Side Shot Saturday starting 21 October
Oct 21, 2023 12:37:08 GMT
Country Joe, Adam, and 4 more like this
Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 21, 2023 12:37:08 GMT
I said last week that this time I'd show the oldest thing in the family train stable plus the nearest thing I have to tinplate so first here's the oldie:
Some while back I worked out that although after all this time the cab number has disappeared this is probably a Lionel 2020 Pennsy steam turbine and a 2020W whistle tender, made in the period 1946 - 1949. This was my Dad's engine now in the safe custody of my older brother.
I remember my Dad running this in the 60s and that it used smoke pellets, which is my only experience of that smoke method. At some point some restoration might have been done because it looks to me that there are some repainted parts. I think that this is how it looked when made:
Second, old collectibles including Marx, clockwork engines and tinplate are really not my thing. However, some years back after I saw a Beyer-Garratt prototype I was researching it and came across this jewel of an engine on consignment to a LHS (Berwyn's), took it on spec and decided to keep it:
This is made by the Czech company ETS and is a 3rail conventional model with sound and lights and all sheet metal construction. It actually sounds like it looks with choo-choo chuffs and a very toy-like whistle. It's a very smooth runner on an even and well-powered loop of track, which I haven't got set up at the moment or I'd post a video. It has a can motor and a unique clutch system, and models an Argentine prototype that I have never seen - but I did see something of the same kind years back in an African train museum which caused my interest in this type of steamer:
ETS makes other versions of this including a South African version and I think that they also make 3rail command control ones and/or with a smoke feature.
Some while back I worked out that although after all this time the cab number has disappeared this is probably a Lionel 2020 Pennsy steam turbine and a 2020W whistle tender, made in the period 1946 - 1949. This was my Dad's engine now in the safe custody of my older brother.
I remember my Dad running this in the 60s and that it used smoke pellets, which is my only experience of that smoke method. At some point some restoration might have been done because it looks to me that there are some repainted parts. I think that this is how it looked when made:
Second, old collectibles including Marx, clockwork engines and tinplate are really not my thing. However, some years back after I saw a Beyer-Garratt prototype I was researching it and came across this jewel of an engine on consignment to a LHS (Berwyn's), took it on spec and decided to keep it:
This is made by the Czech company ETS and is a 3rail conventional model with sound and lights and all sheet metal construction. It actually sounds like it looks with choo-choo chuffs and a very toy-like whistle. It's a very smooth runner on an even and well-powered loop of track, which I haven't got set up at the moment or I'd post a video. It has a can motor and a unique clutch system, and models an Argentine prototype that I have never seen - but I did see something of the same kind years back in an African train museum which caused my interest in this type of steamer:
ETS makes other versions of this including a South African version and I think that they also make 3rail command control ones and/or with a smoke feature.
