My current tinplate layout includes a Lionel Corporation 260E hauling new and vintage rolling stock, a Lionel Corporation 254E freight set, and a 1927 American Flyer 3013 electric with a 1934 passenger car set. The layout also includes a wide variety of tinplate toys and accessories that help to add color and variety. Enjoy!
Here is a link to the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7vQkUup5E
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Nicely done layout and video! Loved the accompanying music.
Well done!
Very nice layout & video. Love the 40;s music.
MBA,
Nice Tin buddy, very Nice Layout!
PCRR/Dave
I enjoyed the video very much. Nice layout. Also would like to know the type (make) of lamp posts that sit between the tracks in front of the oak park station. They appeat right in the beginning of the video. Super work and thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed the video very much. Nice layout. Also would like to know the type (make) of lamp posts that sit between the tracks in front of the oak park station. They appeat right in the beginning of the video. Super work and thanks for sharing.
Hi David. The lamp posts are made by Marx. They are the black Main Street lamp posts.
Thanks for taking the time to shoot, edit, and produce the video--I like it a lot!
thanks for the video, like the layout a lot.More about the tin, less about surface. BTW- I have that same background….
Tim
thanks for the video, like the layout a lot.More about the tin, less about surface. BTW- I have that same background….
Tim
Ha! Thanks for sharing Tim. Yes we do have the same background. I'm playing with the idea of making a retro 1930's "metropolis" background. There is not much surface. It's only 4' x 8'. All the best.
Well done! Watching tinplate never get's old.
I don't know what I enjoyed more..the trains or the Big Band music.....the trains...no the music...no wait! the trains.....
I don't know what I enjoyed more..the trains or the Big Band music.....the trains...no the music...no wait! the trains.....
Thanks Dave. The music is from Duke Ellington (Live at Newport), if you're interested.
thanks! I'll have to pick up some of his vinyl, I usually listen to Glenn Miller or Frank Sinatra when I'm working on the layout.
Nice video, very relaxing with that music.
Boy, if the combination of that video with Duke Ellington's music doesn't get you into the mood to run tinplate nothing will. Very well done.
<sigh> now I am getting the tin bug. CFO is gonna kill me. Great layout and I did enjoy the music too. Question is that STD gauge or O gauge.
<sigh> now I am getting the tin bug. CFO is gonna kill me. Great layout and I did enjoy the music too. Question is that STD gauge or O gauge.
Matt. All the trains are O-Gauge. I wanted to keep the scale down to fit as much as I could on a 4' x 8' layout.
A fun video to watch, tinplate & jazz.
Great layout thanks for posting
I enjoyed your well-done video and beautiful, true tinplate layout. 
Thanks!
was thinking about this video at work last night.
thanks for the video, like the layout a lot.More about the tin, less about surface. BTW- I have that same background….
Tim
What an excellent time lapse of Moon rise and set!
(Many of us have attempted it and been depressed with the results.)
A very nice shape and combination of accessories too.
My current tinplate layout includes a Lionel Corporation 260E hauling new and vintage rolling stock, a Lionel Corporation 254E freight set, and a 1927 American Flyer 3013 electric with a 1934 passenger car set. The layout also includes a wide variety of tinplate toys and accessories that help to add color and variety. Enjoy!
Here is a link to the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7vQkUup5E
GREAT!!
MBA-
Very well done. Loved to color fade and Music. Thanks for sharing!
JoeG
Great video!
You did some really good editing and camera work
Beautiful! 
Everything, and I mean everything is great about this video. The music is very apropos. It just enforces that I am born "out of time". Bob S.
simply beautiful!
Everything, and I mean everything is great about this video. The music is very apropos. It just enforces that I am born "out of time". Bob S.
Thanks Bob.
How can I top all the comments made so far, but say outstanding and have watched the video 4 times now. Thanks for sharing and posting.
Everything, and I mean everything is great about this video. The music is very apropos. It just enforces that I am born "out of time". Bob S.
as am I
I have enjoyed watching this video and the one with the sky and clouds background with the cityscape too (my favorite of the two) over and over again during the day. I never tire of it!!
A new "cavalcade" .
Very nice.
Wow! Very nicely done. I was able to watch all of your videos on your website. Hope you continue to make and post more...but I felt the need to go out and buy myself a "Zoot suit" to be properly attired during the Big Band music!
Tom
Awesome job !! Liked everything about the video, the trains, the editing and the music.
Steamer,
Pick up the Crooners Christmas DVD it's great to listen to the WWII Generation Christmas music while building the Tin Plate Layouts, I drink a little Irish Coffee, and I am a young man again!
Merry Christmas Dave, hope all is well at your home!
PCRR/Dave
this is my favorite version of this layout, with the backdrop(s)
MNCW posted:Wow! Very nicely done. I was able to watch all of your videos on your website. Hope you continue to make and post more...but I felt the need to go out and buy myself a "Zoot suit" to be properly attired during the Big Band music!
Tom
As a vintage fashion aficionado: myself, my now 20yo son and my husband having real vintage/original 1930s and 1940s wardrobes- PLEASE do not get a "Zoot suit". Not what real men wore... First pic is of my son wearing his 1930s white tie and tails to his H.S. senior prom, second pic of myself in a 1930s dress and 1940s hat, and my husband Tom all in vintage 1930s. Last pic, Tom in his 1930s attire with a 1940s tie at a recent dinner dance in late 2016 we attended.
Pine Creek Railroad posted:Steamer,
Pick up the Crooners Christmas DVD it's great to listen to the WWII Generation Christmas music while building the Tin Plate Layouts, I drink a little Irish Coffee, and I am a young man again!
Merry Christmas Dave, hope all is well at your home!
PCRR/Dave
I
ll have to look for that. I picked up a Sinatra Christmas CD, and of course Bing and Nat King Cole. Nothing like the classics.
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