Tinplate weekend photo's/video's 1-6-17!

Marcel Darphin started modeltrain manufacturing in 1966 making fine-scale 0 gauge trains. Some years later he commissioned under the Darstaed brand a series of tinplate cars in the style of Märklin 0 gauge prewar. These cars were made by Twerenbold in Switzerland. I came across one of those tinplate style cars last week. This is a Pullman car of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens. The car has full interior and the real cars were used in luxury trains; you can see the very cosy chairs.

Some 20 years ago Marcel Darphin sold his Darstaed Tinplate brand and tooling; the current Darstaed company however never has remade this series of cars and seems to be making only British tinplate trains.

Regards

Fred

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love the lights Chris

The twelve days of Christmas are over, so last evening I took some stills from under the tree. Meanwhile on the layout Santa opted to fly home in the Erector airplane.

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

The twelve days of Christmas are over, so last evening I took some stills from under the tree. Meanwhile on the layout Santa opted to fly home in the Erector airplane.

 

Jim, nice photos and I'm sure Santa is happier with a plane over the reindeer and sled. Is the tinplate brick building one of Sunset Toys and Trains offerings?

Steamer posted:

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love the lights Chris

Love the boiler glow!

Thanks guy's. One side benefit I noticed is I can keep the main lights off and the LED stings leave a nice diffused lighting leaving the lights on the layout more prominent.  A few years back I put stings of white Christmas lights under the layout so if I have to work under there I have even light under the whole layout so a flash light or drop light isn't necessary. 

Old pic of a 145W freight set with a 224E and a photo of a previous prewar layout on a 4x8 sheet of plywood I had for a short time.

Received a Keim 9501 clockwork set this week with a very decent original box. Track is unused and the loco appears to be the same. Paid more than the 98 cents on the box though.

Jim Kelly-Evans: Is that a period tree stand in the third photo down?  I love it!

Eddie wrote: Is that a period tree stand in the third photo down?  I love it!

Yes, Eddie...it's probably about 100 years old...was made by a company here in Philly.

My offer of the weekend is a rare french engine made by EFFEL, representing a 2D2 locomotive of the french railways shortened to a 2C2 engine. Nice looking piece made by one of the foundator of BLZ, similar construction with two die cast bodies.

Unfortunately those engines are prone to zamack problems and production lasted only during one year 1952-53 so finding one in near new condition is a great pleasure.

That locomotive dates from 1925, made by Marescot, one of the pioneer of scale model railways in France, this one is a freelance model more near tinplate than scale but high quality manufacturing. still running well today. Note that it is a high voltage model but you can use a good 20volts transformer to run it.

A typical french engine, an FNC autorail, railtracks car if you prefer, from the postwar period. They were comon pieces running all around the country at a time where there were tracks everywhere to deserve every little towns and small communities. This one has been made by a talented modeler. Three rails O gauge.

Have a great tinplate weekend,

Daniel

Ives:

An early Ives 3251 re-equipped with a late Ives motor, a 550 baggage and a pair of 551 coaches, one early, one late. Need to find a 552 parlor in dark green.

PD

Happy Tinplate New Year!

How does that line go.....Tanks for the memories?

American Flyer

Bing

Fandor

Hornby

Ives

Lionel

Marx

New Marx

Well, holidays are over - time to get back to the workaday stuff........

Flyer boxcar on 0-27 beside a KBN/Karl Bub freight house.

Milwaukee 256 (O gauge) and Lionel 10E (Standard gauge) passing in the night.  I love it that tinplate completely disregards scale.  

In other news, I still haven't taken down the tree or the layout!  

Last pictures of our 2016 Christmas Carpet Central Railway layout before disassembly tomorrow.  The first shot is a photo of an American Flyer 102 Central Station circa 1928.  The figures are 1940s vintage Barclay figures while the Candy Cane Lanterns are modern day Barclay productions.

The second pic is of a MTH Tinplate Traditions 260E pulling Tinplate Traditions orange series 710 passenger cars into a Lionel Classics 115 Station.

The third shot is of the 260E with orange passenger cars idling at a Pride Lines reproduction of a pre-war Ives Passenger station.

The fourth photo is of a MTH Tinplate Traditions 9E pulling Tinplate Traditions Stephen Girard cars past the modern reproduction of the Ives Passenger Station.

Number five is a photo of the 260E and orange passenger cars passing by a LCT modern reproduction Control Tower.

Last but not least a wide angle photo of the entire layout.  The last of the season.

Nice OKHIKER...the brick-paper apron takes me back. Where do you find that?

Was the Lionel 225E offered with a Vanderbilt tender?  Looks very impressive. I'm separated from my library and can't easily answer the question.

Lew Schneider

Here is a short video from running trains upstairs on the tinplate layout. I am hoping 2017 is a better year.

pd posted:

Nice OKHIKER...the brick-paper apron takes me back. Where do you find that?

Thanks pd.  I have been buying the red brick apron paper for several years now at a place called the Triple A Hobby shop in Audobon, NJ, boyhood home of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco.  I would think that many all purpose hobby shops would carry it. 

lewrail posted:

Was the Lionel 225E offered with a Vanderbilt tender?  Looks very impressive. I'm separated from my library and can't easily answer the question.

 

Lew Schneider

thanks Lew. I'm 99% sure they weren't, but I'm far from an expert. This one came from  the treasure boxes at several shows,Prewar caboose frame,MPC 2046 tryp shell,and some PVC pipe.

Great posts again this week folks.  Thanks!  Its deep into the weekend and I am just getting around to posting.  Since its the beginning of the year and there are lots of things to look forward to, and everyone has energy for new endeavors it made me think of the year as a tightly wound spring.

Hmmmm.  So that made me think of clockwork engines.  We have seen some beauties over the past months.  I have very few examples of American Flyer clockwork trains.  In fact I only have two.  But here they are, all wound up and ready to go.

Have a great tinplate weekend,

Greg

beautiful Flyer Greg.

Your two Flyer engines sort of look like a salute to Francis Harte's poem What the Engines Said.

"What was it the engines said

Pilots touching - head to head

Facing on the single track

Half a world behind each back?"

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Hey guys...only time to post a single item I have been lucky enough to find....I saw years ago Steve E had posted a picture of an American Flyer 235 water tower/shed. Haven't found the perfect one yet, but while searching for that I did find a near perfect American Flyer 215 water tank with the red beacon on top. Box and tower are as perfect as I've ever seen! I have been curious, the brown cardboard box is "stamped" with a number. Is there any significance to that number? Did they actually correspond the cardboard boxes with the items inside? Just curious.

Sure is some very special items that show up in this thread, love the Fandor Standard Oil car Robert! Also love Firewoods Karl Bub Freight House! And that AF 102 Central Station OKHIKER posted is gorgeous! This thread is addicting :-)

Having some fun with video as I test run some sets that are going up for sale. today, prewar Lionel and a Marx postwar set.

Tim

One more for the earlier tank car post...

Rare "Marnel" tanker.

LOL! Marx 6" tank body, Marx scale tin caboose frame and prewar Lionel trucks sans brass journals. Amazing what can pop out of a box of parts when you are snowed/froze in and cabin fever is taking hold! 

Here's my Lionel Classics #7. My Dad bought this set about 3 years before he died, and never ran it; it just sat on a shelf in his train room. For the past 15 years, the coaches have been packed away, and the loco has been on display in my office. Friday, I decided this set has been sitting still long enough, so here she is. What a great runner! 

All pre war theme this year for the tree layout. 

My one and only Tinplate.  A Lionel/MTH Blue Comet set or at least part of the set.  As a child of the late 40's early 50's I saw a lot of Tinplate under Christmas Trees.  So this year I wanted that nostalgia under my "Hallmark" tree due to personal situation.

Under the tree New Years day before taking down the tree.

To me, nothing says "Christmas" like a tinplate Blue Comet circling the Christmas Tree!!

the Stephen girard, running light today 

Thanks to the advice from Steve Eastman I found 2 standard gauge shelves at the Southwest meet today. Put them up when I got home. The room is getting there.

Got a boxed CMC set, first time I've seen a boxed set. I'm guessing it originally came in kit form due to the spare decals and some hardware left in the box. Here is the front and back of a Ad that was with the set. The set I received is the freight set on the top of the Ad. It is also set up for DC only. I'll need to add a rectifier at some point.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Got a boxed CMC set, first time I've seen a boxed set. I'm guessing it originally came in kit form due to the spare decals and some hardware left in the box. Here is the front and back of a Ad that was with the set. The set I received is the freight set on the top of the Ad. 

Thanks for posting, Steve. When you have a chance, I'd love to see more pics of the box and set. I have some CMT original packaging, but I've never seen CMC OBs. 

Here is my marx mercury i cleaned up that has a working sparking mechanism.
I cleaned up shell by a lite polishing and cleaned up the motor .

It really runs nice and sparks as i tested it, the top lever disengages the grinding wheel gear from the large gear , the large gear always spins as it is engaged to the double geared motor unless unscrewed off motor frame which i did as i often run marx and lionel pre and postwar trains.

I read that this was marx first double gear motor , i do run it but without the sparker engaged as i also read these were known to overwork the motor and often found nowadays with the mechanism missing.