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While I was at my favorite auction house last Saturday waiting for some Lionel pieces, I notice those strange live steam O gauge BOWMAN trains so … I bid on them and got them for a fair price.
They have something special, even the wooden box is something to see.... nail some bad wood parts, don't adjust them and you have a Bowman box. Just heat stamp the cover and you have a very nice box !!! So British....
As it is possible to say, it's only a face her mother could love as those engines are really specials, huge in size, very simply made with two oscillating cylinders and a burner with six wicks. They are made to run and they run very well despite their crude appearance.
The larger one is a 234 model and the loco tender is a 265 model. The British firm has been in existence from 1923 to 1935 manufacturing steam toys, stationary steam engines , steam boats and a short range of trains; there is two more models of locos, smaller than those two; a range of three or four freight cars and one type of passenger car that I still have to find...
Have a great tinplate weekend, Daniel
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I found this small British made Mettoy clockwork locomotive some weeks ago. Most Mettoy locomotives do not look like the real thing but this one is not that bad. It is recognisable as a Southern Railways "Schools" Class 4-4-0 locomotive and has the correct number 900 end name Eton and even the right number of wheels on the locomotive (but not on the tender). The Schools class locomotives were all named for schools in the south of England.
I do not know what the correct coaches would be (I have to wait for the next book in the series on British Toy Trains by Michael Foster covering Mettoy) but I ran it with some small Hornby Pullman cars (and very fast!):
Regards
Fred
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From 1939 we have American Flyer set #306 with a slight change of consist.
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It's worth noting that by 1939 the A.C. Gilbert housecleaning effort at American Flyer was in full swing and the Chicago Flyer trains were being put together in as many ways as possible to clear out old inventory. This set was a boxed set with all of the paperwork which would suggest either the flat car with lumber was substituted for the gondola at the request of the customer or that they had run out of old gondola inventory. Either way I think it is a neat set and it does highlight some of the Gilbert changes - the change in couplers, replacing all brass plates with decals, and the use of the all nickel plate trimmed locomotive which is usually found as the engine in the high end erector sets.
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Here is another item that I picked up at the Menards International Train Expo in Eau Clair Wisconsin 2 weeks ago.
This is an Ives No.115 Freight Station.
I love the detail in the Ives lithographed pieces.
Both sides and both ends are identical.
Now my Ives freight and passenger trains have places to stop.
Have a Great Tinplate Weekend
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
I know I just posted this picture on Weekend Photo Fun, but I sure love the Purple 263E MTHRRC engine.
Scott Smith
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Karl Bub 2nd/3rd passenger car variations- Marx-like in it's utility.
green trolley with blue and red coach variations
green action car with curtains and passengers
green action car activator
trolley with non-moving customers
trolley pair on a siding with coaches
boxed set with trolley and coach
Lone trolley
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FRED & DANIEL: You fellows never fail to amaze me with the treasures you acquire! Never heard of Bowman, but they obviously made some delightful locos and boxes. GREG: I agree: the Ives lithography is unsurpassed - the depth illusion is well done!
The Mettoy line is another one that is new to me! I will have to check my Pierce Carlson and Louis Hertz books for references to both Bowman and Mettoy!
Greg J. Turinetti posted:Here is another item that I picked up at the Menards International Train Expo in Eau Clair Wisconsin 2 weeks ago.
This is an Ives No.115 Freight Station.
I love the detail in the Ives lithographed pieces.
Both sides and both ends are identical.
Now my Ives freight and passenger trains have places to stop.
Have a Great Tinplate Weekend
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
Greg,
Very nice find. Yes, the detail on many of these pieces is very well done.
Tom
Jim Z posted:390 coal train on the siding waiting for a clear track.
Jim,
Does that new blue 390E have brass trim (bell, tender ladders, journals, etc.)?
Hi Friends,
A few more tinplate goodies. First is the Fischer English style wayside station signed Uxbridge. Obviously missing its semaphore. Note the Fischer fish logo. Second is a cute Hoge Tom Thumb powerhouse I found at the Lionel LOTS train show last Sunday. Third is a panorama of recent acquisitions including the Kibri signal man, Hoge power station, and Marx Airport.
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lewrail posted:Hi Friends,
A few more tinplate goodies. First is the Fischer English style wayside station signed Uxbridge. Obviously missing its semaphore. Note the Fischer fish logo. Second is a cute Hoge Tom Thumb powerhouse I found at the Lionel LOTS train show last Sunday. Third is a panorama of recent acquisitions including the Kibri signal man, Hoge power station, and Marx Airport.
Lew,
Another nice station. So, am I correct that the lever would change the angle of the semaphore?
If possible, could you add a few pictures of the interior and other side?
Tom
MNCW posted:lewrail posted:Hi Friends,
A few more tinplate goodies. First is the Fischer English style wayside station signed Uxbridge. Obviously missing its semaphore. Note the Fischer fish logo. Second is a cute Hoge Tom Thumb powerhouse I found at the Lionel LOTS train show last Sunday. Third is a panorama of recent acquisitions including the Kibri signal man, Hoge power station, and Marx Airport.
Lew,
Another nice station. So, am I correct that the lever would change the angle of the semaphore?
If possible, could you add a few pictures of the interior and other side?
Tom
Tom,
looks more like a switch for the light. Here the same lever on the battery box on the bottom. I think it´s the matching signal for the station too.
Arne
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Hey Arne,
Thanks. Very interesting. So it ran off of a battery instead of off the track?
Also, I'm a big fan of your handiwork. Have you scratch built any new cars lately?
Tom
Hello Tom,
not at the moment. I have to much to do with house, garden and some train repairs. A new hand made train will start after the summer.
Arne