Bing 524 American Market 2'B gauge one electric

Bing gauge one 2'B electric for the American market, I believe it is a 524, which variation I am not certain. It is 42 cm in length with tender. In the 1914 American catalog there is a 524/510, but it gives the length as 47 cm. I would welcome any information about the variations and the years of production. After cleaning the reverser drum, it works very well! I acquired it together with three nice 528 passenger cars. The locomotive has one broken piece, the valve guide casting is broken on the right (brush) side; it attaches with two screws so it looks like you could change it out.












Drive unit removed from the locomotive body:





The valve guide casting is broken on the right (brush) side:



Intact valve guide from the left side:



The locomotive came with these three 528 passenger cars:

Hi jsmatlak

Thank you for showing your train!
There is quite a bit of variation on the cast iron locomotives from Bing.

1. There are two castings, yours and one with a non-recessed Bing in the artdeco typeset as in the trademark of 1907. There is also different mounting brackets for the motor.
The extra bulk on the cab-roof might be a casting artefact.


2. There is different wheel arrangements, 0-4-0, 2-4-0 and 4-4-0. (Since I could not find any 0-4-0, the 2-4-0 might be just revamped locos)


3. In the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement there is the variation with extention on the cow-catcher.


4. 2 different types of tenders, a shorter one like yours and the slightly longer standard tender used for a wide array of European locomotives. Labels differ also PRR, NYC&HR, 1012 etc.
(The standard tenders might be replacements)

5. Then there is clockwork, high voltage and 18V.

As far as I know, the locomotive is a copy of Ives 40 or 25.

As to when, what and where, is still a mystery to me. My research into Bing in northern America is ongoing but I try to post my findings so far somewhere here.
According to Schiffmann the locos were produced between 1912 and 26.

There must be two catalogues for the american market prior to WW1: 1910 or 1912 and 1914. I have only access to the excerpts printed in Jeanmaires “grandads model railways”.
Prior to that, American outlines were included in the British catalogue.

The national toy train library has a post war catalogue “Bings Electric Trains”. No idea if this contains the american line of products.


The foreign language catalogues “Bings Toys”, “Jouets Bing” and “Juguetes Bing” did not contain any US-locomotives to my knowledge.

Apart from the catalogue of Sears from 1916 where I recently posted the images, I could not find any gauge 1 in department store catalogues.
The tender has the order number from Sears, I guess those were not delivered in that fashion.


There must be Bing trains in catalogues like “Adams-Morgan Electrical Supply”.

I try to find my locomotive and add some photos above later on.

Best regards
Domenik

Zitat von Sackbahnhof im Beitrag #2

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Hi jsmatlak

3. In the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement there is the variation with extention on the cow-catcher.

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