Weekend tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 9/10/19!

Picked up a new Red Comet (11-6047-1) this week and matching 600 series passenger set (11-80039)

  A study in changes in litho treatment from the early to the late 1920's 

  Ives 6 1/2" B&O Boxcars - early and late

Early - main litho color is tuscan, B&O letter style is bold and crisp - all smaller lettering very legible, litho accent on "Way Bill", gray roof, plain trucks with no journal boxes, logo has finer lines and lettering. Black litho lines for wood siding are thin and light.

Late - main litho color is bright red, B&O lettering plain, thinner font - most of the small lettering is almost illegible - no accent on "Way Bill", bright red enamel roof, brass journals on trucks - logo line are thicker and darker and in the circular part of the logo the font is larger. Black litho lines for wood siding are thicker and darker.

My new to me George Templin trolley with my George Templin "Mouse and Duck" hand car.

I have always like steeplecab locos, here are two models from the collection, American Flyer and Ives. They are not the greatest pieces to collect but are nice runners and are fun to use.

Have a nice weekend,   Daniel

Casa Del Fatmanos has a new sherrif in town ...

Just bought this from the UK so dont have it hands on for a good look , but was sold to me as "Bing"

With the English design I am pretty sure it was a Bassett-Lowke marketed locomotive but without looking at it closer (or better pictures) I am thinking it might be a Marklin (E3120?)... giveaway being the brake shoes on the drivers?

Either way it was at a price I wasnt going to be arguing semantics over And I have saved it from being "parted out" on a certain auction site !

Appreciate if anyone can pin it down for me ?

I have seen very similar Marklins but the box on the frame between wheel splashers is throwing me ... but pretty sure its Bass-Lowke but german made ..

Also picked up a rake of Hornby Teak Sided Litho wagons

As well as more Triang Minic ... this time in two seperate auctions a world apart ..

Here in Australia I got a Dairy Tanker rear end

And over in the U.K. I found the prime mover for it ... with the added bonus of each of the parts missing the other I lucked out the combined spend was much less than if they were together .. so WIN!

To finish off a good week of collecting I also got 2 Hornby Southern Milk Wagons ... Southern is the most limited railway done by Hornby and can be harder to find esp in good nick

Le Rapide made the best detailed French NORD Super-Pacific toy locomotive. Like the JEP version it is a true Pacific and not an Atlantic as the Hornby is, but, as normal with Le Rapide, it is made for 0 gauge track but has a size which is more like S (1:64). The one I found this week has had some restoration done to it. A previous owner added a wrong type of front bogie with outside frame. Amazingly for the period it was made (1930) it has quite complete valve gear rodding; it is an early high voltage version.

This locomotive and many other model Pacific type locomotives from continental Europe are shown in a new e-book I made, which can be read or downloaded for free here: http://sncf231e.nl/pacificseu/

Regards

Fred

Getting the "Image not found" tag here  Fred ?   @sncf231e

Fatman posted:

Getting the "Image not found" tag here  Fred ?   @sncf231e

Better now?

And all images are of course in the e-book 

Regards

Fred

sncf231e posted:

Fatman posted:

Getting the "Image not found" tag here  Fred ?   @sncf231e

Better now?

And all images are of course in the e-book 

Regards

Fred

And of course I am going to download your fabulous new book as well lol !

FRED: Very NICE NORD 2-3-1! DANIEL: hard to beat that Ives 3241 - those Ives diecast frame NYC electrics are charmers!

A new O gauge arrival. a 4-volt Marklin V3120 loco, Prior to buying this I didn't realize there were 4 volt trains. There is an excellent page on the Marklin V3120 here: http://www.alte-spur-0.de/maer...g_gruen_1_frontlampe. Any input on when this one may have been made would be welcome; comparing it to other photos it has a different pantograph and an extra air hose (or perhaps a vacuum hose) piece on the ends, although I've also found a few images out there of this same configuration. I got a scare when this one arrived- the rigid brass pantograph had been nearly flattened in shipping, however with application of heat (and patience) I was able to straighten it. 

Nice little steeple cab loco John,

If you look at the color of the lightning on Marklin engines it will gave you the color code for voltage, 4V is green, 20V is red and high voltage is gold. I have used  a 20v transformer with 4V and 6V motors, not at full speed and only during a short time it works.

Daniel

JOHN: VERY nice engine! ☺