Alan,
Thanks for posting that photo. You reminded me that I HAVE one of those. When I was working, it was in my office every year, then it was put into "Christmas Storage" by the company. When I retired, they sent it to me (lucky) but I've never gotten around to trying it. Now, I'll have to go find it and crank it up. It's quite a unique piece from Hallmark. I'll bet they would sell a bunch if they reproduced it.
Suzukovich,
Thank you. We like the night photos too. We turn the lights on in the evening even when the trains aren't running.
Festivus for the rest of us!
New Ceiling and primer done just in time for the temporary layout. Layout is still not finished but is close enough for now. One loop of Standard Gauge and 2 O Gauge loops. Most are reproductions except for the station, semaphores, lamps, and flagman. Will try to post more pictures soon!
Now that our Polar Express event has wrapped up now have my Santa train home. 
Added another flat car with kiddie pedal cars to my train, and painted up some letter boards that were big enough to mount the silver sparkly letters. Spells Lionel Trains on the last 2 flat cars. Would like to find some Kiddie pedal cars or rocking horses closer to O scale to add, these cars Hallmark ornaments a bit oversize but only ones I could find.
Great photos of so many great layouts
Thank You All for the posts of your layout. I have really enjoyed the "virtual" visits. They are inspiring and really help getting into the spirit of Christmas. May you all have a Very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Eddie Z
Austin, TX
Gilly@N&W posted:The 2015 picture....
Like it!
Size?
Track pieces?
As mentioned, per OGR Forum members recommendations sent a few of these sets out.
This was the first one, it arrived on base and an hour later it was set up and running
( Very odd Lionel doesn't include batteries for the remote
, so they "borrowed" the batteries from the TV remote to see it run.)
BobbyD posted:Gilly@N&W posted:The 2015 picture....Like it!
Size?
Track pieces?
All four switches are manual 036. The curves are a mix of 036, 048 and 060. While I normally put everything on RRTrack first, I did not with this layout. It's been a while since the old desktop computer was fired up. Let me see if I can get the layout on paper.
I posted this on the Tinplate section but it doesn't hurt to put it up again
Birkshire President,
Thanks much for the nice complement, and no sir I do my own design layout engineering, however you may have seen my last years Christmas layout in the OGR stuff, it also seems to be floating around in some other places also. When you see the Bear Tree it usually is our home Christmas Train Layout.
Merry Christmas!
PCRR/Dave
Suzukovich,
Thank you sir for the kind words, and Mrs Santa here stocks a full pantry for our Military boys, not to worry!
Merry Christmas buddy!
PCRR/Dave
Drummer3,
As Capt Kirk says Scotty we need more Power! Always have enough power to expand the Christmas layout, thinking of adding a ZW-L next year, and maybe another level of Trains. What you can't see in the picture, is the KW around the left side of the platform that controls the bumper cars on the 3rd level.
PCRR/Dave
Kj356, who cares about scale, these are whimsical times anyway. Your train looks terrific! I wish I could just go to my LHS and buy one.
PCRR/Dave, looking good! Quite a layout, especially considering the space you worked in. A lot of ACTION!
Scrambler81 posted:
Built this for my oldest son's 2nd Christmas, so this is the 15th year we've run it. This is the first year we've included the fake snow and the Christmas buildings.
Do you remember where you got the Garfield and Odie figures or who made them?
I would love to find a set.
Great pictures, thanks ALL for sharing, here is mine from Florida.
Merry Christmas to all. Here is one more S gauge train video made at the Polar Express show in Grafton WI. on Jan 19 by Bill Howe and myself. The layout features S gauge trains and a Disney Monorail. This video was assembled by a Badgerland member, Fred Vergenz, and our thanks go out to him. Please do enjoy.
Ray
Garfield posted:Scrambler81 posted:
Built this for my oldest son's 2nd Christmas, so this is the 15th year we've run it. This is the first year we've included the fake snow and the Christmas buildings.
Do you remember where you got the Garfield and Odie figures or who made them?
I would love to find a set.
They are from the Garfield Christmas Village by the Danbury Mint. I got those more than 20 years ago. There were a bunch of different buildings, but I only have the two. Those weren't the days for me to remember to write a check every month, so I gave them up. Anyway, I just did a quick search on eBay, and there are several posted right now.
