Let's See Some Tinplate Passenger Cars

my $1 a piece junkbox 1600s

and my Marx

Some of the collection

Al

here's one you can pencil into Greenberg, Early American Toy Trains.  the Hafner one piece coach is listed as (A) yellow sides with red window trim...

not listed is a black window trim version...

and the note about the end windows could also be updated. 

cheers...gary

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A few clockworks.

Steve

American Flyer Hummer set.

Hafner red and black 919 coaches

 Hafner set with bell ringing tender

Dorfan clockwork steamer

Bing for Bassett Lowke, French Hornby, British Hornby.

This is a Howard No. 6 set that I restored last year.

Happy to see Hornby Bassett Lowke and Fandor popping up on this thread.

Here are a couple of examples from my collection-- a rare Fandor ex Bing Mitropa and a more common Bing for Bassett Lowke LMS coach.  Lew Schneider

baby state set

and

blue comet set

I'm going to be getting my first tin-plate train at next week's York meet.  I have the baby Blue Comet and the matching 4 car passenger set on pre-order to be picked up at York.

Being a tin-plate novice I would like to ask: is it OK to "populate" the passenger cars or is that tin-plate blasphemy?  I had 2 MTH 'O' passenger trains before and I put people in all of the cars and I really think it made a huge improvement in the look.  Now that I think of it, I have no idea even if the cars have seats in them.

But I didn't see any cars in this thread, so far, unless I missed one, where the cars had people in them. 

- walt

Walt the great part about this hobby is that if it is right for you then it is right.  Since you are getting reproduction tinplate there is absolutely no reason not to populate your set.

Al

Walter, Only one opinion!

Shed the rest of your hirail instincts and don't put people in the cars. If anything, buy the silouet strips at York and put them in, of course saving the originals for the purist someday.

So as to not divert this thread from its original intent, I started a separate thread.

I know it's silly, but to me this is almost a philosophical discussion about the merits of 'pure' tin-plate customs.

see you in the other thread!

- walt

332 Baggage car.

Jim

Here are a few, mostly Milwaukee Road but all tinplate:

First, an MTH repro of an Ives 3245 with American Flyer-style cars, painted for the Olympian Hiawatha.

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Next, the observation car from the State set that goes with the Milwaukee Road Super 381.

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And a couple of shots of a Standard Gauge McKeen car.

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Switching to 0 gauge tinplate, here's an American Flyer Olympian set.

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And, finally, a pair of 0 gauge tinplate Hiawathas. Top one is the 1988 repro of the original Lionel set from the 30's. The bottom one is by Pride Lines. It has separate cars like the prototype Hiawatha (unlike the Lionel set, which was a repainted UP articulated set pulled by the Hiawatha engine). It also has a much nicer and more prototypical paint job than the Lionel set, and a real Beaver Tail observation and Tip Top Tap baggage/lounge. Unfortunately, it was junk mechanically - I've replaced the motor and some other parts with Lionel and MTH repro parts. 

Jim... great picture composition.

wish i had a layout like that to work with.

here are a few more small guys...

electric and steam passenger sets (yes, one car is correct) from Dorfan.

probably my favorite little set, the Flyer #999, New York Express.

from the Flyer Hummer line featuring a #513 tender with the CN, Continental Ltd passenger car.

three more Hummer cars.

the variety seems endless.

cheers...gary

Welcome to the Joy Ride!

...and these are for Craig L:

Ooops... Sunshine, Sunrise... I knew that.  I knew that!   Senior moment.

The Sunrise Special went out Long Island, didn't it?

hojack,

Are you feeling ok?   Perhaps the rattling of all that tin is finally starting to show its side effects?  Yes, the Sunrise Special did run on Long Island. Grew up on Long Island 70s-80s.  That's why you always see me post requests for the O gauge manufacturers to produce white/blue wave GP38. Its what I remember seeing most as a kid at the Great River station on the way to church every Sun morning. I'm hoping MTH does a another run of the Sunrise Special one day.  Some photos ...