How about some train related Christmas ornaments!🎄

Only have the 2014 ‘silver bell express’ one 

How about a Christmas train tree?

Whole tree exclusively trimmed with Hallmark ornaments thanks to Mrs. CSXJOE.

We leave our trees up all year round.

Not on the tree yet.

Well this year only have three train related ornaments.

In fact the reason I probably put the tree up this year.  A very close family member gave me this ornament for Christmas last year.  A 2014 White House ornament honoring Warren G. Harding's funeral train. 

An ornament picked up years ago. 

And the "I Believe" bell from the Polar Express set.

Now the Christmas of 2016 a few weeks after get a Trifecta medical diagnostic finally did my trains, planes and automobile tree.

Set out the Blue Comet under the tree with a special tree topper form Hallmark that projected falling snow flakes on the ceiling and upper walls.

Ron

From our Christmas party, picked it up today 

Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

 

From our Christmas party, picked it up today 

That is cool! 

My train club, Intracoastal Model Railroad Club, entered a tree into a annual fund raiser for the Ocean Isle Beach Museum and the Sunset Beach Planetarium. And yes the two sets are operating around the tree!!!!

Hope you enjoy.

For the last 24 Christmases I have hosted my entire 26 member family for what we (I) call the annual family train party.  As a 'thank you', my brother and his wife each year gifted to me a very unique train ornament for the tree.  Here are some images of them on the tree from 2018.  Each ornament has either a built-in date or a hand written date for the year, and if hand written, the # of the train party.

I couldn't get closer to the tree, so sorry that things are a bit small.

- walt

2 Christmases ago, my daughter found these Lionel Christmas Tree globes and thought I'd like them.  She was right 

As my family grew with marriages and grandkids, I kept buying more of these personallized train ornaments from Lenox.

- walt

As far back as I can remember, when my kids were young they always found "Dad train ornaments for the tree".  Some are hand crafted so to speak.  Here are just some of them:

- walt

I've shown this before.  No it's not an 'ornament' per se but it might be the most special train 'decoration' that I have.  As I've explained each time that I post a picture of it, I mention that it was a gift to me from my now deceased sister making it powerfully meaningfuil to me.  Here is this year's display of it on the layout with mirrors reflecting it.

- walt

CHRIS: I figure I should stop here.    I have lots of non-tree Christmas train stuff too.  Maybe I'll share them when I feel less guilty about hogging this thread.

- walt

Not at all Walt. I would expect a collection of train ornaments like this from you! Thanks for posting all of them! 

These are on the family room tree.  Have most of the Hallmark Lionel train ornaments but only a couple duplicates received as gifts get put on this tree.  We have another small tree that has been decorated exclusively with the Hallmark Lionel ornaments but it didn’t get put up this year.

Well i added two of my Hallmark ornaments to tree posted above.  An extra Blue Comet engine and the Pennsy S2 turbine from 2017.

Great thread. Lennox China made a few. About the only train related ornaments I could get permission to put on the tree.

I love Lenox.  What year are they from?

POTRZBE posted:

I love Lenox.  What year are they from?

We got married in 1989 and we started collecting these along with the 12 Days of Christmas set. Most likely we (I) bought these within the first year or two.

Bob

I think that I've shown these in previous years.    But it's another year since then, and I have a hard time remembering things I did yesterday!     Happy, "A Festivus for the rest of us"

I have all of the Hallmark Lionel Train ornaments, except one gold, special paint issue. I keep those in a display, but I have dupes of a lot of them, and those go on the tree. I won’t bother with pics of those, as everyone knows what they are.

This Hallmark train ornament from 1975 has always been a favorite of mine:

Lionel ceramic ornaments

Totally forgot about the Lionel 37-600 train station ornament we have.  Dug it out during halftime, put it with the ceramic train on the TV stand.  A little out of scale but it is a train station. Lol

I haven’t seen any of these in the posts so far. Here are mine that I received from my family as well as some post Christmas sales I was able to get my hands on. 

