How about some photos and videos of your Christmas Tree Layouts!

Here's mine.

Didn’t put mine up yet. We have a 4 month old puppy, with a wild streak, and I am worried what she might do. I did set up my basement Christmas tree yesterday, and I opened up my Thomas set and dropped that on the floor. She was better than I expected, but she did put her nose on the track while it was running. Judging by the height of her jump, I assume she was shocked. Maybe that will keep her away from now on. 😊

NYC Fan posted:

Thanksgiving Weekend was always my favorite time to put up our Christmas Tree and my living room Christmas Train Layout. I would start on that Friday Morning and after getting the tree up and decorated, brought the layout tables up from the basement and began the unquestionable labor of holiday love.

This little video of my Christmas Tree Layout was from 2015. Not much changed since then.

Wonderful. It’s amazing how adding beautiful music simply makes you feel like a little kid again. The memories are wonderful. Thank you.

I've been putting up this tabletop layout every year since 1986.

Out of the past and today!

My meager Christmas tree layout.

Everyone's looks great!  Here is mine for this year, I just finished up over the weekend!  The Christmas tree goes in the living room, but there really isn't room for trains and presents there, so the layout is in one of the unused bedrooms now that both daughters are grown and married.  No video yet.

Great Northern 17 posted:

Well done!  Thank you for sharing it with us.

NYC Fan posted:

Thanksgiving Weekend was always my favorite time to put up our Christmas Tree and my living room Christmas Train Layout. I would start on that Friday Morning and after getting the tree up and decorated, brought the layout tables up from the basement and began the unquestionable labor of holiday love.

This little video of my Christmas Tree Layout was from 2015. Not much changed since then.

I love your layout Skip, especially the placement of the buildings and scenery.

Thank you.

Mark Boyce posted:

Everyone's looks great!  Here is mine for this year, I just finished up over the weekend!  The Christmas tree goes in the living room, but there really isn't room for trains and presents there, so the layout is in one of the unused bedrooms now that both daughters are grown and married.  No video yet.

Very nice, Mark!

This is last years, my first attempt to place the layout on a 6' table with my Dept 56 Christmas in the City.    I generally have only a tinplate loop around the tree.  Maybe both this season!

Great Northern 17 posted:

Gorgeous

they all look great! first year doing a christmas tree layout, started very small and i believe i will just add to it all the way up till the 25th. trying to semi stick with the postwar to get that old time feeling going!

My son asked the wife last night if he could have a train under the tree. Wife told him to talk to me (I was at work, so he was asleep by the time I got home).  I may need to grab a few pieces of O36 track before I can make it happen, but I'm hoping that I have enough to get it done tonight. It won't look half as beautiful as the setup's you all have been posting, but perhaps - over time - my son and I can make that happen.

Was trying to think of what train to have run under the tree ... and I'm thinking it probably has to be my LionChief Thomas.

And here's what's going on in my basement!

Here are a few shots of the activity on my tree layout (lots of holiday passenger traffic,  circa the late 1930s).  The layout - which is a large L shaped one with dual reversing loops  - is still in the progress of being set up.  I will be taking more pictures showing the train action this weekend.      

Attach are a few photos our Christmas Trains around the Tree.

Thanks; Idea-thinker

Still working on mine...hopefully done tomorrow night

Always an enjoyable thread to follow.  Thanks  Skip.

on the floor with the long lived Lionel starter set steam engine. 

My standard Christmas setup, to be repeated shortly!

Deuce posted:

My son asked the wife last night if he could have a train under the tree. Wife told him to talk to me (I was at work, so he was asleep by the time I got home).  I may need to grab a few pieces of O36 track before I can make it happen, but I'm hoping that I have enough to get it done tonight. It won't look half as beautiful as the setup's you all have been posting, but perhaps - over time - my son and I can make that happen.

Was trying to think of what train to have run under the tree ... and I'm thinking it probably has to be my LionChief Thomas.

Build layout up together, no matter how simple, and make lifelong memories for both of you!

Great Northern 17 posted:

Wow, quite the Dept 56 collection.  You have a very clean, well laid out layout with great lighting too.  Everything was top-notch.  I wish I had the space you have.

Train video Glacier Line 

https://youtu.be/-7P-Ik69koI

NYC Fan posted:

And here's what's going on in my basement!

Skip, I have no doubt that you are as happy today with that custom layout as the day you brought it home.  What a masterpiece and worth every penny you spent on it.  There are many of us who would love to have it ourselves.  

Nothing different this year except Commie Oates left his usual Slaton to Amarillo pool assignment, and bumped onto the Christmas Extra Board to run the Polar Express. The track gang added Frosty this year. 

Here is mine!  Just gotta add the tree.

Deuce posted:

My son asked the wife last night if he could have a train under the tree. Wife told him to talk to me (I was at work, so he was asleep by the time I got home).  I may need to grab a few pieces of O36 track before I can make it happen, but I'm hoping that I have enough to get it done tonight. It won't look half as beautiful as the setup's you all have been posting, but perhaps - over time - my son and I can make that happen.

Was trying to think of what train to have run under the tree ... and I'm thinking it probably has to be my LionChief Thomas.

Yes, had enough track.  Thanks to Paul who sent me a 10" straight that was already wired to connect to the transformer so I didn't have to make a new one. Threw a bridge along the back and Thomas is good to go. I almost think though that I should screw it all down onto a piece of plywood and affix some white batting onto it. I'll have to give it some thought.

Some pics from a 4x4 display a number of years ago:

Then there's always the freak snowstorm on the basement layout:

Hope everyone has a great holiday...

PD

2018 will be in place in a week or so, not many changes from ‘17.  Couple of phtos and a snippet of video.

My trains dont get put up until the 23rd at the soonest so here is my 2017 floor layout that I take to my brothers house .

pd posted:

Some pics from a 4x4 display a number of years ago:

Then there's always the freak snowstorm on the basement layout:

Hope everyone has a great holiday...

PD

Very Nice, love the Tinplate.

2 feet from my easy chair...........Pat

Another shot from the archives:

GREAT PHOTOS all of them , brings back warm memories,  I wish i did not lose my old christmas  photos from 1955

This is last year's Christmas layout.  Knee surgery has prevented me from recreating it this year.  A new but scaled back version is in the process of being set up-photos to follow soon,

TedW posted:

2018 will be in place in a week or so, not many changes from ‘17.  Couple of phtos and a snippet of video.

 

Nice use of available space.