I caught the SG tinplate bug a while back.... I thought it was just gorgeous "stuff". Most of my purchases this past year have been standard gauge. I'm starting to ask myself if I'm being unrealistic in going SG due to my modest 6x16 train board. Tinplate O gauge doesn't appeal to me as much simply due to lack of product. Has anyone else ever been in this dilemma?
Sunrise
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Seems as if MTH has produced a wider variety of SG motive power and passenger cars compared to O gauge tinplate.
Sunrise
I caught the SG tinplate bug a while back.... I thought it was just gorgeous "stuff". Most of my purchases this past year have been standard gauge. I'm starting to ask myself if I'm being unrealistic in going SG due to my modest 6x16 train board. Tinplate O gauge doesn't appeal to me as much simply due to lack of product. Has anyone else ever been in this dilemma?
Sunrise
I caught the SG tinplate bug a while back.... I thought it was just gorgeous "stuff". Most of my purchases this past year have been standard gauge. I'm starting to ask myself if I'm being unrealistic in going SG due to my modest 6x16 train board. Tinplate O gauge doesn't appeal to me as much simply due to lack of product. Has anyone else ever been in this dilemma?
Sunrise
6x16 is enough, although we can always wish we had more. That will get you an outer loop of STD-57 and an inner of STD-42 with enough room for some sidings, buildings, and accessories. If you can somehow stretch your space to seven feet you can get 72" curves, but remember, all of the old stuff (except Boucher) was made to run on 42" curves so the 57" gives you some room to play. 57" should also let you run a Lionel Hiawatha or Vanderbilt if you so wish (they will run on 42, but they will be unhappy).
I say go for it. I find Standard Gauge a lot more fun than tinplate 0. Obviously that's a question of taste (de gustibus non disputandum est) but the big stuff gives me a big smile. I have a loop of STD-87 around the outside of my 0 gauge layout and I love to watch a McKeen car or a 392E and some passenger cars roll. I run mostly scale equipment on the 0 gauge, but for sheer whimsical fun there's nothing like Standard Gauge.
Lionel -LLC
Ron M
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Ron M
I copied the photo from this forum. Ron posted the number. I do know it is a scale O gauge engine. Maybe a S-1. These might be the engines that pulled passenger trains from Croton on Hudson into Grand Central Terminal.
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