It is the next to last day for our Christmas layout. Normally we would start taking it and the decorations down tomorrow. But that is my wife's birthday. No way we are going to celebrate it that way! So they come down on January 3rd.
I made this layout about 15 years ago and it is wired for both TMCC and conventional trains. But I almost always just bring up postwar sets from the basement to give them some run time, changing each about every three days. What is running here is a 1946 smoke bulb Berkshire with the semi-scale operating boxcar, the black tank car and high end caboose. It was a strange set, top of the line locomotive and cars, but only a three car set - as if it was a low end set. The passenger is a Lionel Texas Special AB with Kusan Texas Special cars. Never understood why Lionel missed the bet of doing the Texas Special paint scheme for either aluminum or 027 cars. Rather it came as a freight set. Oh, well, it looks great this way.
