Changing Tastes!

careful...that tinplate will take you over.....

You can say that again Dave. I also started out with postwar and have changed to tinplate over the last couple of years.

I find the lithographed tin to be the most fascinating.

Steamer posted:

careful...that tinplate will take you over.....

thanks Dave, but if you remember I started with a box of tinplate I purchased from you, HA!

wow..these 12 hour shifts have muddled my brain...I sure don't remember selling anything. just what was it?

Prewar tinplate is the best.
Still looking and picking up o gauge prewar projects and now slowly shifting with standard gauge.
The Prewar stuff is a lot of fun and the stuff still runs after 75 plus years.
Once you get hooked there is no turning back!

Clothes?  

I love pre war tin plate and have been tempted to sell off my post war collection to purchase some tin plate. 

It's happening to me also.  More smiles per mile than any other gauge!  

Dyed in the wool tinplater. Have been since my first Joy line electric Marx set I bought at an antique shop in Cortland, NY for $15. Durable, attractive, fun, and a little easier on the pocket than standard gauge.

Had Flyer s-gauge and Lionel o-gauge as a young teen, but my parents gave my original set to an orphanage and I went without for about 15 years. Lately cast iron o-gauge clockwork has been creeping into my collection. Have purchased quite a few this year.

Add my name to the list .... Started about 18 years ago with my dad's 1948 Lionel set, progressed to MTH, Lionel, and K-Line modern and more scale pieces. Started a layout with a nod towards hi-railing.

Now I'm (slowly) selling off the newer O gauge and scale items in favor of of older o gauge and Modern Era Standard Gauge.  Slowly but surely rebuilding my layout to reflect the more toy train appearance of the things I'm collecting now.  

Any way you approach it - we're part of a great hobby.  I've met some amazing people and learned much along the way -- looking forward to many more years of collecting, operating, and tinkering!

     While we occasionally set up my dad's mostly PW trains at Christmas, I grew up with HO. When I moved to DC and lived in a small apartment, I switched to N and joined the 800lb gorilla, NVNtrak. Once I moved further out and got a home, I bumped up to O, mostly for 3 rail Trolleys.

     However, one day I found someone selling some beat up barely running Ives O and immediately was sucked in. I still have my Trolley collection for a planned layout modelling a museum, but the majority of my purchases these days are new and vintage (Lionel and Ives) tinplate. 

In any hobby, that'll happen.

• As a kid, I loved tinplate (my folks found some Marx tinplate for my Lionel set as a kid, God knows where they found it).
• Later I loved class I HO stuff
• Then, I found G scale narrow gauge
• Now, in O scale narrow gauge and love it more than anything before it...

You just never know where those interests will lead you.

Steamer posted:

wow..these 12 hour shifts have muddled my brain...I sure don't remember selling anything. just what was it?

box of 600 series cars, with four wheel trucks. If I remember correctly, there where about 10-11 cars for less than $100 and you even threw in a search light car that had a broken yoke. I was abl;e to get a new yoke from Jeff Kane and that car is up and running. choochoo

hmmmm.....still don't remember that. sure it was me?