Weekend tinplate photos/videos 1/26/18!

terry hudon posted:

Jim Z posted:

Thunderstorm!  The Broadway Limited Thunder and Lightning strips are taped to the top of passenger station and freight shed.  I cut a rectangular hole in the train table to lower the 155 freight shed. Otherwise it overpowered the station.u

 

 

 

 

love the Shasta ,and the legionsnaires set cars,i don't run my as offen as I should

Fantastic video. Hope the smoke detectors weren't activated.

Lewrail

Steamer posted:

got 812 all cleaned up and being moved to the yard.

this got me to thinking.....do you guys like nice and shiny, cheap (usually means a little on the rough side)  or? Maybe I spend too much time on the floor looking thru junk boxes, but I like stuff on the rough side. I picture Christmas Morning, and little Gomez Addams ripping open his presents, and doing what JL meant to be done with his trains. All the scratches, dings, etc shoe me that this train was enjoyed.My 812 cost a whole $11. The paint is dull, a tad bit of surface rust , but for 80 years old it looks great to me.I'm looking at 813 Cattle Cars , and they are mostly in the same price range, but I kinda like the rough looking car. And there is only a few dollars difference in the price.

 

 

I like both Dave. Do I have to choose? 

George

I'm not sure this counts for tinplate, but it is aluminum. Only a tinplate guy though would work as hard as I did today to remove detailed interiors. This is a Lionel 6-39137. I had to have a full vista dome car to match with my Santa Fe aluminum passenger car set. Lionel never made this car with window silhouettes. So, that was my job today. I removed the detail interiors and made my own window silhouettes. This is completely reversible, because I constructed inserts that sit inside the clear plastic windows. For the picture, I illuminated the car with back lighting since I am not near my layout. The car will join the other aluminum cars pulled behind my repowered Marx 21 tin A-A engine set.

This is the second level detail that I removed. 

I left the first level detail in place, but it is hidden behind the frosted silhouetted windows.

George

George S posted:

Steamer posted:

got 812 all cleaned up and being moved to the yard.

this got me to thinking.....do you guys like nice and shiny, cheap (usually means a little on the rough side)  or? Maybe I spend too much time on the floor looking thru junk boxes, but I like stuff on the rough side. I picture Christmas Morning, and little Gomez Addams ripping open his presents, and doing what JL meant to be done with his trains. All the scratches, dings, etc shoe me that this train was enjoyed.My 812 cost a whole $11. The paint is dull, a tad bit of surface rust , but for 80 years old it looks great to me.I'm looking at 813 Cattle Cars , and they are mostly in the same price range, but I kinda like the rough looking car. And there is only a few dollars difference in the price.

 

 

I like both Dave. Do I have to choose? 

George

nope! you pick what ever makes YOU happy...I do.

Steamer posted:

got 812 all cleaned up and being moved to the yard.

this got me to thinking.....do you guys like nice and shiny, cheap (usually means a little on the rough side)  or? Maybe I spend too much time on the floor looking thru junk boxes, but I like stuff on the rough side. I picture Christmas Morning, and little Gomez Addams ripping open his presents, and doing what JL meant to be done with his trains. All the scratches, dings, etc shoe me that this train was enjoyed.My 812 cost a whole $11. The paint is dull, a tad bit of surface rust , but for 80 years old it looks great to me.I'm looking at 813 Cattle Cars , and they are mostly in the same price range, but I kinda like the rough looking car. And there is only a few dollars difference in the price.

 

 

Dave, Another one of my prewar "likes" (I can't say its an addiction yet!) are the colorful prewar Lionel gondolas. I think yours looks perfectly fine. 

Sometimes I wonder if you, Dennis and I are related. We seem to have some similar tastes. 

I had a train show (as a vendor) today. Came back with another prewar Lionel PRR #2357X cabin car. I'm not immune from everything! 

Tom 

2357x?

