What did you have FUN running, over Christmas?

under the tree l ran some of my junkbox rebullds. my gunmetal 225E and tlnplate 2600 cars. now l have my 675 and 16000 PRR cars. before that my 2046 and 2400s.also was runnlny my 671 wlth soe other 2400s.
my Uncle's GF wanted to see the layout downstalrs so l had my Wlllams 746 and Wllams Heavywelghts golng. at the same tlme my 736 Berk wlth a frelght and my 224E and 1600 Prewar cars.the only operlatlng trouble was when some of the snow blanket got caught up ln some passenger car wheels.

OK, since Christmas day my son and I have been running;

New SD 60 CSX Legacy Diesel #8703 (son's gift from Santa )
Lionmaster Bigboy #4006
Amtrak HHP-8 TMCC #664

All my Lionel postwar (late '40s) engines have been running fine. My Lionel "men sawing wood" accessory died (motor now has too little power to run it). Since this is the second one to fail, I won't replace this neat (when it works) item.

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What did you have FUN running over Christmas?

The neighbor's two yappy dogs.

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Originally posted by Jumijo:

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What did you have FUN running over Christmas?

The neighbor's two yappy dogs.

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my 2046 over my new trestle.

My new WBB Ten Wheeler ran all day without issue......
And a RMT Beep the kids loved as I let them do whatever they wanted.....and it ran without issue....both lots of fun!!!!

As I do every Christmas, I ran my Lionel #2353 F-units, and, again, there were no technical issues, as with every prior running since 1954.

Under the tree:
Starter set PRR (Till It goes to Jeff) 2-8-0 pulling Angela Trotter cars, Operating Santa boxcar, and the Naughty or Nice dump car with the matching Christmas boom car on the end.
After opening presents Christmas morning I added a New Rio Grande caboose and Rotary Snowplow (pulled backwards).
That made the little 50W brick pop the breaker so I pulled the Operating car (heaviest) and kept running.
Later I brought up the S-P-S 0-8-0 switcher and moved the rotary snowplow up front.
That poor little thing was wheel slipping on the back curve so I had to pull more cars off.
So now the 0-8-0 and rotary swap out with the rest.
Down in the basement;
Imperial RK Big Boy #4010 is still dragging the Military consist. 6 Flats with Shermans, 1 flatcar with Jeeps & trailers, 2 flatcars with a Jeep & a 6X6, and one gondola with crates for now. Our Boys are coming Home, ya know.

MTH NS SD70M Train by ken_vs_ryu, on Flickr

I was too lazy to build a Christmas layout, but my new MTH Railking UP 4-6-0 has been running great!

Milwaukee Beep with one Milwaukee boxcar and Milwaukee porthole caboose, on a loop under the tree.
The grandkids LOVED it.

This...



...and these...

Lionmaster conrail sd80mac powered/dummy, NYC flyer (4-4-2), Lionel prr berkshire jr steam freight set, doubleheaded Lionel 2055 Hudsons, Lionel 2037

Well Charlie after reading a lot of OGR Forum today I'm glad I ran my Lionel trains over the weekend. From what I read today they are probably all defective and may never run again. What a disgusting mess.

All my New Haven stuff, including the newly aquired WBB Mayflower 60'
aluminum set.....pulled by CC Lionel checkerboard F3s with Rocket Action
Power,...and the highly awesome CC Lionel "FL3s" in McGinnis paint. This
was just under the tree, mind you. On the big track we unleashed the
massive MTH EF3b dual service motor, and the MTH EP5 Jet. For freight,
we had the WBB FA1 A-B-A set in Trustee paint, With an Atlas cabin bringing
up the markers. On track four was the trusty Atlas Alco RS1 with a seven
car work train, including the big hook! There was sooo much NH running,
for a second I thought I was in Westerly, Kingston, or Providence!!!!!

my daughter took a shine to my 2245 texas special F3's and they never left being under the tree. there were appearances on the other line from 2321 trainmaster, 746 n&w, 726rr, and even my 1950 773 with madison cars made it under the tree.

almost forgot l started thls year off wlth my Marx 333 and NYC passenger cars.

I ran the Legacy E6 Lindbergh Special under Legacy control.

I got Legacy for Christmas and now see why everyone loves Lionel's features. I think I literally played with the thing for 2 hours straight. There is so much packed into the system. I absolutely love it!