Plasticville Christmas Photos?

great pics!

I love the first one with all of the snow! 

Christmas, Plasticville, and trains on a layout bring many memories back. Remember almost all our friends who we visited during the Holidays had these. Mostly the dads ran the trains for us kids. Plasticville, gave a sense of realism before scale came into vogue.

Thanks for posting, and memories.

Note the precious few C6 Paramount bubble lights and C6 Mazda cone lights, some with foil reflectors. Also, the Paramount star topper.

 

 

I like this one.

 

That guy has several youtube videos worth watching related to this subject

Last year, we had some of my late father-in-law's trains and Plasticville passed on to us. My wife asked me to use them instead of our usual D56 buildings under the tree. Here are a few pics.

Guy

Duke, thanks for posting! This is what I was hoping to see with this thread

Anyone else want to share?

You need a Union Station... your train has to stop somewhere....and a church..

 

 

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Jon,

What is the time span from that last picture to your more recent re-creation?

 

Dave

Jon,

That is AMAZING.

Thanks for posting.

The black and white photo was taken in 1964 and appeared in the Christmas Day edition of the Evansville Courier that same year. Mr. Winston Foerster, also poses in the first photograph, he is 92. His son, Blake, continues the now fifty-year family tradition.

 

 

This item belonged to the elder's mother, making it nearly 100-years old.

So is that basically the original layout? The track appears to be GarGraves in both time periods.

 

Dave 

Andrew, I would share if I could.  I never took any pics.  Besides I can't put snow on a layout in south Texas!  It would freak everybody out.

Yes, Dave, that is my understanding. The layout is up only during the Holidays.

 

I feel like it needs more snow for a Christmas display, but I like it.

Wow ! Great photos everyone!
Mike

 

Thanks for this thread.  I have a bunch of Plasticville from our family's trains and I'll use them for the first time in 40+ years in this year's Christmas layout. 

 

Cool shots Andrew! They really take me back . Keep em comin,and hope others share as well. I'd post ,but have yet to set my Plasticville up.
Mike

Great stuff, Andrew.

Great photos all!  Both old and new Photos show us trains just don't get old.  I do remember having some of those buildings on my layout when I was a child, but I had it setup year round in the basement.

 

I have one photo I need to scan of my uncle's American Flyer Chistmas layout dated 1938.  By that time he was a grown man living in an apartment, but my aunt said he still setup the layout at the family home.

 

My Christmas layout uses all Dickens Village buildings that my wife inherited from her grandmother.  I have 3 or 4 Plasticville buildings on the year round layout.

 

As a humorous aside, there is an upscale community near here built on a huge orchard where my brother worked as a teenager.  One side has all brick and stone homes, immense.  The other side has lesser homes, still waaaayyyy out of my league, that have partial brick and partial vinyl siding on them.  I have been told that the residents of  higher priced homes refer to the vinyl side  of the community as; you guessed it;  PLASTICVILLE!

Mark, that's pretty funny about calling it Plasticville! 

A great plus, you can't nit-pick Plasticville. It is what it is.. I couldn't have a layout without some on it.

Thanks, Jim!

Thanks to everyone for posting these. They bring back some wonderful memories!

This first one Spence posted in another thread here a week or so back. I hope he doesn't mind it being posted here. While it may not be Christmas (maybe it is?) It has that classic 1950s holiday feel to the layout, regardless.

 

 

Wish I knew the artist, came from Facebook.

Beautiful Andrew !!!! This looks like something Angela Trotta Thomas would paint.
Mike

It is beautiful Andrew!

I wouldn't be surprised if she did.

some from my 2011 Christmas layout:

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few from my 2005 Christmas Layout:

 

 

 

- walt