Tis the season!🎄 Let’s see your tinplate 🎅🏻
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As I tried to explain it to my wife. I was leaving one of the halls at York with the intention of finding a place to eat when I passed a sellers table and spotted a dining car - so for just a little more 
than the cost of a meal I bought an entire restaurant...that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 
Marklin Dining Car
...and the interior
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Marklin has always offer a nice selection of restaurant cars, here is a model from 1915in gauge One,
And a later one from the thirties also in 1 Gauge,
Have a nice weekend, Daniel
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I havent been a very good boy so far this year so Santa has only dropped off a couple of Hornby this week 
A not too shabby McAlpine tipper
And a fairly shabby LMS 6 wheel Tender ( without the wheels lol ) but I have plenty of them so it will find a place behind one of my No.2 Locomotives
Tail end Thursday
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Under the holiday tree this year is a large Schoenhut Railroad Station with illumination. According to the TCA's "Standard Of The World" book Lionel sold two versions of this station between 1917 and 1920. Model No,. 121 was 13-1/2" x 9" x 13" and Model No. 121X with the same measurements was illuminated with two lights. The station I have, acquired at York several years ago, is larger. It measures 17" x 10" x 12" and has five lamps and a switch for illumination. All windows have glass panes. Here is the information on Schoenhut from Wiki:
"The Schoenhut Piano Company is an American manufacturer of toy pianos, dolls, and other wooden toys. It was founded in 1872 in Philadelphia as the A. Schoenhut Company by German immigrant and woodcarver Albert Schoenhut, who had begun making toy pianos during his youth in Germany.[1] Both his father and grandfather had been toy and doll-makers.[1] The company began with making toy pianos and soon expanded to other toys such as dolls, doll houses, and circus figures. By the time of Albert Schoenhut's death in 1912, Schoenhut Piano Company had grown to become the largest toy company in the United States, and the first to export its products to Germany.[1] The Great Depression forced the company into bankruptcy in 1935, but a year later Otto Schoenhut opened a new company called O. Schoenhut, Inc., continuing the legacy. It was purchased in the 1980s by the Trinca family."
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Jim O'C thanks for that! I found one of those #424's some time ago and had zero luck trying to find out when Marx made that tower and for what market.
RSB and Daniel: LOVE those Marklin restaurant cars! JKE: VERY NICE Schoenhut station and informative history! Fred: NICE venerable, if not humble, MARX switch tower. Mine has a red girder support.
JO'C: NICE Canadian version of the MARX tower. Will be on the lookout for one!
Robert S. Butler posted:As I tried to explain it to my wife. I was leaving one of the halls at York with the intention of finding a place to eat when I passed a sellers table and spotted a dining car - so for just a little more
Marklin Dining Car
...and the interior
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Wow.. as far as I know, in some towns, you could have purchased a restaurant! Nice pick! I am waiting on a Marklin 1841 and 1842 in track 0 and my first Mundhenke locomotive. Hopefully, they will arrive safely and in time to run on the Christmas Carpetbahn. For now, the tree is naked and the floor impatiently awaits.
First train run in 2-3 years. Bad video, but very excited to see my beautiful 1835E running good as new. I didn’t remember this guy having such a strong whistle. Time to break out the blue baby states! And my other guys and 500 series freight cars. Better video to follow. Yay!!!
