Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 3/19/20!

Not much to report in the world of O Gauge this week ...

But I did grab three 1950's Distler TD-5000 Triebwagens , 2 engines and 1 dummy unit ... HO tinplate

Oh and a weird little O Gauge vintage bogie that has a 3-rail pickup

Two more CIWL cars could last week be added to my Paya Orient Express. A sleeping car and a baggage car:

So the complete Paya train could run in the garden:

Regards

Fred

Hi Fred,

Beautiful train! Have you had problems with the wheels and zinkpest? I have had this problem with some of my freight cars.

Miketg

Hello Mike,

Most of the Paya trains (reproductions from the eighties) have indeed zinkpest. Mine does not (yet), all still original; just luck!

Regards

Fred

Ultimate tinplate...RMS Queen Elizabeth:

For Cunard by Bassett-Lowke, as seen in a travelling exhibit at the Peabody in Salem, Massachusetts a few years ago. Full disclosure:: The hull is wood (mahogany), but other bits are substantially sheet-metal. And yes, it's 1/48-scale.

PD

Fatman posted:

 

Oh and a weird little O Gauge vintage bogie that has a 3-rail pickup

 

That looks like an American Flyer prewar pickup.  

NWL

Nation Wide Lines posted:

Fatman posted:

 

Oh and a weird little O Gauge vintage bogie that has a 3-rail pickup

 

 

That looks like an American Flyer prewar pickup.  

NWL

If I put it in a pot, how long til it grows a new loco???

Fatman posted:

Nation Wide Lines posted:

Fatman posted:

 

Oh and a weird little O Gauge vintage bogie that has a 3-rail pickup

 

 

That looks like an American Flyer prewar pickup.  

NWL

If I put it in a pot, how long til it grows a new loco???

 

It would likely grow a caboose!  

pd posted:

Ultimate tinplate...RMS Queen Elizabeth:

For Cunard by Bassett-Lowke, as seen in a travelling exhibit at the Peabody in Salem, Massachusetts a few years ago. Full disclosure:: The hull is wood (mahogany), but other bits are substantially sheet-metal. And yes, it's 1/48-scale.

PD

Looks very similar to this one https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...13#74073050612420413.

Regards

Fred

Didn't recall having posted that before. Anyway, it remains impressive, now part of the Peabody's permanent collection. 

I doubled my Dorfan collection with these 3 Dorfan hoppers recently:

Tom

Here is another symptom of my affliction (the train collecting one).

I thought that it was red when I bought it to go with some other Ives O gauge cars that I have. It is more of a wine color or maroon.  I have not seen any of the trains made for Wanamaker in person, but it looks a lot like that color.

Oh well, now I have an excuse to contine looking for something to pull those passenger cars.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Marx M-10000 streamliner set of 1936-37. We've had this one on a shelf for more than twenty years, and I only recently got it running; the reverser was gone so I wired it forward-only. Next I'll have to rewire the lights; it has both a headlight powered via the drive unit and a tail light powered from a pickup on the rear truck. Fun to see it zipping around the layout after all this time.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Here is another symptom of my affliction (the train collecting one).

I thought that it was red when I bought it to go with some other Ives O gauge cars that I have. It is more of a wine color or maroon.  I have not seen any of the trains made for Wanamaker in person, but it looks a lot like that color.

Oh well, now I have an excuse to contine looking for something to pull those passenger cars.

Have a Greazt Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg,

All of the Wanamaker engines I have seen are lettered for Wanamaker and not Ives.  So that is unlikely to be a Wanamaker engine.

Scott Smith

Two Lionel 153s circa 1927.  The one on the right is all original while the orange one on the left is a nice repaint.  Both run flawlessly.  Also shown on the bottom is a reproduction Lionel Inc. army supply train.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Here is another symptom of my affliction (the train collecting one).

I thought that it was red when I bought it to go with some other Ives O gauge cars that I have. It is more of a wine color or maroon.  I have not seen any of the trains made for Wanamaker in person, but it looks a lot like that color.

