Hi Arne,

You are a winner. Bub, Doll, Kibri, and Cabo

The Kibri 52-11 is new and adds to what is becoming an extensive Kibri collection.

I was very surprised to see the way the clock was painted on the tower. It is true that my 52-15 has a painted clock but it is much different from the 52-11.  All my other Kibris 52-000, 52-1, 52-3. 52-5,  and 52-43 have separate clocks.

Lew

Thought I’d pass along images from this very nice children’s book I’ve always admired. I’m an artist myself so I thoroughly admire Virginia Lee Burton’s charcoal drawings of trains.

Ariel

Elgaucho - loved the book and the "hand drawn" like illustrations.  Clearly some of them come from tinplate trains as I can see a strong resemblance in your last view to the Marx M10000 stream liner of 1934-37, picture below.

Thanks for posting a really neat book.

Best Wishes

Don

Amazing book @Elgaucho  love the illustrations ...

Still nothing new as train funds have been a bit re-routed lately for a less selfish cause

So delving back into the photo archives of the collection to find something, anything to post lol ...

And I came up with some ephemera from early Australian Model Railway History ...

A while ago I came across a collection of "The Coupling" from 1938-9 the Victorian model railway society newsletters that were bound into a volume by an early modeller ..

Some great art and articles .. in old school mimeograph !  Only the covers were fancy printed paid for by the advertisers .

Ok Broke the collecting drought just now ....

Annnnnd added to the " Gee Fatman, you realllllly doooo buy some rusty crap " pile 

( Hey it wuz local , you might be tripping over them there in the USA , but not here my friends lol but hey it was priced ok -ish )

Warning.. if you love pretty shiny unbent museum quality trains ... well you better look away now or be scarred for life .. You have been warned!!!

Needs some major tweakage and a gallon of spit and polish ... and it will still look like a turd lol ... but all are welcome at Casa Fatmanos .. we dont judge here

Besides if I looked like that after 85-7 odd years I would be fine with that 

Fatman:  Great find. “Rescue” trains are great fun and we keep them going for future generations.  Best wishes

Don

Got my pretty nice condition original paint gray 318 back from the shops today and oh boy what a smooth runner it is now.  Kudos and many thanks to Bill at Des Plaines Hobbies for fixing it up better than new.  Check out how smooth it glides along the tracks at a low speed.  Time to hook it up to some 500 freights and let it do its thing.  Very happy!

Have a great weekend all you tinplate nuts!       W1

Just a follow up short video from the perspective of my lazy boy chair.  This engine is a runner.  Smooth as hash under glass with a Jim Beam chaser.  A saying from the past, couldn't resist.

Cheers,       W1

Hello everyone,

Here is a video of my Ives clockwork number 11, with its tender and a number 51 Hiawatha limited vestibule express passenger car. The set is running on some original Ives banked clockwork track. The term “banked” means that the track has been produced with the ties cut to be in a specific degree and angle so that the set that is running on it will not derail as easily. Think of it as a race track and how the speedway is at an angle. Banked track is a bit of a life saver for these types of engines considering that these clockwork engines don’t really have that much of a speed regulator like electrics do. Also, off to the side is a number Ives 107S semaphore for some scenery. The natural lighting provided a nice opportunity for the set to show off its nice original glossy paint and lithography.

Here are some stills

                                                   Trainfam

Nice addition, FM. Prewar streamliners in any form are a great window into the era. I'll be interested to see how she looks after "reconditioning".

@TrainFam :  Neat set, if you have a chance how about posting some static pictures of the set, it almost goes too fast for a good look in the video.  It is in amazing condition however, what a great find. Thanks for posting.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@TrainFam :  Neat set, if you have a chance how about posting some static pictures of the set, it almost goes too fast for a good look in the video.  It is in amazing condition however, what a great find. Thanks for posting.

Don

Thanks for the kinds words Don,

When I get a chance I’ll take some photos of train and the cars when it’s not going mach ten. It’s truly a fine set.

                                                 Trainfam

New this week a big Bing station 10/6156, made 1930-1932

Arne

From my collection, Bing station 10/643, made 1908-1927

Arne

Arne - fantastic stations, beautiful.  Thanks for showing us.

