Member's Holiday Greetings and Layouts Here!!!

Ready for the season.  Top photos are final product.  Happy holidays to all!

Decorated and ready for the Holiday Season...expectations are high with lots of peep’s stopping by! 🎄🚂🎅🏻

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

scale rail posted:

Bob, we took that car and three others across the Sierras about ten years ago. They were owned by a wonderful guy that ran them with Amtrak a few times a year. Here is a little video of that trip. Don

Must have been Mike Abernethy and his Zephyr Route Tours?  Mike still runs trips with various cars.  Although the cars you were on are now owned by the CVSR.  Mike continues work on restoring his Silver View dome observation. He has contributed decorative steel elements to CVSR'S Silver Bronco dome.

Finished the tree and village about an hour ago. Asked my girls what train they wanted under the tree and of course they all replied they wanted the “Girls Set”!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Don’t forget the reason for the season!

the Southern Pacific coming into town:

Just started Christmas layout so no pictures yet. Does anyone have pictures of their favorite Santa’s workshop building?

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the High Plains 3 Railers ! cCccC

Colorado

Big Louie:

At the North Pole served by the Great Northeastern Railway, Santa's Workshop is either a Department 56 or Lemax building (I can't remember from several years ago) and has a large window behind which Santa is hard at work all year around. In the second photo, Santa's workshop is partially obscured by the North Pole sign.

Another great North Pole building by Lemax to the left of Santa's workshop in the second photo is the toy factory. It has several moving parts such as a toy train running and a hot air balloon that rises and comes back down.

Happy Holidays to all.

SNOW Module - https://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/3524

“Let it snow” returns again…

where is that train?...

Howard

 Few of my favorite things. Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas 

I haven't visited the forum in a long time.   What ever happen to the weekly Sunday photo thread? 

I'd like to take this time to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and I hope you had a great Thanksgiving too.  As for me, there will be no tree or decorations this Christmas, I'm still packing for the upcoming move.  All of our Christmas decorations have all been packed and put in the PODS along with all of my trains.  Maybe next year we'll be settled in our new home and I'll be able to put something down around the Christmas Tree.  In the mean time, I'm enjoying all that you guys have shown.  Alan, thanks so much for setting this up, it was a great idea.

Our Christmas layout this year.  Hope everyone is having a blessed holiday season so far!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells GEVO all the way. Oldmike

Here is my Train around the Tree, though not seen is the Lionel Bluetooth Radio Tower. Those purple looking lights are bats, our One light strand isn't quite long enough for our tree, so we reused some Halloween Lights. That will probably be the extent of our tree decorating since we have a cat that likes to climb a tree and knock down ornaments. I would like to possibly next year do a bit more for the Layout around the Christmas tree, but this was kind of thrown together in a couple of hours at most.

This photo gives little hint of all life had in store for me: Two head-on car accidents (neither my fault), an arson fire that destroyed all of my life's output as an artist (plus all the equipment, musical instruments, recording studio), a bankruptcy as a result, loosing my home to eminent domain (dramatically downsizing my trains), and then this past summer having my car totaled by a guy who was texting while driving (and also speeding). Given the extensive damage, I'm lucky I walked away from that with no injuries.

This photo above is special for me in more than is seen. I'd had taken my family archives before my fire: Multiple cases full of slides, photos, home movies. I'd had planned on copying everything and organizing it all. Instead, it all burned with everything else I had.

So the above photo is one of a very few that was salvaged, not being damaged beyond repair. I wish you could see the train, but you can see the 027 track around the Christmas tree and the transformer... Ah, the importance of the much derided starter set!

Life's lessons are sometimes hard, but I've learned to be content and appreciative for what I have - and that includes my trains... my perfectly scale 027 trains!

Even without the "latest and greatest," when I put my hand to the transformer, it's one place where I have some control in life.

So in my book, Merry Christmas is less about what you get under the tree, as it is being thankful for everything that is already around the tree.

Christmas comes to the FCC. (Filing Cabinet Central!)

I am working on a tinplate layout, but here is a Christmas diorama from about 15 years ago and my days of more realistic railroading. Happy Holidays to all my old and future forum friends. Happy to be back.

It was light up night over the week end  pretty nice crowd came out for the first annual event...

DanssuperO posted:

It was light up night over the week end  pretty nice crowd came out for the first annual event...

 

 

 

 

Those red pumpkins are unique

"Those red pumpkins are unique "...... I know!!! I told the mayors office they should send out the trash guys to pick them up their starting to rot!!!  (lol)

Will posted:

I am working on a tinplate layout, but here is a Christmas diorama from about 15 years ago and my days of more realistic railroading. Happy Holidays to all my old and future forum friends. Happy to be back.

