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rat

This is great news!  Anything else on the horizon you care to share Charlie?

Jeff Davis

Sorry Jeff no, but here is the link to the new items

http://www.nassauhobby.com/MTH-Uncataloged/

You got that right! Great news but; Oh boy.

I timed it just right. Placed an order for the Dofan set & PRR cars last night, the nearly correct color monorail today. I'm nearly done for the the year. There will have to be something really special in the Tinplate Traditions catalog to get me to but any more for now. Another small O steamer maybe?

Steve

Really glad to see this!  Originally thought I'd go red/cream, but the NYC has a nice look as well.  More of an art-deco green.  I wonder what the official color is called?

 All they need now is a switch track for sidings.

A switch would be cool!

Leland originally made a switch for their monorail (as well as the over and under figure 8 supports). I have never seen a switch in person but have heard that they do exist.

Roland

I imagine it will be New York Central's jade green or close to it.  I have to admit, that color design is speaking the loudest to me.  Reminds me of the futuristic 1950-60's era.

With Proto-Sound 3.0 in a DCS command environment, I don't see any reason why not!

Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette has run articles on several prototype monorails fairly recently, including one built as a freight line to haul borax?, potash?, or something out of the California desert.  The prototypes for these were not amusement park rides but had commercial uses??

Very Nice looking sets.

Anyone able to tell me the height of the Risers the monorail hangs on and the distance from table top to bottom of monorail car. Trying to figure out if these will ride over existing tracks without problems.

Also can bases be used in either 90 degree placement or do the risers only fit in one way.

Larry S

I'm on the fence on this one. I still think that a much nicer and more detailed O-scale monorail could be manufactured.  This looks like the opposite of trying to do that. The large outboard motor, the frosted windows, the over-sized "monorail"  double track and support is not that nice to look at.

I guess I'm still loving Disney's  interpretation of the "Monorail".

I don't know where I could put it. Sure wish we had some measurements of the base ect.

Will order the New York central green model...looks great.

indydanny

"Tinplate Traditions"?  Were these done by Lionel in the past, and this is a re-creation?  These look "tinplaty", as described above by Alanrail, and do not appear

aimed at the "scale" market.  In which case, what do the Lionel ones look like?

Similar?

These are a recreation of a set that goes for a lot. Like most pre-war not my cup of T.

But obviously they have a following.

I hope these measurements will help:

     Top of base to bottom of monorail is just over 5 7/8"

     Bottom of base to bottom of monorail is 6 1/2"

     Tubular track sitting on top of base gives about 5 1/4" clearance

     Height of the monorail track is about 10 3/4" above layout base

     The monorail base support is 3 1/4" wide. X  7 1/8" long

     My 263 engine has clearance sitting on the tubular track

Last weekend at the train show in Ontario, CA, I saw a Standard Gauge Engine running under a monorail with just a fraction on clearance.

If you would like any other measurements, let me know. I should be up for another hour.

Bob

Thanks Bob.  That will help.

They are selling well, thanks everyone!

You mean what you're getting her for Christmas......

Chris, glad you found room for the monorail. It is one of my favorites. MY wife liked the Lionel colors, part of her xmas, and I'm getting the red/cream. Definitely a win-win.

Bob

Actually Bob your measurements helped a lot. I made a template of the base and I think I can have it run over the race car set. If I could shoe horn in the race car set I'll get the monorail in!

I don't think that will be so much an issue but I may have to shorten the track. I won't know for sure until I have it in hand.

Thanks Chris as well as everyone else for the orders!

Having had orginals DL did not ever make the switches. They never left the proto-type stage.

Charlie,

I cannot provide evidence, but I believe at least one pair of switches have turned up in the wild. It is possible that they were the prototypes, but the Leland catalog shows the switches in a set, and the person who saw the switches described the construction and operation with enough detail to make me believe they were production items.

Roland

Roland, while I too have seen the catalog pictures I have never seen or heard of the "prototype" surfacing. I do know years ago a couple of people atempted to make a pair for their own use. I don't know if they were sucessful or not.

Thanks for theorder Randy!

Thank you guys!  Can't wait for December!

I'm waiting for someone to re-make the rare Space Patrol Monorail of the early 50s. Not many exist, but impressive. I've only seen 1 on e-bay, it went for 3900.00 complete.

Toy monorails were all the rage in the 50's, probably because of Disney. I had one called the "Jetrail Express." It ran off a couple of D cells in the body. You could turn it off remotely by means of a V-shaped gadget that would move the switch to the off position as the car went past it. 

I love Monorails!