Oh well, now I have an excuse to contine looking for something to pull those passenger cars.

Have a Greazt Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg, here is the grown up version.

Steve

Here's the Ives 3252 with its consist

Thanks NWL, Papa Eastman, and Robert for the input.

I have two sets of the red #70 cars that I would like to find engines for. Robert, your photo definitely is the engine I am looking for.

As you can see in these photos my engine is not a good match.

As I said I have never seen a Wanamaker train in person, however I didn't suspect that my engine was a Wanamaker.  I just thought that the color looked very similar to the photos that I have seen of the color used on Wanamaker equipment.

And Papa Steve all I can say is Wow!  Is that a honest to goodness Wanamaker?

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Thanks NWL, Papa Eastman, and Robert for the input.

I have two sets of the red #70 cars that I would like to find engines for. Robert, your photo definitely is the engine I am looking for.

As you can see in these photos my engine is not a good match.

As I said I have never seen a Wanamaker train in person, however I didn't suspect that my engine was a Wanamaker.  I just thought that the color looked very similar to the photos that I have seen of the color used on Wanamaker equipment.

And Papa Steve all I can say is Wow!  Is that a honest to goodness Wanamaker?

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Not a Wanamaker. Just the same dark reddish brown as yours.

Steve

259E pulling my two Ives transition cars

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Thanks NWL, Papa Eastman, and Robert for the input.

I have two sets of the red #70 cars that I would like to find engines for. Robert, your photo definitely is the engine I am looking for.

As you can see in these photos my engine is not a good match.

 

As I said I have never seen a Wanamaker train in person, however I didn't suspect that my engine was a Wanamaker.  I just thought that the color looked very similar to the photos that I have seen of the color used on Wanamaker equipment.

And Papa Steve all I can say is Wow!  Is that a honest to goodness Wanamaker?

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

From Greenberg's Guide to Ives Trains, "We have observed the 3252 in dark red, light green, black, maroon, burnt-orange, peacock blue and red. At this time we cannot assign colors to years." The guide has pictures of a similar color engine pulling brown lithographed passenger cars with black roofs and separately a freight consist. I don't think it needs to be color matched to the passenger cars.

George

Considering the present circumstances, I am going to start showing things which I don’t yet have ‘in hand’. Bought and paid for, but probably won’t be leaving Germany any time soon. Marklin 0 gauge 1846 gepackwagen. Wishes of good health to all.

MNCW posted:

I doubled my Dorfan collection with these 3 Dorfan hoppers recently:

Tom

 

Hello Tom

Nice catch - they look in pretty decent shape -- reminds me of my 1952 Marx set tinplate cars.  Also i see they are double trucked cars ! (not 4 wheel cars) . How old are they ?

PS: I emailed you a "catching up" reply Tues. 3/17 to your just previous email sent to me -- and heard nothing since . 

I forwarded it again today (20th) and this time it was returned by your "purchase . edu" email address with a notice that you and staff are working remote from home -   and I then tried using your steam loco website displayed email (steam ....at yahoo . com ) and it came back from yahoo server as not deliverable and listed as UNKNOWN .  I see you have been on line here at OGR the past few days so your computer obviously is OK -- did you get my emails (via your email "purchase - edu") from  Tues. the 17th and those sent today?

Regards - Joe F

I picked up the Blue station above this week at a jumble sale.  I never thought I would see one of these again. 

A product of WW2 and the post war import restrictions was the boom in Grandparents, modellers and furniture shops making items to fill the shelves of Toy stores. 

The only other station in this style I have found was the above green one that was a mid war present to a child in Upway Victoria. The one above was found in Wandin Victoria so I am guessing the manufacturer may have been country based? The Green station had EMGEE rubber stamped underneath but this one does not.

Notable features of this style of station are:

Wired for electrical lighting with roof mounted torch bulb holder, bakelite switch and the station office doubles as a battery holder.

