Tis the season!🎄 Let’s see your tinplate 🎅🏻
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As I tried to explain it to my wife. I was leaving one of the halls at York with the intention of finding a place to eat when I passed a sellers table and spotted a dining car - so for just a little more 
than the cost of a meal I bought an entire restaurant...that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 
Marklin Dining Car
...and the interior
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Marklin has always offer a nice selection of restaurant cars, here is a model from 1915in gauge One,
And a later one from the thirties also in 1 Gauge,
Have a nice weekend, Daniel
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I havent been a very good boy so far this year so Santa has only dropped off a couple of Hornby this week 
A not too shabby McAlpine tipper
And a fairly shabby LMS 6 wheel Tender ( without the wheels lol ) but I have plenty of them so it will find a place behind one of my No.2 Locomotives
Tail end Thursday
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Under the holiday tree this year is a large Schoenhut Railroad Station with illumination. According to the TCA's "Standard Of The World" book Lionel sold two versions of this station between 1917 and 1920. Model No,. 121 was 13-1/2" x 9" x 13" and Model No. 121X with the same measurements was illuminated with two lights. The station I have, acquired at York several years ago, is larger. It measures 17" x 10" x 12" and has five lamps and a switch for illumination. All windows have glass panes. Here is the information on Schoenhut from Wiki:
"The Schoenhut Piano Company is an American manufacturer of toy pianos, dolls, and other wooden toys. It was founded in 1872 in Philadelphia as the A. Schoenhut Company by German immigrant and woodcarver Albert Schoenhut, who had begun making toy pianos during his youth in Germany.[1] Both his father and grandfather had been toy and doll-makers.[1] The company began with making toy pianos and soon expanded to other toys such as dolls, doll houses, and circus figures. By the time of Albert Schoenhut's death in 1912, Schoenhut Piano Company had grown to become the largest toy company in the United States, and the first to export its products to Germany.[1] The Great Depression forced the company into bankruptcy in 1935, but a year later Otto Schoenhut opened a new company called O. Schoenhut, Inc., continuing the legacy. It was purchased in the 1980s by the Trinca family."
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Jim O'C thanks for that! I found one of those #424's some time ago and had zero luck trying to find out when Marx made that tower and for what market.
RSB and Daniel: LOVE those Marklin restaurant cars! JKE: VERY NICE Schoenhut station and informative history! Fred: NICE venerable, if not humble, MARX switch tower. Mine has a red girder support.
JO'C: NICE Canadian version of the MARX tower. Will be on the lookout for one!
Robert S. Butler posted:As I tried to explain it to my wife. I was leaving one of the halls at York with the intention of finding a place to eat when I passed a sellers table and spotted a dining car - so for just a little more
Marklin Dining Car
...and the interior
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Wow.. as far as I know, in some towns, you could have purchased a restaurant! Nice pick! I am waiting on a Marklin 1841 and 1842 in track 0 and my first Mundhenke locomotive. Hopefully, they will arrive safely and in time to run on the Christmas Carpetbahn. For now, the tree is naked and the floor impatiently awaits.
First train run in 2-3 years. Bad video, but very excited to see my beautiful 1835E running good as new. I didn’t remember this guy having such a strong whistle. Time to break out the blue baby states! And my other guys and 500 series freight cars. Better video to follow. Yay!!!
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handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
Does it have a Hafner or Wyandott motor.
Steve
handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
now that's a honey. You could have it at the roundhouse as a just brought in saved from the scrapper to be restored, or even try your hand at a repaint. Maybe close to original scheme or your own design.
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
Does it have a Hafner or Wyandott motor.
Steve
How do I tell the difference?
handyandy posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
Does it have a Hafner or Wyandott motor.
Steve
How do I tell the difference?
If it takes a screw in key and the spring has a cage around it, it's most likely Hafner. Show a picture from underneath and I can confirm it. Hafner motors are far superior.
