Weekend tinplate photos 📸 and videos 🎥 11/8/19!

Both these will run around my tree this year!

Steve,

your signal was made by Bing for UK. The electric version is not to find in a catalog, but the same as oil-fired was made between 1912 and the early 20s.

Bing had made similar signals in the later 20s too, but the railing and others was different.

Here a picture from UK catalog 1912.

Arne

Arne posted:

Steve,

your signal was made by Bing for UK. The electric version is not to find in a catalog, but the same as oil-fired was made between 1912 and the early 20s.

Bing had made similar signals in the later 20s too, but the railing and others was different.

Here a picture from UK catalog 1912.

 

Arne

 

Thanks Arne. I’m guessing the base on mine is painted. Should be multicolored? Also there is no lens or light cover.  At a bit over 16” it’s a very imposing accessory.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A Ives  set 692R Night Hawk set leaving Lumar Valley.

The Bing signal in the foreground is huge. Need to find more info on it.

Steve

 

Nice photo...impressive signal.  

Fendermain

How about this one?

Picked up these old Lionel passenger cars today. Wasn't really looking for Lionel, but these caught me eye. Not only do they need some love, they are similar in size to my Marx passenger cars so they will fit right in on my layout.

Now to decide, do I put Marx trucks on these cars, or fix up a Marx tender with Lionel trucks.  

I recently acquired a group of four-wheel European O gauge cars, including this nice little rail crane. Can someone tell me if this is a Marklin or a Bing car? Unlike the other Bing cars that it came with, this one has no markings. At some point someone also installed some Ives O gauge couplers on it. It's seen here alongside a Bing 10/638 dock crane.

Steve, this might help with respect to blade lenses and light cover.  This Bing semaphore has similar features to yours.  You could use .005 red and green clear sheet styrene for the lenses and you could make the lamp cover out of thin brass.  Note the two cotter pins that hold the lamp cover in place.

Lamp cover details  - back and front identical except front does not have a piece of clear plastic

Both sides the same - bottom is completely open 

John Smatlak posted:

I recently acquired a group of four-wheel European O gauge cars, including this nice little rail crane. Can someone tell me if this is a Marklin or a Bing car? Unlike the other Bing cars that it came with, this one has no markings. At some point someone also installed some Ives O gauge couplers on it. It's seen here alongside a Bing 10/638 dock crane.

That is a BUB crane from the twenties. Here it is as an accessory: https://www.historytoy.com/kar...lway-toy-crane-house. I have a similar one which is pictured and described in my (very interesting ) book on cranes: http://sncf231e.nl/crane-trucks/

Regards

Fred

Just snared my third Maurlyn ( Aussie made loco)

Sady it is missing its impressive front nose ( as is another one I have )

Aluminium Sheet and hand painted body with no primer , means that its pretty rough , but thats the norm with them

Worth its weight just for the running gear

sncf231e posted:

John Smatlak posted:

I recently acquired a group of four-wheel European O gauge cars, including this nice little rail crane. Can someone tell me if this is a Marklin or a Bing car? Unlike the other Bing cars that it came with, this one has no markings. At some point someone also installed some Ives O gauge couplers on it. It's seen here alongside a Bing 10/638 dock crane.

That is a BUB crane from the twenties. Here it is as an accessory: https://www.historytoy.com/kar...lway-toy-crane-house. I have a similar one which is pictured and described in my (very interesting ) book on cranes: http://sncf231e.nl/crane-trucks/

Regards

Fred

Fred- many thanks, a most entertaining compilation! I particularly like that Brimtoy crane. Thanks again.

handyandy posted:

Picked up these old Lionel passenger cars today. Wasn't really looking for Lionel, but these caught me eye. Not only do they need some love, they are similar in size to my Marx passenger cars so they will fit right in on my layout.

Now to decide, do I put Marx trucks on these cars, or fix up a Marx tender with Lionel trucks.  

Should work very well with my Marx stuff.

Hiawatha on the last commuter run of the day 

handyandy posted:

handyandy posted:

Picked up these old Lionel passenger cars today. Wasn't really looking for Lionel, but these caught me eye. Not only do they need some love, they are similar in size to my Marx passenger cars so they will fit right in on my layout.

Now to decide, do I put Marx trucks on these cars, or fix up a Marx tender with Lionel trucks.  

Should work very well with my Marx stuff.

about as good as Marx works with Lionel......

National Capital Trackers at Rockville Lions Club benefit this past weekend.

Riddle me this one, Batman. 2-inch Marx home built load?

ash standard posted:

gs

Love that black LCCA "GOLIATH" BRUTE and its matching black showroom cars!

Bob Nelson

Jim O'C posted:

Riddle me this one, Batman. 2-inch Marx home built load?

Hi again @Jim O'C  Funnily enough THAT was on my Watchlist as well !!! LOL!

Initially my thoughts went to it being perhaps a later 50's (?) version of the Marx Busy Miners Toy?

Earlier models showed a tin wheeled ore cart with miner on each end

https://www.grandoldtoys.com/t...=tin%20litho,wind-up

It looks about the right size and rubber/plastic wheels would have cut down the noise lol

( I have other company versions of this toy )

The construction of your wagon , having no couplers etc lends itself to being propelled in this way ?

I could not find any reference to it as such tho , and it may not be for this purpose, but equally it couldhave been I think as perhaps a cost cutting issue in the final years ?

Or could be a home made replacement for one, cleverly made out of another Marx toy to look the part ???

Works along the same lines as one I do have

The Capitol Hill Racer by Unique Art  ( Stolen youtube video lol)

I suspect it was pieced together from a couple spare parts. The Busy Miner also used a different car in another iteration.