CHRISTMAS TRAINS - LETS SEE THEM!

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Well folks, it is that time of year again! I thought it would be fun to create a thread where we can share our pictures and videos of our Christmas trains, layouts, seasonal scenes, etc. All scales and eras are welcome to share!
For those who do not celebrate Christmas, I would love to see your Kwanza, hanukah, Boxing Day, etc trains.

Here is my modern Christmas freight train. The two powered diesels are MTH and the rolling stock is predominately MTH with some Lionel and K-line mixed in. I will post more pictures and videos in the near future.



Ho Ho Ho!

Bryce

Bryce, your photo/video is missing from your above post.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Bryce, your photo/video is missing from your above post.

Thanks Arnold, should be there now.

Bryce

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Well folks, it is that time of year again! I thought it would be fun to create a thread where we can share our pictures and videos of our Christmas trains, layouts, seasonal scenes, etc. All scales and eras are welcome to share!
For those who do not celebrate Christmas, I would love to see your Kwanza, hanukah, Boxing Day, etc trains.

Here is my modern Christmas freight train. The two powered diesels are MTH and the rolling stock is predominately MTH with some Lionel and K-line mixed in. I will post more pictures and videos in the near future.



Ho Ho Ho!

Bryce

Gorgeous, Bruce, and I see you're hauling plenty of coal for those Christmas stockings! LOL, Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Gorgeous, Bruce, and I see you're hauling plenty of coal for those Christmas stockings! LOL, Arnold

Here is some of my Christmas Trains on my powered wall display..

@trainnerd posted:

Here is some of my Christmas Trains on my powered wall display..

Mucho gorgeous.

@trainnerd posted:

Here is some of my Christmas Trains on my powered wall display..

Patrick, that is fantastic!

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Patrick, that is fantastic!

Thank You

Here is a Lionel postwar 671 turbine pulling a string of Christmas-themed freight cars, with a couple of recently purchased auto carriers thrown in for good measure

Running some Marx for the Holidays! Where I got started. 

From my club running it to test it for our Christmas show this weekend

Here is a christmas train running at the clarksburg area model railroad club tonight 11/28/22

Great looking Christmas trains & layouts everyone!

Thanks for the likes on my video guys!!!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Mucho gorgeous.

That is a great display.  Never thought about powering display tracks.

I've shared these photos before but they are still my favorites. I keep the same setup for each Christmas.

John

This is my Christmas train on my O & S ga. layout.  Each scene is 3' X 6' on each end of the layout with 6' bridges connecting them. The engine is my Lionel cab number 2026.

@trainnerd posted:

Very nice.  I do like the MTH cars like this but those LED strings are fragile.  Really like the way you displayed them.

Humble beginnings ... this is how we got interested in O scale trains. Eventually went from a dining room table oval to a 20x15x12 foot all Christmas year-round layout with pretty much everything MTH ever made in traditional sized Christmas/North Pole theme. It was a fantasy land that entertained elderly parents and younger grandchildren until 2019. The grandkids got older and the parents gone on, so sold off almost all of it save a string of Nativity flat cars that have gone back on a dining room oval layout. Enjoyed it all.

Part II of the story is that our interest in O scale grew and for everything Christmas we sold, something D&H, Central Vermont, Rutland, Bangor & Aroostock, Boston & Maine et al took its place. Getting ready to put up a layout to replace what we took down in 2019. Great fun, this hobby.

After taking a break for a few years, I put together my Christmas layout last week. This layout is virtually the same as past versions, but instead of the original Polar Express train, the FT Diesel I bought from @Mooner (funny he's the previous poster in this thread) makes its first appearance. The MTH vista dome car behind it is also new. To the left of the main track, and mostly out of frame, sits a Lionel Santa's Speeder, and the PE bumper trolley (also purchased from Mooner). This train is controlled with the MTH Z-1000, where the controller sits on a pedestal I made using a home theater speaker stand with a square piece of wood bolted to it.

