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Approaching a hundred years old, a Hornby clockwork loco made for the French market in PLM livery. Hornby reused the British LMS loco tender to make a French model by just changing the company name, even the 444 wheels configuration has been kept, in French it should have been 222 to look more realistic, but it’s a toy. The two little gondolas are the nuts and bolts type that match the loco and also of British origin with French markings.

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The Britsh model,

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Have a nice tinplate weekend,  Daniel

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Some weeks ago I presented here a tinplate gauge 1 Märklin postal car. I combined it with a Märklin high voltage (starkstrom) locomotive and some Märklin and Bing cars to have a run in the garden:

My Variac to control this train had a short, so I tried it with an LGB DC transformer and it runs very quietly (a bit slow).

Regards

Fred

I have been reading on various threads that the craft store Michael's has a variety of tin buildings for sale that might go with O gauge trains.  I stopped in at the local Michael's today and looked them over.  I purchased two items. Most of  the buildings are unpainted metal.  I chose one that looks like it could be some kind of industrial building.

 

This is the water tower that they had available.  There was a windmill too but it had a plastic tail fin and the bladed wheel was also plastic; so I passed on that.

I think they look pretty good together.

And here they are with an O gauge American Flyer engine.

Most of the buildings are unpainted.  You can find the entire assortment on their website.  I believe they are 40% off in my local store through 11/3.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

I have been reading on various threads that the craft store Michael's has a variety of tin buildings for sale that might go with O gauge trains.  I stopped in at the local Michael's today and looked them over.  I purchased two items. Most of  the buildings are unpainted metal.  I chose one that looks like it could be some kind of industrial building.

 

This is the water tower that they had available.  There was a windmill too but it had a plastic tail fin and the bladed wheel was also plastic; so I passed on that.

I think they look pretty good together.

And here they are with an O gauge American Flyer engine.

Most of the buildings are unpainted.  You can find the entire assortment on their website.  I believe they are 40% off in my local store through 11/3.

Have a Great Tinplate Weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

I wonder if these would be large enough for Standard Gauge? I guess the wife gets to go to Michael's tomorrow. I like that industrial building. I've painted some of their metal buildings before and they come out looking pretty good.

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George S posted:

I picked this up on the Bay for a good price to go with my AF litho collection. It needs some restoration, but the litho is in pretty good shape. It’s missing one coupler and has an Ives on one side. Somebody also started painting it with some ugly blue color. That will need to be stripped.

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George

With some elbow grease, oven cleaner and Goof Off, I was able to get the ugly paint off the dome, end caps and frame. It looks like I got the original color back without repainting, but I will take feedback because I am not too sure. Now I just need couplers.

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George S posted:
George S posted:

I picked this up on the Bay for a good price to go with my AF litho collection. It needs some restoration, but the litho is in pretty good shape. It’s missing one coupler and has an Ives on one side. Somebody also started painting it with some ugly blue color. That will need to be stripped.

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George

With some elbow grease, oven cleaner and Goof Off, I was able to get the ugly paint off the dome, end caps and frame. It looks like I got the original color back without repainting, but I will take feedback because I am not too sure. Now I just need couplers.

15CA13F8-F8D1-4B77-9213-77C0AE6D6C47F2A9F4AE-225F-46AD-B764-34257224A8A9George 

Personally I like the way it looks as is.

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