How about Bing Crosby singing White Christmas while the Santa Fe F3 A-B-A is pulling a long passenger train? Wouldn't that be perfect running on a Christmas tree layout?
When I get home from work today, I will post a train video with a Christmas carol playing in the background.
In the meantime, if you are in the mood, please share one of your favorite trains and Christmas carols.
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BigCrabCake, this is your queue.
there are 2 songs in this video- "Here We Come A-wassailling" followed by a modern Christmas tune, "Pink Christmas." my vid from last year's layout
Garrett76 posted:there are 2 songs in this video- "Here We Come A-wassailling" followed by a modern Christmas tune, "Pink Christmas." my vid from last year's layout
Great Christmas songs and layout! Delightful! Thanks for sharing.
Here is Andrea Bocelli singing Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) with an MTH Railking Mohawk leading a freight train.
Turn up your sound to the maximum to hear the song.
Southern A B A freight train and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town sung by Frank Sinatra:
K Line GG1 pulling Lionel aluminum passenger cars while Bing Crosby sings Jingle Bells:
Click on the video below and hear The Christmas Song (very famous and better know by its 1st line mentioning a certain kind of nuts), which should give it away, and sung by an all time great singer of the 50s. If I tell you the singer's name, you will immediately know which Christmas Carol it is. Train is a very smooth running K Line Chessie System pulling post war coal and log dump cars.
My current favorite Christmas Carol is a song you probably never heard of. Title is: Gloria a te, Cristo Gesu. Singer is Andrea Bocelli. Lyrics are either Italian or Latin and I only know what the title means. I love the song because of the beautiful, inspiring, soaring melody.
Train is an MTH Railking Mohawk pulling postwar Lionel passenger cars.
I really like your ball field. Wish I had the space.
SouthernMike posted:I really like your ball field. Wish I had the space.
When you do get the space, it's a piece of cake to make the baseball field. It is literally child's play: about 20 years ago my 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son back then did much of the work! Gluing Popsicle sticks with Elmer's glue to make the bleachers and painting them blue with acrylic paint; using spray glue and sprinkling on Woodland's Scenics green turf; also sprinkling on light brown scenic material for the base paths; and painting many of the figures sitting in the bleachers. I made the fence because I used a cutting tool (a large scissor-like tool for cutting chicken wire or material like it); such a tool would not be appropriate for a young child to use. I got the fencing material from Home Depot. The black fence in the outfield is cardboard painted with black acrylic paint.
This baseball field required very little modeling skill. It's more the product of cleverness and I got very good metal O Scale baseball figures from the Choo Choo Barn in the mid 1990s.
The most clever thing are the monuments in center field, also made with Popdicle sticks; the faces of Miller Huggins, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig I got from the Internet and glued them onto the Popsicle sticks.
If I can make this baseball field with my little kids, anybody can do it.
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