where's the thread for all the Halloween layouts?

Okay, simple, but just to start it off.

 

that should tell you something........-Jim

I don't set up separate layouts for the various holidays.   I run Holiday stuff on my existing, permanent layout.

Model/toy trains are traditionally associated with Christmas, not Halloween.

 

I thought everyone knew that.  Same reason you don't see lots of Valentine's day layouts.

Thanks for the video.  For the other posters, it there wasn't a market for Halloween trains companies like lionel sure wouldn't be making it.

Btw marx made a rabbit train.  Twas a flop but I'd still love to see one on a layout.

My layout will be going up this week and will make a few changes from last year's layout.  It's a one day layout, the Trick -or Treaters loved it last year and I enjoyed their reactions.

 

Here's my layout from last year.

 

Greg

 

What, there's no Valentine's Day layouts?

For those of you that don't know, the Dept.56 "Rickety Railroad Station" plays excellent railroad sounds.

Apparently I didn't get the memo...

 

More of a diorama than a "layout".  Either way with Dept. 56 and Lemax offering so many Halloween village items and plenty of Halloween trains out there I don't see why anyone would be surprised by the idea of a Halloween Layout.   

 

Look at how fast the MTH Halloween locomotive sold out.  Within 24 hours.  Over the past 15 years or so, Halloween has really transitioned from being a one-night kids-only holiday to an entire October holiday for people of all ages.  Halloween strings of orange and purple and pumpkin lights didn't even exist 15 years ago.  Now, they are everywhere.  And as the other poster said, Dept 56 and Lemax Halloween villages have become huge.

 

I think what it comes down to is that people like any excuse for a party and to decorate and to just escape reality for a bit.  It used to be only Christmas but now it's Halloween.  I was once not into Halloween at all but I am beginning to embrace it.  It's fun and gets me primed for the primetime Christmas train season.

Good grief Charlie Brown!

Maybe someone should have asked if anyone had seen any "Nightmare before Christmas" layouts on the forum.

I only have a few visitors to my normal town.

 

 

I never knew ghosts used the privy too!!

Anyone who has been to the October York Meet and driven around the countryside knows that Halloween is a very big deal.  There are as many decorated homes and yards as there are for Christmas!  It's getting to be that way, too, in Maryland and Virginia.