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on tinplate toy trains and the people who collect and operate them.
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Photo: Stu Shuster's 0
Gauge Pre/Postwar Layout
New Feature Articles:
Building An 0 Gauge
Stirling Single - By David Argent. Do you have a favorite locomotive prototype
that has not been reproduced much if at all in tinplate or brass? Why not build
it yourself? Here's how one hobbyist designed and built a model of one of his
favorite British outline locomotives.
A Homemade IVES
1694 Locomotive - by Colin Duthie. "Have motor and wheels, will build!"
New Zealand tinplate enthusiast Colin Duthie shows and tells us about his latest
workshop project.
An Introduction To EDOBAUD:
French Machine Age Prewar Tinplate Toy Trains - Text
and photos by Jim Kelly. They were manufactured for only a little over a decade
in the 1930s. They were made primarily out of steel, cast iron, brass,
nickel, bronze, aluminum, zinc, and tinplate. They were assembled with
nuts, bolts and screws. Here's a primer on this remarkable prewar manufacturer
of tinplate toy trains.
JEP
Trains Yahoo Group Members Meet At April 2008 York - by Jim Kelly. List
member David Argent of St. Louis. MO. organized a meeting of some of the members
of the JEP and French-made toy trains Yahoo online discussion group at York
on Friday, April 18th, 2008. See photos of the meeting.
Commentary - by Jim Kelly,
Musings of the publisher.
See our archives
page for past tinplate profiles and feature articles.
Call For Articles: Our next update depends
upon you, the readers!
Contributions of articles focusing on tinplate* toy trains
are needed. Articles appearing on the Tinplate Times web site focus on tinplate
history, repair and restoration, modern tinplate, shows and events of interest
to tinplate enthusiasts, and personal profiles of tinplate operators and collectors.
Submissions should be emailed to:
All submissions will be acknowledged and proper author
credit will be given for all articles that appear on the site.
*For the purposes of the Tinplate Times web site, tinplate
toy trains are defined as "prewar" electric trains constructed entirely
or primarily of "steel, plated or coated, with a thin layer of tin- just
like a tin can" (Hertz) and related accessories, as well as current day reproductions
thereof.