Tom I'm sure you meant a Prewar N5.......or maybe a 2657?

and you may be right about the relationship,Dad was an over the road trucker....

Steamer posted:

2357x?

Tom I'm sure you meant a Prewar N5.......or maybe a 2657?

 

and you may be right about the relationship,Dad was an over the road trucker....

Sorry, big fingers and little sleep (got up at 4:30 today)...should have been 2757X.

Tom 

well let's see it!

Took the photo using my laptop...

Tom 

personally I never saw the appeal in those Cabin Cars myself....

a little unbalanced... might need a couple more Tuscan ones....

Dave, Maybe it is the "Monk" (TV show) in me...yes, I think you need to balance out your Tuscan Red part of your collection. 

Tom 

PS-Dave, I would be interested in a couple of close-ups when you have time (next week is fine) of the loads you have in your gondolas. You may have mentioned them before, but I don't remember. They look like the PRR containers that I believe were used for Less-Than-Carload lots as seen in The Keystone fairly recently (Volume 45, #2 from 2012). 

Tom 

MNCW posted:

Dave, Maybe it is the "Monk" (TV show) in me...yes, I think you need to balance out your Tuscan Red part of your collection. 

Tom 

see last line of my previous post....better clean your glasses Monk......and I do need more Tuscan Cabin Cars...

Steamer posted:

MNCW posted:

Dave, Maybe it is the "Monk" (TV show) in me...yes, I think you need to balance out your Tuscan Red part of your collection. 

Tom 

see last ;ine of my previous post....better clean your glasses Monk......

Yes...did not notice at first. Still suffering from sleep depravation. 

picked these four up at one of my first shows. Has a K inside the bottom, circled by Made In The United States of America,

Thanks. The article in The Keystone is a reprint from the Pennsylvania Railroad announcement of its new LCL service in April 1929.

The ones in the article have rounded roofs and no keystone, just printed PRR initials. 

Interesting service. They had weatherstripping to keep the contents dry and outside dimensions were 7 feet wide, 9 feet long and 8 feet high. 

Tom 

A couple of baggage dudes from the 2000 TTOS Queen Mary Natl Convention. I also have the baggage cart. Made by Pride Lines.

Steve

yesterday was the Pittsburgh area ft pitt tca show,i had a truly good day,,hey I was with trains and friends,many people stopped by my tables ,and so kindly left cash,thanks !!.I never really buy anything at the meets,howeverrrrrrrrrrrr.this little beauty somehow found it's way to my home,i saw it last show ,and the guy was right  next to me this show,so ,bingo,,will check it out later,its a repaint,good job,has the whistle,i believe they made some with the dull finish,

Steamer posted:

picked these four up at one of my first shows. Has a K inside the bottom, circled by Made In The United States of America,

K-Line from Marx molds.

Steve

thanks Steve...I always figured they were K Line even though it didn't say "Line"...didn't realize the Marx connection.

Here’s The Ives 125’s big brother.

steve

  Here is a bootleg tape someone took of my 385E toting some tankers with the chugger on high and whistling away.  I found this on you tube, some outfit named lazy boy ent. or something caught my 385E in action and bootlegged it so I can't speak for the quality of the video.  It sounds pretty cool though.  Cheers.

408E on freight duty

https://youtu.be/87DqB_I4O4c

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

408E on freight duty

https://youtu.be/87DqB_I4O4c

looks like the cmt testing ground !

Beautiful freight train action.  Ten nice cars and no caboose!  Need some lights on the rear end.  

Just kidding.  I'm sure you're working on it.  That's a lot of real nice stuff.  Bravo!

William 1 posted:

Beautiful freight train action.  Ten nice cars and no caboose!  Need some lights on the rear end.  

Just kidding.  I'm sure you're working on it.  That's a lot of real nice stuff.  Bravo!

CMT is making me a SP Caboose.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

William 1 posted:

Beautiful freight train action.  Ten nice cars and no caboose!  Need some lights on the rear end.  

