Tinplate at its Best During Christmas Season?

Thomas,

           I found it tricky to find a PS3 Baby Blue Comet set this time last year. 

My youngest had asked for a Blue Comet for Christmas. 

Luckly Pats Trains had one.

You could try the MTH product finder which shows which dealers have a set in stock.

Hope you find one, it's a great set.

Nick

Thanks Nick,

Finding the engine was easy, relatively. It's the passenger cars where I'm going to have a challenge even finding - they completely disappeared from the dealer finder.

Your probaby going to have to just start calling dealers to find them.  I have found thier websites never show everything they have in stock.  I would go thru all the ones that appear above, then go from there.  I know Mr Muffins has a large MTH selection but cant remember if I saw that passenger car set there.  He has way more than I can find on his site. Should be a beautiful set running under the tree!  And it gets harder and more expensive to find and buy any toy train this time of year Good Luck with the hunt.  Mike 

Thomas - 

Are you looking for O gauge or Standard Gauge passenger cars?

Brian,

It's the O gauge version from a couple years back.

Try Sidetrack Hobbies. They've got a huge selection of tinplate, current and older stuff going back a number of years.

And one of our forum sponsors.

Thomas,

   Frankly I think you made a mistake selling your Tin Plate Train, pass them down thru the family, don't ever sell them.

PCRR/Dave

Dave,

I understand where you're coming from.

I will be keeping the next version of the Blue Comet I buy, as pretty much every other tinplate train I'm buying now. I still have my Rail Chief set to go with the scale Hudson, and I plan on holding onto that like a life support.

That makes a beautiful set to run around the Christmas tree, and is sure to be a treasure long after my generation.

You should check for yourself, but I compared the nickel trim cars from the 80's to the PS3 engine and I could not see a difference.

I think, in general, MTH never produced tinplate o gauge in very big numbers so they are often hard to find, but if you are patient, you can get them for pretty good prices from the big auction houses.

Thomas - I've done some research and show that you may be in luck.

Pat's Trains has the blue comet cars in stock.  Please see the link:

http://www.patstrains.com/View...Details=View+Details

As for the locomotive, I believe that The Train Room has that in stock as well.  I wasn't able to verify this, but I've ordered from them before and found that they've always had what I was looking for.  Their number is 301-745-6681.

http://www.the-train-room.com/

I hope this information leads you to success!!

Thomas,

    Man can I understand what you mean, my original 263E is now on display in my brother's (Frank L. Right & student designed) home, down in Washington County, it's still in the family however!  Your new MTH P2 Blue Comet version will be a great hand me down train also, that is exactly what my Gun Metal Gray MTH 263E is, and I love it.  When the battery starts to go bad, replace it with a BCR, they work great in this manner.  

Happy Thanksgiving to you down in Somerset County!

PCRR/Dave