Getting Ready for the Christmas Season

Yes I am!  I expect I'll come home from York with at least one item for my loop under the Christmas tree!

-Greg

I'm really getting excited for it. I've got several new Christmas cars coming in soon as well as the MTH Canadian Pacific Holdiay Train. I was at the LHS on Saturday for the first time in a few months. We all were wondering if the new Christmas stuff will show up on 12/26 as it did last year!

Can't wait for York in a month!

This will, most likely, be the last Christmas in our house. I've toyed with the idea of picking up one of the Austrian LGB G Gauge sets for around the tree. This year, I think I'll do it.

 I am always pumped for Christmas, and this year is no exception. Not sure what I'll add, but add I will. 

 On the other hand, due to a defective GW-180 and lack of parts to fix it, I may need to make changes I don't want. I will probably have to split work between 2 or 3 transformers, which means major wiring work. Not my favorite thing. 

hot dog I've been ready since beginning of august! 

Waaaaaay too early for me.  Usually at Thanksgiving I start feeling it unless of course were working our butts of.  Then it's usually Christmas eve.

I'm ready now!  I never took the Christmas layout down last year!  

Putnam Division posted:

Is anyone else getting excited?

Scrambler81 posted:

 

Now I am!!!!!!! 

One of these days I'm going to get back to having trains under the tree. Right now, the Executive Director says: "You got all those trains downstairs, none up here!"

But, in days gone by.....

Putnam Division posted:

I am started to get excited about the Christmas season and running Christmas trains.......2 new Christmas cars this year.
Is anyone else getting excited?

Peter

BTW, the new NYO&W 44 tonner I just received from Mr Muffin's Trains is pretty special, too!

I thought the pace of railroading was supposed to be a little bit slower on the Put-Put!....

Looking for a Lionel 6-25963 O gauge Christmas Story 30th Anniversary Box Car (at a good price) to to complete my set (last piece that I need). Run this train every Holiday under the tree

 

Don't want to shoot my eye out.

To get in the mood I will watch the Christmas Story Tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Fellow Christmas layout and Christmas train fans: 

I can still use a number of high-quality photos of your Christmas layouts for our Readers' Rails section of the magazine if you have some interesting ones from last year or this year that you might like to share with our readers and get $50 for, plus two comp copies of the magazine Always nice to have a seasonal edition of the magazine to show to your kids and grandkids years from now.

Need hi-resolution images (largest file size) and need them in the next week or so. Send as e-mail attachments to editor@ogaugerr.com.

Every Christmas tree looks better with a train runnng under it.     

In Baltimore we call them Christmas Gardens and every year since 1950 I've had a train under the tree - even in Viet Nam. I'm old school and don't start to get excited about the garden until Thanksgiving.  The tradition in our house when I was a kid was to get the trains from the attic the day after Thanksgiving and start the garden.  That's when the holiday season started and I've continues with that tradition. 

It's always Christmas on my layout!!!

Rockefeller Center

Macy's 34th Street and Herald Square

Allan Miller posted:

Fellow Christmas layout and Christmas train fans: 

I can still use a number of high-quality photos of your Christmas layouts for our Readers' Rails section of the magazine if you have some interesting ones from last year or this year that you might like to share with our readers and get $50 for, plus two comp copies of the magazine Always nice to have a seasonal edition of the magazine to show to your kids and grandkids years from now.

Need hi-resolution images (largest file size) and need them in the next week or so. Send as e-mail attachments to editor@ogaugerr.com.

Allan...check your email.....I sent 2 pics from last year's Thanksgiving show at the Science Museum of Virginia. We (the River City 3 railers) always decorate the 6x11 "small venue" layout for Christmas.

Peter

harmonyards posted:

Putnam Division posted:

I am started to get excited about the Christmas season and running Christmas trains.......2 new Christmas cars this year.
Is anyone else getting excited?

Peter

BTW, the new NYO&W 44 tonner I just received from Mr Muffin's Trains is pretty special, too!

I thought the pace of railroading was supposed to be a little bit slower on the Put-Put!....

Harmonyards.....remember, the Put was the route of "wide loads" for the Central coming into NYC.....and consists are increased in the Fall and early winter for Christmas deliveries! 

BTW...I saw that you may be coming to York. Email me about your time line and I can give you some inside scoop on the "get togethers" that take place. We all love meeting the people we converse with online and put faces with names....

Peter

Putnam Division posted:

Allan Miller posted:

Fellow Christmas layout and Christmas train fans: 

I can still use a number of high-quality photos of your Christmas layouts for our Readers' Rails section of the magazine if you have some interesting ones from last year or this year that you might like to share with our readers and get $50 for, plus two comp copies of the magazine Always nice to have a seasonal edition of the magazine to show to your kids and grandkids years from now.

Need hi-resolution images (largest file size) and need them in the next week or so. Send as e-mail attachments to editor@ogaugerr.com.

Allan...check your email.....I sent 2 pics from last year's Thanksgiving show at the Science Museum of Virginia. We (the River City 3 railers) always decorate the 6x11 "small venue" layout for Christmas.

Peter

Peter,

I hope Allan pick one of the photographs you sent!  I sent him some of mine, but I think photos of a club layout at a public venue would be a great promotional tool!

BANDOB posted:

One of these days I'm going to get back to having trains under the tree. Right now, the Executive Director says: "You got all those trains downstairs, none up here!"

But, in days gone by.....

I feel your pain. Fortunately, I am allowed to put one train under the tree!

I put together two Christmas sets for grand-nephews and a grand-niece this year. I managed to pick up a couple new cars for our Christmas loops along the way, but I'm way more excited to see those kiddos under the tree with their trains…

I have some parts on my York shopping list for my Ives 10E Std. Gauge loco which only comes out at Christmas.  Unlike last year, my plan is to get it fixed and ready to run on or before Thanksgiving so that when the tree comes home, we're all set to go.

Recipe for happiness:

1. Build a fire
   
   
2. Turn on the game featuring your favorite NFL team
   
   
3. Run the train now and again while watching the game
   
   
4. Sip some wine
   
   
5. Enjoy the flickering bulbs in the passenger cars.
   
   
6. Contemplate how good that roast smells cooking out in the kitchen
7. Exhale.

Steven J. Serenska