The fence is made from pressing leftovers (possibly spoon handles?) and has the station name attached 

Two seats on the station platform and station office is a screen printed water slide decal.

And that’s all I know of these stations. Despite an article in a local collector magazine no one has contacted me to say they have ever seen one.. The mystery continues..

Joseph Frank posted:

MNCW posted:

I doubled my Dorfan collection with these 3 Dorfan hoppers recently:

Tom

 

Hello Tom

Nice catch - they look in pretty decent shape -- reminds me of my 1952 Marx set tinplate cars.  Also i see they are double trucked cars ! (not 4 wheel cars) . How old are they ?

PS: I emailed you a "catching up" reply Tues. 3/17 to your just previous email sent to me -- and heard nothing since . 

I forwarded it again today (20th) and this time it was returned by your "purchase . edu" email address with a notice that you and staff are working remote from home -   and I then tried using your steam loco website displayed email (steam ....at yahoo . com ) and it came back from yahoo server as not deliverable and listed as UNKNOWN .  I see you have been on line here at OGR the past few days so your computer obviously is OK -- did you get my emails (via your email "purchase - edu") from  Tues. the 17th and those sent today?

Regards - Joe F

Hi Joe,

 Yes, I am still here...just swamped at work with now shifting to working from home. Watch for an email coming soon.

Tom 

MNCW posted:

I doubled my Dorfan collection with these 3 Dorfan hoppers recently:

Tom

 

I have a half dozen of them for a mini Dorfan Coal Train.

Steve

The Marx freight platform is currently doubling as a landing pad.  Contemporary Sci-fi aficionados will recognize the ship as legitimate salvage!

And here I am shamelessly double posting my Switcher Saturday subject matter.  The Mike's P&LE is pulling an all tinplate consist of 3 different manufacturers. 

Have a great weekend everyone. 

Here are two final views of the Marx 1936-37 green M-10000 set out on the layout.

John Smatlak posted:

Here are two final views of the Marx 1936-37 green M-10000 set out on the layout.

If I ever get the layout back together I really should run mine. Hasn’t seen the light of day in many years.

Steve

My mostly modern era layout got some older company this week. Boy, collecting tinplate can become addicting!

Stay healthy everyone.

POC914NUT posted:

My mostly modern era layout got some older company this week. Boy, collecting tinplate can become addicting!

Stay healthy everyone.

I have kept my Bing to boxcars, a reefer and cabeese. They blend in well with Ives and Flyer.

Steve

PhillyChris posted:

Considering the present circumstances, I am going to start showing things which I don’t yet have ‘in hand’. Bought and paid for, but probably won’t be leaving Germany any time soon. Marklin 0 gauge 1846 gepackwagen. Wishes of good health to all.

I know the feeling. Have some auction winnings  stuck in The UK at the moment. Was hoping to have them by the time the Chaos started so when we went in to lockdown I had a few projects to work on. Oh well... once the lockdown is lifted I’ll be a busy bee..

A MTH  Standard gauge 514R car converted into a working automatic milk car . Still in the process of fine tuning it .

JohnnieWalker posted:

A MTH  Standard gauge 514R car converted into a working automatic milk car . Still in the process of fine tuning it .

Pretty cool!  Looks like a ghost throwing them out!

just got this out of the mailbox. really nice shape.It looks to have been cleared since it's really shiny.

jhz563 posted:

JohnnieWalker posted:

A MTH  Standard gauge 514R car converted into a working automatic milk car . Still in the process of fine tuning it .

Pretty cool!  Looks like a ghost throwing them out!

At some point I will remove him and give him a proper paint job .   Like I said , I'm still fine tuning it .  Not sure if I'll make a new unloading platform for it . 

Steamer posted:

just got this out of the mailbox. really nice shape.It looks to have been cleared since it's really shiny.

Dave, That was supposed to come to my address! 

Tom

well then you must have gotten my Prewar Scale switcher I was supposed to get.....