Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽

@Miketg - Mike I have 2 reference books, one on Ismayer Trains alone and one on Ismayer & Bub trains.  I looked for your crossing guards shack / signal and could not find an exact match in either.  However the semaphore signal with the vertical slots appears quite often in Ismayer accesories and the shack is referenced in both the Ismayer and Bub pictures and the comment was made by both authors that the shack was included on a number of products.  Not much help I suppose but that is what if found.

Today I have something that is really not all that old, compared with many of the trains we see here on this thread.  However I found it very pleasing and quite robust in construction.  It is the Skyline station, offered I believe from 1954-1960.  Skyline as I am sure all know made quite a number of different buildings and RR accessories and  I had what I believe to be another, more rural looking station on my Christmas layout from 1947.  So here is the Skyline "Middletown" suburban station:  The station is all lithographed tinplate, no plastic on it at all.

Front including ticket window and freight / baggage area with sliding door

Rear with passenger exit to tracks and freight/baggage out sliding door.

The end view (both ends are the same) showing the "Middletown" name

Best wishes for a great week to come

Don

The MTH repro of the AF Old Glory lives on my SG Upstairs Layout, so will be getting another for the new Basement Layout. Trying mine out on the upper platform until then.

More placement fun, especially on the lower platform. LOOOVE the lighting on this.

Every now and then I get a memory video on my cell phone, and this one I got today .  I was asked to set up a floor layout at a senior center in Old Alexandria Virginia by my sister in law and this is what I did . Hard to believe it was 5 years ago .

@JohnnieWalker posted:

Every now and then I get a memory video on my cell phone, and this one I got today .  I was asked to set up a floor layout at a senior center in Old Alexandria Virginia by my sister in law and this is what I did . Hard to believe it was 5 years ago .

FANTASTIC!!!

@Miketg posted:

Carey, good seeing you back and I love your layouts and how you put them into a period setting, quite impressive!

Not much from me this week. I picked up a small guards shack which I believe to be by Issmayer of Nuremberg, Germany. No marks but it looks like others I have seen. It will make a nice edition to my future layout. Any additional information would be appreciated.

Miketg

Hello Mike,

Nice little thing, it is a French model from JEP and before Jouet de Paris. It has been made during a long time and was very successfull.

All my best wishes, Daniel

Hello Daniel,

I really appreciate your expert knowledge. I thought the signal part could be German as it looked like other German signals I had seen but the base was what me me doubt its origin and ask. You and other members of this forum are an incredible source of information!

Merci! Miketg

More play-time detailing and rearranging items on the new WIDE GAUGE/STANDARD GAUGE on-the-floor Basement Layout. Especially fun coming up with ideas for the now brightly lit lower platform.

Delighted with how this double platform area of The VintageHubby’s new WIDE GAUGE/STANDARD GAUGE on-the-floor Basement Layout is shaping up. The original AMERICAN FLYER TRAINORAMA backdrops are seen here for inspiration, for thinking about painting a mural on the wall!

Better placement of both on the new WG/SG Basement Layout.  The Lionel tinplate Factory and the MTH repro of the American Flyer Old Glory.

The Pride Lines Passenger Shed #2 is finished and in place at the trackline in front of the original Ives 116 Grand Station. On the new WG/SG Basement Layout.

The upper platform as it should be without the TRAINORAMA, as it’s overkill for Standard Gauge. The Pride Lines Passenger Shed really adds to this section of the Basement Layout.  

@Carey TeaRose posted:

The upper platform as it should be without the TRAINORAMA, as it’s overkill for Standard Gauge. The Pride Lines Passenger Shed really adds to this section of the Basement Layout.  

I was kind of digging the TRAINORAMA . I love the look of that art work.  But then again, painting your own backdrop should be cool as well.  I had painted my own on some melamine I got from a job site and it turned out just as I had envisioned.  

@JohnnieWalker posted:

I was kind of digging the TRAINORAMA . I love the look of that art work.  But then again, painting your own backdrop should be cool as well.  I had painted my own on some melamine I got from a job site and it turned out just as I had envisioned.  

johnniew Share pics of your melamine backdrop?

Here is a video and a few photos of my backdrop . I once had a 4x12 standard gauge layout in my shop . It has been dismantled for about 4 years now and I kept a simple 4x6 to test out engines , cars and scenery. As you can see the 4x6 has been almost dismantled.  Anyway , you can see what I had painted .  I hope these inspire fellow layout builders to do the same or something similar.

Nice 3-D effects...very Clarke Dunham-ish.

PD

JohnnieW- what paints did you use please?? Oh, what is the 48 Club?

@Carey TeaRose posted:

Oh, what is the 48 Club?

https://ogrforum.com/...f-the-48-club?page=1

A bit longer video trip around the Basement Layout.

Arrived today. Originals for the new Basement Layout; American Flyer 4116 Danger Signal, Lionel repainted 511 flat car, and Barclay grenade thrower.

Paid for and on its way. Another MTH repro of the American Flyer Old Glory. Layout placement pic shows mine, borrowed from my Upstairs SG Layout.