I have some minor adjustments and additions I want to make, then I plan to make a short video as well. Just wish I could expand this layout a few more feet, but already pushing it in the small space I have to work with as it is.

@MartyE posted:

Very nice.  I do like the MTH cars like this but those LED strings are fragile.  Really like the way you displayed them.

Thank You...As for handling the cars with the LED Lights on them...i put on latex gloves to keep from your body oils ....that I was told that can effect them. Handle with Care

Here is the link to video of my Christmas set-up for 2022.  I believe it shows you can pack a lot of action in a modest 4' x 12' layout.

Christmas Train Layout 2022

It was December 1958.  A picture of Lionel's #2037 as featured on page 13 of the 1957 catalog (along with a thing called the Girl's train! ) had motivated me to save my allowance for most of the year and ask only for money on my birthday  - the target was $25 - the price as listed in the catalog when "the engine was sold separately."

  Every year during the Christmas season Rhodes department store at the Country Club Arcade carried Lionel trains and it was there I planned to go to get my engine.  Dad's travel to and from work took him past The Country Club every day and, unbeknownst to me, he had been checking Rhodes on each homeward bound trip.  One Friday evening he came home and said, "Rhodes has your engine and it is on sale for $17.50!"

The next day Mom and Dad took me over to Rhodes just as the store opened.  I went inside, found the train display and asked for "my" engine.

  The salesman pulled two cartons off the shelf (engine and tender)

...and there it was #2037 - price, as Dad had noted - $17.50.

   That was my big Christmas season train for 1958. We are now in the Christmas season for 2022 and old #2037 is still going strong

  -as a side note - I didn't get the 1958 catalog until the Rhodes visit - the price as listed that year was $35 so it looks like either Rhodes was having a 50% off sale or they had managed to do some kind of bulk purchase which allowed them to offer the engine for $17.50.

NOT going to run this one on my Christmas layout this year ...............

............NOT  O gauge

(  CP  Holiday Train , one of many video sites on the YouTube of the train running through places in Canada and the US. )   

2037 is “my” engine as well. Mine arrived in either 1962 or 1963.

Chris

LVHR

Here's mine, not as fancy as all the rest but I can sit and watch it for hours. . .

LCCA CARS ON MY LAYOUT

Slight change from last year.  New PS-4 Pacific pulling the load this time. Merry Christmas!  Christmas 2022

Here's  some Christmas cheer from the Free State Junction Railway.

@sinistar posted:

Hi sinistar:

Very good use of your small space!

What was your source for the snow covered mountains/trees backdrop?

Andre

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's  some Christmas cheer from the Free State Junction Railway.

Hey..trumptrain...do you own any trump trains ?

@laming posted:

Hi sinistar:

Very good use of your small space!

What was your source for the snow covered mountains/trees backdrop?

Andre

Thank you. The backdrop is My Village Christmas & Winter Background. My layout utilizes two of them. What's cool about it is it has a different scene printed on each side. I got them from eBay several years ago.

Well darn.

I searched My Village's website, Amazon, and eBay, and couldn't find that set. Must have been dropped from the product line many years ago.

Andre

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's  some Christmas cheer from the Free State Junction Railway.

These are some cool photos! What do you use for the snow?

The locomotive, a K-Line Great Northern MP15, and GN caboose from my first train set, K-Line's Great Northern Flyer, a Christmas present from ca. 1988-89, along with my three Lionel Christmas cars, presents from 2015.

My son's Thomas & Percy, along with his postwar log unloading car, gantry crane, and saw mill. The latter two are post-war reproductions.

@CaptJ posted:

These are some cool photos! What do you use for the snow?

Thanks so much!  I use a combination of Woodland Scenics snow and Fusion Fibre scenic material.  

Here is my 2022 Christmas Layout. Hope you enjoy watching, and Happy Holidays to all!