@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:
What I bought and what I got.
Ooh ow. Typical McCoy castings. I don't know why they thought they could do Zamak so thin. So many examples of their stuff blowing apart
I inherited two McCoy steam locos from my Grandfather’s collection, the Chief Cle Elum 4-6-0 and the Little Chief 0-4-0. I apologize, I have no intentions to market these parts, but to simply show the processes I’ve used to obtain some otherwise unobtainable parts. Five iterations of the steam chest and two iterations of the pony frame on the 3D printer to get the form and fit right. I found a very sympathetic machinist near where I work who made the parts from my final CAD files. Considered a large step forward in my eventual full restoration journey for these two badly damaged and repainted engines.
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@CJ Meyers posted:I inherited two McCoy steam locos from my Grandfather’s collection, the Chief Cle Elum 4-6-0 and the Little Chief 0-4-0. I apologize, I have no intentions to market these parts, but to simply show the processes I’ve used to obtain some otherwise unobtainable parts. Five iterations of the steam chest and two iterations of the pony frame on the 3D printer to get the form and fit right. I found a very sympathetic machinist near where I work who made the parts from my final CAD files. Considered a large step forward in my eventual full restoration journey for these two badly damaged and repainted engines.
I have a Cle Elum on my project list. Henning’s makes a repro saddle for the steam cylinders and the 6 driver wheel sets. Cylinders I already had, just need a front truck now, and the time to get it done.
Steve
Not today- but most recently: My first original American Flyer Wide Gauge electric engine and freight cars! Bought from Dave C. in Wisconsin.
NOW I am truly running with the BIG DOGS- AF Wide Gauge!
My hubby Tom and I, with our two doggies took a 6 day road trip to Wisconsin the beginning of this month (October 2020) to meet with and see NWL and Dave C. and their wonderful train collections and layouts. This set came home with me.
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Another recent purchase(s): both for my new Upstairs O Gauge Layout I am creating.
An early Hornby early No. 1 Signal Gantry
Marx Grand Central Station
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Carey...layout looks really good. I like the way you have integrated various manufacturers. the structures really look good and the "glass" train shed is really cool. I was interested in what I think is a background along the wall, those backgrounds do not look like flat printed sheets but some of the older Lionel / Flyer backgrounds that they used with some of their sets, is that correct?
Anyway, really looking good.
Don
@Carey TeaRose posted:Not today- but most recently: My first original American Flyer Wide Gauge electric engine and freight cars! Bought from Dave C. in Wisconsin.
NOW I am truly running with the BIG DOGS- AF Wide Gauge!
My hubby Tom and I, with our two doggies took a 6 day road trip to Wisconsin the beginning of this month (October 2020) to meet with and see NWL and Dave C. and their wonderful train collections and layouts. This set came home with me.
Looking great! You are one lucky couple to meet those two and see their collections. Of course, you are building quite a display and collection in your own right with all your layouts.
George
@Carey TeaRose posted:Another recent purchase(s): both for my new Upstairs O Gauge Layout I am creating.
An early Hornby early No. 1 Signal Gantry
Marx Grand Central Station
Carey,
Just to say, it's a No2 signal gantry, the No1 is a much simpler thing, which just plugs together.
Mark
@bigmark75f posted:Carey,
Just to say, it's a No2 signal gantry, the No1 is a much simpler thing, which just plugs together.
OKAY- Thanks! I remembered that incorrectly. Just checked it against my eBay Purchase history, its the no 2.
Mark
After about a 2 or 3 year search, I finally found one of my unicorns in a truly last chance manner. In the mth warehouse auction, I won the red 713 baggage car to complete my 710 series of cars from mth. It even came with the box, which as a factory sample is different from the rest of the boxes the other cars were packaged in. Here it is in all it's shiny glory.
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@jhz563 posted:After about a 2 or 3 year search, I finally found one of my unicorns in a truly last chance manner. In the mth warehouse auction, I won the red 713 baggage car to complete my 710 series of cars from mth. It even came with the box, which as a factory sample is different from the rest of the boxes the other cars were packaged in. Here it is in all it's shiny glory.
FABULOUS!!!
My Hornby Metropolitan set circa 1928. After rewiring it now lights and runs perfectly. Note that the cars have external on/off light switches as does the engine. I still need to replace the yellow window plastic that was severely deformed. The set was a welcome addition to my Hornby collection.
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Reefer Madness - Tinplate Style
Shortly after Christmas of last year I was looking over my run of Marx FGEX reefers and it occurred to me it would be fun to put together a picture of nothing but tinplate reefers. Since I wanted to have as many as possible and since I didn't have everything I wanted for a picture I contacted a couple of friends and got permission to borrow some of their rolling stock for a day. I ran around, gathered up the cars, set up the display, did the photography, and returned all of the cars on the same day. I figured I would do the final image processing sometime after the New Year and send everyone a shot...and then we all know what happened.
This weekend, one of the contributors called and wanted to know if I had ever sent that picture ...and I had to admit I had completely forgotten about it. Anyway - I took the time on Sunday to make things right and I thought everyone might like to see a different take on "Reefer Madness".
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@Robert S. Butler posted:Reefer Madness - Tinplate Style
Shortly after Christmas of last year I was looking over my run of Marx FGEX reefers and it occurred to me it would be fun to put together a picture of nothing but tinplate reefers. Since I wanted to have as many as possible and since I didn't have everything I wanted for a picture I contacted a couple of friends and got permission to borrow some of their rolling stock for a day. I ran around, gathered up the cars, set up the display, did the photography, and returned all of the cars on the same day. I figured I would do the final image processing sometime after the New Year and send everyone a shot...and then we all know what happened.
This weekend, one of the contributors called and wanted to know if I had ever sent that picture ...and I had to admit I had completely forgotten about it. Anyway - I took the time on Sunday to make things right and I thought everyone might like to see a different take on "Reefer Madness".
I would have forgot to return some of those cars in the second row.
George
A Lionel Classics 381e arrived yesterday in beautiful condition. Many thanks to Steve Eastman for helping me acquire a great engine!
Joe Gozzo
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Yesterday, I set up my iPad on my "petite" Halloween layout, to see about using it for a ala' 1933 "Park-In Theater"- showing old vintage Halloween movies via YouTube. Hubby Tom and I will come up creating and then building a deco style frame and base for it. Set on a block of wood in this pic for the mock-up. Pulled five of my 1/24 1930-1941 automobiles from the Upstairs Standard Gauge Layout to set up with it.
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Paper bungalow:
Lionel 184 in upper right for comparison. Worked out okay, except the porch/entryway is too small.
PD
PD the bungalow looks great, even with the undersized front porch. Can you share how you fabricated/printed the bungalow graphics? Overall very impressive.
Rich,
Paul Race and Howard Lamey put the graphics together. You can find them here:
https://bigindoortrains.com/pr..._house/tin_house.htm
Best,
PD
A recent Ives purchase
This is the#116 Station by Ives. It has very colorful lithography, which is one of the reasons I like the accessories made to go with pre war trains.
The same lithography is used for front and back.
