AFTX posted:Here's Paul's layout image again. I Photoshopped it to cool the ambient light to help me identify some of the buildings - and thought I'd share. A great looking layout!
Paul, can we see more?!
Thanks, AFTX. I don't have too many photos of the former layout, which is sad. Those that I was able to salvage I am incorporating into a book that I hope to self-publish later this year. I attached a photo from my current layout - the residential area.
Most all my past 3 rail layouts have been Christmas themed. I have in my plans to eventually pick up a decent 726 postwar Berk with the big tender to make my own PE engine. I think the postwar Berk would have been better for the 0-27 sets than what Lionel used. I agree that the smaller Berk sets look "cheap" and feel "cheap". Gone is the heft of the Postwar Berkshire engines. I do wish I still had all the Dept56 buildings I used to own. Someday maybe. Playing with 2 rail right now. The 3 rail comes out at the holidays right now. Mike the Aspie
I collect handcars, so I have had the Lionel 6-18433 Mickey and Minnie Handcar (Christmas rendition) and the various variations of the Lionel Santa and Mrs. Clause Handcar for quite some time. I just started to collect and run Christmas engines and cars last year. The MTH Christmas ES44AC engine and caboose sets with charging lights (30-20360-1 and 30-20430-1) that I purchased are very good, but the real standout is the MTH Christmas Dash-8 engine with LED lights (30-20436-1); you have to see it to appreciate how bright those tiny lights are, even in daylight. The MTH flatcar with two LED lighted Christmas trees, they come in a number of variations, is my favorite rolling stock; I have twenty, I should say I currently have ten and I have ten on preorder...do not tell my husband. I plan to run a consist of a Christmas tree flatcar followed by another Christmas related car, and repeat.
Since we are on the subject of Christmas trains, I have posted under the Wanted to Buy Forum (first posted 3-5-18 and last updated 6-24-18) that I would like to buy the Lionel 6-27947 Reindeer Transport Car #6473-25. The car has a red body and a green roof with two reindeer looking out of one of its sides. I have been looking for well over a year, all to no avail. I should note that I already own the 6-26844 (green body and silver roof)--this car is from the 6-30011 expansion set--and the 6-26743 (green body and green roof). Any help with this search would be appreciated.
Thank you, Janet (TCA and LCCA member)
Paul Kallus posted:AFTX posted:Here's Paul's layout image again. I Photoshopped it to cool the ambient light to help me identify some of the buildings - and thought I'd share. A great looking layout!
Paul, can we see more?!
Thanks, AFTX. I don't have too many photos of the former layout, which is sad. Those that I was able to salvage I am incorporating into a book that I hope to self-publish later this year. I attached a photo from my current layout - the residential area.
I remember your former layout fondly, especially the subway scenes you could only see from looking at the correct angle. Your new layout looks neat as well. I hope you get to publish your book and hope it's the one you let me read a few years ago - it was an enjoyable read!
-Greg
This layout is still up, although I just swapped out a few buildings a couple weeks ago. With both daughters married now, there isn't the urgency to get the Christmas layout taken down.
Here is the Lion Chief Polar Express with the snow on the cars I bought at an amazing price last Christmas. I sold the old conventional PE set with some add on cars to a local friend and Forum member. He had a special plan for them, I'm sure.
I also have a North Pole Express 0-4-0 and caboose that I use to pull religious themed cars.
There is a nativity too.
Mark,
Really nice pictures. What the heck leave it up year round. LOL
Doug
Thank you, Doug!! Well now we are closer to Christmas 2018 than last Christmas, so I’m ready!!
Andy Hummell posted:
Another fan here. I've been collecting the scale PE and the scale Polar RR rolling stock. At my club's Christmas setup at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh, I regularly run my double-headed Polar Express (complete with hot chocolate smoke fluid):
And there is usually a hobo along for the ride:
This train is a BIG hit with the public. Kids' eyes just light up when they see it, and sometimes they just want to follow it around and around the layout. I get tons of comments and questions about it, with my favorite being the time a guy pulled me aside to ask who made it. When I replied that it was Lionel, he said, "I have a Lionel Polar Express set. Why is yours so much bigger than mine?"
I then explained the difference between scale and traditional equipment, and how it took years to put together.
At York this year, I scored a bunch of Circus Craft children figures that will get painted some time over the Winter and inserted into my empty coaches so that they will not look so lonely. I also ordered a new set of the coaches and observation car from the new catalog, so in the future my 2xPE will be really long.
Andy
Love the minion in the boxcar, hilarious. Have a "movie advertisement" for them in our subway station.
Another guilty party here
The Polar Express LionChief set is the reason I got back into playing with Trains. And what makes it even more fun is having a 7 and 4 year old to share it with. The Polar Express started out like most Christmas sets, under the tree. Last year I decided I would attack an actual layout. Carpetland was the result. See if you can figure out what inspired it all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s9SqyF4AuA
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