Decorating Locomotives for Christmas layout

Great topic for ideas. I’ve also used the small wreaths on my locos, bridges and buildings. Never thought of the pipe cleaners as garland. I will have to incorporate these this season.

We usually put a slew of elves and reindeer into a few gondolas and run the consist at breakneck speed to watch them spill out on the curves....lol. Actual bets are placed on which elf spins out of the gondolas...wherever they fall seems to self decorate my layout.

Or the trespassing unlucky elves and reindeer that are caught on the track when the Express comes barrelling along. These scenarios occur just after special eggnog is consumed...

Some great ideas!  I’m not sure what you mean by a “cold” glue gun how does that work?

What I do with some of my tinplate accessories and trains is I glue a magnet on the back of what I want to hang and put a piece of electrical tape or very thin felt on the magnet so I don’t scratch the surface.

Baltimore and Annapolis SW9 all decorated for the holidays.  

One could do to a plastic diesel shell what I did for this boxcar:

@palallin posted:

One could do to a plastic diesel shell what I did for this boxcar:

Looks great! I have similar plans for a lighted caboose. This is inspiring me to get it done this year. Found a mini power supply on ebay that will output a constant DC voltage with a variable AC voltage as long as you're a couple volts above what you need for an output. Output is adjustable. I figure that would work great on a DCS controlled train since you use constant voltage.