Weekend tinplate photos/videos 10/19/17!!

Good idea Chris.

Steve

Munier was a small French family business making 0 gauge trains in the fifties; Daniel introduced them here some months ago: Munier by Daniel. They made only a small range: a couple of different locomotive types and some coaches. Most items were available as kit (to be constructed and painted and lettered) or ready-to-run. The coaches were made in full lenght and in shortened versions. 
Last week I saw on German ebay some coaches which clearly were Munier full lenght coaches. 
A Wagon-Lits restaurant and sleeper and an SNCF DEV type coach. These are products between tinplate and scale. All made of metal and for 3-rail running, but scale sized and thus very long at 55cm. The coaches have complete interiors, also made of metal. A previous owner did add interior lights. The green DEV coach does not have lettering, so that is a next project. 

I combined the three Munier coaches in a train with a fine-scale Hübner for Fulgurex postal van and the 3-rail Merkur French 140C as an engine for this in the video I made.

Regards

Fred

This week i got at an auction in France a nice lionel 400e which is very uncomon here. It has had smoke deflectors added to geave it a french look ...... I removed them and, as they where fixed using the screws of the smoke box there is no damage. It is a gun metal with copper engine and it has a chugger, i think it is 1934 production ?   

First picture from the auction site

And now at home, in need of a serious cleaning. As you can see there is a major damage to the smoke box door, the zamack is totally destroyed. Do you think that an MTH part could be used for replacement ? It seems that they are the only repro parts availables.... I am not at all a fan of repro but i think that this time i will have to make an exception to save that beauty. Any help appreciated.

Thanks for your help and have a great tinplate weekend and maybe some York goodies to show us ....

Daniel

I dunno Daniel..I kinda like the look of the smoke deflectors....nice find for sure.

 I bought this 2758 off a forum member and should be here soon. It'll fit in with my 2458 and other early Postwar cars.

Here are two Ives passenger cars for my offering this week.

This is the 133 Parlor Car

and the 134 Observation Car

These are cars from the Blue Racer set available in 1928.  Ives called the color Cadet Blue.

As with most of my sets I am assembling it piece by piece. The set came with a #3260 electric outline engine which is really a Lionel #248 in disguise.  I am still looking for that engine. Until that time I have matched the cars up with a spare Ives tender and smaller American Flyer steam engine.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Halloween is almost here. Time to charge the batteries on the Olympian 

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Here are two Ives passenger cars for my offering this week.

This is the 133 Parlor Car

and the 134 Observation Car

These are cars from the Blue Racer set available in 1928.  Ives called the color Cadet Blue.

As with most of my sets I am assembling it piece by piece. The set came with a #3260 electric outline engine which is really a Lionel #248 in disguise.  I am still looking for that engine. Until that time I have matched the cars up with a spare Ives tender and smaller American Flyer steam engine.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

 

 

Nice little curly Q AF loco too.

this week, my 392E arrived. Its primary duty is to pull the Stephen Girard 3 car set.

Jim O'C posted:

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

 

Nice little curly Q AF loco too.

Thanks Jim,

As far as I know, and my research has turned up, these Type XX steam engines never came with a Curly Q (sheet metal knuckle) coupler on the front.  It appears to be original factory installed, so I think it is just an undocumented variation.  Has anyone else seen a Type XX like this or have one?

Greg 

Both curly-q's and type XX locos were offered in 1938, so I suppose it is possible. The type XX were used as dummies in the double header sets and followed a powered type X w tender. I have seen 1939 double headers but they used T&S couplers.

Picked up this Flyer 480 at York this morning:

Even had its original box (in rough shape). 1940-41 production, am I right?

PD

Here's something of which I'm very proud.  It's my father's Lionel bronze streamliner 1689E loco that he received as a present as a boy in 1938.  It's in excellent condition.

Chris Lonero posted:

This is an inexpensive way to add sound to a tinplate car or building. It's a blue tooth speaker I picked up at Staples for $20. It's easy to sink it with your phone and you can run any music or sound effects from YouTube Satellite radio ect.   Let's see your tinplate!!