Just kidding.  I'm sure you're working on it.  That's a lot of real nice stuff.  Bravo!

CMT is making me a SP Caboose.

Steve

spoiled brat

terry hudon posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

William 1 posted:

Beautiful freight train action.  Ten nice cars and no caboose!  Need some lights on the rear end.  

Just kidding.  I'm sure you're working on it.  That's a lot of real nice stuff.  Bravo!

CMT is making me a SP Caboose.

Steve

spoiled brat

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

408E on freight duty

https://youtu.be/87DqB_I4O4c

Very nice, but on the front of the engine the green light should be on the starboard side. Arrg!

I knew that would keep the pot stirred.  Nothing better than a big oversized standard gauge caboose.  They are always the biggest car for some reason.  Gotta keep the boots warm I guess.  Beautiful, classic pieces all over the layout.  I like it!

Steamer,

   Dave I do believe you will find this Cabin Caboose appealing.  It's the right color.

Made in the Galeton, Pa Railroad/Lumber yard in the 1800's.  On display in Coudersport, Pa along Rt #6.  It's the real deal from the WAG RR, repainted for C & PA years later.

One just like it my GreatGrandfather had the Logging Crane, on his work Train sit right in his back yard along Pine Creek, in Galeton, Pa after the mountain was completely logged.  He purchased it for $10.00.  My mother and her sisters used it as a Play House when they were girls.  

Some 50+ years later my Grandfather and my Father Burned the old rotted out Wood Side Cabin Caboose and sold the Trucks & Couplers back to the Rail Road for $10.00.  My mom liked to think they were on this particular remade Cabin Caboose, on display in Coudersport, Pa.

PCRR/Dave

Sorry, I can't wait two hours even to post this video of my beloved 384 who has come back home to rescue my somewhat crestfallen railroad empire.  This girl doesn't chug, doesn't hoot, and doesn't sport a stripe, but she'll pull down a house if you put a chain on it.  And she's pulling a pretty nice string of brown baby states right now.  It's just a beautiful thing.  She's back home.  I missed you girl.

William1,

   Great stuff!

PCRR/Dave

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Steamer,

   Dave I do believe you will find this Cabin Caboose appealing.  It's the right color.

Made in the Galeton, Pa Railroad/Lumber yard in the 1800's.  On display in Coudersport, Pa along Rt #6.  It's the real deal from the WAG RR, repainted for C & PA years later.

One just like it my GreatGrandfather had the Logging Crane, on his work Train sit right in his back yard along Pine Creek, in Galeton, Pa after the mountain was completely logged.  He purchased it for $10.00.  My mother and her sisters used it as a Play House when they were girls.  

Some 50+ years later my Grandfather and my Father Burned the old rotted out Wood Side Cabin Caboose and sold the Trucks & Couplers back to the Rail Road for $10.00.  My mom liked to think they were on this particular remade Cabin Caboose, on display in Coudersport, Pa.

PCRR/Dave

great story Dave!

Rob English posted:

terry hudon posted:

I would have loved to see one in standard gauge,,,i would pass out

I have seen one, custom made of course. I tried to buy it but it went for too much moolah...It was SUPER cool!

Hojak has a Std Gauge Borden's car made by John Harmon.

Steve

I added a Standard Gauge test track to my work bench.

Craig,

   Great set up for the programming track hay, give my 1925 Crescent Phone back when you are done with it.  Seriously I have one just like it!

PCRR/Dave

Dave,

Thanks, been meaning to setup the test track for awhile, finaly got around to it this weekend.

I have been to several train friend’s homes, we all have that phone!

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Rob English posted:

terry hudon posted:

I would have loved to see one in standard gauge,,,i would pass out

I have seen one, custom made of course. I tried to buy it but it went for too much moolah...It was SUPER cool!

Hojak has a Std Gauge Borden's car made by John Harmon.

Steve

Thats probably it.... i chickened out on one on ebay. it went for $500 !