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Well here it is December 23 and I finally have the trains around the tree.  Wife and I travel just before Christmas to our east coast family place where we all gather for Christmas and New Years...so the "tree" had to wait until we moved 1155 miles east from Texas.  Brother and I got tree up - actually he did most of that work and yesterday we unpacked the trains and got them running after a bit of a crises...see below.

Had the classic "Christmas Eve" type problem...my 1 year old, modern, brand new, highly detailed, expensive ($150 +), Lionel 0-8-0 made it 1/2 way around the oval and quit...NO RUN, NO MOVEMENT, NO NOTHING!!! After about an hr of playing "try this  then try that"  what to do?  I am over 1000 miles from my collection which would have had many substitute engines available.   Then I remembered a a 50 year old Marx set I had put up last summer for my young nephew to play with...So I dug out the 50 year old, Marx 400 plastic engine ($10) and put it on the track.  Like most all Marx, it runs, it moves, it pulls the train.  Then comes the imaginative part.  We realize that all the "sounds" (steam, bell , whistle, crew talk) are in the TENDER of the Lionel set...so my brother fabricates an innovative link to attach the Marx drawbar (tab / slot) to the Lionel tender (pin/hole) and it works.  So now we have the Marx 400 as motive power but all the sophisticated sounds of the Lionel set.  So here is our 2021 Christmas round the tree Train layout.

"Old Reliable" Marx 400 linked to the very sophisticated Lionel sounds tender.

Christmas layout 1

The full tree - note since we are at sea shore almost all ornaments are sea shells...thanks to my very talented wife.

Christmas Tree at Tybee.

Here are a few residents of Christmas Town including the Coca Cola polar bear raiding the Coke machine!

Christmas layout 2 [2)

Santa hitches a ride with the NYC we live in Waco, Tx so the "Dr. Pepper" car is required !!

Christmas layout 2

The water tower , caroler's and more residents of Christmas town.

Christmas layout 3

The 2021 "train layout savior" the classic, very common, and always reliable, Marx 400 plastic loco

Christmas layout 4

Best wishes and Happy Holidays to All!!

Don

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  • Christmas Tree at Tybee.
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