Hi,
as I am new in this Forum I would like to introduce myself first. My Name is Hans and I am from Bavaria (Germany).
I have started with Gauge G from LGB long time ago. I had a huge indoor construction equaly to the model of the Colorado & Southern.
Unfortunately I had to sell it, because the owner of the rented space wanted to use the room by himself. Therefore I had searched an alternative as I still wanted to use large Gauges.
8 Years ago I had visited a good old friend of mine - there I saw for the very first time the Standard Gauge. The MTH Repros / Digital Version.
I was immediately fascinated by it and started with help from my friend to build up a Standard Gauge Layout. As my daughter is already grown up I was able to use her old Room for this. After many teething troubles (like short circuits due to a lack of quality of the MTH Tracks, faulty locomotives and problems with the wheels of the wagons) finally the construction is running smooth and relieable.
Without the help of my friend I would have given up, cause it was/is impossible to get any spare parts in Germany and we had to solve all the problems by ourselves. A reshipment to MTH would have been too expensive.
But now all is running very well and I am still stoked of the Standard Gauge Tinplate!
Please ceep your answers short and simple. The whole text was written by my son and my own english has become very rusty over the years 
Best Regards
Hans
Here a picture of my old LGB - layout
furthermore a picture of the actually tinplate layout. Just a small view because of my camera
