Photos of Your Tinplate Layout?

I don't have my layout that far along.  I am actually in the planning stages at the moment (https://ogrforum.com/t...66#27193597325760766) but your layout is about the look I am going for.  Tinplate semi-scale trains running in a more realistic scenery with some accessories. 

I am looking forward to seeing more pictures of various ways of having fun with tinplate!

Electroliner, I've always been a fan of your layout.  I love your combination of tinplate trains and accessories with a more realistic style of scenery.

I'm not good with scenery, so my layout - which exists to provide an operating track for the windup trains, as well as a display space for a few tinplate accessories - has a very simple grass mat and sandpaper ballast under the track.  Someday, I'll add a tree or two...

My little layout started as a postwar pike, but since finding Marx scale tin I've begun rebuilding it as a more tin-centric layout. I still plan to run postwar Lionel and Marx plastic from time to time, but mostly tin will rule. I like the "tin-scale" idea from Thor's site.

All hail the Tinman!  lol

From a long gone layout.

Steve

A little 3x4 module I constructed earlier this year to run O Gauge clockwork and electric tinplate.  Its pretty bare bones but its all tinplate.

beautiful tinplate!

Hi,

    Here are a couple shots of my layout.

    Kevin Coyle

I really like your layout kevin! It looks pretty authentic

One word that comes to mind in seeing all these wonderful layouts is wow..and as a result I have changed my mind regarding putting up all my tinplate buildings and accessories for sale. There is just something about the straight forward approach of tinplate that is so appealing and to say the least, it ( a traditional tinplate layout )places the trains in the matching context which sort of expands the whole experience. Great photos..

Very nice layouts.

Electroliner,

    Thought you would like to see this years Christmas Tin Plate layout, your Tin is absolutley fantstic!

PCRR/Dave

Thats a terrific display and I wish I had your ambition to create something similarly as good. All I managed to do this year was put a circle of G around the tree as I though the bulk and size of G scale would deter the cats from knocking over the consists which they are fascinated by ..and then take swipes at the train as it passes. It didn't work out as foolproof. Lol...

Nice layouts everyone.  Here's a few pictures of mine.

I am in awe of those beautiful tin layouts.  In lieu of a layout photo, here's a short clip of my dining room floor. LOL! You gotta start somewhere and that's all we ever did when Dad used to set up his 1930's Lionel at Christmas.  He gave me that set a couple years ago and now it's become something my five year old grandson and I do together so the tradition goes on!  The bridge, tunnel, crane and light towers were Dad's. Everything else I picked up from other collectors, antique malls, flea markets etc.  I'm not picky.  If it's tin,  it's IN!  Though it's mostly Marx,  there are American Flyer, Lionel and Hafner items all mixed together.  

I do like the old streamliners!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8b6T_J8J4

flat twin, that is a really, really, REALLY nice rug layout - some beautiful Marx there.  You don't happen to like red at all, do you?

I was brought up with the trains on the floor too.  Also still run some of my dad's stuff.  Tinplate at its best.

Electroliner,

   Thanks much for the nice complement on my little Tin Christmas layout, next year we add the CC FasTrack switches, tested the 072 WYE CC switches for the past few days, they work great with our Tin Plate. 

Cats are problem even with STD gauge, hay you can always figure something different out for next Christmas!

PCRR/Dave

Nothing fancy with scenery.. Would always have one or two up at Christmas but never had everything up at the same time. It get's a little noisy with all 9 of them running at once but I don't mind.

Kevin slips those photos in once in a while to see if anyone's paying attention.  A very nice vintage Vargas layout. 

Here's a few shots of my layout.

Here's a few more.  It's not the greatest layout, and it didn't come out the way I had initially envisioned it, but I sure have fun with it.

Here's a few of my Marx tinplate layout. I repainted the table last year, adding a "lake" and a road, and brightening up the thing in general. The buildings are Marx, American Flyer, Hafner, and a bunch of cookie tins. I am in the process of switching out the vehicles with Tootsietoy ones, as I think they fit nicer.

J White

arrsd90, this layout is in the same room with my high-rail scale layout.  There is a total of 52 square feet of tinplate fun.  Both o-gauge and standard gauge share this table.  The figures are G-gauge figures I got at a booth in the Orange hall at York.

Here's a few more shots of the layout featuring the 263E baby Blue Comet on the o-gauge line and a 390E with 500 series cars on the standard gauge line.

Johnny:

Fire off an e-mail to me when you have a chance.  That tinplate layout of yours might provide an opportunity for an encore appearance in the magazine.  Simple and nicely done--could inspire others, particularly later this year around the holiday season.  And the table work is fabulous.

Nice! I have that station.

John,

Very , nice, although later in life than yourself:   I like the fact the Dept 56 is out

( I do have a 1950-52) , station.  Maybe time to start a small combined tinplate.

If my watch person above will allow, that in my life.     thanks

Terry

Hey all of you guys, I would hate to be the judge of the 1st place.  You have giving me some ideas to use and it will not be pleasing to the proto type folks.

Al

I'm with AL,  been all last yr just thinking what to do, so here is another

question.

LIRR,  (Clarksville ,not to far from Morristown,)  is that EASTER grass cut up

         sure is shinning like it!!!!!

thanks,  Terry

That was some indoor/outdoor carpet that I had handy....and it turned out to be just enough to cover the layout.  It helps to deaden the sound a little bit, but still leaves me enough noise to bring back the days when I ran tinplate with the track nailed straight onto the plywood.    The roads are made out of cardstock, with the striping done free hand with a ruler and Sharpie.  I also like die-cast cars and trucks from the 1930 and 1940 era, so I have them on there too as I figure that fits in with the tinplate era.  All my trains are originals.  I do have a few that I restored because they were so far gone that was all that could be done with them, but I really prefer originals.  And I don't mind a few scratches or wear marks, it means someone else had a lot of of fun with them too.

Morristown isn't all that far.  I am about an hour north of Nashville, up on the  TN/KY border.

Terry,

          I can say this, too.  I spent a long time thinking about what I wanted to do...probably a lot more time than I should have (think years).  I finally realized one day that if I didn't do SOMETHING, then I'd never get started and I would probably end up regretting it.  So I just stopped the thinking and planning and said I am going to build it, knowing it would not be perfect, knowing it would not be exactly what I wanted in my mind, but also knowing it would be fun to run the trains on it no matter how it came out.   So my suggestion is to build it, and you can always change it later if it really, really isn't what you wanted.  But at least you will have had a chance to play with the trains, and that was and is their main purpose, to be toys that are played with.

Have fun,

Hank

Here are some photos I took this past Sunday of the train layout at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan.The impressive layout is pre-war tinplate.The O gauge trains that run on the layout are modern Lionel.

Dan