Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 2/27/20!

American Flyer - The Brigadier c. 1933

Close-ups of the items

NWL

The mail surprised me this week. DHL to USPS efficiency runs cold and hot I guess. A portion of my new rails arrived. Straights only. So, sorry to George, I only did a few stills as all trips would be ‘one-way’ without the curves. Golden Coral never had such a smorgasbord.. Hehr, Mundhenke, Bauer, Marklin and Thul. I am thrilled with the Thul rails. They complement everything else a bit better than plastic track. Stay safe and healthy!

Chris Lonero posted:

Lets see your tinplate! 

Great pic, Chris! Sudden flashback for me, as I went to a Chipperfield's big top when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Elephant rides, big trucks, little guys with brooms and shovels getting the big applause..... 

A Santa Fe caboose for the conductor who wants to stay warm at all costs. 

Modern Marx production error

I'm straying from the American Flyer fold this week into the Ives universe.

Fresh from the shipping container; this is set #500 

the "Green Mountain Express" from 1926 -1927 

Individual photos

#3258 engine

#551 Chair Car

#552 ParlorCar

1926 Catalog page

I have to chuckle at the green bulb placed in the headlight of the Green Mountain Expresss by a previous owner.

The same set came with green roofs as shown in the catalog artwork, however that set is packed away somewhere.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

I just found this Hafner Streamliner set from  the late1940’s or early 1950’s.  I was surprised to see super-elevated track sections.

Jim Z.  

33 in its element 

I just got a spare body of a French HORNBY N°1 loco in north livery for a law ball and as I already have an original tender and motor, here is the result. Those little clockwork are really fun to collect. It dates from the thirties and is a classic Hornby and is not always easy to find in good condition.

Have a great weekend,  Daniel

This week I had a little bit of success in grabbing a few bits for the collection , but more importantly I spent up a bit aquiring some books , and even surprising myself found a first edition of the Chris & Julie Graebe Hornby O Gauge System ! I really would have liked the reprint as it has a lot more updated info , but this was at a exceptionally good price ( 28EURO) and more importantly CHEEP postage from the UK to here ... that was important because at most places they were charging as much as the purchase price again in postage ... Dont ask me HOW this seller managed to do it , but they only charged me $5AUD for postage from the UK!

So from the same place I also bought

And

Both of the above were $18AUD ( 13USD) for both the books and shipping from the UK !

How could I not?

Also added

So I have a bit of reading to do when they get here

However on the GAS ( Gear Aquistion Syndrome) front I managed to add a little too ...

Some Trix TTR ( Twin Track Railway) stuff

A little Loco and tender combo

Along with some wagons

And a swag of TTR ephemera

And locally here in Aus , scored a nice Boxed French Hornby AZUR Tanker ...

Two more CR (Rossignol) steamliners came my way; still to be fed in a next edition of my Steamliner book. The number of variations appears to be even greater than can be found in the book about CR.

Regards

Fred

Love that pair Fred ! I had bookmarked that auction ,had an early bid but didnt bid up in the end .. could not have gone to a nicer fellow !

Well Bought !

About sums up my week. Mother said there would be weeks like this! (I think I’ve mixed up the lyrics LOL)

On a serious note at least I have found the cause of the problem and am on the way to rectifying it.  Now the weather has cooled I can get back in to the garage to work on the layout!

Alfas racing in Anger Germany

Tin racers? Here's a replica Lorenz 52936 from a number of years back:

Really well made.

PD

sncf231e posted:

Two more CR (Rossignol) steamliners came my way; still to be fed in a next edition of my Steamliner book. The number of variations appears to be even greater than can be found in the book about CR.

Regards

Fred

Just picked up another CR50 led pass. set this week. Somebody who couldn't count mixed up the consist in the train yard. 

Also this 3-car JEP autorail

New to me loco week. I also secured an SP Daylight loco and tender from Steve Eastman, 

Hafner 1110 with tender

and another 102 cast-iron Joy Line clockwork loco.

Both the Hafner and the Joy Line need one new wheel. Both need a right rear oddly enough.

Might be the last run of the season.  When you’re kicking your trains around instead of running them.  Notice the upside down red caboose I stepped on and needs to go in the shop for a wheel job.  Got a dent in the hood of my yellow and orange boxcar.  Not sure about that. Well kinda.  Not happy about it either.  It’s like the end of a football season, assess your casualties, fix what needs servicing, maybe pick up a free agent in the off season.  Brightest spot for the year was my blue 390E came to life, after I thought it didn’t run for four years, and she mated well with my blue baby states.  Good season.  Was fun.

Keep going guys.  I’ll be checking in.  Cheers,     W1

Again news in the collection.

American Flyer trains are uncommon in Europe, but sometimes I can find one.

Dister box car No 225, made 1935-1940 in a rare colour

Distler coach No 17C, made 1938-1940

Bing  for train sets, one of the last cars, made only 1932

Unknown post car, possibly made by Heinrich Fischer

Bub uncataloged sleeping coach, made around 1935-1940

Greetings

Arne