Reply to "Buy/Make Anything Cool Lately (Tinplate Version)"

George SOGR Forum Member

Odenville Bill posted:
Hey Y'all,
Is "Tinplate" everything prewar? I'm still working on my RR vocabulary. .
Bill

Bill,

Technically it means trains made from tin. They started prewar, but there is a bunch of modern tin trains that are mostly reproductions of old stuff, sometimes with fantasy colors or graphics. Marx made tin trains postwar too, and there is also modern Marx.

We take all comers on the Tinplate forum. I’ve been lobbying to call it the “old toy train” forum. Here tinplate can be trains made from tin, cast metal or even lithographed or painted wood, and sometimes 3D printed plastic with an enamel painted finish. You’ll see tinplate in all gauges, but one you won’t find anywhere else is wide gauge or standard gauge. These toy trains are played with (or displayed) on carpeted floors, carpeted layouts, wood floors, high-rail layouts, shelves, tables and many other places too.

Thanks for sharing your toys! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your set.

George

10/26/196:21 AM

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