Weekend tinplate photos/videos 3/15/19!

Many train manufacturers have offered small people in their accessories range but JEP has never offer any.

This week I have added some to the big JEP station, they are all lead and mainly from a small french manufacturer MDM from the fifties, not sure about the dog which is certainly from Great Britain....

And another piece from BING, a small ringling station from the thirties, it can be used either with O and 1 gauge, original key. A curiosity is that there is no manufacturer marks on it despite it is definitely BING.

Have a nice tinplate weekend,   Daniel

Many of the larger toy and model manufacturers made different sized series of 0-gauge trains. Some of the tinplate toy manufacturers had also made metal pots and pans and the story goes that, since these were made indifferent sizes, this influenced them to also make their trains in different sizes as you can see in the picture below with 3 sizes of JEP Pullman cars (from left to right 15, 20 and 24 cm long). Of course, the different sized trains were made for the different budgets of the parents buying a train for their boy.

Not only the French company JEP, but also the German companies Märklin and Bing are known to have been involved in the manufacturing of household items.

The picture is from an e-book I made on the history of Gauge and Scale for Toy and Model Trains. The book can be downloaded for free here: http://sncf231e.nl/gauge-and-scale/

Regards

Fred

colorful consists by Hafner Trains...

Just bits and bobs this week

A nice double signal

A well loved bridge ( German?) Not in hand so I cant check for marks lol ...

And a non-running little Bing Tabletop loco ... needs drive gear replaced , but it came with the tender and finescale spares so was worth grabbing ( I have a bit of an unfulfilled as yet lust for these little sets ... but hard to come by at my wallets limit , so its hunt n stalk lol!  )

Just amazing how they packed so much into such tiny loco's at the time ..

Oh and if anyone has rolling stock for the Bing Table Railway they dont want huge money for ... Hit me up ! LOL!

A ride behind the crew of Marklin's "Der Adler", The Eagle,  (1985 version) on the Elevated.

Jim. Congratulations for your wonderfull layout. Great display of accessories and trains and the Santheon elevated railway is a pure work of art, he has a great sens of art display , perfect size and colors. 

Even in Europe such à nice layout is far from being common.

Daniel 

Lionel  Corp 390 pulling a slow freight past the diner.

When I started collecting Marklin tinplate I had a vision of what it could look like once I was able to put it all together. I’m still a ways off (especially since I don’t have a room yet), but so far I am not disappointed. Now, I just need to come to grips with off-loading the other things I’ve collected and love, but will probably never see the light of day again.

Once again, another great Friday of photos and videos.

Always enjoy Tinplate Friday. Been a long time since I posted anything. Here is my small collection of Modern Marx Freight Cars. The Domino Sugar Hopper is my latest addition.

Dean

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Jim. Congratulations for your wonderfull layout. Great display of accessories and trains and the Santheon elevated railway is a pure work of art, he has a great sens of art display , perfect size and colors. 

Even in Europe such à nice layout is far from being common.

Daniel 

Thanks, Daniel! The elevated station and loop took over a year from concept to delivery and setup, but it was worth the wait. The total layout redesign aims to capture some of the charm of European tinplate. I am very pleased with the look of it. Best wishes,

Jim

Picked up a pair of Austrian Gnadler coaches this week. One "bier" boxcar and one passenger coach. 4-wheel O-gauge but , in keeping with Fred's size post from earlier, really large, similar in stature to Dorfan pullmans or Unique 7-inch cars. They use inverted tab and slot connectors that should mesh with Bub or Mettoy inverted couplers. The hunt continues. 

MR. Kelly-Evans: I award you this week's prize for both that super-splendid elevated railway and that equally awesome O gauge Der Adler! Your layout should be a feature in the TCA Quarterly! Too cool for words alone! BRAVO!

DANIEL: LOVE those MDM figures! I assume they are O scale in size?

Scott Smith

Tinplate Art posted:

DANIEL: LOVE those MDM figures! I assume they are O scale in size?

ART, yes they are O gauhe hand painted models.

Tinplate Art posted:

MR. Kelly-Evans: I award you this week's prize for both that super-splendid elevated railway and that equally awesome O gauge Der Adler! Your layout should be a feature in the TCA Quarterly! Too cool for words alone! BRAVO!

Thanks, Art. The Adler is actually gauge 1, a small model to be sure, but 1 gauge none the less. 

JIM: THANK YOU for that gauge correction as I was not sure, and, should have asked. ☺

American Flyer Set M13 from 1915/1916

Catalog Illustration

The set with lithographed wood sided Northwestern passenger cars

PhillyChris posted:

 

When I started collecting Marklin tinplate I had a vision of what it could look like once I was able to put it all together. I’m still a ways off (especially since I don’t have a room yet), but so far I am not disappointed. Now, I just need to come to grips with off-loading the other things I’ve collected and love, but will probably never see the light of day again.

Once again, another great Friday of photos and videos.

I really like this engine and caboose !

 If you have time please post more photos of the locomotive 🚂!