Weekend Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 3/26/20!

To my great surprise, the Marklin 1846 arrived from Germany (yesterday). Hopefully, nothing else came with it!  The interior is similar to the American caboose. I wish I could change the couplers without adversely impacting it.

Scott Smith

French-made Louis Roussy / Le Rapide / LR Autorail. Cast aluminum shell, ca 1950. From what I've seen, these Autorails were offered in gray (such as the example here) as well as blue/cream and red/cream colors.

Another piece I can now run on the layout thanks to the recent replacement of the 031 curves with 042 on my main loop.

Now I know why it's so hard to find add on Chessie cars.

Steve

John, nice to see the LR Autorail running on your really nice layout. Here are two different models from my collection, cream and blue and the less common grey and red; there is also a red and cream model.

This other model, the famous Micheline LR  is not the easiest one to find in good condition is also a grzat looking one.

Have a nice weekend everyone and take care of your health,  Daniel

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

John, nice to see the LR Autorail running on your really nice layout. Here are two different models from my collection, cream and blue and the less common grey and red; there is also a red and cream model.

This other model, the famous Micheline LR  is not the easiest one to find in good condition is also a grzat looking one.

Have a nice weekend everyone and take care of your health,  Daniel

 

I like the gray and red version of the Autorail- very nice. And what can you say about the Micheline LR- magnifique! I really must find one of those.

I found this tinplate Kibri station with a clock tower next to it. The clockwork is an operating one as can be seen on the picture of the backside (street side) of the station and the video. It has catalogue number 0/52/60 and was made in the first half of the fifties.

Regards

Fred

Weird one this week

Found here in Australia an 0-4-0 3-rail Sugar Cane locomotive which looks to have possibly been repurposed/created from a Sakai/Seki or some bits anyway ? LOL!

Once owned by Bill Baker , a huge collector, now deceased ...

Nevertheless its quirky enough to come live with me

Someone spent a bit of time with this one I would think?

Hello fellow tinplaters,

This was a concept I was testing last year...

Stay safe,

Tom

I am constantly amazed by all of the additions that everyone makes to their collections on a weekly basis.  I love the photos of the autorails and of the Michelin.  

Below is a recent acquisition.  It needs a lot of work, as in new wheels, new headlight holders, a good cleaning and waxing, trim disassembly and cleaning, and likely some re-wiring.

The interesting feature to me is the brass rod-stock trim.  I have observed a mix of brass rod-stock trim vs brass stamped sheet metal trim on the 3116/3186 engines, but all of the 3187 engines I have had to date (3 of them) had the brass sheet metal trim on them.  This model represents a first for me, with this type of trim on a 3187.  This engine does have the earliest auto reverse motor (see photos below), so I am guessing it is from 1928 and that Flyer began using the brass sheet metal trim at some point in 1929, as the set that this replaced had a similar motor, but the brass sheet metal trim.

Here is a similar motor to the one in the 3187.  Note the funky auto-reverse mechanism on top of the engine and the coil that operates it.

NWL

Fatman posted:

Weird one this week

Found here in Australia an 0-4-0 3-rail Sugar Cane locomotive which looks to have possibly been repurposed/created from a Sakai/Seki or some bits anyway ? LOL!

Once owned by Bill Baker , a huge collector, now deceased ...

Nevertheless its quirky enough to come live with me

Someone spent a bit of time with this one I would think?

 

 

 

 

I love the balloon smokestack. I have an LGB mogul with one. I wish they made a colorful mogul like the LGB in standard gauge or O Gauge. Closest thing I have found was the Marx Wm Crooks, but the LGB Mogul boiler is not tapered like the Marx.

George

Fatman: LOVE that little "tea kettle"! Dare I even say "cute"? Great find!

KBN PRR electric train  ca. 1920's

Mr. Butler,

Nice Bub set. Very easy on the eyes.

Chris

RSB: VERY NICE!

FEF, a Hafner 1110.

Steve

Fatman posted:

Weird one this week

Found here in Australia an 0-4-0 3-rail Sugar Cane locomotive which looks to have possibly been repurposed/created from a Sakai/Seki or some bits anyway ? LOL!

Once owned by Bill Baker , a huge collector, now deceased ...

Nevertheless its quirky enough to come live with me

Someone spent a bit of time with this one I would think?

My best guess on the original piece before modification.  The original was made by KTM of Japan, probably in the 60's.  Locally we had a hobby shop known as Hobby House (Cleveland Ohio USA), owned by a local lawyer, Leonard M Blum.  He had a number of O scale brass models made by KTM and sold the under the brand name LMB.  He produced an entry level 2-6-2 tank loco for 25USD at that time.  The frame, couplers, motor location and gears, and steam dome all match the 2-6-2 I bought when I worked at Hobby House so many years ago.

Lou N

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

FEF, a Hafner 1110.

Steve

I spy some little motorcycle dudes hiding behind the bridge abutment. 

George

My Camden trolley taking folks to work .