What a brilliant idea.  I'm rushing out to buy one now to add to a particular theme!

this was unexpected...we were out picking up some lumber for a small deck repair project that has morphed into two day project that isn't done yet. The Boss wanted to stop at the local antique mall to look for a door for one of our bedrooms. While there I spotted there....the Marx tower was $12 on sale for $9 (another dealer there has been sitting one one for $38. The Tootsie Toy truck was $5,the Cabin Car $24, but they knocked $4 off just because I looked at it, a Marx slope back tender I can use for my 1656 for $10.

pd posted:

Picked up this Flyer 480 at York this morning:

Even had its original box (in rough shape). 1940-41 production, am I right?

PD

Nice find PD. It looks like new.  Not bad for something almost 80 years old.  You are spot on with the date.  It was first produced in 1940.

Greg

Thanks Greg. The paint is pretty nice but there's a considerable amount of surface rust on the hand-rails and the frame-ends. All in all a good addition...now I need to find a nice 476 gondola and I'm set.

1940...it's seen a lot over the years.

Paul

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

pd posted:

Picked up this Flyer 480 at York this morning:

Even had its original box (in rough shape). 1940-41 production, am I right?

PD

Nice find PD. It looks like new.  Not bad for something almost 80 years old.  You are spot on with the date.  It was first produced in 1940.

Greg

Great minds think alike PD.  I'm thrilled to have picked up this Lionel 1680 Shell tank car on eBay recently.  It came from a very helpful couple who run an antiques business.  It has absolutely no rust, so it must have been stored in a dry environment.  Just a few very minor scratches that are hard to see.  Otherwise it's bright and shiny just like it came out of the factory yesterday - also with the box in very good condition.  I've assessed it as a type VI from 1939.

 An accidental restoration project.  Here is a 259E I picked up at the Manchester NETCA show a few weekes ago.  It looks a mess, but for $20 I figured there must be something I can do with it.  IT's missing a few parts, but the motor and E-unit work run smoothly after cleaning up the comutator and othe relectical contact surfaces.  So now I'm thinking about a complete restoration project.   -  It's in the first three photo.

So where do I get the parts ?  See on Ebay another beat up 259E with other parts missing but has what I need.  Paid to much but I have the parts.  Maybe the motor works and I can sell that.

Finally get another couple of motors and the RIGHT front ruck for only $12.50.

Hoping I'll have the restored engine to run on a display layout at the TCA Marlborough show in December.

More photos coming as restoration progresses

I picked my 259E shell for $5. Was at a train show and found a 1684 motor for $10. I had the front and rear trucks...looked to be for a 1684. and put it together. I've done several engine rebuilds from bare shells...and it would probably be cheaper just to buy a complete engine, but I have more than enough ready to run trains, so I like the hunt for parts and bringing them back.

O Gauge Guy posted:

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

pd posted:

Picked up this Flyer 480 at York this morning:

Even had its original box (in rough shape). 1940-41 production, am I right?

PD

Nice find PD. It looks like new.  Not bad for something almost 80 years old.  You are spot on with the date.  It was first produced in 1940.

Greg

Great minds think alike PD.  I'm thrilled to have picked up this Lionel 1680 Shell tank car on eBay recently.  It came from a very helpful couple who run an antiques business.  It has absolutely no rust, so it must have been stored in a dry environment.  Just a few very minor scratches that are hard to see.  Otherwise it's bright and shiny just like it came out of the factory yesterday - also with the box in very good condition.  I've assessed it as a type VI from 1939.

Looks good, mate! Another evolution from the Ives transition period. In '40/'41 they went back to Sunoco, gray paint, blackened domes and journals and lost the handrails. Looks sharp!

Steamer posted:

I picked my 259E shell for $5. Was at a train show and found a 1684 motor for $10. I had the front and rear trucks...looked to be for a 1684. and put it together. I've done several engine rebuilds from bare shells...and it would probably be cheaper just to buy a complete engine, but I have more than enough ready to run trains, so I like the hunt for parts and bringing them back.

 

Thanks for that input Dave.  I'd like to share experiences as I move ahead on my 259e restoration.  I've reduced mine to kit form now.  I'll start a new topic on 259E restoration.  May take me a day or two to do that as I'm going to first see what has already been said on this and other forums.