Weekend tinplate photos/videos 5/5/17 !

I started a new project today.  Started stretching a Commodore Vanderbilt.  Started with the tender.  It still needs some finishing, but you get the idea.  It's about the length of a 2226W tender now.

handyandy posted:

Well, it finally happened. Diseasels have finally made it to my railroad.

Went to a train show today and picked up a dirty but not too rusty set of Marx 6000 "F" units with matching caboose. Motor is locked up, but it does growl and the light works when the power is on.

say it isn't so!

I did that with my 221's tender..need to wrap it up too.Looks good Dennis.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

Several years ago I stumbled across an Estate Sale being run by a House Sale Service.  It literally had hundreds of trains on the walls and in a room added to the house to be a train room.  I found some nice things to add to my collection, including some very nice Ives pieces and some Lionel too.  I made one impulse purchase just because it was cute and I recognized the names on it: Hornby and Meccano.

 

I am hoping that someone who reads this thread or participates by posting can help me identify this cute set.

Greg   

Northwoods Flyer

 

Greg,

This was one of the latest Hornby 0 gauge offerings made from 1954 till 1968. This type was generally catalogued as M0 however Hornby changed their numbering in the end and this is a No. 20 set. Hornby made these trains with either two coaches or two freight cars (gondolas). The first examples of these small trains were made by Hornby in 1930; these types were not compatible with the larger Hornby trains but ran on the same gauge. Here are some boxed examples:

On your pictures you seem to have the tender the wrong way round

Regards

Fred

Hello Greg,

Nice little Hornby set, i have no more to add after Fred's post which is totally right. As you seem to enjoy old original catalogs with your sets i enclosed a pdf. file with the british Hornby catalog for 1958 with your set illustrated.  Also the servicing manual for the loco.

Unfortunately i don't have a spare key for this model but if you look on ebay in Great Britain you can easily find the correct one.

Daniel

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

 

Unfortunately it came without its key.  I know that it runs.  It was fully wound when I bought it and I did run it on my O gauge track at home. I'd like to know how to get a key for it.

 

 

Greg   

Northwoods Flyer

 

Greg,

This needs a very small key, 3/32 inch (2.4 mm); I have only one original myself. See however this solution for all your winding problems:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Pron...d:g:7mwAAOxy66pRx3Ao

This next one is a bit expensive, but looks to be the correct type (but should be measured first):

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HORN...5:g:lrQAAOSwtGlZC39O

Regards

Fred

Pete, Daniel, and Fred;

Thank you very much for the wealth of information that you provided on my little set.  Its great to see that we have an international gathering here with fantastic resources and information about tinplate trains. Most of all I appreciate the willingness of all participants to share their knowledge and experience

Fred,

I warned you that I knew very little about Hornby, but how embarrassing to get the tender backwards.     Here is another photo just to show I do learn something new all the time from this thread.

Thank you too for pointing me to a source for a key.  I will be ordering a set of those star keys. I fear however that I am on a slippery slope now.  This can only mean hunting for more clockwork engines.  Of course some of my American Flyer clockworks are missing their keys too.    I enjoy your postings and your videos.  Posting videos is on my list of things to learn.

Daniel,

Thank you for posting the catalog and the servicing diagrams.  I do enjoy posting documentation for the trains that I have in my collection and now I have an aid to finding more Hornby.    Your postings are always interesting and I find myself thinking ..."I'd like one of those too."

I am sure that it is obvious that I like collecting variations of my beloved American Flyer trains.

Did I mention that I have a variation for this Hornby set too?

I told you I was on a slippery slope.

Have a great rest of your Tinplate Weekend

Greg

Greg, be carefull, Hornby trains are very adictives .... As American Flyer could be for me....

You begin with a set and finish with a storage room where it is sometime difficult to find what you are searching for .....

And it is just a small part of the disaster ......

Daniel

I have that problem Daniel, only I have it with projects   Every shoebox is full of a loco and tender, or a set of passenger cars, all tinplate and most all in pieces waiting for me.... Sometimes I think I collect projects instead of trains.

Steamer posted:

handyandy posted:

Well, it finally happened. Diseasels have finally made it to my railroad.

Went to a train show today and picked up a dirty but not too rusty set of Marx 6000 "F" units with matching caboose. Motor is locked up, but it does growl and the light works when the power is on.

say it isn't so!

I'm really fighting the urge to 'bash the powered unit into a tinplate styled McKeen car. Since the litho is still pretty good and I have the dummy and caboose to match I will wait until I find a junkier loco to kitbash.

Frank

Here are a few pics of the white version of the switch tower.

Dean

Thank you very much for your time. If you know anyone selling one, could you let me know. 

Frank

Dennis Holler posted:

I have that problem Daniel, only I have it with projects   Every shoebox is full of a loco and tender, or a set of passenger cars, all tinplate and most all in pieces waiting for me.... Sometimes I think I collect projects instead of trains.

that's quite the problem Dennis...I've been doing some of the same...I've got more than enough trains that are ready to go, so I've been on the hunt for projects.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Some tinplate palm trees should be a good fit for summer. Still have a few extras to sell.

Steve

I'm interested in some palm trees how much are they?

Nick from Dayton Ohio posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Some tinplate palm trees should be a good fit for summer. Still have a few extras to sell.

Steve

I'm interested in some palm trees how much are they?

