“Temporary Tinplate” layouts

They look super, OACE. They make the scene much more interesting as the train rolls by.

Another short video still of "Temporary Tinplate" layout from Mrs Tibou and ACE Trains (UK) 4-4-2 double traction with LMS (red) and the newly acquired LB&SCR (mustard) heading :







OACE

Thanks thebigcrabcake !

"Temporary Tinplate" layouts are the only solution for me...

OACE

Oace, by the way, reuse of tooling by someone else who bought some or all of the tooling for an item is common.  It is also quite common for the new owner to make some modifications to the tooling.  Below is a Bing station ca. 1925.




...and then there is this one - for a long time I thought it was a later version of the station made by Bing.  Some time ago I mentioned this station to one of my friends who has a HUGE collection of European catalogs and he informed me it is actually a station made by Keim and it could have been made anywhere between 1938 and 1962.  Given the railroad map above the passenger seats I think it is a pre-WWII product because of the outline of Germany which is a pre-WWII.

  Bing went out of business in 1932 and much of their tooling was purchased by KBN.  It would appear Keim bought the tooling for this station, made some changes to the tooling, and made their own litho printing.

Another addition to my modest "temporary" set of buildings : I have found three candélabres - in French - well, do you say candelabras for this kind of public lighting devices ? 




They are functional, but need some refurbishing. They use small screwed-on bulbs (ruler is in mm) :




Do you know this kind of bulbs in Model Trains ?

OACE

Thanks for your tip af3020 ! 


I was nearly sure that there was some matching US part number : with that, I'll be able to find the specs and an EU screw base equivalent.


OACE

Ok, those bulbs are smaller than I thought.

These are the bulbs I thought you had in your picture:




What I find odd about the street lamps you have is the smaller size bulbs.  The bulbs above fit everything U.S. made and they also fit the various European accessories/trains I have as well.

For example - these Bing lamps which date from 1925 take the above bulbs.  The same is true for a Bing station I have which has an internal lamp socket and dates from 1912.

It would be interesting to know who made your street lamps.





UPDATE:

 After I posted the above I remembered I had some miniature screw base bulbs I had purchased years ago to provide lights in some very small models.  With the advent of LEDs I haven't used them since I don't know when.  In any event I went rummaging through my miscellaneous electronics box (yes it is of reasonable size) and I found them - still in their original sales envelope - they are E5 and their screw base diameter mic's out at 5.25mm - these might be the lamps you are looking for.