Okay, I finally got the Christmas train and village up and running this past weekend. I have a 2012 Polar Express running on the inside loop of Fastrack O-36, and an MTH NYC Hudson with the PS2 upgrade pulling three MTH Madison cars on the O-48 loop. The village buildings and figures were all collected by my wife's late grandmother. They are a mix of Lemax, Dickens Village, and one Dept 56. We set them up on two folding tables in our recently married daughter's old room. This is the first time we have had room for the village since we bought my mother-in-laws house 4 years ago.
I will take some closeups and try a video later this week or probably next. My wife was pretty pleased.
One caveat. Our daughter who still lives with us helped me raise the completed tables up to put blocks under them to give enough height so our terrier could not reach the table edge. First try she got her claws stuck on Randy Harrison's great snow blanket and tore it. I was able to hide the tear. Now that Annie can't reach the trains, she has no interest at all. In previous years she barked at the PE every time I ran it, then nudged the Berkshire off the track.