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The engine isn't new; I purchased it on the Buy-Sell forum several years ago with two passenger cars. I also have a small articulated Cass Railroad engine I bought at York about 10 years ago. Recently I purchased 3 of the banana cars off of Ebay and decided I needed to get a caboose as well. I noticed the cars were just as cheap new directly from ETS as I was paying used on EBAY. So I bought another banana car and the caboose add to the set.

They are good to work with but shipping from the Czech Republic isn't cheap, about $40.00 FedX. Still I am happy with the train. The little engine you see pulling is a nice gem that runs well in-spite of the fact it derailed from my top loop and crashed all the way to the floor. I can't believe it runs like nothing happened to it. They sure make a great product.

One of these days I am going to buy one of their Garrett's.
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...They are good to work with but shipping from the Czech Republic isn't cheap, about $40.00 FedX. Still I am happy with the train. The little engine you see pulling is a nice gem that runs well in-spite of the fact it derailed from my top loop and crashed all the way to the floor. I can't believe it runs like nothing happened to it. They sure make a great product....

Thanks for the info about dealing with them.  Considering that domestic shipping would probably be about $20, I think that what you paid was reasonable.

@Fatman posted:

Whew !!!

Finally broke the drought !!!

Nothing uber fantastiche but I will take anything at the moment LOL

Locally here in Aus I scored two little passenger carriages .. one Marklin and the other Pionerexpressen

Yet to do full dilligence on them but I was so excited about finally having something to share I could not wait .

Marklin is 1926-31 apparently from a quick search while posting and the Pionerexpressen is the first item from this Danish manufacturer in my collection ... for now it will only have the Wittrocks to keep it company until I find him some friends

I have the CEPAS version of the same coach with simpler couplers. cepas coach

You can also see the red cross coach came both ways.

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Daniel:  What a wonderful set.  I will tell you that I am glad to see that wonderful JEP engine, primarily because it shows the beautiful "brown" color and markings in (sort of ) gold lettering.  This is because my French Hornby SNCF locomotive came in the same color scheme and its good to see that the livery is authentic. Here is my, much less detailed and smaller, Hornby loco but the color and lettering is of the same format.  Thanks for posting.

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Best wishes

Don

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Hello Don, nice to see your Hornby loco. It is an original one of course, the color of that model is more redish than the JEP one which is brown. All those colors are not realistic, as they where toys and far from scale models. If you enjoy French Hornby there is also another color variation which is less common in brown.... also a black one and the oldest was green...

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That's all for the post-war models,   Very Best, Daniel

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Annnnnd straight out of the " What were you thinking when you bought this Fatman" Box

May I present to you Gennermen and Laydees.... ( drumroll)

Possibly one of the saddest and sorriest Hornby No.1 Special Southern Tank locomotives that still runs on a track

Well may you ask kind folks, "Why Oh Why did you ever buy such a thing?"

In truth I can only shake my head and look sheepishly at my feet .... but then I will lift my head high and feel the quickening of my heart as I try to justify my actions here ...

First of all it was born sometime between 1929 and 1939, and when it left the factory it was the flagship of its kind , with a revised clockwork mechanism that was one of Frank Hornby's Finest , being a Southern it was made in lesser numbers than its more "hoighty-toity" L.M.S. or L.N.E.R Brethren and with its brilliant deep green and gold/white pinstriped livery it was the most striking. This fellow has been played with and loved for many generations, you can see its history, the poor fellow has been stepped on with his wonky cab and mismatched coal hopper , but he was bent back into shape , and at some point his wheels fell to pieces and his side-rods took off, but he was loved enough for someone to take on the job recreating him new ones turning up brass and soldering in place ... But most of all I love the paint wear around the keyhole ...and on the opposite side you can see a corresponding wear patch and also on the once painted boiler dome, where the fingers holding him when he was being wound has taken his once great finish back to bare metal ...



This fellow has LIVED , and his heartbeat in that beautiful mechanism still beats strongly, his spring shows no tarnish and his gears tho desperately needing a clean in modern times still look sharp .. The No.1 special mechanism is a good one and he was worth the price of admission just for that alone ... Sadly he must have fallen on hard times and he was advertised on ePay for the massive sum of $25AUD ( about USD$18.50) Buy it Now .... So how could I resist? ... I told myself he is worth that for just the mech alone , but looking at him now I think he deserves a clean up, a little drink of light oil and nothing further, no restoration, just appreciation for all the amazing times he shared with someone ( or ones) over the last 90 odd years ...

And somewhere along the line he picked up that gorgeous key that is coming with him

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This fellow has been played and loved for many generations,





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We all like to see the pristine examples still in the original crisp box because it transports us back in time and allows us to see things exactly as produced and exactly as they looked in the ancient catalogs.  That said, this is what a nearly 100 year old toy is supposed to look like. A train that brought so much joy and play value that it was deemed worthy to fix and cobble back together over and over again until the wheels literally fell off it. Love the solid brass replacement wheels soldered into place. They're not just cut-off blanks,  someone took the time to machine some very nice detail in them. Still a handsome looking machine . If only it could talk and tell us the places its been and the people it's been with.

