@Allan Miller posted:It sure would be nice to see more O and Std. Gauge tinplate offerings in the future, but I'm not--for no particular reason--terribly optimistic that will happen. I am just glad I bought a whole lot of the MTH O gauge Tinplate Traditions and LCT items back when they were being made. I plan to do a small all-tinplate, year-round Christmas layout featuring some of those great trains and accessories, and hope to begin work on that as early as next week.
The trains that attract the most attention whenever folks visit my basement home office, lounge area, and O gauge layout, are the display cases with the tinplate locomotives. Visitors seem to like the bright colors and toy-like appearance, and they invariably want to see them running. That is why I decided to add a small (4x10 or so) Christmas/tinplate layout in what is left of somewhat open area in my train room.
Just joking with my buddies yesterday that Williams should pick up the tinplate line. They would end up getting their old tooling back.
Steve
