Buy/Make Anything Cool Lately (Tinplate Version)

Picked up a few Flyer 580 street lamps.

Steve

very nice, are those diecast Steve?

Steamer posted:

very nice, are those diecast Steve?

Yes, they are cast.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Picked up a few Flyer 580 street lamps.

Steve

these look dangerous! nice find!

I recently found a very nice early Ives 190 tank car (standard gauge). Lots of hand assembly work went into these, note all the railings, ladders and hand grabs, the suspended air tank underneath and the intricate ratchet brake wheel.  A few photos on the layout, and also together with two 190 examples owned by Hollis Cotton. The video shows the three cars together on Hollis's standard gauge layout. Enjoy.

Steve,

   Like the lights big time, I may have to look around for some!

PCRR/Dave

Really like the Ives tank cars. I have  three sets of passenger cars  but only one hopper car. but  I keep looking.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Picked up a few Flyer 580 street lamps.

Steve

I use round bulbs in some of mine.  I think you will like they way they look on  your layout.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Just picked this up - Hendrichs 'Gold Standard GG1'. Met a guy at the Oaks meet.

Unfortunately, this one is G gauge. But not for long. Needs to be 'Standardized'.  Condition is amazing. So is the drive! Motors are little over 3.5' in diameter.

Jim

Jim Waterman posted:

...Motors are little over 3.5' in diameter.

Wow, I bet the real GG-1 motors weren’t that big!!

Technically this is not tinplate, but it is certainly complementary. Picked up this Tootsietoy Union Pacific streamliner at the toy show a few weeks ago. It's now joined the display at the top of my desk.

I bought a 80s vintage Right of Way Industries brass B&O wagon top boxcar a while back . Someone had tried to mount a late 90s sound of steam system in it but the old lionel boxcar frame did not fit and I wanted to install the modular Railsounds 4 boards in a tender anyway. So my brass ROW wagontop did not have a frame or trucks.  I have dozens of the old 70s vintage Atlas O scale freight cars and I decided to rob the frame off one. It was slightly to wide so I took a sanding block and took a couple thousands of each side till it was a snug enough fit that it would hold itself in place.  I had some foot stirrups so I drilled through the new frame into a mounting plate the original floor was screwed to and used the screw holding the stirrups on to hold the floor on also. Anyway this is how it turned out. 

Awesome, John! Professional quality, for sure!

Hello,

A few days ago, I got a large train station, which the seller had completely disassembled. There were also various tabs broken off.

First, the missing tabs were replaced. More than 20.

After the first assembly. It lacked two small walls, on which the central roof rests. In addition, in the back wall of the central building was a large sawn-out hole.

With the help of images from a book by Michael D. Foster (British Toy Trains Volume 3 Brimtoy), the missing parts were traced.

These were then laminated to sheet metal.

Adjusting the wall elements. The various damaged areas are from former Hornby stickers, which were still partially present as leftovers. Under the glue, the paint had gotten rusty spots.

And done. This is the Brimtoy S4 station, built in 1927-31. He is considered one of the largest metal railway stations ever built in the UK, with a length of 66 cm (26 1/2 inch), he is really huge.

The only missing part is a signal, which belongs to the right of the building.

The whole model was assembled at Brimtoy from existing models, the buildings on the left and right are the big signal houses with modified front printing. The middle building is a small station, which was as single available too, this corresponds in size to the Brimtoy goods shed, which is a copy of the Bing freight shed.

Here in the size comparison with a station 60/61 from Bing.

Greetings

Arne

Fantastic work, Arne!

great job

George S posted:

Bought some Paya replica automobiles that are a good fit for Standard gauge.

George 

Hey George, Look what I found? Twins!

An interesting and very colorful tin floor train, made by Elenee Toys. It has a pull-rod spring mechanism and is lettered as "The Comet". Here are a few photos of it posed with a Hafner clockwork UP streamliner. From searching for Elenee on the internet, I see that they also made another version of this in an "American Freedom Train" version in 1947. Also, check out this page on the Binns Road site showing one that someone added Lionel trucks to so that they could run it on track: http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/railways/elenee/index.html

Elenee American Freedom Train

a Japanese take on the same pull-rod principle

Elenee also produced military-type wood accessories like the 50 cannon,110 anti-aircraft fort and the 200 flying field set

My flea market find today.

I bought all in a lot and appears to be as it was how many years ago. The A.F. Hudson actually tried to move and the headlight did light.

Beleive the standard gauge gon is A.F. and the tank is 1911 Ives vintage.

I know the two engines/tender and two freight cars are American Flyer,but am I correct on the standard gauge gon and tank ?

Added these two bottom pictures of the two manual switches. I’ve never noticed the center rail pin made like that. Any idea on year of the A.F. switches ?