More UK tinplate and starting a local tinplate group

[emdmike]

As I am hunkered down thru this virus mess in the USA(I am high risk due to bad asthma), I just go to work and back home right now.  So what is one to do, get busy with my plans for a local UK tinplate group and buy some more trains to further that along.  I picked up a Bassett Lowke Duke of York clockwork engine a week or so ago that should be here today or tomorrow.  Then after paying off some unexpected household bills, I had enough to get a Bassett Lowke LMS live steam Mogul(vintage version) and 3 coaches from Darstaed for it and my LMS Enterprise to pull.  I have named the future group "A little bit of British Tinplate Society"  The goal being to set up tempoary layouts on a couple show tables coved with a dark green table cloth with nothing but UK/Euro tinplate trains(vintage or new issue).  I think that many of the O scale folks in the USA have no clue these beautiful tinplate models are out there in vintage or new issue form.  Builders like Bassett Lowke(both vintage and reissue), Leeds, Bing and Carette.  Then you have ACE Trains WJVintage and Darstaed with stunning reissues of classics and new models never done before. While it will probably be a one man show(me) for awhile, hopefully others will be enticed to join and aquire some models to run.    Cheers  Mike

[Benjamin Maggi]

I love those trains. I wish we had a group like that on the East Coast.

[emdmike]

Start one, that is what I am planning on doing.  I hope to have enough stuff to do a one man layout starting in the fall and grow it from there hopefully.     Mike