With having created a petite holiday layout for Halloween, thinking of how to adapt it for Christmas season. Rather than run an 'xmas train' or run 'xmas cars' per se, I thought about this yesterday and decided that I'd like to maybe run my first AF O Gauge passenger set, dated 1928 I purchased from NWL and my first AF Wide Gauge freight set with the bell ringing Shasta electric engine.
Since any xmas buildings, etc. I may have there (unlike the Halloween ones) will not have sounds, it will be very nice to go more old school- to hear the simple clickety-clack of the trains themselves rattling away on the tracks. This little layout out in the Foyer will provide a nice specific showcase, rather than seeing them run as part of their larger layouts they usually live on.
I shall bring down from the Upstairs Standard Gauge Layout the "Castle's Playland" set up I created for my vintage Barclay skaters and sledders.
The Dept 56 Seasons Bay winter peeps shall also come down from the Upstairs O Gauge Layout.
The plywood table cover material will be the same sparkly fabric as the Halloween one, just in a xmas green color.
The Roosevelt Park-in Theater I created for the Halloween layout may or not stay for the holiday season, as space allows.