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Post by josef on Jun 23, 2024 9:41:58 GMT
Your probably on to something about autofocus, but I'm either using a Pentax K-70 or a Canon EOS Rebel T6. So somehow I have to get it to focus on the moving train. I don't have problems with stationary items as a norm ( sometimes but not that often) Also doesn't help I don't really have any room to back away from the train. I'm only about 3' away. Well my android phone must be semi-smart as I can't figure how to send pics or videos from it to my computer or anything. Sorry I use a cell phone for phone uses and texting ( very little ( to receive codes when need them) and that is about it. Simple way is just to get a cable from phone to your computer. Then go to Devices and you should see an icon for your phone. Hit it and go to photos and transfer.
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Post by healey36 on Jun 23, 2024 11:37:22 GMT
FT-17 tank for a prewar Flyer flatcar (basically just the frame from a 3011 sand car): ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53810247978_e89b9f4d63_b.jpg) I have a second kit for the FT-17...might give that a simple monochrome paint job and an overspray of clear gloss, something that would tie in a bit better with the gloss finish on the tinplate.
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Post by af3020 on Jun 23, 2024 14:28:50 GMT
Not bad Healey36, not bad at all! If you are going to try to paint the second tank with gloss I would recommend you paint it the same way as the one you have on the flat car and finish with a gloss coat. This may seem to "violate" the toy train look but Marklin painted numerous military toys with camouflage and finished them with a gloss coat. For example ![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-yhf6E4wlYj7FDv7XyhSrJJ2CFVjTIIYK2Kq38W7DADOZf2KtDWnQYS2UDaZrZPZ4rnHjCyIZu59oV2we_kMG9A?cn=THISLIFE&res=medium&ts=1719153149)
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Post by healey36 on Jun 23, 2024 14:58:06 GMT
Thanks, af; I have a rattle can of Tamiya clear gloss here - I could just try that. I should find some numbers and unit markings for it first (I should have done that before applying the wash actually).
Nice field gun,, btw. I have a few by Britain’s, but no Marklin or Elastolin. Much of my ill-spent youth had me shooting match sticks at ranks of toy soldiers...those were the days.
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Post by healey36 on Jun 29, 2024 11:13:20 GMT
May have shared this before, so if a dupe, my apologies. From the archives, a few shots of the first Standard-gauge set I acquired. Set number 34, likely from 1923 or 1924 (presumption based on the use of combination couplers on the 33 locomotive): ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/784/40316998884_f2e9aae13f_c.jpg) ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/964/42197724031_8eda6fa8ae_c.jpg) ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/830/27326455537_0ae6e9e252_c.jpg) I bought this from an old guy that ran a table at Lorne Strickler's semi-annual meet at the VFD in Porters, Pennsylvania. He had "restored" the 33 locomotive, but had not done anything with the 35 coach and 36 observation, both of which remained in really rough shape. He sold me the whole pile for not much. With a bit of effort, I cleaned the coaches up and gave them new paint, lettering, and acetate glazing. I cleaned up and reused the original plastic "stained glass" for the clerestory windows. ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/7831/47075888312_cf7687c89e_z.jpg) The 34 set has seen occasional use under the Christmas tree. It still runs great for its 100+ year age.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jun 29, 2024 17:22:19 GMT
healey36 that is a beautiful set and I certainly don’t have - or have ever actually seen - any train set c.100 years old.
I had it in mind this week to revert to some fairly conventional side shots and somehow the above post reminded me of my now archived one time obsession with FEF-3s and in particular UP 844[4]. Part of this was about how their Mars Lights actually worked in real railroading (sad, isn’t it?) and all of these 3rail models had different and non-prototypical versions of that.
