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Post by Adam on Jul 20, 2021 7:58:28 GMT
Fun little layout mrmeep. The connection to your dad is what makes it special!
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Post by cnw1995 on Jul 27, 2021 19:23:33 GMT
These photos are sure inspiring. I want to see if I can find some more pieces of Hornby track and a switch to set up something similar.
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Post by firewood on Apr 20, 2022 1:22:22 GMT
Well, gang - I fell down the Standard Gauge rabbit-hole again.  This bunch of orphans followed me home... Dave  Lionel 33 locomotive, #35 & #36 parlor & observation car. |
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Post by Country Joe on Apr 20, 2022 17:41:54 GMT
Sweet acquisition's Dave.👍
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Post by healey36 on Dec 22, 2023 15:26:22 GMT
Every piece of original tinplate has a story, most terrific, but some sad. Discovering/hearing those stories is what makes it for me.
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Post by acgilbert123 on Jan 26, 2024 21:09:21 GMT
Thought I would help to revive this string with a few pics of my tinplate layout. I collect and operate vintage Lionel and Chicago Flyer, prewar Gilbert, and reissue Lionel tinplate.
Bob
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Post by Country Joe on Jan 27, 2024 16:08:33 GMT
Your layout looks great, Bob! 👍
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Post by healey36 on Jan 28, 2024 1:46:05 GMT
Beautiful layout, Bob. You’re right...it would be nice to get it going over here again.
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Post by healey36 on Jan 28, 2024 16:12:34 GMT
Perhaps my favorite shot taken on the basement layout, an MTH 254E (traditional) with a drag of Lionel 2800-series freights exits the 305 bridge to head south toward Heat-Pump Pass:  The layout is predominantly prewar in theme, but a few early postwar accessories are featured as well, and we do run the iconic postwar and modern-era trains on occasion. |
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Post by Adam on Jan 28, 2024 17:14:57 GMT
Perhaps my favorite shot taken on the basement layout, an MTH 254E (traditional) with a drag of Lionel 2800-series freights exits the 305 bridge to head south toward Heat-Pump Pass: The layout is predominantly prewar in theme, but a few early postwar accessories are featured as well, and we do run the iconic postwar and modern-era trains on occasion. Beautiful train and photo! I’m not into tinplate but it’s a category of the hobby that I have been interested in for a long time. I’m just afraid for my wallet to jump in! |
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Post by healey36 on Jan 28, 2024 18:39:15 GMT
There's good reason to be fearful, lol, but there's actually plenty of nice prewar operator-quality stuff out there these days. Even better, there are many pieces that are just missing a few bits or a minor repair that can be had for next to nothing. You gotta look past the dings and scratches that some 85 years have provided and appreciate the stuff for what it is. Once you accept them as toys and not "models", you're on your way!
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Post by runamuckchuck on Feb 3, 2024 1:19:30 GMT
For me the simplicity, color, and build quality are all that go into the tin plate mystique. I had amassed a large amount of NIB MTH/Lionel standard gauge and sold it all a few years ago when a Standard gauge layout could not be realized. Although the auction was successful money wise, I took no pleasure in it.
Just today I purchased some Lionel Lines blue/orange O and Standard gauge tinplate as a kind of homage to that era of wonderment and innocence.
It will be nice to actually enjoy it out of the box running unlike last time.
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Post by dennym57 on Feb 6, 2024 15:46:51 GMT
This thread makes me want to buy tinplate next time I'm at York.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Feb 8, 2024 1:48:37 GMT
Perhaps my favorite shot taken on the basement layout, an MTH 254E (traditional) with a drag of Lionel 2800-series freights exits the 305 bridge to head south toward Heat-Pump Pass: The layout is predominantly prewar in theme, but a few early postwar accessories are featured as well, and we do run the iconic postwar and modern-era trains on occasion. Beautiful train and photo! I’m not into tinplate but it’s a category of the hobby that I have been interested in for a long time. I’m just afraid for my wallet to jump in! Unfortunately that is the perception that tinplate is sky high price wise. And I would agree that for some of the rare standard gauge stuff you are correct. However there is plenty of O scale and more common standard gauge tin plate which compared to new Lionel and even MTH offerings are bargains. I am speaking here exclusively of the MTH remakes for both themselves and under the Lionel license. To my thinking some of the MTH Ives, and American Flyer offerings make their Lionel offerings of the tin plate era look like chopped livery. For the rich vibrancy of color, quality of materials and manufacturing it is hard to resist or beat the MTH tinplate offerings. My lack of 2024 Lionel preorders is the result as I tempt fate and very selectively purchase tinplate that I did not own and sell previously.
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Post by af3020 on Feb 8, 2024 2:22:03 GMT
healey36, I agree with your comment back in December "Every piece of original tinplate has a story, most terrific, but some sad. Discovering/hearing those stories is what makes it for me." I have a number of sets which I purchased from either their original owners or their decedents. One of my favorite sad/happy stories concerns this Marx train set.  I purchased this set from its original owner back in the early 1980's. He was a co-worker of mine and I had invited his family over to see the latest reincarnation of my broadloom Ophir and Oblivion Railroad. Everyone was impressed and we spent a good couple of hours sitting on the living room carpet running trains. He mentioned he had his train from when he was very young and he told me none of his kids wanted the set. He wanted to know if I would like to see it and maybe purchase it. I went over to his place about a week later, looked over the set, and made an offer which was accepted. As we were putting everything back in the set box he remarked the one thing that had really impressed him with respect to my living room layout was the fact that all of my engines had operating headlights. He said when he was small that was the one thing he really wished his train had possessed. I gave him a puzzled look and said, "I guess I don't understand - this train has an operating headlight." He said, "No, it doesn't." I pulled the engine back out of the box, turned it over and pointed to the empty light bulb socket on the inside and said, "Well, it does but it looks like you never put a light bulb in there." He looked at me like I had just shot him. He took the engine and turned it over to take a look. He looked so shaken that I said, "Hey, if you want to keep the set it's ok. I can tell you the front end of that engine coming at you in the dark is really quite a sight." He turned the engine over, sighed, and handed it back to me and said it was ok and he would really rather sell it. The next year I invited him over to see the broadloom layout again and I made sure to have this set running in the dark WITH A FUNCTIONING HEADLIGHT! He was impressed and I again offered to give it back to him for what I had paid for it. He said he'd rather the set stay with someone who really was interested in giving it a good home...I have...and it still looks great running in the dark with the headlight showing the way. |
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This bunch of orphans followed me home...