Don

Beautiful is right.  And in such great condition.  What is the age of the creation.

One Car Wonders

  During the last part of the 19th Century and into the second decade of the 20th many toy train manufacturers offered for sale what I call one car wonder train sets. These are sets consisting of an engine, a tender, a single passenger car, and a small circle of track.  These sets were most often the lowest priced set offered and, while undoubtedly many were sold, their survival rate as far as complete sets in nice condition is not good.  Below is an assembly of some of the one car wonder train sets I've managed to locate.  From left to right they are American Flyer Hummer, Issmayer, American Flyer set #0, Hafner with New York Flyer passenger car, American Flyer Set Number Unknown, and Rossignol.

@Robert S. Butler posted:

One Car Wonders

  During the last part of the 19th Century and into the second decade of the 20th many toy train manufacturers offered for sale what I call one car wonder train sets. These are sets consisting of an engine, a tender, a single passenger car, and a small circle of track.  These sets were most often the lowest priced set offered and, while undoubtedly many were sold, their survival rate as far as complete sets in nice condition is not good.  Below is an assembly of some of the one car wonder train sets I've managed to locate.  From left to right they are American Flyer Hummer, Issmayer, American Flyer set #0, Hafner with New York Flyer passenger car, American Flyer Set Number Unknown, and Rossignol.

   

Wow Robert, those are some excellent set’s! I really love the look of early American flyer sets, especially from the metzel era. I’ll have to try to get my hands on a set at some point.

                                                  Trainfam

@Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

1. "Great Hauler - Its power is surprising, being greater of course than No. 33. It will haul one dozen or more trail cars. The controller and the greater pulling power are easily worth the difference in price, between this and No. 33."- Lionel 1917 catalog.

2. I found this nice No. 38 at a show last year sitting on the table all alone waiting to be adopted...

3. It's a common piece but one that has charm and is fun to run.

1. Interesting how Lionel pitted 2 of their own items against each other! 😄

2. "adopted": good description. 👍

3. It certainly does have "charm"...and runs very nicely, too. 😊

Mark in Oregon

I would like to add to the fabulous picture posted by Robert S. Butler of "One Car Wonders".  This one is an M0 "Train Express set by French Hornby.  Offered first in the 1933 catalog and the sets stayed in production for over 30 years with little to no additions.  It came with a loco, tender, one coach and a oval of rather flimsy 9 inch dia track.  This version shows the early post war additions of smoke deflectors and simulated cylinders (note no linkage).  The version shown below likely from 1953-56.

Wow ! Some quality showing up in this thread lately

@Arne those stations are to die for , and what a diverse selection of "One Car Wonders" from @Robert S. Butler ( who coincidentally has the worst OGR forum name to quote LOL .. I always forget the . after the S !)

Beaut condition later French Hornby from @Don McErlean too!

I have nothing as nice a condition myself to offer , but I did pick up a couple of rarer Hornby items , one I already had one of, but the other I didnt .. so it all works out ... its part of my " He who dies with the most toys wins " Strategy I think ?

Anyway .... Der Hornby Mitropa Schlafwagen + Speisewagen ( sleeping and dining cars)

These were produced as export only for the "Continent" ( Europe ) and thus were known as the Continental Sets . The cars themselves were produced in England , but they owe their form to the tooling recovered from Hornby's failed attempt to break into the US market in 1927/8 . Hornby U.S.A.  made different Pullman variations to the std UK ones and were released as Washington and Madison named cars . These were also made in the UK from the recovered US tooling ..

However the Mitropa set marked a departure for Hornby with the addition of "gold" shiny base tin , onto which the further litho colours were printed ,I suspect this was a legacy of USA stock as well  .. over time this has proven to be a bit of a weak point as the gold base tin sheets turned out to be shockers for corrosion and thus it is incredibly rare to find any of them in mint condition . They were produced around  1930/1934 . As these have "drop-link" couplers it is likely they are they earlier versions .

Fatman thanks for the complement on my French Hornby M0 set.  Your Mitropa cars are also really neat.  I can see the US Hornby heritage in the shape of the car especially the celebratory roof but until your post I had no idea that Mecanno had done "other" things with their US tooling.  Thanks for posting.

