Weekend tinplate photos/videos 5/5/17 !

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

Steve

No real tinplate but some paper this weekend:

A few days ago a new book on British Toy Trains by Michael Foster has appeared. Michael Foster is writing a series of 4 books on the lesser known and cheaper budget British tin toy trains. Design and photography of these books is by Michael Bowes (known for Blurp books on tinplate accessories and on Issmaier trains). Book 3 is now available and on its way to me. It describes the products of Brimtoy. Previous books described amongst others Chad Valley and British Marx. The next book, which will appear in 2018 will be about Mettoy.

Here a few pictures of Brimtoy accessories, which I assume will be described in the book:

And from France on its way is a just issued book about Fournereau. Fournereau was a successor of Marescot (who introduced the first scale like model train in France around 1925) and made a series of locomotives and carriages from 1930 until 1960 which are highly regarded in France. So if you like French trains have a look here: http://trains.lrpresse.com/A-1...sme-ferroviaire.aspx. Here is a video showing Marescot/Fournereau train.

Regards

Fred

Found an early Lionel 804 at York last week:

Terra-cotta, rubber-stamped, no journals dates it to 1925. Needs a good cleaning.

PD

First page (at least the first page in the 1931 catalog with trains)

The Dispatcher

Dennis make sure you post those pics on Switcher Saturday!

fresh from the shop, 259E makes a local freight run. This was one of the quickest rebuilds I've done. Picked up the shell for $5 off the bay, $10 1684 motor at a show, trucks from the junk box, and an order from Jeff Kane to finish it off. And the final piece was the tender again off the bay.

Just picked  this up. I am sure I am not the first to do this I removed the Ives couplers and put Lionel couplers on it so I can run it with my other cars.

doc, always wanted to that,,,1st I need to buy the car! I have wanted this refer since I saw it in the catalog,,,so at York I was able to pick it up at sidetrack hobbies ,they always take the time to cut out pictures and put them on the boxes ,makes it so easy to brouse,so I bought it got it home and hummmmmm not the same as the pix,,,i know the catalogue is just a reference but not close,,,just like the pennsy covered standard gon its black not the green in the catalogue,,,,but in the end glad they are making modern tinplate !

terry hudon posted:

doc, always wanted to that,,,1st I need to buy the car! I have wanted this refer since I saw it in the catalog,,,so at York I was able to pick it up at sidetrack hobbies ,they always take the time to cut out pictures and put them on the boxes ,makes it so easy to brouse,so I bought it got it home and hummmmmm not the same as the pix,,,i know the catalogue is just a reference but not close,,,just like the pennsy covered standard gon its black not the green in the catalogue,,,,but in the end glad they are making modern tinplate !

Chris, that beer shed looks well-stocked; makes me thirsty!!

Here's a shot of my prewar O-gauge Blue Comet, running along-side something slightly newer. 

Fred: GREAT trains and video as always! Love that Pacific and the carriages! Learning much about French tinplate from your excellent posts! THANK YOU!

picked up a Joy Line 102 cast iron loco last week that had been sandblasted bare, with the clockwork still inside it. The shell is in the paint shop now, but the clockwork is now working after some gentle air pressure and careful winding and unwinding a few times with a Lionel 1588 key. I'll soak and re-lube the works before re-installing the painted shell. A bell is still intact but I can see no striker mechanism for it.

Chris Lonero posted:

Well it's getting to be that time of year again for summer fun! With that summer fun comes thirst! So have a cold one and Let's see your tinplate!

Would have been better if you represented a real beer.

sncf231e posted:

No real tinplate but some paper this weekend:

A few days ago a new book on British Toy Trains by Michael Foster has appeared. Michael Foster is writing a series of 4 books on the lesser known and cheaper budget British tin toy trains. Design and photography of these books is by Michael Bowes (known for Blurp books on tinplate accessories and on Issmaier trains). Book 3 is now available and on its way to me. It describes the products of Brimtoy. Previous books described amongst others Chad Valley and British Marx. The next book, which will appear in 2018 will be about Mettoy.

Regards

Fred

I have the book on order. Already have volumes 1 & 2.

Steve

Hi friends,

Today we journey to merrie olde England and visit the Ashford Depot on the Southern Railway.  A Bing 4-6-0 Super Clockwork 773 named King Arthur is out in front followed by 3 Hornby L-1 A 759s, a Schools Class Eton #900 and a smaller A179. The "A" of course stands for Ashford. Note that one of the L-1s is different from the other two, because it was from the first production group.

Lew Schneider

NJCJOE posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Well it's getting to be that time of year again for summer fun! With that summer fun comes thirst! So have a cold one and Let's see your tinplate!

Would have been better if you represented a real beer.

For those of us in Boston it's a very real beer!  

terry hudon posted:

doc, always wanted to that,,,1st I need to buy the car! I have wanted this refer since I saw it in the catalog,,,so at York I was able to pick it up at sidetrack hobbies ,they always take the time to cut out pictures and put them on the boxes ,makes it so easy to brouse,so I bought it got it home and hummmmmm not the same as the pix,,,i know the catalogue is just a reference but not close,,,just like the pennsy covered standard gon its black not the green in the catalogue,,,,but in the end glad they are making modern tinplate !

Yeah, I learned the same thing with my red 1685/1687 pass cars. The on line picks showed a good vibrant red but what showed up was nearly pink.  It gives me pause with buying any more lionel corp mth stuff.

Today i will not present you models from Euro countries, just a recent buy near a friend in your country, a Lionel 392e loco in black with copper trim. It will complete my gun metal one with six wheels tender. That one comes from the Chicago area and is not in too bad condition and an important thing for me is that it is all original.

The only problem is that the tender is missing.... I have a 384T one with copper journals, could it match perfectly with my engine ? It has a green stripe and i don't know if 392e locos sold with the 384T tender had or not a green stripe. I have seen 384t tenders all black but not really sure if originals or not.   TCA book, Doyle and even Greensberg are not of great precision about this.

Many thanks and have a great tinplate weekend,    Daniel