@laming posted:So the 2020 Christmas season has OFFICIALLY arrived.
As a kid... the Friday after Thanksgiving marked our Official Day that Christmas Season was underway and it was only a few long weeks before that Grand Day would arrive!
Now, what is more traditional for us train geeks than a Christmas layout or Christmas train memories?
Same here! SO, for the first time in YEARS, I have a Christmas layout!
Yup, it's what I call the "World's Smallest Christmas Layout"! However, the thought is what truly matters.
With that, I offer up a photo of my modest little Christmas layout that all of yesterday's small Thanksgiving Day gathering of attending family got a kick out of. Doing the honors at the moment is a replica set that represents my first ever 3R set I received in about 1959 or 1960. My first 3R set was a lowly Marx set that was a hand-me-down from friends of our family. Seems their son had outgrown toy trains (he was out of High School and off to college) and so they asked: "Would you like to have it?"
You betch'em Red Rider!
So, I became the proud owner of a 1946-vintage Marx 25225 set just like the one in the picture that I found/acquired a few months ago. I tried to run the wheels of my original Marx set... but you know how Marx trains are built: They live forever! (BTW, the Marx guys here at OGR helped me to know what set I had way back when, which led to my seeking/purchasing this set! Thanks Marx guys!)
Merry Christmas to all my OGR buds!! Come on, post up your Christmas Layout pictures here!
Andre
Very nice Andre, didn't know you ever did 3R. No layout plans for me this year -- so far.
Tom Stoltz
in Maine
