This was my Christmas display. Heavy on the Department 56 but also some nice Lionel accessories: Grand Central Terminal, operating Hobby Shop, Hot Air Balloon Ride, etc. The five running Lionel trains are the Scale Polar Express, Blue Comet, R30 Subway, R27 Subway and the Special Edition Department 56 train. 

Wow to both, Nice Layouts and videos. Big Crab Cak Very well done display and video!

Thank you.

Very well done, and quite entertaining.  The airplane taking off still has me puzzled.  I can see you spent many many hours not only creating a very colorful display, but you also recorded it in an artful way.  Congratulations!

Great videos everyone! Here is a quick running session with my MTH Pennsylvania 2-8-0. 

Very nice video's guys. Thanks for sharing them with us.

BigCrabCake, all I can say is wow!  I would love to store this video somewhere to watch whenever I am felling down.  It is bound to brings smiles.

Does this stay up the year around or do you change it each Christmas?  If it is not displayed the year around, where do you store the buildings with all their boxes?

Thank you for sharing and happy railroading,

Don

Thank you. I do take it down every January and build a new one each year starting in the Fall. I wish I had a permanent layout so I wouldn't have to box it all up very year. I store everything in what amounts to a climate controlled crawl space. Haven't had any real issues with that except I could do without the crawling part.

Down grade from Blue Ribbon to the Express train service.

Nice layout! Beautiful train.

NYC fans, here's some action from the National Capital tackers layout at the B&O Museum. Taken 12/28/2013.

Great videos folks! Crab Cake, what a huge job that must be setting up and taking down every year. I  really enjoyed the detail in the scenes like the grinch and Santa giving the first gift of Christmas from the PE movie..... the sleigh parked with the reindeer really captures the feel. Did I see a Dept 56 ceramic bus moving?

Now I'm kinda bummed the holidays are over

Ditto... A+

Thanks Rick. It is a huge job but I really enjoy creating a new display every year. Taking it all down is another story. It is getting more and more clear that a permanent layout would make more sense. You are correct about the Dept 56 school bus. It moves on a D56 animated track. 

Charlie, you sure do know how to make up an interesting passenger (or express) consist.

Crab Cake, very nice model scenes, and excellent video.

Liam, that's the way to get 'em rolling.

BANDOBOB, those full scale cars and engine look good as they pass.

I finished my flashing crossing this week with some fences added.

Great video's everyone,

The big crab cake, that was a beautiful video, It made me want Christmas too start all over again. Simply fabulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,

Alex

Big Crab cake, that is excellent video of your Christmas Train Layout! 

Here is one of my last video's of my 2013 Christmas Layout.  It is still up, but I plan I taking it down by the end of January.  With the amount of time it takes to set it all up, it is hard to take down.  In this video, I have 3 of my Southern steam engines on the same track following directly behind each other. 

Ken

Kjtrains, have you posted your "Christmas Train Layout Story" video to this forum. It's a wonderful look at your family's 50 year history of Christmas train displays. 

Here are two I took with a Gopro Camera.  the First one is my home layout. The Second is the Club layout.

Great videos everyone! Thank you for sharing them with us!!!