LET'S SEE YOUR TRAINS UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREES

Great trains and trees so far, this really brings out the Christmas spirit !!!

Alex

Here is a older video in 2012.A G scale train under the christmas tree. Haven't had one under it since.

Don't have any current photos, so I have to display from the archives.

We've been including trains with our Christmas Village since 2011 when I got back into trains.  In 2013 we did the trains on the floor around the tree with a combination O Gauge and Disney Monorail.

Will be putting up the village this week.  Still determining the location and the layout design at this late stage 

#8 from 1930.

Here's a shot of the layout from last Christmas.

Amfleet25124 posted:

 

Will be putting up the village this week.  Still determining the location and the layout design at this late stage 

Great photos from everyone.

Don't recall ever seeing that structure before Kevin, may have to go see the real thing one day!

I spent part of my Honeymoon at the Contemporary.  If I knew how the marriage was going to go, I would have jumped in front of a monorail or pushed someone.

pbuff posted:

My son's batman subway set is in the interior loop, plus my MTH Big Boy and SD70aCE on the outer loop.  Thinking of expanding this so it runs around half of the living room.

Only half? 

From the archives:

From a few years back...

PD

Wow, I really like the diffused lighting in the center.

....and peppermint stick stanchion poles.

....and loop shape.

...and electric lines.

and...and ...and..that's so nice!

ClarkA posted:

The 1936 American Flyer Burlington Zephyr was purchased by my Grandfather from the Burlington store front on Michigan Av. in Chicago on December 24, 1936/37??  Apparently he walked in there and wanted to buy their display.  They stated it was not for sale, but he insisted everything was for sale.  He set it up that late evening for my Dad for Christmas morning, and unfortunately it is 100% mine this Christmas. The above photo is many years old (Christmas 2005?).   I always loved the Burlington Zephyr locomotive because it resembled my favorite that I saw daily.  Rock Island's AB6, "Old Flat Face"!   My Dad did some commuting from Beverly Hills (Chicago area) to downtown in the 50's.  He hated the Aerotrain so much, he would wait for the next train.

You guys are doing a GREAT JOB!!!

I had all intentions of putting up a brand new Christmas Layout this year, but things got a bit hectic. I constructed three 3x5 tables back in September to form a 5x9 ft window layout. Then my Dad got sick and wound up in the hospital and now in a nursing home. With spending a lot of my free time lately with Dad (I'm an only child and Mom passed away 7 years ago) I was lucky to get the tree up. I will at minimum get a loop of track under it, perhaps this weekend. But right now I'm thinking about the guy who got me started 60 years ago.

Merry Christmas to all my OGR friends!

Skip

Here's last year's layout.

I morphed Christmas into the beginnings of my new O scale modular layout. Hopefully I'll have much more to show this time next year.

The Johnsons' already have their tree up, as do the good parishioners of

St. Francis!

This is not my layout, but found this on youtube.   The white 'snow' surface makes the Atlas track look nice.

Here's the video:    Christmas Train

pd posted:

From the archives:

PD

That's one of the cutest layouts that I've seen, from the base design on up.

Dave

    Bearville. With the Bearville & Polar Railroad, Added more buildings and another street this year

Here is an update on my 2016 MTH O Scale Christmas Layout. i hope you like the pictures.

Well my take on trains under the tree is not as exciting as the rest of yours, but they are still under the tree.

Lowes2win posted:

Here is an update on my 2016 MTH O Scale Christmas Layout. i hope you like the pictures.

I love the back drop.  Very peaceful setting.  Great job!

Just a reminder to everyone, if you're going to respond to someone's post with "Reply with Quote", don't repost all their pictures again. This just clutters the thread. You can easily delete the photos from you post before posting.

Dtrainmaster posted:

pd posted:

From the archives:

PD

That's one of the cutest layouts that I've seen, from the base design on up.

Dave

It was the result of an OGR Forum contest a few years ago...build a small holiday layout. This thing was four foot square...fun little project. I wanted it to be a figure-eight that folded back inside itself, but the 45-degree crossing I ordered arrived with a defect and it was too late to return/replace/include. Those peppermint sticks were a bear, lol.

PD

Lowes2win posted:

 Now THAT'S a Christmas Card!

trainroomgary posted:

A 35 Second • Video Christmas Card from Train Room Gary.

...We will run a Lionel Polar Express around the Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas.

Gary

Merry Christmas, Train Room Gary!!!  Great video!!!

Dennis GS-4 N & W No. 611 posted:

trainroomgary posted:

A 35 Second • Video Christmas Card from Train Room Gary.

...We will run a Lionel Polar Express around the Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas.

Gary

Merry Christmas, Train Room Gary!!!  Great video!!!

Hi Dennis

Thanks for watching and commenting & Merry Christmas...........

The Erie is now providing service to the North Pole.

Blank slate - let's see what I come up with!

pd posted:

From the archives:

From a few years back...

PD

That really is a fantastic use of space, awesome pd!

Roger TEB posted:

    Bearville. With the Bearville & Polar Railroad, Added more buildings and another street this year

Very nice.The miniature train running in the center of the layout is very interesting can you post some close up photos of it?

I keep it simple...

Jon  

Thanks for all the great pix, and, the great thread!

So here's where I got to by about midnight:

Dan986

The little trains in the middle are Hallmark ornaments sitting on n scale track. made to look like a park train

Harry Potter and The General

Absolutely no trains are on the first floor of the house, so the tree stands alone.

However, in the basement trainroom, the layout itself  gets various neighborhoods decorated for Christmas, which includes a Holiday Parade in the village neighborhood.

FrankM

Absolutely amazing photos everyone!! 

Thanks for posting !

Alex