The weekend is here! Hope everyone had a good 4th. Kicking it off this week is a view down the tracks. Let's see your tinplate!
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This is a new arrival from across the pond. British Marx clockwork CV with vestibule coaches. Needs a bit of TLC before I run it, but overall pretty nice. Some very unusual features on it. It has a bell underneath that rocks. One of the side rods is attached to it to rock it. From what I can tell looking up inside, the sparker is different than US versions. The drivers had me wondering. This is from 1936-38 and the drivers appeared to be plastic. A bit of research shows they are actually hardened rubber.
Steve
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That is a nice set Steve; I like the Pullman cars!
This week I have a Merkur loco. The Czech metal toy manufacturer Merkur is still making tinplate style trains. In collaboration with some French tinplate enthusiasts they made a French SNCF 140C 2-8-0 locomotive. The style of this locomotive is a bit like the former French manufacturer AS. The locomotive is shown here with a French GMP "Fourgon de queue" (caboose) from around 1950, In the video the locomotive pulls some Merkur beer-cars.
Regards
Fred
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The weather is cold and snowy but the trains continue to run in the finest railroading tradition as a limited comprised of Lionel 710 Pullmans and a 712 observation arrives in the station under the watchful eye of a waiting Redcap. In a moment, the Engineer in the cab of the big 260E on the head end will bring his train to a stop and employees will then go to work assisting passengers getting on and off. An REA truck awaiting packages to be transferred from the train is parked adjacent to the platform. The commence of a great nation is unfolding before our eyes.
Continuing the theme of my first few contributions to this weekly thread, the passenger cars are from my late father's prewar roster. Not pristine but, considering this equipment is more than 80 years old and saw a lot of heavy use early on, they're pretty darn nice. They make for a very pretty train when paired with his 260E, pictures of which I posted a few weeks ago.
Thank you again to all for the opportunity to share my father's equipment and associated memories with other like-minded folks.
Bob
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From the archives, LCCA Lake Shore Ltd.:
PD
beautiful tinplate guys! That Marx set looks great Steve. Bob love to see your Dad's trains.
PD that CV looks sweet, hope the 1689E project I have turns out half that nice.
here's a junkbox 1630 turned into my P Company Diner. 007 stopping by to pick up some lunch for Moneypenny.
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Dave:
Outstanding job of converting the passenger car into a diner...just like they used to do with the real thing!
Bob
Fred,
Beauty of a Garden layout, with great Tin!
Dave, Great job on the Diner conversion - I love it!
PCRR/Dave
Got a pair of "new" Ives gondolas in the mail yesterday, think I have it pegged around 1923. Any Ives guys here to help me confirm that? The 128 looks like it belongs on Gauge 1 trucks as well. Haven't had a chance to take photos of it yet. Here are the ones from the seller.
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very nice. I have a couple of Ives/Lionel cars, but would like to get some genuine Ives someday.
I took some time on the 4th to exercise some of my stronger windup locomotives with some long trains (for windup motive power, anyway).
So for everyone's amusement, I present "Windup Trains on Steroids":
Steamer posted:very nice. I have a couple of Ives/Lionel cars, but would like to get some genuine Ives someday.
The short stuff is pretty good. I stand by my statement that the long equipment looks oversized.
WindupGuy posted:I took some time on the 4th to exercise some of my stronger windup locomotives with some long trains (for windup motive power, anyway).
So for everyone's amusement, I present "Windup Trains on Steroids":
Where did you get those monstrosities?!?
They are all Marx items that I rebuilt/customized. Sometimes I just want to see strong clockwork engines pull ridiculously long trains around the layout... 
El Classico posted:The 128 looks like it belongs on Gauge 1 trucks as well.
I stand by my statement that the long equipment looks oversized.
Ives made three sizes of O Gauge freight cars: the very small 4-wheel 50 series, the 8-wheel 60 series (and the 560 series which were the same cars on 4 wheeled frames), and the 120 series which were also 8 wheeled. The 120 series are the better proportioned, top of the line Ives O Gauge prewar cars – although by modern, scale standards they are still stubby and foreshortened. They are less than half the size of Ives 1 Gauge cars. In fact the Ives 1 Gauge freight cars were given wide gauge trucks and became Ives's first Wide Gauge (Standard Gauge) cars.
Here is an electric version of a Marx cattle train with 79 cattle cars.
If I could figure out how to upload videos I'd show you my controlled clockwork W&H loco. Instead we'll head down to Argentina where Hornby sold trains in four liveries -- FCS, FCO (both most common), FCCA (somewhat rare) and FCBAP (extraordinarily rare). Here are a freight and passenger showing three of the four liveries.
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P.S. Hornby did not label any of the beautiful #2 Special passenger coaches with Argentine marks.
Lew Schneider
A little tinplate train around 120 years old and still in running condition. French brand FV.
And a BING gauge 2 live steam storkleg from pre 1900. It could be run on standard gauge tracks ....... maybe one day....
Daniel.
