How about some photos and videos of your Christmas Tree Layouts!

A quick video of my Christmas tree layout.  Just put it up tonight.    My pup griffin had to help me .........

RSJB18 posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Looks great Bob!

Thanks Mark. Too bad the PE barely makes it around. Might need that new transformer soon

The little engine who could?

 I think I can, I think I can....

Aquinas2 posted:

A quick video of my Christmas tree layout.  Just put it up tonight.    My pup griffin had to help me .........

Looks great!  Griffin did a great job and is quite interested in the trains.  Too bad our Annie isn’t like that.  I can’t put a train under the tree, she watches it go around and then nudges the locomotive off the track every time!

Just waiting for her to move.....^^^^^^^^^^^. ..So I can put the train under the tree !

Here is my contribution. 060 outer loop, 048 inner loop with a couple of 1.75 straights in the center of the 048 curve to move the inner loop further out, and 30” straights front and back. I can run my scale J and SD70ACE on this, but they look funny pulling the traditional Christmas cars. Pictured are an old Williams that has been converted with a Cruise Commander from ERR by 3rd Rail, and the other is a Rail King J 611 converted with a Cruise Lite from ERR. 

pennytrains posted:

Your work is always the best, we all have a lot to learn from you. Thank you.

Went a little overboard, but it's Christmas!

(Added some more shots,)

Some trouble at the refinery!

A couple shots tonight.  First with everything stopped.

Second photo shows everything but the 400E moving.

Here's a couple more.  Different angles.  I'm partial to this first one.  Merry Christmas! 

The trains around two of our trees.  Can you tell we have eight grandchildren?

Fortunately my Menard's Hobby Shop Building arrived before Santa

We got out a couple of Christmas-themed trains to run this past weekend under the tree.  My kids got these from Santa ‘back in the day’.  Now as grownups they enjoyed watching them run again.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Bridge to No Where Christmas Tree Layout. Don't forget to turn up the volume so you can hear the whistle.

Looks good Arnold! 

Bridge to Nowhere!  Yes indeed; that reminds me of the Infamous Pittsburgh Bridge to Nowhere of the '60s, the Fort Duquesne Bridge that goes from Downtown across the Allegheny River to the North Shore between PNC Park and Heinz Field. 

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Only 6 Shopping Days remaining until Christmas. Here is my entry for this year’s OGRR gallery, which this time is a 27x100 Shelf Layout with a back and forth MTH Trolley.  Didn’t use any loop trains this year.  The YouTube video is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

We have three Christmas trees set up this year.

The real tree with the O gauge Christmas train underneath.

The artificial tree with the standard gauge Christmas train.

The vintage aluminum tree decorated with Lionel Christmas balls.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here's one I did in 2014.  So much has changed, I need to shoot another one video... now there are two mainlines, more cool scenery etc.

pennytrains posted:

 

Love it!!! That's definitely an "E" ticket! 

Here is our Christmas Layout!!! 

Added a projector this year....

Merry Christmas!

https://youtu.be/knE8-yP5LT4

Not enough floor space underneath our tree for any trackage, alas.  But I have the Lionel 2026 that Santa brought me in 1951 on our coffee table:

It will shortly go on my basement layout, where it will spend the season relieving my scale trains from some of the rush of Christmas holiday traffic.  While it's away, its coffee table duties will be taken over by my father's Lionel 252 and accompanying three tinplate passenger cars.

This Christmas will make 25 years since I received my first O gauge locomotive. Christmas 1993 (I was 8 years old) found a Lionel Southern Pacific 2-4-0 under the tree. It was plastic and had no whistle or smoke but it was mine. I now had something to run along side my dad's 2065. I dug it out this evening and it still runs like it did 25 years ago. I parked the 2-4-0 with my latest locomotive purchase, a MTH Premier Santa Fe 3460 class Hudson. The old 2-4-0 is dwarfed by my scale size stuff. I thinks it's time to keep the old 2-4-0 out of the box. I'm going to turn it into a park display on my layout, and give it a run at least every December 25th.

https://youtu.be/VNb4zyJezrg

Volphin posted:

Here's one I did in 2014.  So much has changed, I need to shoot another one video... now there are two mainlines, more cool scenery etc.

Is that a Yamaha standing proudly beside your Peavey amp? Love the burst!

Nothing too crazy for 2018...Lionel 33/35/36 set from 1925-1926 running on the carpet under the tree:

Paint scheme and combination couplers puts it in late-production. Despite a chunk missing from a drive wheel and a tooth or two missing from the pinion gear, ol' 33 still runs like a champ. Looks about right...

PD

Polar Express with the Holiday train and a Legi Christmas Train

Waiting for Santa 🎅 

This one is for TINPLATE ART:

Regards

Fred

Sometimes the tree and tracks are optional

And sometimes there just a part of the story

Merry Christmas everyone!

My first O-gauge Christmas train layout started with a simple loop track around the tree back in 2008. For the next 10 years, my layout has gradually expanded from just a single loop to 3 loops of track.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

After my son made the decision to do an HO layout I haven't been around much but Christmas is here and you HAVE to have an O train around the tree so the O-27/31 stuff has come out of storage!  This is all an addition to the Lionel Scout set my son's great-grandfather bought for him on his first birthday. Aside from that and the AMTRAK stuff (from a member here) this is almost entirely stuff acquired at resale shops or swap meet bargain bins.

My son setup most of what you see below.

Merry Christmas All!

Finally had a chance to set up the Canadian Pacific holiday train. The locomotive is a lionel engine with LEDs added.

https://youtu.be/vlX9Lz13vmI

SP 4449 Holiday Express 

Nick12DMC posted:

Here’s a quick video of our tree with Mason’s Polar Express (conventional) set on duty this year. We also have the Nut Cracker gateman set up with an IR sensor.

Layout powered by a CW-80 (QC50-OK) transformer via a 240V-120V stepdown transformer. Lionel Christmas lights, bubble lights and tree topper are American and also run from the step down transformer.

Oh yes and the Candy Canes are Spanglers.

I am a bubble light junkie, I have had them every year since I remember with the train running under the tree. we have 40 of them on the tree now,  I will provide a photo tomorrow after I straighten them out, they always want to lean one way or the other but never where you put the little buggers.