Great ornaments guys!  How could I forget Thomas? 

The clock in Grand Central Terminal

The Conductor's Polar Express Pocket Watch

A Lionel Layout

A City Diorama

The Polar Express

Skip: really unique ones, love 'em

- walt

I mentioned earlier here that each year I host a 'family train party' and my Brother and his wife each year gift to me a tree train ornament as a thank you.

Here is the one that they gifted to me this year.

Station Square is in Pittsburgh.  It used to be a large train station, if that's the correct term.  The significance: I live and grew up in Pittsburgh!

'Uncle Buck' is what my nieces and nephews call me.  Long story but it's based on the movie with J. Candy.  Earlier I mentioned that many of the ornaments has the year embedded as part of it, but when not my sister-in-law paints the year onto it.

-walt

How about some Christmas Tree Lights?

A few over the years,but way too many to take pictures of.

And no,not my painted fingernails 🤣

A Blessed and Merry Christmas all !

Here are just a few of mine

Only two small ones on this year’s tree.

I’ve been collecting the Hallmark train ornaments since they started the series. I’m pretty sure I have all of the, including the “gold” limited editions, and excluding the mini’s (I’ve got to look for a complete list one of these days). Almost all of them are too small, but also too heavy to hang on a live tree - I think you’d need one of those old artificial trees from the 60’s with the twisted metal branches to hold the engines!!! I have 79 train ornaments (77 from the series plus the gold Hudson from the 100 anniversary and a Thomas). I display them every year on the TV console.

Just got this one today from a friend. It’s awesome!

Here a a couple  but not on the tree.

Apples55 posted:

I’ve been collecting the Hallmark train ornaments since they started the series. I’m pretty sure I have all of the, including the “gold” limited editions, and excluding the mini’s (I’ve got to look for a complete list one of these days). Almost all of them are too small, but also too heavy to hang on a live tree - I think you’d need one of those old artificial trees from the 60’s with the twisted metal branches to hold the engines!!! I have 79 train ornaments (77 from the series plus the gold Hudson from the 100 anniversary and a Thomas). I display them every year on the TV console.

 

 

They are much nicer than I thought they would be !  I will pick them up when I see them at yard sales and such now - my artificial tree has sturdy branches

Regards

Fred

Here’s a few of our train related ornaments. Pretty unusual here in the U.K. 

Merry Christmas 

Nick

Apples55 posted:

I’ve been collecting the Hallmark train ornaments since they started the series. I’m pretty sure I have all of the, including the “gold” limited editions, and excluding the mini’s (I’ve got to look for a complete list one of these days). Almost all of them are too small, but also too heavy to hang on a live tree - I think you’d need one of those old artificial trees from the 60’s with the twisted metal branches to hold the engines!!! I have 79 train ornaments (77 from the series plus the gold Hudson from the 100 anniversary and a Thomas). I display them every year on the TV console.

 

Actually, some live trees do have branches strong enough to hold even the engines.  I always get a Frasier Fir these days, and they can hold the engines. (well most years I get a Frasier- this year there was seemingly a bit of a shortage, so I've got something I've never heard of before "Cook Premium Fir", and a few years  I've had a Balsam Fir)

You obviously can't hang the big engines right on the tip of a branch, but they can be hung a little bit inward.

The minis can hang anywhere, right out to the tips.  They weigh nothing.

Nice collection, btw!  I believe mine is complete as well, but I don't have a dedicated space to put ALL of them out every year.

-Dave

After reading Paul Kallus's article in Run 309 of the OGR on the Polar Express pulled out my copy of the book.  Had forgotten that my copy was the special 25th anniversary edition.

Which included a Polar Express Christmas ornament attached to the inside of the dust cover rear tab.  The ornament is dated 2009 with Chris Van Allsburg's name on it.

Maybe next year will remember to take it out and hang it.

There also is a CD of the story read by Liam Neeson.

Ron

Here are a few that I don't think have come up yet:

Merry Christmas!

-Dave