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