Photos of Christmas Train village layouts over the past few years; lets see yours!

Here are a few from my home displays these past few years in both Prewar Tinplate and Postwar Lionel. I did have to do some “snow” removal maintenance afterwards. LOL

Last year's, 2019, layout.  S gauge with a mix of Am Flyer, Hi-rail, and scale.  Buildings are mostly Dept 56 Xmas in the City.

Tom Stoltz

in Maine

@Tom Stoltz posted:

Last year's, 2019, layout.  S gauge with a mix of Am Flyer, Hi-rail, and scale.  Buildings are mostly Dept 56 Xmas in the City.

Tom Stoltz

in Maine

Love this! So perfectly magical!

A few years back......

Peter

Top photo is an Area 51 layout, based on a Jim Policastro idea, and bottom photo shows it transformed into a Christmas layout, just by swapping out some of the painted base pieces.

Quick edit, forgot to say that this was from Christmas 2014, the last time it was set up.

With all that is going on this year we, the BetterHalf and I, are considering dusting everything off and setting it up again this year.

A little display.

Here’s my 2019 Christmas Village & Train Display.  The trains include a wide gauge American Flyer 2-car passenger set running on the outside standard gauge loop and an MTH PCC streetcar running on the inner superstreets track arranged in a dogbone with loops on each side of the tree.

The first photo is an overall shot which features the tree and an original Hellgate bridge.

The second photo shows the business district with the passenger train stopped at a Lionel #115 train station, bringing friends and relatives home for the Holidays where they will board the waiting streetcar for the last leg of their journey, an MTH Isaly’s dairy store, a Department 56 Lionel Train Shop and an operating skating rink inside the superstreets track loop.

The third photo shows the residential village with the train passing a #45 gateman, the streetcar stopped at the church, the lighted houses in the background and the town’s nativity scene in the foreground!

Merry Christmas!

Bill  

This is my Christmas tree layout. The track plan is permanent, but I do change the buildings around each year. This will be the 20th year we have set it up.

The top level of my basement layout is Christmas all year. Most of the buildings are from the Dept. 56 Christmas Story collection. Unfortunately, the way I set this up, adding more buildings would be a pain in the neck, so it stays pretty much the same. Still, I get a kick out of it.

Here are mine

Our Christmas village varies slightly every year with one part Dicken’s Village and the other part North Pole, all by Dept 56. Here are some pictures from last year.

Here is a short video as well.

@Tom Stoltz posted:

Last year's, 2019, layout.  S gauge with a mix of Am Flyer, Hi-rail, and scale.  Buildings are mostly Dept 56 Xmas in the City.

Tom Stoltz

in Maine

I could sit in this room all night!  Very nice!

I've been trying to re-post some videos of my layout, but the 100Mb limit won't let them through.  I was able to post them before, so here is the link to more of the building of my Xmas layout and the videos:

https://ogrforum.com/...layouts-2019-s-gauge

Tom Stoltz

in Maine

@Rich Wiemann posted:

Here are a few from my home displays these past few years in both Prewar Tinplate and Postwar Lionel. I did have to do some “snow” removal maintenance afterwards. LOL

Wow, that's a great tinplate setup.

I included the pic above because I did a search after seeing the Hot Chocolate stand that's a cup and came up with a bunch of non applicable results.

Was wondering who made that stand, and what the name of it is. Thanks.

Here's part of mine from 2016...

@Quietman Thank you for the compliment. Attached is a pic of the box. It was made by Dept 56 and was part of the Snow Village Collection. The set is called “Saturday Morning Downtown”. Overall this is a very festive set. Good luck with your hunt!

My Christmas layout as it stood for several years until health problems limited my construction ability.

Didn't have room for a layout last year, but did set up a table top village.

Christmas 2015...🚂🎅🏻

Ahh, Christmas layouts' past, what fond memories and emotions they bring.

I kind of doubt I can surpass my Christmas/Dickens themed layout with five levels of interconnected operations...but I will endeavor to build a more modern, albeit modest, "Christmas in the City" in the coming years should the fates allow it.

Some PIX of our last Xmas village layout, 2003. Sorry the quality is not great; they were taken with my very first digital camera, which was about 1 megapixel I think!

I used to put this layout together on the dining room table every year. Then in 2004 a new woman moved into my life (and house) and suddenly the layout couldn't work anymore because we needed the dining room table available at Xmas time for "entertaining". Then we both retired in 2010 and thereafter spent every winter south in Florida, then Arizona. Right up until this year. This year we will be home I guess, but that's another story!

The CP Christmas train did not go unnoticed on someone's layout earlier in the thread. Nice!

Rod

Great layouts thanks all for posting. Some great ideas here. Most years I concentrate on the public layouts various displays I set up. Last year I did not even get time to set up a Christmas village at home was so busy. So this year will be a lot quieter I am looking forward to setting up an extra large Christmas village at home! Your photos provide some inspiration.