Weekend Photo Fun Post Christmas Edition 2013

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Alan

Added a little action to the village on the banister this year ...

It's a mess, but I'm adding an upper level to my layout with 0-72 curves.  With this I can separate my layout into a lower "modern" level and an upper "old time" layout with steam!  

Scott, nice CFA billboard

Not quite a 2013 Christmas layout "memory" yet .  Still creating them!

- walt

Santa arranged a trade for the handsome JLC Allegheny

 
Monday afternoon

Flat Iron Building!!! When the wife and I were collecting Dept 56 I wanted that one....never got it. Now we don't have room for it and it sits in boxes....need to sell it of I guess.....looks good!!!

Here's one from yesterday at the B&O Museum, National Capital Trackers layout. A pair of MTH WM 2-8-0's make a test run.

Merry  post Christmas and happy new year

Lionel Canadian National SD70M units working the eastbound mainline with a grain train. Taken at the recent open house.

One of my Christmas presents arrived today a little worse for ware in the postal system,so have re-seated the people. James

Here's a few.

I made a model of my parents' house where I grew up.  The car that they owned when they bought the house in 1954 was this one:

Matt very nice series of pictures. Thank you for sharing with us.

Walt that looks great, where did you find your Nash as I have had trouble finding one?

James 

Took the family to Huckleberry RR in Flint Michigan the day after Christmas to ride the holiday train.   Tons of fun, and the kids had a blast on the train.  Even took my son up to the front of the train to see the old "Mudhen" and he was in total amazement!  He even was able to speak to the engineer and fireman and he though that was the coolest thing ever!  

I wish I had time to bring the tripod and get some better photos of the train but it was a family trip so photography time had to wait.  

Merry Christmas Everybody

here are some photos from my layout from several years ago. I dismantled a lot, due to family politics, which caused me to become single. I am rebuilding.

My new christmas present , I finally found some time today to try it out.

Scott, when you're transporting a lot of rolling stock and multiple locomotives to your church (or elsewhere), what do you use to protect them ..... the item's original boxes/foam or something else?  To conserve space I've tried rolling them in bubble wrap and putting everything in a suitcase or carry-on.  Always looking for better ideas.  Thanks.

Very nicw pictures this weekend everyone.

Alan I like the light you added to the shine on the buildings next to the real tall one.

Brian I like the addition of your new tall building.

We had a "between Christmas & New Year" party last night. We have the simplest of layouts around the tree but it was the focus of most of the conversation for much of the night. "What are those old passenger cars made of". "What year were they made." "Can I run them?" "How does the whistle work?"

It was fun but more than that it proved to me that adults are still interested in electric trains. Even if they are running on a simple oval.

Happy New Year Forum members. Don

What (in the world) is a"mudhen"? FrankM 

Frank, can't believe you don't know what a "mudhen" is. Even Eddy G knows what it is. Don

Now that is what I call a FUN Weekend Photo Fun!  Great pix everyone, Happy Holidays!  Russ

2-8-2 actually - and just the K-27's were called Mudhens. The K-28's were the "Sports Models". Did the K-36 and K-37's have names?