So glad it found a good home where it's still appreciated and safe from the vagaries of fate .



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Well, I thought I would post a small item I acquired during my longish vacation on the east coast over the holidays.  I found a couple of antique stores in Savannah, Ga that advertised antique toys.  In one I found some neat Corgi cars and in another I found this lead figure, I am assuming it is Barclay as it is a perfect match to my RR (and Christmas) figures.  This one is a bit unusual and out of character but it was in near perfect condition and it has a strong bond with our family.  It is a Nurse.  My wife retired in 2007 after 40 years of nursing as a career.  So this is going on the layout somewhere to symbolize her being a strong part of the RR.

Here she is.  I date the figure from about the 1950's likely due to the length of the skirt on her uniform.  In addition my wife told me that in the 1970's the nurses changed their work attire to "scrubs" like most of the doctors and nurses you see on TV today and thus they abandoned the cap that had been part of the uniform for decades.  So I would have to say that the figure was made sometime between 1950 and 1970.   She is going to reside on the station platform, patiently waiting for the local train to transport her downtown to the main hospital.

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Happy weekend

Don

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Well, I thought I would post a small item I acquired during my longish vacation on the east coast over the holidays.  I found a couple of antique stores in Savannah, Ga that advertised antique toys.  In one I found some neat Corgi cars and in another I found this lead figure, I am assuming it is Barclay as it is a perfect match to my RR (and Christmas) figures.  This one is a bit unusual and out of character but it was in near perfect condition and it has a strong bond with our family.  It is a Nurse.  My wife retired in 2007 after 40 years of nursing as a career.  So this is going on the layout somewhere to symbolize her being a strong part of the RR.

Here she is.  I date the figure from about the 1950's likely due to the length of the skirt on her uniform.  In addition my wife told me that in the 1970's the nurses changed their work attire to "scrubs" like most of the doctors and nurses you see on TV today and thus they abandoned the cap that had been part of the uniform for decades.  So I would have to say that the figure was made sometime between 1950 and 1970.   She is going to reside on the station platform, patiently waiting for the local train to transport her downtown to the main hospital.

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Happy weekend

Don

Hello Don , Nice find regarding the nurse . Yes it is a Barclay piece  B83a Nurse, hand on hip . The nurse first appeared in  a Barclays  catalog in 1936 or 1937 , I'm not sure how long she was in production , maybe into the early 50's .  Barclay went out of business in 1971.  I got this info from a few toy soldier books that I have .

Tinplate accessories from JEP, stations are all original and have been produced during a long time from the end of the twenties for the small ones to the end of JEP in 1964; there is just some color variations.

My favorite one is the biggest and all the lead people are French manufactured from MDM. Unfortunately JEP has never made those accessories in comparison with Hornby France or Great Britain who have made a lot of them.

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have a nice weekend,  Daniel

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Hi Tinplate Fans...Rich Wiemann thanks for your input on my Barclay Nurse.  Candidly, I hesitated before putting her in the post as she was not trains per se, but your response and one from Johnnie Walker was most welcome in providing info on the figure. Mallard 4468 and Palallin your comments as well showed great intelligence, I have been living with "my" nurse for 55 years and I agree with you both !! 

Daniel - the JEP stations and accessories are really great.  That large station and all the figures is really impressive.  Thanks for posting

lewrail - enjoyed the NY&NE white train by Ives.  Good luck finding the "Harvard" car.

Jim Kelly-Evans - The Gauge 1 layout is magnificent...the trains shown in the video are really great.  Thanks for making the video.

Have a great weekend all, stay warm

Don

Hello Don , Nice find regarding the nurse . Yes it is a Barclay piece  B83a Nurse, hand on hip . The nurse first appeared in  a Barclays  catalog in 1936 or 1937 , I'm not sure how long she was in production , maybe into the early 50's .  Barclay went out of business in 1971.  I got this info from a few toy soldier books that I have .

Funny, I was just looking at Barclays figures today on Ebay. That got me curious and it turns out there is a modern company that bought the rights in the 90s and is making the figures, including some of the original ones.

@Will posted:

Funny, I was just looking at Barclays figures today on Ebay. That got me curious and it turns out there is a modern company that bought the rights in the 90s and is making the figures, including some of the original ones.

I have a lot of the โ€œmodernโ€ ones.

