Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 2/20/20!

4 MTH-Ives 3236 locomotives

Scott Smith

American Flyer Set #16 ca 1918 which was obviously the first train set assembled on a long ago Monday morning after a holiday weekend.

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I spent most of yesterday working on some of my McCoy E2s. With a little luck (and some machine work courtesy of my Dad,) I may have one more running again tomorrow.

Just bought from the last Sunday train show in France, a very rare loco-tender made by the french firm La Rotonde (The Roundhouse) around 1995 in three rail O gauge in tinplate style. It was the continuity of AS which closed just before.

The loco is a 141 TA from the Paris Orleans  railways in the same livery than the model preserved in the SNCF railway museum. This type of engines was intended to run in mountains with high grades and narrow curves and the original one was very powerful.

The model has been made in a very low quantity of 60 pieces, nice to have one.

Have a great weekend, Daniel

DANIEL: Absolutely stunning tinplate-style tank loco! Definitely a keeper, sir!

Very Special there @sncf231e Daniel !

My contributions this week are also French yet again ... picked up another 2 CWIL carriages , another diner carriage , and a Pullman Saloon ... Now I have to find at least one more Pullman as it will look silly with 2 diners and only one saloon

These ones are coming over from France currently ..

But on the local front I finally managed to complete an early Wells O' London (Brimtoy) rake ...

I have had several versions of the loco's for quite some time but this tender and pullman package turned up for sale ... Bah-Bum! You are coming home with me!

These will pair correctly to my nice 2509 Golden Streak red version

Here are my pups, Linus and his brother Schroeder....and here they are again reincarnated as a tin toy

Three way meet at Bay Bridge Junction.

In France the ETAT railway company made in the thirties some modern passenger cars with a round body which did not need a frame. Because of the form this cars were called Voitures Saucisson (Sausage cars). Both JEP (cast metal) and BLZ (sheet metal) made this cars in H0 gauge some 70 years ago and Hornby made these in tinplate in 0 gauge before WW2:

Here is a video of the H0 cars with the matching JEP and BLZ locomotives:

Regards

Fred

Again a few news in the collection.

Karl Bub 5130, only made 1935-36. The smallest of this black locos with silver KB logo.

Is not missing the side rods, had never one.

Matching Karl Bub coach 4311

Heinrich Fischer tankloco, made 1926.

I have no matching Fischer cars, here with early Brimtoy cars.

Greetings

Arne

ARNE: VERY NICE!

Robert S. Butler posted:

American Flyer Set #16 ca 1918 which was obviously the first train set assembled on a long ago Monday morning after a holiday weekend.

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Side B

 

That's awesome! A 1203 and an 1106 rolled into one. I wonder how they counted their production that day, an extra half 1203 and an extra half 1106 or two full cars?   LOL

Starting in 1927 American Flyer began to market freight cars of their own design in their Wide Gauge Line.  Prior to that (1926) they cataloged freight cars that were Lionel designed. As I was going through my photo archive of Wide Gauge I came across one of Flyer's early Cabooses

The #4011 in "ivory and khaki brown":

I recently spotted one of their Narrow (O) Gauge cabooses that someone had repainted in similar colors on ebay. I don't usually buy repaints, but since this Narrow Gauge caboose never existed and I liked the way it looked I decided to add it to the portion of my collection entitled "They didn't make it this way but if they had...."

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

One drink ain’t enough, Jack.. you’d better make it three!

After a month stuck in customs, I finally have my three period Marklin tank cars with custom repaint representing a very rare US export paint scheme (early 1900s). Creation by Wolfgang Bauer, Leipzig Germany.

PhillyChris posted:

One drink ain’t enough, Jack.. you’d better make it three!

After a month stuck in customs, I finally have my three period Marklin tank cars with custom repaint representing a very rare US export paint scheme (early 1900s). Creation by Wolfgang Bauer, Leipzig Germany.

Those are beauties! Any chance you can run them behind your croc on your carpet central and take a video for us? 

George

Hi George,

As the mail has been running, I expect a big lot of reproduction Marklin ‘progress’ track by the end of March. When that arrives I’ll do some running and take videos to share. I hope I’ll be happy enough with the new rails to be able to divest myself of all my Fastrack.

Chris

PhillyChris posted:

One drink ain’t enough, Jack.. you’d better make it three!

After a month stuck in customs, I finally have my three period Marklin tank cars with custom repaint representing a very rare US export paint scheme (early 1900s). Creation by Wolfgang Bauer, Leipzig Germany.

Did customs nick you for anything, or were they just slow?

Reminds me of a story...  Stayed at a B&B in Wales a few years ago and learned that the owner was a big Triang collector, so we had some fun discussions and he even loaned me a couple of books while I was there.  (Unfortunately, all of his stuff was boxed in the attic.)  He said that another train collector guest from the US sent him a box of toy train stuff after visiting.  On the customs form, the sender wrote "train parts".  Apparently, the UK customs folks thought they were real train parts, and slapped a steep duty on them which was almost equal to the value of the toy trains inside the box.  The moral of the story is that they're TOYS.

A circa 1935 LIONEL 253 with its two 610 passenger cars and 612 observation car all in their “striking Mojave” paint scheme patiently awaits its boarding passengers at a reproduction Lionel  Corporation  134 Station. They’re a little beat up but still run great.