It's January 6th and your holiday platform/display is likely stored away for another year so how will you cope with those post holiday "platformless" blues?

NOT YET.

Not Yet please.

PCRR/Dave

Still polishing the rails.  But also hit the RMT sale.

still up! the tree is too big(as always) but we like the tree and decorations, the Boss like having me in the same rom running trains instead of in the cellar.

I have a permanent layout also!

This year we moved the tree into a different room, and I didn't setup anything around it (not enough room). I occasionally setup a loop on the floor periodically plus I rotate through things I bring to run monthly at the club, so I'm never completely without. Have been thinking about building a simple postwar display-layout style door layout that I can bring out periodically to reduce setup time at home.

Peter

Less than an hour ago, my "full" tree with green needles, etc., was replaced on my small circular layout with a tree of the same size, but made up of armatures (white trunk and branches only), with white lights.  Bought the thing a couple of years ago at a local Rite-Aide, but never did anything with it.  As soon as I can get around to it, that tree will be adorned with my tin locomotive (and some rolling stock) ornament collection, and I plan to leave it up year round.  The base will include my cookie tin buildings and, of course, a tinplate train will operate on the Lionel tubular track.

Every day will be Christmas around here!

Our Christmas layout is still up and we have more visitors to come who could not make our open house last month. No rush on our part.

Our tree came down yesterday and the house is finally back to normal. I didn't put any trains under the tree this year but since I have a layout in the basement my "withdrawal" symptoms are minor. I have been getting the itch to rebuild the layout and making it a bit bigger, I figure that will hold me until I get around to building my BIG layout. At the very least I am going to redo the mountain so I have a ski resort on it, as a side note, does anyone know where I could get an O gauge St. Bernard for the resort? I contacted Artistta and they don't have any but Ebay has a number of lead polar bears and walruses available to go with the penguins I picked up at York, kinda makes people do a double take when they see things like that on the layout.

Jerry

Tree and trains are down.  But the permanent layout in the basement is up and running!

Jon 

If you didn't have room for anything but the temporary Christmas-tree layout, it's time to start thinking about a project for The Great O Scale Micro Layout Contest !

https://ogrforum.com/d...nt/11707689407393103

So far, my tree and holiday train board are still up, this week the tree will come down 

and the board which sits right next to the tree will stay up for a while, I'm enjoying 

my new American Model toys Passenger cars I got this Christmas and the Standard 

gauge trains are around the Coffee table which I started collecting last year stay 

up as well.

Tin 

The tree and LGB train around it are still up, and given our history, may be up until Washington's Birthday.   The big layout in the basement is permanent, so train withdrawal is not a problem here.

Our tree and the Christmas layout are still up but I am getting some pressure from my lovely wife to dismantle it.  I will try and resist for a few more days.  I have a full time layout in the basement but I love running the trains under the tree.

For myself and my son, Christmas is a state of mind that does not start, nor end on a set date.  We enjoy celebrating Christmas for its true meaning and therefore all aspects remain in place until the end of January...real tree has been up for three weeks and the watering system has prevented a single needle from dropping.  It's such a special sight that we are in no rush to dismantle. 

Join a Club or Modular group That way you can run trains all the time. There are several of us that go to each others homes also and run trains year round.

I belong to The Pittsburgh Indenpendent Hi-Railers and we just finished our Display at Kennywood Park that was 5 weeks and we have 2 shows this month. So Join a club and have fun that why we do this isn't it.

No club in your area start one.

Finally took down the tree but the Holiday layout is still up in the next room and we have a permanent layout in the basement.  The permanent layout seems to "permanently" be under construction but we still have two trains running at all times.

We have two trees, both artificial (first year without at least ONE real tree), but both are still up.  Twice around under one of them.  Expect the trees will come down next weekend as we're expecting a grandchild and want Christmas stuff down before then.  Else, I'd try to stretch it for an extra week.  Too much work not to enjoy it for a while.

Very rough table downstairs can run trains if I clean all of the boxes off of it.  So there is some relief.

Ron

work on the other hobby haha

Dave...that camaro looks like a nice diversion from model trains.  And expensive too!

That V8 will be niiiice!!!

Do you know the definition of the word "Camaro"?

Tree and Christmas loop are still up.

I expect there will be pressure to remove them soon.

Then I'll have to slip down to the chilly but functional Crappy Basement layout and get my fix.

Well, for me, I will have to climb the stars to the third floor to my layout.  I mised the layout and the tree and the whole scene.  Can't wait for next year.

Also, guys, let's not beat up on the Camaro too much, loose bowels name and all.  Two the most memorable cars I ever had were Camaros, and I remember both fondly: a '68 (first new car I bought) 327 that I dearly loved but could not afford to treat to the right amount of speed equipment, and a '98 I bought thirty years later to make up for that by lavishing it with everything you could do to a car (it could do nines and was still licensed and street driveable - well sort of -- too)

Very good.  Those are the ones that I was thinking of....although there is one more that I heard about the fuel economy that's not language-appropriate for this forum.

Hope nobody misunderstood my post, I love Camaros, especially the vintage ones.

It's coming down this weekend. Then it will be upgrades, planning and maintenance. I will also try a permanent N scale (again).

The Christas layout was taken down last weekend and I put my Christmas cars away.  Now I will run trains in my basement layout.  My sons are looking forward to running modern trains for the winter.  We were running steam era trains for the fall before the holidays. 

Holiday layout is now down.  To fill the void I have several train "projects" to keep me from spending money I dont have on more trains. 

I will finish the pink 218 PW for my daughter, complete the rebuild of a junker 2023 AA set I picked up 2 years ago, work on 3 flatcar with load projects, and a custom reefer using some 3 Stooges Beer decals from a 1/24 NASCAR racer from a few years ago.

Whew, I think that may be 2 years worth of projects at my current (very slow) work rate.  Oh, I forgot the Lionel Rico station project, and the interior work on out MTH CZ and Penn passenger cars. 

Looks like I wont need to buy anything for a while :-(

still up, although with a different tree....

Good for you Steamer!!  Still have my live tree and putz (Dept. 56, etc) up.  No needles dropping...watering system has kept the tree perfect for 2 months!!!  But, alas, it comes down this week.  Jim

I asked the Boss last night if she was tired of the platform yet. She said no, how about me. I said that it could stay up all year as far as I was concerened. Gave me one of those Wifey looks that said that wasn't gonna happen....but good for now. 

I have a 66 Barracuda I'm fixing up. I've replaced the engine and transmission, and so far trains are still more expensive

Can you tell (from this) how I am coping???

It ain't pretty!

Greg (and it is Feb 17th)

FROM THIS

 TO THIS....IN ABOUT 5 HOURS! 

I'm not so sure about that...I've spent more on this than my trains! Love to see the Barracuda.

I survived with just a Christmas layout from 1984 to 2005. Then I started building a small year 'round layout and joined this forum. I also have small "S" and "N" layouts. If I had to, I could "live" with just my Christmas layout, which is Hi-Rail, on a raised 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 raised platform. Some day we may move to our small house at the beach.

I have the following to keep me busy...

1) My Permanent Layout (Old photo - need to update the photos! Many changes and improvements since this photo was taken).

2) 3/4 of a mile of  track on a scenic excursion trip. 1 Locomotive, 5 open air passenger cars. Operating Season is April - October. I'm the assn't manager and engineer. 

I will (assuming I pass all tests) volunteering on the somewhat nearby Walkersville Southern Railroad (www.wsrr.org).