on 042 if you swap the front truck for the later non scale version otherwise Lionel would say 072.  I do remember reading an article in CTT where a modeler did some experimentation and determined he could get his to run on something like 063 ..... but that is not verified.

The large front wheels are one of the main problems though.

I managed to find this American flyer 510 Prewar diecast  MP stock car on ebay in the n scale listings. I assume because of where I found it, I was lucky to get it for 8.99 as it looks to be in pretty good shape.  This is normally  a pretty tough car to find in good shape.  The funny part is that it was listed as an Atlas  MP 510 stock car.

A work in process, but it will be a super smooth Unique Art Litho Rock Island diesel set when done. For now I’ll live with a rather large height difference between the power unit and the dummy. UA used drivers about the size of 200 series wheels.

Steve

didn't know Flyer did die cast cars, nice find Dennis

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A work in process, but it will be a super smooth Unique Art Litho Rock Island diesel set when done. For now I’ll live with a rather large height difference between the power unit and the dummy. UA used drivers about the size of 200 series wheels.

Steve

 

Great idea, Steve, maybe power both units!
Jim

Was $40 too much?  2035, 2055, 249E... junk stuff  but hey...  I'll be curious to see if they pack this mess carefully enough to keep from breaking any of those perfect marker lights on the postwar locos....

Dennis Holler posted:

Was $40 too much?  2035, 2055, 249E... junk stuff  but hey...  I'll be curious to see if they pack this mess carefully enough to keep from breaking any of those perfect marker lights on the postwar locos....

Hey Dennis, I would be interested in that  squared off tender if the shell is in good shape

John

POC914NUT posted:

Steve, looks like we need to get the 084 out again soon! Very nice!

Eric, are you setting up next week at SW?

Steve

Dennis I gave $30 for a box of 2025/2035 stuff at a show last winter. I had one together and running an hour after I got home. The other had a couple damaged drivers, and some missing rods, but otherwise complete. I'd say you got the shaft..........

Steamer posted:

Dennis I gave $30 for a box of 2025/2035 stuff at a show last winter. I had one together and running an hour after I got home. The other had a couple damaged drivers, and some missing rods, but otherwise complete. I'd say you got the shaft..........

I figured that would be the case. 😂 that’ll be the benchmark. If two locos will work, maybe I win 😎

well the 675 type shells go for $20 on da bay....so I'd say you did well. When I saw that Marx tank car..I thought" hope it only has one end.." since I have one like that already.

This is a Marx 35461 Pacific Fruit Express tinplate car I picked up earlier this year at local Hobby shop for $8.  I needed another Marx car for my Marx 999 tinplate set that had more color than my plain brown box car that came with the set.

Charlie

Choo Choo Charlie posted:

 

This is a Marx 35461 Pacific Fruit Express tinplate car I picked up earlier this year at local Hobby shop for $8.  I needed another Marx car for my Marx 999 tinplate set that had more color than my plane brown box car that came with the set.

Charlie

 

It’s not like I really like those, only have 20 of them. 

Steve

20???? no wonder I can't find one around here!

$8 Charlie? you was robbed! I'll be right over and give you your money back! 

Thats like me and 2454 PRR boxcars or 3659 dump cars...... I just woke up one day and had a bunch of them... I don’t know how it happened.... honest...

Dennis Holler posted:

Thats like me and 2454 PRR boxcars or 3659 dump cars...... I just woke up one day and had a bunch of them... I don’t know how it happened.... honest...

🤣

Steamer posted:

20???? no wonder I can't find one around here!

Now I’m trying to corner all the 9100 UP Challengers.

Steve

An update on my recently arrived Lionel standard gauge "Baby State" set- I successfully changed out the two bad wheels on the locomotive using my Home Depot wheel puller for removing the warped wheels (acquired thanks to a tip here on the forum https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...d-gauge-wheel-puller) and finished cleaning it up- it runs and looks great. The most interesting thing about it for me is the construction of the 318E locomotive; it is one of the "Build-a-Loco" family and has a bus bar that connects the lights to the power chassis- no wires, very neat. The spring-loaded pin that makes the connection between the bus bar and the power unit is also incorporated into the pickup plate, an arrangement that proved troublesome for Lionel (and was replaced) as heat degraded the spring over time and the contact became flaky- I have a steam loco that had this problem until I replaced the pickup plate assembly).

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