FOX NEWS: Winterton's Town tree is up, Scandal avoided for now
Wintertons Village officials breath a sigh of relief as the Village Tree has been finally raised. With rail traffic up almost 50%, Two major derailments and power issues. Despite assurances from CB&Q/GN officials that the tree would be up in time for Village Celebrations. Village officials were still worried that the Grinch had gotten his way. One village official was quoted as saying that the derailments were suspicious in nature as with the power issues. He also stated that after the holidays that the Village will hold hearings as to the causes and vowed that people will be held accountable!!! In the meantime The Village Administration wants the residents to enjoy the rest of the holidays and wish everybody a Merry Christmas.
My FrankM moment above
beautiful ! and thank you for your service
SUKUKOVICH,
Great stuff as usual, I love the winter village!
As Steamer points out, thanks for your life time of Military Service to our country.
PCRR/Dave
Some of ours. I think it looks pretty good. Sorry my pics are pretty crummy. All I have is my cheap phone to take pics.
Merry Christmas,
Matt
looks good Matt!
Matt,
Nice Traditional layout, love it!
PCRR/Dave
Despite crazy-warm temperatures here in Maryland, a freak-snowstorm hit the layout this evening:
A lone sailor waits for the last local of the evening, hoping to make it home by midnight. He'll make it...the trains run on time here on the Piedmont.
Merry Christmas everyone...
PD
Finally finished! There are several pics and a video at the end. The lower level is led by double headed 0-8-0 Lionel Locos pulling a Hershey's chocolate themed consist. The top level is headed by a LionChief Plus 4-6-4 Hudson pulling a consist of mostly non-Hershey's candy themed cars with a few Hershey's branded cars at the end. The village is Dept 56 Snow Village. The layout is 16 ft end to end. Merry Christmas!
This is my favorite time of year, and my favorite thread of the year. Great work by everyone. Merry Christmas.
Don
Great photos by all so far, and I enjoy going through them as always.
Here are my entries a few hours before Santa gets on the sleigh.
This years layout is a 52x108 on top of the Ping Pong table with a MTH Real Trax 31x80 loop and a straightaway for the trolley.
Used 3 different consists this year on the one track, the typical Christmas freight train, a Santa "Amtrak Holiday Express" and a Metro North M7 running up into the snowy areas of Westchester County.
Thought that I put some night photos on my flash drive when we left for the holidays but didn't. I'll have to post them when I get back.
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My first attempt at adding a video and it went well.
Video of my layout on my YouTube channel.
Here's my Christmas layout.....
And we have a train tree:
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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The layout looks great. Where did you get the backdrop?
Merry Christmas! We did manage to put together a very simple carpet RR for Christmas this year. The room will eventually become our "train room", for now it houses this crude floor setup. I include video that's probably too long for the content of our layout (sorry). You'll see my favorite train, the gold Polar Express. The LionChief PE is there for our grandchildren (the Littles) to operate. If you look hard behind the blue building (actually a candy tin), you'll see a Christmas (Snowflake) BEEP that has been upgraded for me by GRJ. It includes Railsounds, TMCC, improved lighting and a flashing red/green beacon. We love it.
Hope everyone has a terrific Christmas and that Santa delivers all that you wished for.
From the Razorback Traction Co: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a joyous gi-raffe! ;-)
More pics here! https://ogrforum.com/t...50#46341121341491450
Mitch
Gentlemen,
Great Christmas layouts everybody!
ALDOVER,
Your boy is going to love the 702, a real classic Steamer, no doubt about it!
Ron L,
If that is your little Christmas layout I can't wait to see your big one!
PCRR/Dave
Garfield posted:
The layout looks great. Where did you get the backdrop?
Garfield, we purchased the backdrops at Party City. They're roughly 3x5 and we overlapped two of them to make the 9-foot length.
Good afternoon everyone and Merry Christmas.
Attached are some photos from my layout. it is winter here all the time so the feeling of Christmas never quite goes away.
I have been getting things ready for Christmas so I have not had the time to put a lot of work into my layout this year.
I will have to post a few photos at time so hopefully you will stay tuned.
Here is some pictures from the engine yard.
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