Steve
Carpet express has moved!
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Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
Does it have a Hafner or Wyandott motor.
Steve
How do I tell the difference?
If it takes a screw in key and the spring has a cage around it, it's most likely Hafner. Show a picture from underneath and I can confirm it. Hafner motors are far superior.
Steve
Bottoms up!
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handyandy posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
Does it have a Hafner or Wyandott motor.
Steve
How do I tell the difference?
If it takes a screw in key and the spring has a cage around it, it's most likely Hafner. Show a picture from underneath and I can confirm it. Hafner motors are far superior.
Steve
Bottoms up!
It’s a Hafner
Steve
handyandy posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
Does it have a Hafner or Wyandott motor.
Steve
How do I tell the difference?
If it takes a screw in key and the spring has a cage around it, it's most likely Hafner. Show a picture from underneath and I can confirm it. Hafner motors are far superior.
Steve
Bottoms up!
Man, I'd like to take a shot at getting the rust off that one!
George
Trackside freight action. Having a fun day tweaking things, cleaning things up. Gotta love the tinplate trains. I think I have most of the 500 freight cars except for the maroon roof 513 cattle car. No rush there. Not all the minor variations, but a nice collection I am happy with. I thought there is a green 515 tank car car, but I don’t see it in my book. Thinking of making some shadow box display cases. Better than sitting in boxes out of sight.
Enjoy your tinplate! You guys are amazing. Cheers, W1
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Super smooth 318 pulling a work detail. I had to replace the light sockets and a couple handrails and she is good as new, well, you know what I mean. I was lucky to have a spare shell with the parts. Very happy it came together nicely. I really like the look of the 318. I have a couple other guys I need to fix and get running. Some minor short or something. Hoping to learn how to do that this winter. Might need some help. Stay on track boys, there’s no looking back!
Cheers, W1
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handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
just got back from a local antique mall. One dealer had some Hafner if anyone is interested. Two steamers, and some four wheel cars. The engines were $20 each and the cars were $8 each. One engine had the key, but no side rods. Wound up and ran. I took some pics if anyone is interested. Not my trains, just passing on the info.
Holy blue baby states Batman! I bought this blue comet 390 on Christmas Day in 2014 I think. All this time I thought it was dead on the shelf. One of the projects I was going to tackle this winter. Put her on the track just now and she runs! The headlight is being stubborn, but that is relatively minor. Seems to be running really good. Happy dance! Gonna hook her up to the BBState cars and break her in. Wow, what a nice surprise. Great train weekend. I was sidelined a bit with a little twinge of cancer for a year or so and a really bad girlfriend after that, but both are in the rear view view mirror now, so it is full speed ahead!
Quick question, this has an E unit. Is there to lock it in forward, or do I need to stop it every time just short of triggering the neutral/reverse sequence. Thanks a million for any help, W1
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Home at last! Pulling the cars she was made for. This girl sat on my shelf for 5 years I think, I thought she didn’t run. I put her on the track today and she backed right up, said hello, take me for a spin. Runs like a dream. How cool is that!
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Steamer posted:handyandy posted:Bought a Marx engine from another vendor at the show and he threw this crusty Hafner in for free. Gee, I can't imagine why...
Maybe I'll slip an electric Marx motor under the hood and make it a rat rod!
just got back from a local antique mall. One dealer had some Hafner if anyone is interested. Two steamers, and some four wheel cars. The engines were $20 each and the cars were $8 each. One engine had the key, but no side rods. Wound up and ran. I took some pics if anyone is interested. Not my trains, just passing on the info.
Steamer,
Did they have an equally crusty tender to go with this engine? 
they had this silver one for $8. I put it with one of the engines for the pic.The engine is $20.
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Steamer posted:they had this silver one for $8. I put it with one of the engines for the pic.The engine is $20.
That's too nice for my engine. It looks just fine with that engine. Perhaps you should start your own Hafner collection? 
