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Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Today, I have a view of my "new" tinplate trains on the ready track - getting set for today's work.  We have a Hornby type 20 and a HWN clockwork steamer, both from middle 50's to early 60's along with a Karl Bub "Gate Keeper's House" offered from 1928-1934.  I am afraid that today the track work and scenery are "virtual". 

Tinplate scene Hornby 20 and HWN steamer 2

Better view of that type 20 from Hornby.

Hornby Type 20 train

Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

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Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.



Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

Praying for your wife's speedy recovery Don.

Bob

Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Today, I have a view of my "new" tinplate trains on the ready track - getting set for today's work.  We have a Hornby type 20 and a HWN clockwork steamer, both from middle 50's to early 60's along with a Karl Bub "Gate Keeper's House" offered from 1928-1934.  I am afraid that today the track work and scenery are "virtual". 

Tinplate scene Hornby 20 and HWN steamer 2

Better view of that type 20 from Hornby.

Hornby Type 20 train

Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

Prayers for your family Don.   God speed.

Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Mrs Don is in my thoughts ... F%$# Cancer!  Hoping for the best outcomes old chum !

Keeping it simple for FEF ( or Slack Arse Sat'dee as it is here downunder now)

A ruff n ready Boomaroo floor train ( tram) made out of thick gauge steel with minimal litho/transfer on the front .. strong, sturdy, and beat to **** as they all are .. they are unpowered but they do have flanged wheels , which is a bit odd as they never were meant for track running , I can only guess that they had the dies for flanged and thought " bugger it , they'll do ! "

Missing the trolley pickup on top , but as its just a bit O' bent coathanger , we can rebuild it LOL

Things like this from the post war period are not that easy to find and are quickly snapped up by collectors , so I was very lucky to pick this one up from a mate very reasonably ( Thanks Pete! )

Australia has always been a pretty "practical " society , and no more so than during the post war time period , boys were lucky to get a toy once or twice a year , birthdays and/or Christmas , so mostly they got played to death ... The original owner of this would have been the envy of his mates ... how things have changed , now a kid whines because you bought them the "wrong phone"  .

. . . and. sticking with the trolley theme, may I present *four* trolleys (well, technically only three are running -- one is on chocks for misbehaving!), one on the el track, two (including the yellow one I *just* received, both on that loop having already been re-stickered for the "Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line Railroad" rather than "Lionel") are playing tag on the loop with my newly-installed trolley stop rewiring, and the aforementioned "bad" trolley is in time out on its own section of track:

Come to think of it, *which end* of a trolley is the "front end"? Hmmm . . .

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