are tinplate cars ready to run

If your referring to traditional metal tinplate cars just a little oil on the axels and you good to go. Tinplate is a lot less formal.

chris - you described me perfectly, "a lot less formal"  - rdeal

 

 

Depends upon what you include under the broad umbrella of "tinplate".  I have serious

doubts anybody is doing that to their highly collectible prewar standard gauge, but

a lot of people are doing that to today's currently manufactured rolling stock, which

is seen as more of a "model".  They present and describe it frequently on this forum.

rdeal,

   Tin Plate runners are mostly into traditional child like layouts with their people and animals made of lead or older type plastic, these figures have never really been on the Tin Plate trains, very much, but placed thru out the houses, farms, rail stations & such.  Trying to compare Tin Plate O gauge to HO is like comparing apples & oranges, really can be done.  Traditional Tin Plate layouts are not about exacting realism, most HO is.  My layouts are a mixture of Tin Plate and Ceramic building that my wife really likes.  I would much rather have the traditional old Tin Plate buildings however. My wife likes to participate in the layout engineering so this mixture of Tin & Ceramic with FasTrack comes off very well on our multi level layout, which ends up being the child like wonderland that we happen to like.

 

PCRR/Dave 

rdeal,

As stated above there is a world of difference between modern tinplate and the vintage pieces of years past. Join us on the, "Tinplate Forum" for a your tinplate "fix".

 

God Bless,

"Pappy"