$15.00 for a pair, $25.00 for two pairs.

steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Nick from Dayton Ohio posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Some tinplate palm trees should be a good fit for summer. Still have a few extras to sell.

Steve

I'm interested in some palm trees how much are they?

$15.00 for a pair, $25.00 for two pairs.

 

steve

Ok cool. How do we make this happen?

I just found some pictures of my Fathers 261 Lionel running around the Christmas tree in 1934,  one from 1968 and some recent photos on my layout. It still runs great and is in it's original condition. The cars have been restored.

I'm interested in some palm trees how much are they?

$15.00 for a pair, $25.00 for two pairs.

 

steve

Ok cool. How do we make this happen?

Nick, I don't see your e-mail info in your profile. Contact me at gigeastman@hotmail.com so we can continue this off the forum.

Steve

Frank Ranzino posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Some tinplate palm trees should be a good fit for summer. Still have a few extras to sell.

Steve

Hey, I love the palm trees but I'm interested in the little battery operating train station on the side.  I had one when I was a little kid and I believe it was the power supply for an HO train.  Do you know where I could buy one of these and who makes it?  Frank  (frank.ranzino@gmail.com)

Frank, pulled mine off the layout to dust today. The is a sticker that says ROSKO Tested, but it has the TN trademark in litho on the building. TN is for Nomura Toys.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Frank Ranzino posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Some tinplate palm trees should be a good fit for summer. Still have a few extras to sell.

Steve

Hey, I love the palm trees but I'm interested in the little battery operating train station on the side.  I had one when I was a little kid and I believe it was the power supply for an HO train.  Do you know where I could buy one of these and who makes it?  Frank  (frank.ranzino@gmail.com)

Frank, pulled mine off the layout to dust today. The is a sticker that says ROSKO Tested, but it has the TN trademark in litho on the building. TN is for Nomura Toys.

Steve

 

Most of the TN came with the Plainville battery station and I have seen them included with Rosko and several other brands. The taller stations are harder to find than the Plainville stations. I think they will work with the Distler Santa Fe passenger sets too.

Tail End Tuesday. Daddy and Junior.

Steve

@gene maag posted:

I just found some pictures of my Fathers 261 Lionel running around the Christmas tree in 1934,  one from 1968 and some recent photos on my layout. It still runs great and is in it's original condition. The cars have been restored.

I love to see old pictures, but the two older ones you posted are quite small. Can you make them any bigger to see the details? It looks like you scanned the entire scanner bed. You should be able to just select the image with a bounding box and then set the resolution to 300dpi.

Edit: I just realized the thread is from 2017! Steve resurrected it, accidentally, maybe?

Oooops on my part. Sorry folks.

Steve

Greetings friends,

Decided to take some Hornby tinplate off the shelves and run a long freight trains.  Here are some

photos.  Lew

Lovely to see some English Hornby running in America.  The photos you shared don't show off the loco pulling them.  Is it a Hornby loco too?  I live in Australia and my 90yo Dad and I have over 1500 items of Hornby and love them all.   Dad runs Hornby tin plate track - have a look on Youtube - search for "NRBL Peterg" and you'll find some videos of the layout, the control panel, the bridges, the turntable and much more.    Dad has just released a series of videos on How to repair Hornby clockwork trains, a series on Eletric trains and one on how to Cast and Machine the Wheels.   Let me know if you would like the info.  Cheers Pete

@Dennis Holler posted:

I started a new project today.  Started stretching a Commodore Vanderbilt.  Started with the tender.  It still needs some finishing, but you get the idea.  It's about the length of a 2226W tender now.

Ha old thread resurrection time!   I remember this.  Dennis did you ever get these finished to your liking?  Last I remember seeing them the loco shell was stretched and you were working out mechanical details.

Nice to see the tinplate photos back on the main forum - I miss that, and usually don't find it in whatever the other category is.

Jim

Hi Jim @Jim Waterman  its lurking at the photos section https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...te-photos-and-videos

unfortunately this is a long dead thread that was resurrected... but we are still cluttering up the place in our "prison"

@PeteDownUnder  feel free to pop over and you will see out megathread on all things tinplatey and lubberlee !

I would also be interested in your dads videos , I subscribed to his channel , but the vids you mention were not for public viewing or somewhere else? ??

the listing I found was https://www.youtube.com/channe...o8VfYKjA2-ICw/videos

( loved the bridges vid ... very clever use of different technology ... yer dads a genius )

@Jim Waterman posted:

Nice to see the tinplate photos back on the main forum - I miss that, and usually don't find it in whatever the other category is.

Jim

I'm guessing it's only temporary, since this was a resurrection of a very old thread. 

Hi Fatman,  Yep Dad's amazing.  Did you look at the controller video?  All those blue tubes go out to the Hornby tinplate points (switches in the US) which have air driven cylinders underneath them to move the points, while the O ring seals help to provide the detent to hold them in position.

I don't know what the Forum rules are, but give me your email and I'll send you the invitation to the private content.  If you wish to proceed after reviewing the document, a small charge applies and then you can watch the various 120 minutes of content as often as you like AND you get email access to Dad to answer any and all of your questions re maintenance and repairs to all the tinplate Hornby, Bing, Fleishmann, Bassett Locke, Fleet, Lionel, American Flyer, Ives etc. model trains including clockwork, electric and live steam O gauge.  Dad has fixed trains as old as 1870!   He supplies parts and does repairs for people all over Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and twice now, enthusiasts in the US.   Cheers Pete