Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 1/9/20!

I started putting together a 2800 series consist for next year: red hopper, Christmas box car, and red caboose

Here's a New Marx Double-Header 100th anniversary consist.  The lead engine is the 100th anniversary Louis Marx mill and the dummy trailing engine, which is a mix of 100th anniversary and custom components, is the New Marx prototype which was never put into production.

After WW1 the Meccano Ltd company of Liverpool, England, erected a new factory to make Hornby Trains. In 1920, i.e. 100 years ago, the first Hornby Trains were introduced. The company now using the Hornby name, who makes 00 gauge trains, announced for 2020 a tinplate 0 gauge 0-4-0 locomotive (presumably made by ETS) as a Centenary Year Limited Edition, see https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/s...ed-edition-1920.html. This is electric driven while the first Hornby trains were clockwork. Here a  picture of one of my early Hornby trains, a Hornby No 1 clockwork tank-locomotive from the twenties:

The book shown tells the story of Hornby 0 gauge and is highly recommended.

Regards

Fred

The holiday tree and layout stays up for a while longer here, so the Ives Capital Limited set from 1927 gets a turn on the Standard gauge loop.

Marklin in Germany

A small tinplate project I've had in the pending-pile for quite awhile - made from prewar LIonel bits and a Lledo Hudson ambulance from their "Models of Days Gone" series, 1986:

The repainted frame is the only original bit. The wheels, axles, journals, and couplers are all from now-retired George Tebolt. A bit of chain from the jewelery aisle at Michael's, and the Lledo from eBay.

PD

Just got my first Hafner train. Not in the best condition, but usable. Haven't tried running it yet, but the loco winds up and the drive wheels spin.

Robot Invaders at the Munich Toy Museum...looking a little more carefully I noticed the Mr Machine that my mom gave  to me in the late 50's when she worked at the Ideal Toy factory in New York. A subtle message from heaven I think

My first news for 2020 in the collection.

Adolf Schuhmann coach from Set 344 made around 1925. Was missing the roof. I have made them, soldered from two parts.

Issmayer around 1910

Bub for Carette in Catalog 1911

Bub for Carette in Catalog 1911

Possibly Schuhmann or Fischer for Carette in Catalog 1911

Bing ticket office 14085/1 made 1906-1915

Arne

Scott Smith

Arne, beautiful BING ticket office! Thx for photos.

leroof

scott.smith posted:

Scott Smith

The annex is coming along nicely Scott!

George

Picked up a “new” MTH gold plated Millennium set with all 4 cars. Seller said it did not work, so got it cheap. Added a BRC and away it went. 

Steve

For whatever reason, my 384 is my fav.  She’s like a little honey.  High steppin,, classy, she wears all black for a reason, she’s original, stays true her roots, not much for frills.  Pullin some pretty nice brown baby states with her head high.  It’s a beautiful thing.

Cheers!       WK

Just the one new one for me this week ...

A JEP SNCF which I think is a model 120 pre-war type tho it might be later ?( confirmation/contradiction always welcomed )

I just think these are one of the most beautiful streamliners around , the tinwork and flowing lines are rather special in my eyes anyway ( I do have a big soft spot for French Trains tho )

( apologies for crappy seller photos lol , as always its on its way to me from europe at the moment)

It snowed!

Fatman: Loved the JEP engine, enclosing pictures of a JEP dual class (first / second) passenger car marked like your engine as "SNCF" of course.   I acquired it in France on vacation last year (left the tour group and wandered into an antique store). Was told by some folks in the Western Division of TCA that it was post war about 1953.  Only piece in the store and only JEP I have.  Let me know if you can confirm the dates of manufacture of your engine or even where you get any useful data on JEP

Don

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Picked up a “new” MTH gold plated Millennium set with all 4 cars. Seller said it did not work, so got it cheap. Added a BRC and away it went. 

Steve

Sometimes we make our own luck Steve!

 I love the video of your layout open to the warm Caly weather. We are about to get buried in snow. Even if we lose power, my gennie should keep my layout running. That and a sweater and I’ll be good.

George

Don McErlean posted:

 Loved the JEP engine, enclosing pictures of a JEP dual class (first / second) passenger car marked like your engine as "SNCF" of course.   I acquired it in France on vacation last year (left the tour group and wandered into an antique store). Was told by some folks in the Western Division of TCA that it was post war about 1953.  Only piece in the store and only JEP I have.  Let me know if you can confirm the dates of manufacture of your engine or even where you get any useful data on JEP

Don

Hi Don ... I too find French trains hard to get information on and pretty much rely on "My Google Foo" in researching them .. I have found a few sites with info and am currently tossing up whether of not to throw 30 Euros at what seems to be a very large database on the web provided by members of "Group d'Amis Amateurs de Trains Jouet Anciens" Or the French old toy trains group

http://www.train-jouet.com/catalogues/intro.html

I got there from a French collectors website

http://trancien.train-jouet.com/

Google translate version is here https://translate.google.com.a...w.train-jouet.com%2F

this is a few collectors who have some good photos for reference on many European marques