Halloween Layouts

I have done so in the past but might not have the time this year.  

 

Rick

 

I might plan to. My dad really likes the Halloween/horror accessories that people have been making for O gauge.

 

As a matter of fact, my local CVS has a lot of the stuff from TM's video to duplicate:

 

Halloween layouts are fun.   I always try to combine Carnival, Spooky Town, and Halloween items together. 

I run the Lionel Halloween train from several years ago plus a few add on cars like the walking zombie.  I don't create a whole layout, just the train.  The tank car with blood is also a hit.  And strange.

My reasons for not doing one.

 

1) I've only recently started to get into the holiday.  My interest is still pretty minimal. 

 

2) The Christmas layout is one thing as more people are over to see it.  But unless I put the layout out in the front of the house for the trick-or-treaters to see, it's not worth the effort. 

 

3) I am also reluctant to dive into another holiday as I already have way too many trains and buildings for my Christmas layout.  For space and money reasons, I just do not want to go down the road of another holiday.

 

4) Putting up a Halloween layout would lessen my excitement for doing my Christmas one.  I don't have a permanent layout so my Christmas layout is it for the year.

 

But if I ever get an Area 51 set I could see it being a good time of the year to take that out to run. 

 

In the meantime, I'll appreciate watching others post pictures of their layouts.  Keep them coming.

I have a bunch of Lionel Halloween goodies (including a couple of Zombie items). I have two Lionel Halloween Peanuts cars.

 

I do regret that I did not get the vampire blood transfusion bunker car or the other vampire/transylvania Lionel offerings (like the blood bank tanker car).

 

But I also have a nice collection of Lemax Spookytown buildings and accessories. I intend to set up a nifty Halloween set up in a week or two. I will post photos when I get it all done. 

 

Been doing this since 2009 with inspiration from Jim Policastro. This is a very popular attraction at our modular club displays during the fall. This is the 5th year, and in general it has held up quite well.

 

 

 

Gilly

We are supposed to finish-up the Halloween section of the VMT layout tomorrow.

 

Scott Smith

Some cool layouts. I'm going to make a 4X4 and hope for no rain on Halloween. I plan on putting the display in the driveway near the sidewalk. I just thought about carving out a pumpkin and using the mouth as a tunnel.

Don

I overdid it last year with the Halloween layout but it was a pretty easy transition to take down the Spooky Town buildings and Carnival rides and replace with Christmas Village, North Pole and snow.  The track layout is unchanged.

 

The worst part is having to store all of the buildings and rides.

The best part is having kids, dogs, cats, family, friends and neighbors enjoy both seasons. 

Started putting it together today.

Here's an earlier version, haven't decided on what changes but there will be some additions.

 

 

towdog: I'm going to start showing my Halloween setup in the weekly photo fun thread.  I too only have a Christmas layout so we  have that in common.  As you'll see in the upcoming threads, a Halloween scene is possible on a Christmas layout without it being the entire layout.

 

I'd show them here but then I won't have unique pictures left for Scott's photo fun threads each week.

 

- walt

Here are some new carvable pumpkins.

 

 

More trick or treaters come to my house on Halloween than come to my house for Christmas.

You're lucky, I never got a trick or treater on Christmas! Seriously, we get about 120 kids each year, so I decided to put up a 4'X4' platform in the driveway with a loop and my son Mark's Transylvania set. I have the framework made, and I'm going to use 1" blue foam board on the top and bottom. I'm getting a 4'X 8' sheet, so I'll just use the other half up. The wife and I will hit the dollar store to see what kind of spooky items we can find.Don

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Rim shot!

Debating whether or not I will risk a divorce over the Halloween and Christmas trains.

 

I Love my Wife, but there sure are things that I MISS about being Single.

 

Doug

Looks great

That's pretty cool

My son in law and I will be starting ours this week end, it will be 6x8', I have to fly back to CA for a week then back to finish it by Halloween, we will post videos and photos.

You guys have a lot of good that ideas I may steal.

 

Nice photo!

 

 

A group of us have a store in the Prescott, AZ mall to run our portable layouts for the public and for our run day tomorrow, I've transformed mine into Halloween with fall foliage and Lemax and K Line items.  Hope the kids (and adults like it)

 

sister-in-law found these at a dollar store.

 

 

Wow, you guys are really motivating me to put one up.  It really doesn't take much work, unlike a Christmas layout.  Just take a normal layout and add a few things here and there.  So many small things can be found at the dollar stores, etc.

 

Great layouts guys.

Yeah, I have to admit, I never realized there was a market for that stuff, but now that I see how it's done I guess I can understand it. Seems like some people use it to show off their trains to trick or treaters. Too bad no one comes around - we're not in a neighborhood that has any trick or treat traffic so we don't get anyone at the door.

So many amazing layouts!  I'm inspired every day when I read this forum!  Although it may not be much of a "layout", I'm using a none working locomotive and some old spare cars I wasn't going to use anyway and made a Halloween Train for the entryway.  I'm going to put some black poster board as a background and my kids will draw haunted houses on it.  I'll have to do something to cover the table too.  This is what I love about this hobby,  so many chances to include the kids!

 

 

Got my platform built this morning. Next is paint, (flat black), then track and decorating.

Don