If any of my trains are not on a layout, I store them in their boxes on several shelving units. They are stored by Manufacturer and then by catalog number.
I realized that I have a whole bunch of Christmas-themed trains. And, I also have a fair amount of Halloween-themed trains, and I have a third category I call AEC/Alien/Area 51.
A few days ago I went through all the trains and pulled out all of the Christmas, Halloween, and AEC/Alien/Area 51 items. I created sections in the shelving for all of these categories. I also have a fair amount of G gauge, and pulled all the Christmas-themed G gauge items and gave them their own section.
I found that I have 63 Christmas items, 33 Halloween items, 27 AEC/Alien/Area 51 items, and 12 G gauge Christmas items.
As far as Christmas items, I have:
- Polar Express (Lionchief and the new Lionchief Plus 2.0 locos) and all of the black-roofed cars
- Premier Canadian Pacific Holiday Train
- MTH Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer set plus all additional cars
- Polar Railroad K4 Loco and several (but nowhere near all) Polar Railroad cars
- Several Lionel and MTH Christmas-themed aquarium cars
- Many MTH M&M's Christmas box cars
- Several MTH flatcars with lighted Christmas trees
- A few of the K-Line Coca-Cola Christmas box cars
And, there are a few more that I am forgetting.
I have the MTH North Pole train station with Christmas lights. I definitely want to pick up more of the MTH buildings with Christmas lights.
