LET'S SEE YOUR TRAINS UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREES

Wow Alex, between the Micky Mouse Train and the wonderful Christmas tree you sure know how to set the bar High! Just Lovely!

Thanks Mike !!

Rob very nice video, I guess it's just you and me that have trains under our tree !! LOL !!!!

Thanks, Alex 

Mine's in the works as we speak . It's classic postwar style !

Merry Christmas! 

This is our second year with a train around the tree. Last year we just had the MTH Rugged Rails Broadway Limited with the track on the floor. This year we added the new LionChief Hogwarts Express on a second elevated track.

Unfortunately I won't be able to add the scenery until after Christmas, but it should make for a fun project in 2017.

A 35 Second • Video Christmas Card from Train Room Gary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daaEoNtSnv0

We will run a Lionel Polar Express around the Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas.

Gary

hutchback posted:

This is our second year with a train around the tree. Last year we just had the MTH Rugged Rails Broadway Limited with the track on the floor. This year we added the new LionChief Hogwarts Express on a second elevated track.

Unfortunately I won't be able to add the scenery until after Christmas, but it should make for a fun project in 2017.

Very nice - that two level approach is just what I've been envisioning!

Mine will have to wait a little while; I have to install new flooring next weekend before I can get the tree up.

Ok, the attachment  tool is back after waiting all day....???

Mine is a little on a small side this year.

I chose not to have a set up with a large tree with a loop around it (mostly because I didn't want to take up alot of floor space and I didn't want the cat to get into it), but still went with a full Lionel theme! 

I placed my small tree on this table, dressed with nothing but Lionel ornaments (including some of my favorite Hallmark ones from over the years), I then placed my prewar 217 caboose under the table, and lastly placed my 50 Gang car, my 1055 Texas Special FA-1 and my boxed up gold 700E ornament at the base of the tree...and there you go!

Christmas at my home this year! 

From last year... Not sure I'll have a tree up this year so for now.

Our tree won't even go up until next month.  It's still too early in my book.

And with all that stuff under your trees, where does Santa leave the gifts?  If I were to put that much under the tree Santa would think I have enough trains and wouldn't get me any more!

Just finished up yesterday.  I love trains under the tree.  My outer loop is Standard gauge while the inner is O Gauge Fastrack.

Went with an O gauge loop with the Christmas cars this year.

An oldie

And a funny looking ornament

Simple layout but wifi capable. This is my test for the wifi and it is pretty cool to operate. My granddaughter was impressed using her I phone.

got Uncle Jim's Turbine and the town set up today. He liked doing a nuclear town, so that explains the giant chickens on top of the diner. And farmer Brown cleans up after the deer and the horse get a drink.

bluelinec4 posted:

An oldie

 

And a funny looking ornament

See your starting new memories!

Trains not under the tree but the tree is next to the layout 

and my Dad's/Uncle Jim's $1 Commodore pulls some varnish

ILike trains but the kids are better

1953 American Flyer "The Crusader" least expensive in the catalog. It has run every year since then at Christmas

A few years ago......RMT BEEF's pulling the Polar Express while the steamer gets a rest!!!

What more could a boy want......train, motorcycle, dump truck and cowboy outfit!! 

 All I got was the Dump Truck! But then again now I am getting the train stuff. But so are the grandbabies.

mike g. posted:

 All I got was the Dump Truck! But then again now I am getting the train stuff. But so are the grandbabies.

I didn't know how lucky a kid I was!!!! 

AMCDave posted:

I didn't know how lucky a kid I was!!!! 

Did any of us? 

No trains under my tree anymore, or at least there hasn't for the past several years. Here are some photos of the last few Christmas layouts....

Christmas 2009, HO scale. This actually worked quite well. The HO trains ran very well under the tree, about 6 hours a day, non-stop - much to my surprise! Especially since the engines used had been unrun, entombed in display cases for about 5 years and were not lubricated before being put on the track. This was the last year I ran anything HO. My good sized HO collection has returned to the display cases and non has run since Christmas 2009. No plan to run any of it, no track to do so. I think the display cases have only been opened once or twice since! In this photo, my Bachmann Spectrum N&W "Baby Trainmaster" leads a pair of beautiful Toronto "GO Transit" bi-level commuter cars. 

Christmas 2010 (and would continue to Christmas 2012 I think) - LGB G Gauge, Imported from Germany! I've always loved LGB products, especially the Stainz locos from Austria. I was so, so tempted to buy another LGB Stainz set for this year but didn't really have room for the large trains nor could I really justify the ~$400 bill for a train that may run a few hours and set up for about 2 weeks a year. I also have No G Gauge track or power supply. The LGB set, along with a Bachmann EBT coal hopper enjoy a display shelf in my basement. My local "chain" LHS was once a large LGB dealer and where I purchased the PRR set. They are now big into Piko. I've been interested in Piko products, I like the look of their 0-6-0 tank engines. Not sure about the quality however...

This year - I've been adding each year to my Department 56 collection. This year I went a little overboard. Instead of buying one building this year like usual, I bought.....6!!! The "Snow Village" with some Dept. 56 and Lemax are in the dining room while my Dickens Village collection is under the tree. Looks nice I think! No trains, once again this year and no train ornaments - a first! 

On my layout are 3 MTH Christmas boxcars. They'll be running a few weeks more....!

Hope all here have a wonderful holiday season!

I hope the layout being "under the tree" counts, since the train doesnt fit under the other tree here.

AMCDave posted:

A few years ago......RMT BEEF's pulling the Polar Express while the steamer gets a rest!!!

What more could a boy want......train, motorcycle, dump truck and cowboy outfit!! 

 

 

Dave,  Is that you in the cowboy hat posing with your Christmas loot?

YEP!!! In Ashland KY just off the 4 track C&O mainline!! My first memories are trains!! 

TURTLE 2 posted:

1953 American Flyer "The Crusader" least expensive in the catalog. It has run every year since then at Christmas

Wonderful post and pics--like you, my first Lionel trains were bought by loving parents with meager/modest funds in the PW years.

Thanks for sharing.

AMCDave posted:

YEP!!! In Ashland KY just off the 4 track C&O mainline!! My first memories are trains!! 

That's a priceless picture!  Additionally, that dump truck is almost as big as you are.

Some wonderful pictures and videos everyone!

I always come back to OGR around December to check out the annual Christmas layouts thread.  Definitely my favorite thread.  Here's a video I posted a few years ago...

I was looking through some files this summer and found a short video clip that didn't make the final edit shown above.  It's "Scruffy in the Way"...

A few more pics at...

http://www.jeff-z.com/lionel/index.html

Hello My friends, I love all your trains under the Christmas tree they all look very nice and beautiful,it makes Christmas for me the best time of year to play with my trains and have lot of fun with them under the old Christmas tree. You all got great photos of your Christmas layouts. Thanks for showing them too. Thanks longbow57ca. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year you all and have lot fun with your trains too. Thanks.

My son's batman subway set is in the interior loop, plus my MTH Big Boy and SD70aCE on the outer loop.  Thinking of expanding this so it runs around half of the living room.