The Vintage HO collector.

You have seen My ideas of the Uncatalogued B&O Freight set #2. Here is my original B&O set #1 the other uncatalogued train set sold by Lloyd's Hobby Shop of Baltimore Maryland.

Just received it an hour or so ago,

This set has a HObbyline stamped on set # and it is 462. Even though uncatalogued it has a HObbyline set reference number. It can clearly be seen on this set box. The box art shows a Western Pacific Alco FA-1. This loco was released by HObbyline in 1955 and the art work dates this. The advertisement I found for this set was in the October issue of the Model Railroader Magazine. Lloyd's hobby shop offered this set and the freight set #2 from October 1955 to Christmas time 1955.

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Here is a retro HO scale tank car with a rarely never seen road name Pegasus Oil Company, with a recording marking od H&P 753. It setps back to the 1950's with its tin plate cars and sets. The car is 99% steel metal. Only the wheels are different. It has a form of Kupsee couplers and will couple up with most hook and loop couplers.
This is from a old Macy's tin plate train set. This cars will run on HO gague track I am trying to clean it up as much as possiable. The only rust damage is to a letter S on one side.
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A little extra on this old tinplate tank car.

What I've done is use this old tank car and add a newer frame and trucks, and couplers to allow it to run with other HO freight cars.

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This enlarged view of the second depot shows a typical New Jersey Railroad passenger car of 1857 when this depot opened for service. You can read the lettering on this car. It says N.J.R.R.& Trans Co. This arched roof style passenger cars reminds me of one made by Mantua, and is readily a viably even today. I dont know if I would want to tackle this project, but who knows. I sure dont. But there ois a big maybe attached to this thought.
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Here is the picture of the the second depot on the Hudson, and its complete front faced of this beautiful lost to time and destroyed by the PRR when just 15 years old. and was replaced by them with a square high roofed all wood terminal building. The Big Square Barn like structure the inside of open wood framing. Used as a waiting room. Seeing what was and what the PRR built took the riding patrons out of the 19th century and back into the 18th Century. These wooden terminal building after one year had a misterious fire and burned down. The PRR replaced what was said to be was their wood fire proof wonderfull terminal with a suitable 19th Century one. I guess the riders using the wood terminal of the PRR were thrilled to be there. NAAAA!

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REVELL FAN ; THE DRAWINGS ARE I THINK DONE THE FRANK LESLEY COMPANY AND OTHERS THAT DID THESE ILLISTRATIONS AND PUBLISHED THEM IN THEIR DAILY SUNDAY, AND WEEKLY MAGAZINES. THE COLORIZING OF THESE DRAWINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS WAS DONE LATTER ON. They definitely brought the past to life.
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I really love the picture of you and friends/family, in the train room. I could play in there all day! :)
 
Those pictures are reminding me of playing the game Red Dead Redemption on the PlayStation - set in a fictional 1899 the designers of the game do a wonderful job filling the games arena with a fully interactive wild west train set to play with
 
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These trains are from the last New Society of Model Engineers train show 4-6-24. sorry about the late posting.
Top left down then right down
1 topleft- TYCO clearance car Reading RR
2 & 3 Authencast Magor side dump oar cars
4 THOMAS APCO tank car.
5 top right Athearn black box metal line tank car Union Pacific RR
6 Cannon BallPRR Outside braced wood reefer car,
7 BRASS 2-6-4 JNR C-10 needs main rods, side rods, piston, front and rear trucks.
 

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Extremely nice find. I don't know if I'd build them, or just keep them for their collective value, untouched. ;)
 
Hello! back again! missed everybody.
Sorry about the days lost!

Here is a photo for you of a group pf my old vintage locomotives.
Their are 3 rows of locos. list goes left to right.
1 top Fleshmann2 8 2all metalmakado Fleischmann, 1950's, all metal with a US tender
Mantua2 8 0re-madeMantua consolidation is now a 0-8-0. conversion Lee Town kit for a CNJ Wooten fireboxed boiler added. Tender changed to a Rivarossi WW1 USRA style.
Penn Line2 8 2Penn Line makado 2-8-2 , all metal, was assembled from a kit.
Penn Line2 10 0Penn Line decapod, all metal, was assembled from a kit.
left- CRR #5674 4 0CI custom built this to match a locomotive I seen in a photo.I used a Rivarossi 4-4-0 drive and tender. Boiler with detials, cab, firebox are all scratch built.Some casting used. Now CNJ 4-4-0 A5 #567.
right LVRR #54 4 0Cto the right of #567. A second custom built 4-4-0 I did! This one is LVRR E28, "#5 David Laury". Built in the same way.custom locomotive,I made! LVRR E-28, 4-4-0, #5 The "David Laury" . Made in the same way as the previous CRR 4-4-0C.
left NYC 4-4-04 4 0Americanall brass HO scale model of a NYC Historic speedster #999.
right Mantua2 6 0Mantua Mogul 2-6-0 all metal brass and cast American made HO 2-6-0.
2 top Mantua4 6 2Mantua Mogul 2-6-0 all metal brass and cast American made HO 2-6-0.All metal brass & cast metal 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotive a US made HO scale model 1940's -50's.
Aristo Craft4 8 2mountainAristo Craft, all metal ready to run HO locomotive. Detailed as you see it. C&O #133. USRA style mountain.
Varney0 8 0switcher all metal, originaly made as a kitMantua Reading RR 0-8-0, CAST AND BRASS, all metal made as a kit. Could be made as a 0-8-0 or 2-8-0. 1940's
Mantua4 4 2Atlantic all metal mostly brass, made as a kitMantua Reading Atlantic 4-4-2 cast and brass 1940's locomotive. With original metal tender.
Mantua rebuild4 4 4Reading boiler and drive same as above Atlantic seen above 4 4 2. scratch-built both 4 wheel trucks Rivarossi,tender ia camelback type made f rom a kitI kit bashed another Mantua 4-4-2 into a Reading 4-4-4 Reading type. Only 4 real ones were made. I chose #110. It looks just like the prototype.
Mantua4 4 0AmericanMantua brass and cast 4-4-0 "Bell Of The Eighties"all metal brass and cast 4-4-0, made from a kit.
3 Varney4 8 4NoethernVarney Birkshire cast metal 4-8-2. all metal cast locomotive. It was made from a kit.
Varney2 8 0Consolidation all metal brass and cast, made from a kitVarney Concolidation, 2-8-0, cast metal locomotive. It has a Reading look to it.
to left0 4 0 camelback is a Aristo all diecast metal locomotive.To the left of the Varney 2-8-0 tender is a Aristo 0-4-0 cast metal Camelback. Its tender is complete with it original B&O paint. Not bad for 1960.
custom built2 8 4BirkshireA New Haven mikado 2-8-2. This is a Custom built locomotive made mostly of cast metal.
custom built4 8 2PacificA PRR K2 pacific. 4-6-2, another Custom built locomotive by the same builder. Purchased at the same train show.
Varney4 6 2PacificA Varney brass body I attached a Mantua 4-6-2 drive to to build a streamliner brass K4 pacific with a Rivarossi streamlined tender.
Bachmann4 8 4NorthernA Bachmann N&W streamlined J1,That I replaced the drive with a Bowser drive replacement kit. Kit has a complete frame, motor, drivers, all cylinders, rods and valve gear. Evberything under the plastic body is metal.

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