These are Lionel Legacy versions some 8 years apart:
![](https://i.imgur.com/k0v4qEO.jpg)
The Greyhound early Legacy version is the champion smoker of all time and I used to run it on rollers sometimes just to see the smoke rings:
![](https://i.imgur.com/HMoyPbc.jpg)
I once did a detailed comparison of the Legacy and 3rd Rail versions of 844[4] and really could not decide between them in terms of appearance, operating features and general play value:
![](https://i.imgur.com/wZ11db7.jpg)
These last two photos are not mine and I don’t know who posted them many years ago but they are a couple of my favorite illustrations of the black 844[4] version in O scale:
![](https://i.imgur.com/ybeT2lD.jpg)
![](https://i.imgur.com/pTJ5Yss.jpg)
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Post by seayakbill on Jun 29, 2024 17:36:18 GMT
A couple Acme Transit Railroad reefers passing through on the S&Y RR. Bill
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Post by af3020 on Jun 29, 2024 19:00:35 GMT
Here's a style of freight car which, as far as I've been able to determine, was never part of the American freight car scene but which was, apparently, commonplace in Europe in the pre-war period. I say apparently because, while I've been able to find a number of pictures of detailed models of this car I haven't been able to find any pictures of the prototype. My guess is I'm not using the correct search word/phrase on Google. In any event, the gas cylinder car was a part of the freight car offerings of just about all, if not all, of the toy train manufacturers in Europe - Bing, Hornby, JEP, KBN, Marklin, etc.. The car is referred to as a Gaswagen or a Gas Kesselwagen or just a Gas car. The most elaborate version I've been able to photograph is this KBN car which dates from the early 1930's. The odd thing about the KBN car are the domes. None of the detailed models have this feature and I have to wonder if this isn't just toy train artistic license. ![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-yhf6E4wlYj7FDv7XyhSrJJ2CFVjTIIYK2Kq38W7DADNgEPUjmnYXsyjZCaiF8WMjaAUrgnwgvQnZ_1RWb7NZPA?cn=THISLIFE&res=meium&ts=1719686510) ![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-yhf6E4wlYj7FDv7XyhSrJJ2CFVjTIIYK2Kq38W7DADNgEPUjmnYXsyjZCaiF8WMjaAUrgnwgvQnZ_1RWb7NZPA?cn=THISLIFE&res=medium&ts=1719686510) Bing, Hornby, JEP and others offered smaller versions of this car Bing ca. 1909 ![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-yhf6E4wlYj7FDv7XyhSrJJ2CFVjTIIYK2Kq38W7DADOrE_lJPuACsQO3W0lBVfsSUnDnu4gHHWpfyYq5WwzmNg?cn=THISLIFE&res=medium&ts=1719686509) Hornby 1930's ![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-yhf6E4wlYj7FDv7XyhSrJJ2CFVjTIIYK2Kq38W7DADMUo-Cl5Of-zM2F4HHFkQ4xldMTLfbtJ__wYVBQ_4iTow?cn=THISLIFE&res=medium&ts=1719686509) The real cars all had these gas cylinders resting in cradles and strapped to the flat car. The valves on the ends of the tanks on the detailed models would indicate the gas could have been any of the gasses, propane, natural gas, etc. one could transport in pressurized cylinders.
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Post by healey36 on Jun 30, 2024 10:54:48 GMT
Lionel equivalent?: ![](https://o-gaugeforum.com/attachment/download/47721) I don't have one of these, but I've seen replacement gas cylinders offered by parts dealers. Pretty much any of the Lionel log cars could accommodate them. Photo courtesy of All Aboard Train Shoppe. ![Lionel 3362 b.jpg](//storage.forums.net/7085221/thumbnailer/jVGirPLgHHZPwpriKJUT.png)
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Post by ron045 on Jun 30, 2024 12:07:44 GMT
Looking at it this way it almost seems like it would be 1:1048 scale vice 1:48 scale. Great picture.
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Post by af3020 on Jun 30, 2024 12:08:08 GMT
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jun 30, 2024 14:15:43 GMT
Most interesting af3020, thanks. I have seen these cars before but never had any real interest in them until now.Seems like a good scratch-building/upgrading project (and somewhere in a forum or magazine I have seen that done) but I am not up for anything more of that kind at present.
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Post by atsda on Jul 1, 2024 18:06:08 GMT
healey36, harborbelt70, AF3020, very interesting contributions. Thanks. Alfred
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Post by atsda on Jul 1, 2024 18:29:39 GMT
I found this Field Guide to Tank Cars some time ago, and thought it would be appropriate to share in light of AF3020 and healey36 posts. Alfred
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 3, 2024 12:25:05 GMT
I found this Field Guide to Tank Cars some time ago, and thought it would be appropriate to share in light of AF3020 and healey36 posts. Alfred Alfred, if you intended to post an image or link it isn’t appearing. Aside from tank cars, of which I have just a few, the ship, tank and gun models shown above remind me of some scale things that have been in my family for ages - my Dad was an ardent Civil War buff hence my memorabilia of Gettysburg and devotion to going there. If I had any side view photos to hand I’d post them but as the items are dispersed in different households I’ll have to search the archives for any images.
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