Garrett's 2022 Christmas Train Layout

here's a pic of the finished layout

here's a video tour of the finished layout

I'm curious, why no cabooses - even though running steam?

@prrjim posted:

I'm curious, why no cabooses - even though running steam?

Thanks for asking.  I haven't seen any that fit my theme of candy and cookies.  I did have a Life Savers caboose a while ago but sold it.  A Hershey or Reese's one would be nice

That makes a lot of sense to me. 

@c.sam posted:

Caboose?

Please include one this year so that young people will know what was 'normal' when trains had personalities!

Otherwise, what a terrific idea and execution for a Christmas layout.

look what I found in my stash!

even lights up

added a few more cars and a caboose

Today is my dad's birthday.  He passed 3 years ago.  This is his 1957 Lionel Wabash # 2339 diesel locomotive.  I think I have all the cars from the set plus some others brought by Santa.  I would be interested in seeing a vintage advertisement of the set, if anyone can find it.  I did a quick look earlier and did not find anything

Garette76

not an advertisement but a photo of a set that was auctioned off.

http://www.dakotapaul.com/items/showitem.asp?iid=4593

Great stuff, Garrett! You pack a lot of detail in a temporary layout 👍

have you considered adding table skirting? What you’ve done looks great, but some black table skirting (or Christmas theme even) could put it over the top. I remember seeing some skirting on Amazon a while ago that was very reasonable.