Let's see your tinplate Christmas/holiday layouts

a couple from my old floor layout. I'm thinking about reusing this one next year. The carved sheets of foam are in storage.

that looks great!

Some really Great Holiday Pics! Here is my Dining room Layout - First year Tinplate.

Merry Christmas Everyone!     Ken

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Here's a video

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

One thing that I love about Jim's trains is that, even though they're at least 100 years old, they're always so quiet and run so well.  Bravo, Jim!

not a xmas display but xmas trains,,,,,,

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Here's our little under-the-tree village with a loop of 1 gauge track with Marklin and other vintage tinplate.

Your layout almost has a steampunk feel to it.

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Here's our little under-the-tree village with a loop of 1 gauge track with Marklin and other vintage tinplate.

Hi Jim - 

When you have a moment, would you please comment on the lamp posts on your Christmas Tree layout.  Marklin?  Year of manufacture?  I absolutely love them and haven't seen anything like them before.  Thank you and Merry Christmas.  

I can tell you that they are both Bing Lamp posts. The Black goose-neck lamp was made for a number of years (1913-1929 According to Schiffman) The lattice post lamp were first cataloged in the 1906 catalog and were in the catalogs until 1920. The one on Jim's layout has the wooden base under the tin base which indicates it was most likely the high voltage electric version. At some point someone has replaced the original e-14 socket and shade with a Carette type candle burning glass globe fixture which has been electrified. If it had originally been a Bing candle illuminated version it would not have the wooden base. Incidentally the HV versions have binding posts you attach 110 volt wires to. (In Europe, i would expect they would use 220 volt bulbs)

Both of these lamp styles were also available in double arm configurations.

Roland

sorry for the crappy picture of a picture.......

76 years apart.....Dad's first train in 1939, he was born in 1938, so Grandpa must have bought trains ahead of time....1684 and tender,1677 gondola,1680 tank car, and 1682 caboose.

Same train, reunited for Christmas 2015. Dad had given his brother (Uncle Jim) the cars, and held onto 1684, passing it down to me in the '90s.

and 1684 at my Grandparents in the '50s.

Ladies & Gents,

   The 2015 construction of the PCRR Christmas Layout with it's Tin Plate Trains, has finally come to a completion.  This Christmas we reverted into the child like Brick Platform Skirting and the Pre-War hand made Wooden RR Fencing.

Merry Christmas from our home to yours!

One last note, we have US Military people in Harms Way again this Christmas Season, I ask you to say a special prayer for all of them to return home safe to our wonderful peaceful country.

PCRR/Dave

pine creek,always loved that brick paper,,,would have killed for that as a youngster,,,,very nice indeed ,terry 

   terry I thought it was time to step back into what these Christmas Train layouts are really meant to be, when I got the picture of me and my Grandfather out this year to put on the layout, I looked at the old Brick paper in that photo and told my wife, we are going to find some of that Red & White Brick paper skirting, and it's going back on our Christmas platform this Christmas season.  There is just something child like special about it, that is for sure.

PCRR/Dave

Great pictures and videos everyone!

Brian Liesberg posted:

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Here's our little under-the-tree village with a loop of 1 gauge track with Marklin and other vintage tinplate.

Your layout almost has a steampunk feel to it.

Thanks, Brian...I was not familiar with the term...looked it up...fascinating. I do like the "machine age" look that was typified by toys like Erector sets and streamline toy trains patterned after real streamlined trains, and of course, the art deco period. All good stuff.

rdigilio posted:

I can tell you that they are both Bing Lamp posts. The Black goose-neck lamp was made for a number of years (1913-1929 According to Schiffman) The lattice post lamp were first cataloged in the 1906 catalog and were in the catalogs until 1920. The one on Jim's layout has the wooden base under the tin base which indicates it was most likely the high voltage electric version. At some point someone has replaced the original e-14 socket and shade with a Carette type candle burning glass globe fixture which has been electrified. If it had originally been a Bing candle illuminated version it would not have the wooden base. Incidentally the HV versions have binding posts you attach 110 volt wires to. (In Europe, i would expect they would use 220 volt bulbs)

Both of these lamp styles were also available in double arm configurations.

Roland

Thanks, Roland, for the reply. The arc lamp with the street sign 532/22 is Bing for the American market. The street sign reads: "Times Square." The elaborate crank up arc lamp with the wood base is Bing cat. no. 13952, modified for low current, as Roland pointed out.

Here is this years tree layout.  I went under the table for the biggest one I have made.  

Merry Christmas to all my Tinplate and non-tinplate Friends!  This is my first Tinplate Christmas and I hope many more. This is one of the Best model Train forums anyone can part of.  Many Thanks to Everyone!

Ken

First Christmas layout, first tinplate layout...

very nice Jon!

My first step into standard guage. 

wmcwood posted:

My first step into standard guage. 

Very nice.  I'm actually considering buying one of those from my local shop as my first step into standard gauge as well.  Although an original working No 6 would be nice too ��

Looks great!  What did you use for roadbed?

yes...what is the roadbed?

Merry Christmas everyone!

Bob

I built a new layout this year using Gargraves and Ross.  The build was tougher than I anticipated but after working through the issues with the Ross and Gargraves switches, everything is working now.  It is a 5x8 with an O52 outer loop (with Ross O72/O52 switchts) and the inner loop is all Gargraves O42.  Right now I have only MTH DCS running things although I have TMCC and Legacy ready to go.  

I chose to use Gargraves and Ross for noise suppression.  It is significantly quieter that last year's fast track layout which my wife appreciates.  Now if I could just get her to like the smell of train smoke...

Tony

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

yes...what is the roadbed?

I did a short topic on the layout.

https://ogrforum.com/t...tandard-gauge-layout

~Bill

A short clip of a 1952 Lionel 671rr heading a modern MTH passenger set.  Old meets new.  This is the engine that started it all for me.  I have photos of me with this engine when I was only 2 or 3 years old at Christmas.  Love to see the original smoke unit still going strong.

Brian Liesberg posted:

Short video of our Prewar Christmas display at the park on Saturday.

Brian, is the steam engine running on compressed air or an electric motor?

Are the tree bulbs repro? My son has a set of original Edison type bulbs that need re-coated.

Dave

I got around to taking pictures and videos of my tinplate Christmas layout.  Here is the first video.  (Hope this works...)

Here is my Lionel 390e pulling an AF consist.  I changed the coupler on the tender to pull the AF cars.

Here are some pictures.

I used Gene Maag's idea and added family pics to the Black Diamond observation car.  Still needs a little work on orientation to the window arrangement.

Had to add this last video of the Prosperity Special, the smoke output is fantastic!

One more video with better lighting...

A lot of nice pictures and video's here.

Thanks to everyone that has posted so far! 

(Tin plate is starting to tug at me... )

Here's a Christmas layout I do for a local Christmas celebration.  Plenty of seasonal houses and three loops:

Outer loop with the Polar Express; inner loop with an MTH Blue Comet tinplate set; middle loop with a refurbed 255E/tender, 810 crane, and tinplate searchlight car, box car, and caboose.  Measure of success...we have to "give the engineers a rest" (shut down the trains) to get the kids to go see our Santa!

Dug another photo out of the archives — Christmas 1985. Two 0-gauge loops and one Standard. Ron M

keqwow posted:

Not exactly a photo of any layout exactly, but I thought it was worthy of this thread.  Daddy with his new train, trying to rekindle a new/old tradition with my 2 year old daughter.  We both really like this reproduction tinplate train.  

I'd love to know which set you got! Is it the Red Comet?