Welcome back, Will! Those diorama photos are really very nice. Is the tinplate layout you're building Standard Gauge or O gauge? I am a BIG fan of tinplate!

Will posted:

I am working on a tinplate layout, but here is a Christmas diorama from about 15 years ago and my days of more realistic railroading. Happy Holidays to all my old and future forum friends. Happy to be back.

Awesome!

I just finished the flash layout display for my church’s annual Breakfast With Santa. Four days to set up, four hours to take down.  

Losing my mind. My Christmas layout is stuck right now. My Lionel Gateman quit last year. I bench tested him at the time, and he worked fine. I decided to replace the wiring in the layout before I put it away. Everything looks good, but he won’t come out! I stole a platform from my basement layout, but I don’t like it in the front, so I can’t spread snow and detail the layout until I put something else there. Really running behind this year, and I am really going to miss my Gateman. 

Scrambler81 posted:

Losing my mind. My Christmas layout is stuck right now. My Lionel Gateman quit last year. I bench tested him at the time, and he worked fine. I decided to replace the wiring in the layout before I put it away. Everything looks good, but he won’t come out! I stole a platform from my basement layout, but I don’t like it in the front, so I can’t spread snow and detail the layout until I put something else there. Really running behind this year, and I am really going to miss my Gateman. 

I had a similar issue with my Nutcracker Gateman, bench tested fine, but refused to open when installed on the layout.  It turned out to be the accessories post on the C-80 transformer quit working.  I swapped out the transformer and it worked great after that.

Samplingman posted:

Scrambler81 posted:

Losing my mind. My Christmas layout is stuck right now. My Lionel Gateman quit last year. I bench tested him at the time, and he worked fine. I decided to replace the wiring in the layout before I put it away. Everything looks good, but he won’t come out! I stole a platform from my basement layout, but I don’t like it in the front, so I can’t spread snow and detail the layout until I put something else there. Really running behind this year, and I am really going to miss my Gateman. 

I had a similar issue with my Nutcracker Gateman, bench tested fine, but refused to open when installed on the layout.  It turned out to be the accessories post on the C-80 transformer quit working.  I swapped out the transformer and it worked great after that.

I had a CW80 that came with my original Polar Express set.  The accessories posts had no output.  Someone here on the Forum informed me you can turn it off and on.  I downloaded the instructions from the Lionel website and turned the accessories output back on.  I don’t remember what you do since I sold that set two years ago after buying the LC Bluetooth PE set with the snow on the car roofs, but you should be able to search for the manual on the website 

Christmas layouts start at 2:04.....December 1958.....and go till about 1963...

Peter

Peter, Thank you for the vintage Condro family Christmas film!  What a treasure you have!!!  As I recall I’m only 3 or 4 years younger than you, but there are virtually no photographs or movies of my family until I got a Kodak instamatic camera in my early teens.  Then film and developing were expensive for a kid, so I have few photographs.  

SIRT, your pictures are the most amazing 3rail pictures I have ever seen. Simply beautiful. 

Set up an o27 circle at work today for the Christmas luncheon.   I have officially been paid to play with trains.   Life isn't too bad. 

Hi all,

Just finished putting this video together (the village went up during the first week of November). If you want to see the train shots, go to 4:08. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agqDlnsGig&t=5s 

Merry Christmas! 

Putnam Division posted:

Christmas layouts start at 2:04.....December 1958.....and go till about 1963...

Peter

I bet this kid will grow up always liking toy trains!! 

WOW. Great video.

92hatchattack posted:

I haven't visited the forum in a long time.   What ever happen to the weekly Sunday photo thread? 

Always look for Scott in the Hat. (the Cat in the Hat) Fridays?

https://ogrforum.com/...nd-photo-fun-12-6-19

Our Christmas Lionel Train layout. Not easy to sit in any of the chair unless you navigate several train tracks. The Layout covers most of the Living Room and the Dining Room. Takes about a week to setup and get operational.

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

 Few of my favorite things. Happy Holidays

Can’t go wrong with Pennsy and New York Central... great pics Dave.

A quick vid of what we did at the redrockbill house this year. Not too different than previous years at this house, other than a few additions to consists and a simplified loop on the village set up (because hard wood floors do not play nice with middle age knees!). Hope everyone enjoys the video and that Christmas and the holiday season bring health, happiness, and joy to all!

redrockbill

My office layout. It may be small but it brings big smiles! Merry Christmas.