Best wishes

Don

Got some more goodies coming shortly , but the deal is not 100% done yet ( Some French stuffs ... lol )  so until it is ... here are some references for the previous post about the Hornby continental set ..

A comparable Pre-War UK Hornby 4-wheel set of the period was the M1 locomotive and tri-colour coach set below , the tri-colour coaches were much less common ( most Pullman's of the period were the same body, but with black chassis and cream or light grey roof's )

Below some normal/common Hornby Pullman's of the period

The USA tooling produced the Madison and Washington Pullman coaches ...

Very different

Hornby also produced a "long" variant of the Pullman cars at a higher price point , these are fairly collectible

Fatman: I really like the early Hornby coaches.  Here are a couple of mine, these are M0 coaches from about 1930 :

Best wishes all

Don

As hinted at earlier , some pictures of the incoming French stuff   Not exactly O Gauge , but you know me I will snaffle anything lol

A Joyax set from the 50's ... only runs in a circle on its own tracks .. no expansion here , the loco even has its wheels angled to suit .. really colourful litho on these .. And yes the tunnel and station are included  in the set ... no box unfortunately but this one has been on the radar for some time .

Even to the extent of lithographed "Patina " and wood plank underneath

And a French version of the Technofix 284 set I cannot so far determine who made it , even tho I have seen photos of the box , no makers name ... Presuming Technofix might have been getting litigious by the mid 50's? ( if that is indeed the time-frame this set comes from )

Any info will be appreciated ?

Fatman - great train toys...thanks for posting.  I just noticed on the "Technofix" base each corner is a different picture and the two sides of the pond are also different.  WOW that is really top notch lithography and super neat.

Don

Fatman, your Technofix looks like the Automatic Toy #250 set.

There is also a British version of this same tabletop toy.

They made the #360 Futuramic set as well.

It is good to search "elsewhere" occasionally and I was very happy to acquire these few items on Etsy recently. All were quire reasonable in price but the HWNs took some time to arrive from the continent.

HWN Beer Car

HWN Boxcar

Chein floor train set

J Hoefler clockwork loco listed as "Japan"

The nice natural lighting outside gave me a ample opportunity to photograph some of my nice Ives litho train cars, including my Ives Harvard and Yale cars.

         
                                                    Trainfam

Welcome to Side Dump Sunday

  .... a few of the many side dump tinplate offerings that have been made over the years...

Another dump car, the 6.5 inch long Flyer early darker green version

and the later, lighter colored version

NWL

Don't forget the Lionel #809  from 1932.

Thanks Robert S. Butler and NWL, most of those you posted I have not seen.  I do have the Marx and the Hornby McAlpines but none of the others.  Great to see them all.

Best Wishes

Don

I'll Play

Hornby McAlpine

Another with the Trinidad Asphalt Rotary Tipper on the left

And in Green ... ( bit rarer)

Some Keim ..

And a Bing

I don't normally contribute to the Tinplate Photos & Videos, but follow it religiously.

Couldn't help but post a couple of photos of one of my (I have three) Buco tinplate side-tipping wagons. They were the last new item to be produced by Bucherer Buco in Switzerland, before going into liquidation in 1957.

Hope you enjoy.

Peter.....Buco Australia

@Fatman :  Thanks for posting, had not seen (except in pictures) the green Hornby McAlpine's and had never seen the Keim (German? ) .  Peter - you as well, any Buco is unusual here in the States and had never seen those tip dumper's before.  Best wishes for a great week everyone.

Don

Bing later colour

Bing

Bing

Brimtoy

From Carette catalog 1911, posibly made by Issmayer

Arne

Arne - fabulous pictures of long ago trains, thank's so much for sharing.

Don

OK one more from me...a reproduction of a French Hornby rotary tipping wagon by Hatchette.  The original wagon was available pre-war only and this reproduction dates from 2002-2004.  Its colorful anyway.

Have a great Tuesday!  Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

OK one more from me...a reproduction of a French Hornby rotary tipping wagon by Hatchette.  The original wagon was available pre-war only and this reproduction dates from 2002-2004.  Its colorful anyway.

Have a great Tuesday!  Best Wishes

Don

Don, that looks pretty cool. Normally I prefer originals, but that repro looks great!

                                                 Trainfam