Weekend tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 4/26/19!

In the twenties and thirties JEP has made a great number of small accessories to complete their trains, here are some of them.

CR has also made some very nice ones,

And an important actor of railway accessories, the level crossing, those two models are a mixed of tin for the base and wood for the buildings, first one is with a traditional house and the second is more modern in style, the guards are moved by an electro magnet they both date from the fifties and were sold by BLZ and GMP, two small french makers of quality trains.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

An add and a upgrade.

Bing didn’t make a lot of road names in the 8 wheel Litho boxcars, so this is a nice add.

I already had a Ives CP, but this one is a bit nicer and it came from the estate of my late friend John Parker.

Mettoy made this engine shed in the fifties:

The same building with different lithography was also used as a fire station:

Regards

Fred

Well it must be the weekend for trackside accessories as I also just bought a Hornby No.3 Platform and Station

Still in the UK but headed my way soon !

Looks a little like a caboose, but this is an original Marklin Gauge 1 "Gepackwagen," Cat. No. 1846/1, a baggage car made 1902-09.

Blue Comet speeding down to Atlantic City.

I picked up an Ives caboose this week, missing it's trucks, so it'll get Lionel ones in the mid term. Also missing the cupola roof. Hey George S....didn't make a spare for yours did you?  

Steamer posted:

I picked up an Ives caboose this week, missing it's trucks, so it'll get Lionel ones in the mid term. Also missing the cupola roof. Hey George S....didn't make a spare for yours did you?  

Nice pick up Dave! The roofs are easy to make...

George

A Selection of Flyer Freights

NWL

Nation Wide Lines posted:

A Selection of Flyer Freights

NWL

A "selection"... Wow those are in amazing shape NWL!  That red 3110 just pops! and the 9" cars...just wow.

Again a few news in the collection.

American Flyer, cars found in the UK and the loco in Austria.

Brimtoy cars from the 30s, part of the Michael Foster collection

2 of the bottom with recycled sheets.

Ernst Plank station from the 30s

Fandor very small PRR coach

Greetings

Arne

    While Bing only offered 10 boxcar railroad heralds to Ives's 26 it is interesting to note the differences in the approach to prototypical railroad names between the two companies.  Ives's emphasis was on herald variety with little regard for prototypical accuracy of the overall litho treatment. Bing, on the other hand, was a tinplate rivet counters dream.    All of their car lithography (boxcars, gondolas, cabooses, tank cars, and hopper cars) was copied directly from the 1902 AC&F catalog - right down to the reporting marks. In addition, the 10 Bing boxcar heralds were offered in a number of different, but prototypical, basic litho colors.  The boxcars can be found in bright red, boxcar red, tuscan red, dark brown, and a light brown that is almost tan in color.   Since this seems to be shaping up as a line side structure/freight car Friday, below is a rogues gallery of the Bing boxcar offerings.

  B&O - note the "European" style roof - it also came with an "American" style roof - as did all of the Bing boxcars

  Canadian Pacific - lithographed as woodsided

Canadian Pacific - lithographed as steel outside braced - note "American" style roof

CNJ

Erie - lithographed as outside braced wooden boxcar

Illinois Central

NYNH&H

PRR - red with "European" roof

PRR Tuscan with "American" roof

Philadelphia and Reading

Santa Fe

New equipment on the FCC (Filing Cabinet Central)

Rob English posted:

Nation Wide Lines posted:

A Selection of Flyer Freights

NWL

A "selection"... Wow those are in amazing shape NWL!  That red 3110 just pops! and the 9" cars...just wow.

Rob, you don't recall seeing them when you visited?  They were on the were on the wall, except for the NYC gondola, which I was finally able to upgrade.  It took me years to acquire them in this condition.  Here are better shots of each.

The above tank is the common version.  The tank below is more uncommon, as it is on a 1928 frame, with 1928 trucks, 1928 couplers, the frame is punched for steps, and the tank is punched for number plates and ladders.

NWL

Steamer posted:

I picked up an Ives caboose this week, missing it's trucks, so it'll get Lionel ones in the mid term. Also missing the cupola roof. Hey George S....didn't make a spare for yours did you?  

I might have a set of Ives truck frames for you

The Dorfan portion of the collection is growing.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Nation Wide Lines posted:

Rob English posted:

Nation Wide Lines posted:

A Selection of Flyer Freights

NWL

A "selection"... Wow those are in amazing shape NWL!  That red 3110 just pops! and the 9" cars...just wow.

Rob, you don't recall seeing them when you visited?  They were on the were on the wall, except for the NYC gondola, which I was finally able to upgrade.  It took me years to acquire them in this condition.  Here are better shots of each.

The above tank is the common version.  The tank below is more uncommon, as it is on a 1928 frame, with 1928 trucks, 1928 couplers, the frame is punched for steps, and the tank is punched for number plates and ladders.

NWL

 

That's some brilliant stuff, there. I've never seen 9-inch lithographed cars before. Presume these are quite early?

pd posted:

That's some brilliant stuff, there. I've never seen 9-inch lithographed cars before. Presume these are quite early?

They date to 1925-1927.  It is reported that various gondolas and box cars were made in differing years, due to the catalogs showing different cars in different years, but who can say at this point.  

NWL

My favorites so far are JKE's superb Marklin Gepackwagen, ARNE's exquisite Ernst Plank station, and RSB's NICE Bing cars!