Wow, you guys have some great ideas for cars and do great building work. I am enjoying see all your cars and love that others enjoy this section of the hobby too.
Santa Sled and Reindeer Flat cars for my Christmas Train
I know this is a week late for Christmas but I find after Christmas and New Years, with the lousy winter weather, a great time to build train cars and stuff.
I added a Santa, sled and 8 reindeers plus Rudolph the red nosed reindeer to my Christmas train. I made the reindeer cars from three junker scout sized flat cars and figures and reindeer from a Hallmark Cards Santa, Sled and Reindeer set. I painted the flat cars white as reindeer like snow and will show up better with a light color.
One car carried the Santa sled and two reindeer, a second car carried four reindeer and third car carried two reindeer and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. The reindeer were simply glued to the flat cars with 5 min epoxy glue.
The original Hallmark Cards Santa sled was too big so a smaller one was made from balsa wood and sized for Hallmark Cards Santa.
A blinking red light was installed in Rudolf’s nose and a power pick up was added to the car.
The Christmas Train is usually stationed on the hidden track behind the background and comes out by surprise for the kids after watching the trains run for a few minutes. The train has a Christmas candy in a gondola also and is one train always used at Christmas time.
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