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Some time ago I bought a Fournereau passenger car that was in a very bad state. Lots of rust and paint damage. Fournereau is a French model-train maker family who followed up Marescot and made trains from the thirties until the sixties. They started the French model railway magazine Loco Revue and as far as I know someone of the Fournereau family is still connected with this magazine.

Recently I finished restoring, repainting and re-lettering the passenger car:

The Fournereau tredemark (JF) was still present on the car and I covered that while repainting:

 

This trademark was used between 1932 and 1942 according to the book on Fournereau: Fournereau book

And here the car is added to my Marescot/Founereau train running in the garden:

Regards

Fred

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These arrived this week. Working on my collection of 120 series Ives cars.

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I really like the 125 box cars! I missed out on a Frisco car earlier this year, because I didn't know what it was worth at the time. I liked it, but didn't realize how much I had to bid. I'm learning that it pays to do the research and narrow my collecting focus.

George

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Nice restoration Fred, your car looks nice.

Not tinplate today but brassplate.....  Last sunday at a train show in France I had the opportunity to buy that lovely little steam loco in 3 rail O gauge. More coarse scale model than a scale version.
It has been made by a tallented builder and runs great, not powerfull as it is a small engine, and will not pull many cars but as i don't have any from the same period... not a problem.
Unfortunately the seller didn't know the name of the maker, just that it has been made in the 60's 70's.
It is a good representation of the firsts steam engines around 1840-50, i didn't yet have the time to search to what model may have inspired the manufacturer but i have ever seen drawings of similar ones.
Anyway a nice looking piece that maybe will have a new coat of paint in the future and more nice spoked wheels on the front bogie.

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Have a great tinplate weekend, Daniel

 

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Been awhile since I posted. Summer activities keeping me extra busy this year.

Anyway, it's been a few weeks, but there were some posts of tinplate coal trains and I remarked that we needed one from Marx. I rounded up an assortment of Marx tin that looks like it could haul coal. The Norfolk and Western is my favorite coal hauler, but I don't have an N&W in Marx, so I went with the next closest thing, the Nickel Plate

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Yeah, I know coal usually ships in hoppers, but the big gondola is marked C&O, which is well know for hauling coal, and I needed it's plastic tilt couplers so I could get the little NP hopper in the train!  lol

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My O gauge Bing 2-B-2 electric outline locomotive (number unknown) pulling a set of American Flyer Columbia coaches. Taken during a visit to John Pincus's layout last night. This same basic type of engine appears to have been made in several variations by Bing, in both O gauge and 1 gauge. Is anyone aware of any online or printed listings of Bing locomotives of the prewar period?

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John Smatlak posted:

My O gauge Bing 2-B-2 electric outline locomotive (number unknown) pulling a set of American Flyer Columbia coaches. Taken during a visit to John Pincus's layout last night. This same basic type of engine appears to have been made in several variations by Bing, in both O gauge and 1 gauge. Is anyone aware of any online or printed listings of Bing locomotives of the prewar period?

Bing loco w Flyer Columbia cars

Some good info here John, https://www.historytoy.com/toy...way-Locomotives-Bing

Steve

John Smatlak posted:

My O gauge Bing 2-B-2 electric outline locomotive (number unknown) pulling a set of American Flyer Columbia coaches. Taken during a visit to John Pincus's layout last night. This same basic type of engine appears to have been made in several variations by Bing, in both O gauge and 1 gauge. Is anyone aware of any online or printed listings of Bing locomotives of the prewar period?

Bing loco w Flyer Columbia cars

that is a beauty! I want one.

Steamer posted:

started the transformation of the gondola

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need to pick up some coupler trucks and it's done.

Got the 817 finished, and need some piecey parts for the 815.

 

 

Pretty cool. Pretty neat how the manufacturers would use the same shell on both 4 and 8 wheel frames.

 

Now what mischief have you in store for the four wheel frames?  LOL

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French Hornby mail car

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Hafner hopper

13788 green gondola

Flyer X-1128 Texaco tanker

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Bing 250 Observation car (also found a 501 baggage and to 210 coaches to add to it)

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and a British Marx 1312 tender for the 3978 shell I will be motorizing.

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I actually found two of these but one had been stripped and primered.

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Steamer posted:

nothing yet...they have been donors of couplers,journal boxes,brake stands. Maybe you could come up with something? you've been quiet on the projects front lately....

My latest project has been off topic. Building a bicycle from parts and other odds and ends. It does have tin fenders though...  

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