John these look real nice. I picked up a pair at York and was considering giving them a new lease on life also. What did you use on the shade fixture? It has a nice finish and shine.
Thanks Rich,
I used a soft brass brush in my Dremel, very light pressure
George S very nice video.
tell me, what is the tin structure with the peaks and the side view facing us to the far right?
Leroof posted:George S very nice video.
tell me, what is the tin structure with the peaks and the side view facing us to the far right?
Hi, That’s a Santhion City Palace (handpainted Marklin style reproduction). I acquired it at auction last year. The windows are actually thick glass.
George
At the Greenberg Toy & Train Show in Edison NJ Show last weekend, I picked up a Lionel Lighted Standard Gauge Tunnel and some clear and read bulbs for my Prewar engines.
Always wanted this tunnel and it is in pretty good condition for the age and size of it and the price made me want to buy it!!
Happy Camper
There was a lot of other tin-plate but did not have the monies for it (leave something for others), maybe next time.
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Appreciate your help Steve. Found the posts about your gondola with the Lionel trucks. Very interesting toys!
When I first joined that was one of the things I looked up and found Steve’s PRR gondola converted to run on track- looked so cool! Nice finds @Greentrain48 !!
Since a lot of people have been posting their prewar tunnels, I decided I’d post mine as well as some vehicles and a new addition about which I’m quite curious. Last few pictures, Help in identifying would be very appreciated!!:
Got both of these from Pop- on the left is the 18 inch, non-lined Lionel tunnel with a 604 observation headed through. On the right is what I believe is a general model corporation tunnel. Vehicles in the background are: Matchbox super king missle launcher, Corgi British police car on top of the red trailer with white wheels, unknown maker for both auto carriers and I think, but am not sure, the red trucks pulling them are Hubley( I knew what one was, definitively, but forgot a lot after my head injury).
sticker inside the plaster tunnel: G. C. M. CO. For a whomping .59$! My Grammy still has another tunnel of this materialthat curves in the attic that I really need to check out.
Closer shot of the Lionel tunnel . Also, while it’s not tinplate- wanted to include the B&O k-line boxcar I just bought on Tuesday @Nick Smith’s along with that semaphore...
All white, lattice mast, red top. One “wing”(I believe that’s what it’s called). Base is litho’d stone which is what caught my eye.
I assume this was a bell or something electronic as there’s a wire connected to it.
Top of bad, there’s the wire and a metal bar that it appear someone out there. Speaking of just out there...
the tabs are loose, stays in well enough, but that’s leading me to believe that the semaphore doesn’t belong to thebase.
as you can seee, no markings. I was going through all the signals on historytoy.com, Ives society, and other site made by KBN, Ives, Bing, Marx, Flyer Lionel, Märklin, and more. A couple base look-a-likes and a few semaphores but none that paired together. Ideas anyone?? I like the piece- compared to the other tinplate accessory signals I liked this one and as I said the base caught my eye. Plus, it’s just a neat looking semaphore That I thought would look nice on my layout.
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So, after going through a bunch of semaphores and identifying key features to compare on mine, I do indeed believe that this one has the correct base and is the original lattice but no longer has the red paint and is missing a wing.
The cap at the top is red and the design pattern before that cap matches with this first one, as does the base and height of the upper wing. The "X" pattern lattice is the same as well. Only thing is this is eletrified and my base shows no signs of ever having such binding posts- plus a total absence of that red paint(I'd expect to maybe see a little). Link below
https://www.historytoy.com/bin...ignal-on-square-base
Two of my other "candidates". The stumper here is ths is the only one I saw with a litho'd base like that.
Thoughts? Lol
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they are nice cars aren't they?
A couple of projects from a $1.00/each box at the local toy train meet:
They looked refurbishable.
PD
Nice
the Dollar box is my favorite place to shop. those look great, I'd run'm as is.
Just Fyi, some of the Lionel Jr are up on the bay right now. Not a dollar, but not too bad a price so far.
Yeah a little Johnsons paste wax for the bodies ,then clean those axles and wheels, replace the coupler links and run.
Their a little scratchy but really not that bad. Great little cars to run without to much time or worry.
terry hudon posted:
That darned track section is harder to find than the cars!!! The 492 baggage car track section ain’t easy either but I have a couple of those. I will have to get some repro guns for my armored car at some point. Yours is nice and clean!!