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Hello Gentlemen, I'm a female modeler and BRAND SPANKIN' NEW to Standard Gauge Tinplate

Carey TeaRoseCarey TeaRoseOGR Forum Member

Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm looking forward to looking over all the posts and getting to know all of you via seeing your fabulous layouts and projects. Been lusting at Standard Gauge for years over watching that darn TM Tom Snyder video over and over again

I've just gotten my very first Tinplate Standard Gauge set, the MTH repro Ives Circus set with the FABULOUS diorama pieces. Buying track, lock on, transformer, etc. piece meal IMG_0849IMG_0853to get this big puppy up and moving. For now its going to loop around the legs of the pool table in the family room.

Eventually I'd like to add another loco and tender with a crayon box (one each of certain colors, mix and match) passenger line, and then another loco and tender with a hand picked mixed freight line. 

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Ed WalshEd WalshOGR Forum Member

First of all welcome to the forum.  This is a great place to learn and be entertained at the same time.

Whenever I read about someone starting off in standard gauge I have a sigh of regret.  I received my first Lionel 0-gauge  train in 1955 and caught the addiction then.  But  I have always longed for standard gauge because of their size and beauty.  My wife however does not share my longing. All I have to do is start thinking about buying just a couple of standard gauge trains and somehow she can sense what I am thinking and tell me enough is enough is enough!  

I hope you post photos as your empire expands.

Jealous in Georgia 

Ed

Carey TeaRoseCarey TeaRoseOGR Forum Member
Ed Walsh posted:

First of all welcome to the forum.  This is a great place to learn and be entertained at the same time.

Whenever I read about someone starting off in standard gauge I have a sigh of regret.  I received my first Lionel 0-gauge  train in 1955 and caught the addiction then.  But  I have always longed for standard gauge because of their size and beauty.  My wife however does not share my longing. All I have to do is start thinking about buying just a couple of standard gauge trains and somehow she can sense what I am thinking and tell me enough is enough is enough!  

I hope you post photos as your empire expands.

Jealous in Georgia 

Ed

Ed, I have no room either! I'm finding space anywhere I possibly can!

JagrickJagrickOGR Forum Member

My first train as a kid was a marx o gauge. Then a tyco HO and then Arnold N gauge. Trains went dormant in my life from 1970 until about the early 80's when my sister gave me a Lionel 8E with a 337 and 338 car. I had never seen such a behemoth , the hunt for parts led me to a train show and then TCA and I joined that in 85. I can remember going to York and getting a 384E and thinking wow if only I could get a few more pieces and maybe 1 day a 400E. Wll I have yet to find out the number that equals enough, Now I have numerous state sets, blue comets, various colored 400e's, 390, 392, 385, 1835, 408, 402, 318, 381E and 381U, 9, 9E and 9U and on and on and on. Wife likes the accessories so we have a bunch of those. Postwar I like the service station stuff (I have a 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5F test set), tools etc,. Dealer displays have become an acquired taste and are becoming more difficult to find. I have many originals, and they often needed repaired and/or restored so I did that and worked my  way up to reproducing them in house in my shop. The two ferris wheel displays and 10M displays above are reproductions I produced.

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Welcome to the Forum!

Congratulations on your engagement and on your marriage in May!

During your honeymoon to Niagara Falls and North Carolina, I hope you can visit Strasburg and stay in The Red Caboose Motel. While we were planning our wedding, my beautiful and charming fiance, Beverly, suggested we stay there during our honeymoon. The cabooses were repainted and renumbered after that. But the General Manager tracked down our caboose and we celebrated our 30th anniversary there. Lots of old and new Standard Gauge trains are displayed and run on a new layout at the National Toy Train Museum next door.30thAnivCaboose 00130thAnivCaboose 00530thAnivCaboose 00630thAnivCaboose 004

 

West of Strasburg, this replica of a Civil War passenger train [completed in 2013] runs on the historic Northern Central Railway between New Freedom and Hanover Junction south of York, PA, under the auspices of Steam into History Inc.YORKinSnow2

President Abraham Lincoln changed trains here at Hanover Junction when he delivered his Gettysburg Address. The curve in the foreground is a remnant of the branch to Hanover and Gettysburg. No. 17 is facing New Freedom on the main line to Baltimore. Behind her, the main extended through York to Harrisburg and Sunbury.

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Mikado 4501Mikado 4501OGR Forum Member

I always welcome more females to the wonderful world of toy trains.

And glad to see you're into tinplate trains, too. Although I don't have room for standard gauge, I love the standard gauge tinplate. Can't go wrong with MTH for their reproductions - they look beautiful and run terrific. I do have room for O gauge tinplate, though, and love to run it side by side the more scale items.

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