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Post by af3020 on Oct 5, 2024 16:52:34 GMT
Healey36, it's a tool test car made from scrap CP passenger car litho sheet stock. From time to time the Flynn's offered a tool test car for sale on e-bay. I made it a point to get several of them, purchased one of their production CP engines and made my own New Marx Canadian Pacific Scrap train set.  |
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Post by healey36 on Oct 5, 2024 19:37:44 GMT
Now that is pretty neat!
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Post by atsda on Oct 7, 2024 16:06:23 GMT
AF3020, very interesting. Alfred
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Post by david1 on Oct 8, 2024 2:54:49 GMT
My first train set was a Marx set that came in a box that had a black and silver steam engine in CP/NYC I think along with a couple of cars, all tin. It was a wind up set.
My brother and myself ran it to death. We loved that set. We destroyed it eventually. But heck we had alot of fun!!!!
Dave
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Post by healey36 on Oct 12, 2024 18:37:38 GMT
Still need to polish the couplers and wheels, but I'm calling the Lionel 813 stock car done:  This has been sitting behind, under, at the back, and over the workbench for a long time. Finally got around to putting it back in service. Thanks to the late, great George Tebolt for the repro roof, now painted a decent shade of pea green.  |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 12, 2024 20:11:34 GMT
I thought that I would add this into the Side Shot Saturday thread (1) as it relates to a specific passenger car interest I have mentioned here before and (2) despite the fact that I have not seen or been able to find this set. It has kind of become my obsessive Holy Grail or search and rescue item.
This is a Marklin 6 car set originally released last year, in HO scale but 3rail AC powered, which models the CIWL “Edelweiss” train built along Pullman lines in the pre-war period:
It’s kind of odd by US standards as the set includes two blue baggage cars with cupolas that look vaguely like domes but are not.
I no longer have any interest in or capacity for paying Lionel prices for the junky ABS passenger cars they currently produce so I am scratch-building the UP power car I have also posted about before and looking at HO scale quality items as I already have a few of that kind. Looking at various global user forums I see that supply chain delays have plagued US customers for these models and it shows no sign of getting better.
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Post by seayakbill on Oct 12, 2024 22:32:18 GMT
Grand Daughters pink auto collection at the local McDonalds.  |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 14, 2024 8:39:24 GMT
Still on the hunt for this set (and not finding it Stateside), so this is as close as I have got to something approaching unboxing:
It’s all pretty colorful but I am no closer to getting hold of one.
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Post by Jim Teeple on Oct 19, 2024 14:01:33 GMT
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Post by seayakbill on Oct 19, 2024 14:58:07 GMT
A pair of David O King Trollies waiting for clearance to enter the mains. Bill 
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 20, 2024 15:16:14 GMT
Over on the “York Loot” thread, healey36 has posted photos of some great figurines he found there. By coincidence, for a set of cars I don’t even have yet I’ve been sourcing some passenger car figures – all necessarily new because the cars are HO and I have never needed or wanted HO scale people before.
This made me think about the fact that I have probably installed a few hundred passenger car figures in O scale cars. (Call me squeamish but none of them are amputees like one of Healey’s although there’s an historical reason in the case of that particular figure.) In fact, I’ve never even thought of figurines as collectible in their own right although clearly they are. However, as my intended set is made by Marklin - I have posted about it recently - I looked around for some authentic Marklin stuff to install in it and through their users’ forum was put on to this 0226 set from maybe 40-45 years ago:
The reason for putting this in “Side Shot Saturday” is probably obvious but wasn’t to me until I saw these in the flesh last night – I will explain below.
Although I tracked down three of these sets they are only 10 figures each and spread over four cars which are 36 – 48 seaters that would look like a loss-making train. So I delved into the vast world of HO scale figures and came up with this really excellent pack of 60:
But these are 3D whereas the Marklin ones are effectively silhouettes - in any event they are skinny to the point of disappearing:
I’ll eventually mix the Marklin figures in with the full-bodied 3Ds and probably put them in window-side positions. But it’s a little ironic to me that after always turning up my nose at passenger cars with silhouettes ever since I got into the hobby, I have now ended up with the nearest thing to that I could.
P.S. The Marklin Users Forum thread was mainly about sourcing authentic period passengers who are smokers and the only example anyone mentioned is the guy with a pipe. I’ve never shied away from period passengers with bad habits of their times/yesteryear as witness these garish examples:
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Post by healey36 on Oct 21, 2024 1:25:55 GMT
Harborbelt, you are right in identifying my passion for figures. I think it goes back a very long time to all of those battles on the floor of my childhood bedroom, campaigning piles of 54mm hollowcast Britains over the carpet. Not many survived that tumult, but I came away with a real appreciation for a well-painted set. We should start a thread on figures, one that illustrates the history, the many scales and variations, maybe even how to paint them. Could be a lot of fun.
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Post by curtis on Oct 21, 2024 5:15:31 GMT
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Post by curtis on Oct 21, 2024 5:16:53 GMT
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Post by healey36 on Oct 26, 2024 13:00:56 GMT
A sucker for anything marked "$1", I found this 1959 Lionel 246 in a box of "junk" at the local indoor flea market last week. Somehow the screw-holes that hold the front-half of the motor and the drive-rod assembly in place are broken out of it...been pondering how to repair it:  One might say "Why bother?", but (a) it's the challenge, and (b) the 246 was the only Magnetraction-equipped Scout-type locomotive Lionel made. A test run had it running strong after a bit of lubrication. It was missing the crossheads, but luckily I had a pair in the parts box. I'm hoping a pair of longer screws will get things back together, otherwise a big glob of JB Weld might be in order. Now that I think about it, I might have overpaid  Edit :: Ran to Lowes this AM and picked up a pack of #4 x 1/2 in. pan-head sheet-metal screws...seems to have done the trick (at least for now). The light still doesn't work, which is perplexing. New bulb installed. Flickers occasionally when I hit the direction button on the MTH Z-1000 pack. More fiddling to do. |
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