Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽

@Carey TeaRose - WOW 12 cu ft of plaster !  What a mountain, looks great by the way.  One thing I noticed in your post of what you called the SG Upstairs layout, just across the tracks from Charlton Heston's Jeep is a small brick lithographed building.  I believe I have the same building and its a "Parkville" Station by Chien. I have always dated it to the 1930's but honestly don't know.  Perhaps you have some additional information on it.  Also I will post below, Chien made another version of the same building but with much more elaborate lithography.

Here is the little station that I think I saw on your layout.

Here are views of the front, rear, and side of the more elaborate lithographed version of the same building also by Chien. Note that this station says "Toytown" vice "Parkville" and it does not have the windows in the rear punched out in order to provide more area for lithographing.   I have little to no information on these items and if you have more information that you are willing to share I would most certainly appreciate it.  

Well Carey, its rare that I think there is anything I have that could add to your fabulous layouts but maybe this little building is something you might seek out.  Nevertheless, your layouts are wonderful and thank you for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

A couple of light towers on the Roundhouses area of the SG Upstairs Layout. The green 381E is there, as is the requisite turntable.

A back corner view on the SG Main Floor “Showcase” Layout. Yes, there are marble pieces set in on the four corners of this table.

@Don McErlean posted:

@Carey TeaRose - WOW 12 cu ft of plaster !  What a mountain, looks great by the way.  One thing I noticed in your post of what you called the SG Upstairs layout, just across the tracks from Charlton Heston's Jeep is a small brick lithographed building.  I believe I have the same building and its a "Parkville" Station by Chien. I have always dated it to the 1930's but honestly don't know.  Perhaps you have some additional information on it.  Also I will post below, Chien made another version of the same building but with much more elaborate lithography.

Here is the little station that I think I saw on your layout.

Here are views of the front, rear, and side of the more elaborate lithographed version of the same building also by Chien. Note that this station says "Toytown" vice "Parkville" and it does not have the windows in the rear punched out in order to provide more area for lithographing.   I have little to no information on these items and if you have more information that you are willing to share I would most certainly appreciate it.  

Well Carey, its rare that I think there is anything I have that could add to your fabulous layouts but maybe this little building is something you might seek out.  Nevertheless, your layouts are wonderful and thank you for posting.

Best Wishes

Don

I love this! I frankly cannot remember about it, I may have found it on a “Chein” search in vintage toys on eBay. Since I have a Chein cathedral and Ferris wheel on the Main Floor Layout. Will do a bit of looking, as it could work in a small space on the new Basement Layout.

A picture from Saturday 1/12/2023: for The VintageHubby’s new WIDE GAUGE/STANDARD GAUGE Basement Layout. Just arrived; original BOUCHER Wide Gauge 2222 engine & original BOUCHER Pennsylvania tender. Pulling original DORFAN Wide Gauge freight cars; tank car, Pennsy hopper, caboose. All from Dave Corbett of WI. The original DORFAN WG boxcar was found on eBay. One more freight car is scheduled to be coming tomorrow, the gondola.

A view at the main station area on the Upstairs Layout. Quite an assortment of peeps, cookie tin houses, lights, structures. Plenty of accessories old and new. 3 repainted original O-scale 600 series Blue Comet passenger cars coming across Majestic Mountain after the Hellgate Bridge.

@Arne posted:

I use water to cleaning only on very dirty parts. Mostly I use "Meguiar´s cleaner wax".

Arne

gorgeous buildings! What manufacturer are they please?

For 1/2

01/19/2023

Original Wide Gauge American Flyer beauties! Three car red decal “Warrior” passenger set. Perfect for being pulled by my original Wide Gauge American Flyer 1931 Brass Piper bell ringer locomotive & it’s Wide Gauge American Flyer 1931-1932 tender. All from Dave Corbett in WI.

The original Wide Gauge DORFAN Gondola freight car arrived. A beauty!  The Reproduction DORFAN Crocodile is pulling four of the five freight cars in this video.

Detailing. I love this part of creating our Standard Gauge Layouts at our home.

Using the Barclay pieces, these soldiers and cannons atop an original Lionel 211 flat car.

@Carey TeaRose posted:

Detailing. I love this part of creating our Standard Gauge Layouts at our home.

Using the Barclay pieces, these soldiers and cannons atop an original Lionel 211 flat car.

Wow! Nice!!

Joe Gozzo

@Carey TeaRose posted:

Detailing. I love this part of creating our Standard Gauge Layouts at our home.

Using the Barclay pieces, these soldiers and cannons atop an original Lionel 211 flat car.

The Manoil cannons work perfect.

Steve

@Trainlover160 posted:

Wow! Nice!!

Joe Gozzo

Thanks Joe,

very different and a bit challenging with using soldiers and medical personnel and their equipment only for detailing this particular Layout.

@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

The Manoil cannons work perfect.

Steve

Thank you for correcting me on those cannons, SteveE. Wish The VintageHubby had two more for a second flat car.

@Carey TeaRose posted:

Thank you for correcting me on those cannons, SteveE. Wish The VintageHubby had two more for a second flat car.

They show up on eBay quite often.

Steve

Some tinplate to brighten up a gloomy Saturday!

And that it did !!!!

First up, the two on the Vintage Hubby's new WG/SG on-the-floor Basement Layout.
Second up, the two on my SG Main Floor “Showcase” Layout.

Playing with detail ideas again. This time for the back right platform; using T VH’s snow soldiers, assorted trees, moving the Lionel 120 Tunnel, plus adding a Lionel Tinplate Factory.

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

@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.