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

Well that's it......the Standard Gauge virus has spread again! (As it has with me)

Great-looking set, and yes, that Tom Snyder video is very distracting. As others have stated here, welcome to the shiny side!

A number of the modern locomotives (non reproductions) have a decent look to them, but there is no beating late standard gauge passenger cars. I am a standard gauge (well, really tinplate) fan as well, but unlike you do not possess any standard gauge, mainly the smaller O gauge cousins. ARNO knows a lot about this subject.

Welcome!  I hope you enjoy it here.  I'm the owner of just one standard gauge prewar set, myself.  (Can't collect everything).

Great circus set!  I recommend you watch the videos below to view other Standard Gauge circus sets in action.  Better yet, come to Trainfest 2016 in Milwaukee this coming November and see more wonderful circus sets in action on the SGMA layout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3airHCHokRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3D7JxGQUe4

Bob Nelson

Holy Cats. Fabulous videos, thanks for the links, will have to ask more questions about items I saw on the module another day... Can't come to Trainfest, my fiance Tom and I are getting married this May and our big trip for 2016 is the honeymoon to Niagara Falls and NorthCarolina. 

You started with a very cool set.  And, I see you have the extra add-on stock car.  You need to track down the other add-on car:

Congrats and good luck on your engagement.  May I suggest a pre-honeymoon in York this April?  

The stock car came with the others in my set. Any other add-ons along with this one?

gentleman,,,,,,,,,,,,,??? who came in (classic stooges) anyway welcome ,and I hope the best fun with your new set !!!!!!!!

Carey T,

    Welcome to the OGR, always glad to have another Tin Plate train runner join the OGR!

PCRR/Dave

Thank you. Though I am always overwhelmed by all the SG gents that have row upon row of shelves of trains on their walls, I'm just not in that economic or train real estate reality:/ 

Welcome aboard Carey.   Your off to a great start with that set!

TrainsRMe posted:

Welcome!  I hope you enjoy it here.  I'm the owner of just one standard gauge prewar set, myself.  (Can't collect everything).

picture please?

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

I flip flop between STd gauge, pre war O and post war O--I must be fickle

welcome to the shiney side

rat

Welcome!

Peter

Jagrick AND others- WHERE do you y'all find these terrific Lionel display pieces??? yowza!

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!

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.

If you look in the back ground you can see some of the trains

Welcome Carey!  Gotta love that tinplate.  I run standard gauge and O-gauge on my layout.

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.

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.

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.

Here is an "O" Gauge tinplate set on The Christmas Putz in The Lutheran Home at Topton, PA, along the East Penn Branch of the Reading (now Norfolk Southern) at the top of the grade halfway between Allentown and Reading. The Reading station is now a bakery and a deli.

Carey,

  Welcome and good luck. Wait until you go to a few train shows! 

Tom 

MNCW, have done too many train shows out here over the years for G-Scale. 

BUT, going to a new-to-me trains shop in San Francisco today. Its been there for years, just never got there. They do carry Standard Gauge...

A hearty 'Howdy Y'all" and Welcome, Carey Tearose.

This is a most informative group of folks as ever one could wish.

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.

Frank Mulligan posted:

You started with a very cool set.  And, I see you have the extra add-on stock car.  You need to track down the other add-on car:

Congrats and good luck on your engagement.  May I suggest a pre-honeymoon in York this April?  

 

Do you know if they ever (re) produced a circus caboose??

welcome Carey, that's a great looking set......

Welcome aboard Carey!!

Welcome Carey--lots of great info here!!