Steve

I too have some of the new ones , they look great  , both the new and old along side of standard gauge.  I now must have a 100 or so soldiers and related accessories.  There are  Manoil soldiers as well that go hand in hand with Barclay.  Plus the civilian people and winter scene figures .              Another company that was formed I believe sometime in the 70s? is Eccles Bros.  And we cannot leave out PrideLines  !! 75DDE645-E8AE-45AB-9F17-DC498F7C130935995231-66B4-4A5F-936D-E71A0512666FEB98DAB2-D309-4B22-AD5E-A92639620B3B0638CADC-2AEF-42B4-B6B0-B2819A2D58C4D961D21E-4C57-4A40-91E9-EFDDF0CDE28BE90F5548-BDC3-47A1-9C49-5C2F2A696116556BADDC-9DF2-4F3E-A814-5F24CF914F684D8FFFC8-7920-4209-A150-F27D1950D941

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Steve,

On the Barclay website which of the collections look best with standard gauge and which look the best with O?  As I have looked at the site I can't tell what the sizes of each set of figures are.

Thanks,

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

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Wow...tinplate fans.  When I posted my "nurse" I thought it just an afterthought.  However with the pictures and info supplied by Steve, Johnnie Walker, Will, lewrail, Rich, Greg, and others its been a (great) flood of info and pictures.  Thank you all.

My offer for today, is well away from the venue of Barclay and more aligned with the input from Daniel, although not nearly as elaborate. By the luck of the draw or auction if you will, I was able to acquire an Ives #114 Passenger station from about 1922.  In looking up the data on this station from my Ives reference, I can tell you that this station stayed in the line for many years and underwent many changes over the years, so 1922 is sort of a best guess from changes in color and lithography.  Like Fatman who often comments on how his things may not be perfect, I am in a similar situation.  I have to compromise between perfect, what is offered (after all its a century old), and what I can afford.  I obtained the #115 Freight station years ago so now I have its compliment.

Here is the station, lithographed to simulate a timber / board type construction.  The sign under the roof overhang unfortunately obscured by the shadow of the roof, says "Ticket Office".  Key parts of the lithography for dating include the several rows of simulated yellow brick under the white walls and the wide plain border under the simulated brick.  The doors which did change labels over the years, in this example say "Ladies" on the right and "Gentlemen" on the left (as you look at it in this picture).   The roof has a chimney and it is offset to one side.  Roof color, chimney (yes or no), and chimney location changed many times over the years.

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Another view giving a somewhat more clear view of the "Ticket Office" sign.  Note the station attendant.  It is difficult to see in this picture but he is holding tickets in one hand and sits in front of an old fashioned "candle stick" telephone.  The clock on the wall says 11:45 and behind him is some sort of representation of an announcement board showing (I expect) train times.

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The end view, identical on both ends, shows the sign "R.R.Station" , the simulated board and stucco outside, along with the simulated brick under the window with the smooth border at the bottom. You can also see the lettering "Ives No 114" on the smooth section below the simulated brick.   The platform is mostly grey and appears to be the original color.  There are two electrical contacts, which may or may not be original, that carry power to an overhead light inside the station.  However, since the only openings for light to escape are  the partially open doors, this seems a somewhat limited capability.  Note the two women passengers depicted in the window.  Their attire, especially their hats, would seem to indicate a period somewhat earlier than 1922 and is perhaps a left over from the initial artwork of around 1918.

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Well there you have my latest acquisition, 99 years old (more or less) and still able to shelter our imaginary passengers while they wait for their trains.  When I find things of this vintage, I cannot help but wonder at how the young person, a century ago, felt upon receiving this station for their Rail Road "empire" perhaps at their birthday or Christmas.  If only our old trains could talk! 

Have a great weekend

Don

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@lewrail posted:

Mine seem to be all hollow but some have Barclays embossed with the catalog number and others seem to have no marking.



Lew

Thatโ€™s pretty typical from what Iโ€™ve seen on mine .  Then again you may have some Manoil figures mixed in with your Barclays .  Sometimes itโ€™s hard to read the markings on them and they are marked in odd areas . Not always on the bottom.

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How do you tell the difference between old and new?  Here are some "Barclays" on a trip

to Europe.  Lew Schneider

Good question. I just ordered an old one from that auction site today. To me, the new ones don't look exactly like the old ones. I wonder, did they make new molds? I think so. I prefer some of the old ones. Plus the new ones are very shiny of course with perfect paint.

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@Will posted:

Good question. I just ordered an old one from that auction site today. To me, the new ones don't look exactly like the old ones. I wonder, did they make new molds? I think so. I prefer some of the old ones. Plus the new ones are very shiny of course with perfect paint.

Iโ€™m not sure of the repro civilians but the army men are new molds . Many of the new soldiers were never made by Barclay.  A lot of the soldiers back in the day were not necessarily true copies but copies none the less of German soldiers .  Iโ€™ve seen original German soldiers at various shows and one can see the obvious copy by Barclay.   Some people have suggested that you spray a dull coat on the repros to kill the shine .

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