We are here with our older son and his family in Fort Mill, SC outside of Charlotte, NC, and I saw the following posted by “Dorcie, the TrainDame” on this forum describing a new holiday layout being completed by TW TrainWorx to be displayed in the lobby of 300 South Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte:
Dorcie said in her post,
“..... I dashed to the studio floor and shot this video, enjoy!”
Happy Tracks!
TrainDame aka Dorcie
TW TrainWorx
Dallas, TX | Concord, NC
(214) 634-2965
According to what I can find, the exhibit opens on Thanksgiving Day and runs through January 1st. I hope to slip away sometime Friday to visit this display as we fly back home to Oregon on Saturday.
Speaking of Oregon, if all went well, my friend, Don, and other volunteers set up our Capitol Holidays Layout under the giant Christmas tree in the rotunda on the Oregon State Capitol in Salem earlier this week in my absence. This will be the 35th year, and probably the last, that we have set up our American Flyer S Gauge layout under the tree in the Capitol. My AF trains run through a scene depicting the Salem, OR area in honor of A C Gilbert’s boyhood home.
We are planning to be home in time for the annual lighting of the Christmas Tree and starting of the train on December 4th. The the Holidays at the Capitol tradition started in the early ‘80s with a large loop of Standard Gauge track on the floor under the tree and running a pre-war AF steam train:
That’s my two sons, now both in their forties checking out the tree and train that first year.
Merry Christmas!
Alan
PS: Here is a more recent look at the Oregon State Capitol Holidays Layout: