LCT Girls Freight Set

Very nice Steve. One of these day's I'm going to pull the trigger on a pink tinplate set and hope for a future granddaughter.

I do like not seeing the big loop of wire for a tether there. Drawbars are supposed to be pretty durable.

The tetherless drawbars have held up well, thus far, on the several PS3 tinplate trains I have.  However, I had not connected/disconnected them a good number of times since I got them.  I generally leave them connected and pick up/move both the engine and tender together if I'm taking them off the track or putting them on the track (fairly easy to do with O gauge size; probably not so easy in the case of Std. Gauge).

 

I noticed a good amount of headlight flicker in the video.  Could be that cleaning the track would clear that up, along with a drop of oil at the ends of the pickup axles.

i always thought this would be a better hopper for the Girls' Set...

 

 

unfortunately the only common spice car is Old Spice.

Steve

A very unusual set in a very good way. Would be tough to categorize it as exactly a reproduction or a new creation in of itself..but more importantly, who cares? Looks great at a slower pace (as you shot it) with a good view of the reciprocating rods. The pastels stand out from the bright colors of your average tinplate.

Bruce

I think pink lends itself better to tinplate. Of course your always going to have some with the macho atittude."No pink trains on my layout" 

Chris

I'll balance it out. I ordered the Boys Freight set to go with it.

 

Steve

Don't forget the blue one for the future grandson (unless you already have a grandson)!

 

The pink girls set and the blue boys set are definitely my favorite tinplate sets by far.  Colors they used really go well together, IMO. Very nice sets. (Unfortunately my granddaughter & grandson don't agree.) If only I could afford them, I would have 1 set of each color, maybe even in both Standard & O gauges.

Steve, thanks for posting the video!

The boys out number the girls 5 to 2

 

Steve

I have enough boy's toys for a future grandson. I kind of had my eye on the 384 standard gauge girls set. The dark red and pink look pretty good together.

Steve,

 

I would suggest that you get the add-on searchlight car.  It's a nice looking addition.  The add-on crane car doesn't do it for me.

 

Ed

That is too cool, Steve!

 

You need to bring that one to Cal Stewart!