LET'S SEE YOUR TRAINS UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREES

The office Rockefeller Center subway layout.

You just have to believe the trains are under there!

LOVE that building!!!! 

OK well this is an absolutely horrible photo but here ya go. Set 2101W with engine 224 running like charm.

Alex M posted:

Hello everyone 

 Just what the title says, let's see pictures and videos of your trains and trees !!!! 

Thanks, Alex 

5th year in and its growing along with my 7 yr old grandson who we share this together.

Not exactly under the tree, but part of my annual Breakfast with Santa display.

James, great pictures and wonderful video!

mike g. posted:

James, great pictures and wonderful video!

Thanks!  It's a labor of love, it's only up for one day!

WOW James, It would have to be a labor of Love for just one day! If I put something like that up it would be up for the whole month of December and maybe January! LOL

1952 Lionel Santa Fe 2343 F-3 ABA Restored with mods TMCC, Traction tires

Very impressive!

Speaking of the Coca Cola Sundblom Santa, I have 2 collages, a large puzzle and 7 old ads clipped from vintage National Geographics hanging on the walls of my living room at Christmas.  You can see a few on the right of this photo:

I also made 2 Polar Express collages for my bedroom.  One is screen shots from the movie, the other is PM 1225 in both it's regular paint and the PE version.

pennytrains posted:

Speaking of the Coca Cola Sundblom Santa, I have 2 collages, a large puzzle and 7 old ads clipped from vintage National Geographics hanging on the walls of my living room at Christmas.  You can see a few on the right of this photo:

I also made 2 Polar Express collages for my bedroom.  One is screen shots from the movie, the other is PM 1225 in both it's regular paint and the PE version.

OUTSTANDING!!!

Alex M.; Joe Sage; BAR GP7 #63; Dan986; Rixster; Roger TEB; Alan Rogers; Chessie1971; Greg Houser; Joe B; rdeal; pennytrains; Engineer-Joe; Fridge56Vet; El Classico; Steve Wischer; gg1man; Laidoffsick,

the thoughtfulness of your "Likes" for my sharing what we do in our home for Christmas, regarding trees and trains, is much appreciated. Thank you.

FrankM.

I have one outside .

Guy

Christmas scene on the layout. 

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Layout

How about some vintage post war?!! Here is my dad in the late 1940's. Proud to say we still have all of the trains you see here! 

Not much but i think this is all im doing this year haha

yankspride4 posted:

Got started late this year...hopefully I can finish this weekend.

Got some work done yesterday:

Not under a tree but here is my 4X4 desktop display.  Merry Christmas.

Thanks, everyone, for  sharing your photos an videos. No time this year for very much decorating other than a small tree and some Dept 56 buildings. 

I included the Lionel Hobby Shop to at least represent! 

Well no trains yet, but here's the progress.

Due to my little ones, the tree needs some serious extra protection. My bigger little guy can lift up the portable baby gate and move it around, so step 1 is to start with a sheet of plywood , trimmed to 4' x 6'.  This is covered in a holiday table cloth the is held down with fabric glue and a little duct tape on the back. Then assemble the back gate and mark it out for holes.  Cut the cloth, drill the holes, and apply zip ties.  

Then move to the living room and zip tie the baby gate in place. Then scavenge the spare track bin and scare up a transformer, conventional only around the tree!! Screw the track down, so it doesn't come apart, and apply power strip.  Insert tree, prepare for magic!

With the basement layout temporarily out-of-action due to some minor water-damage, I threw down a loop around the tree. A short train headed by a Lionel 2018 from 1956 (same vintage as me):

My niece and her children had fun with it (not to mention the dog).

PD

This was almost going to be the first Christmas since 1955 that there would not be a train by our Christmas tree. We couldn't let that happen. So I took out my Christmas gift from 1959, a Lionel 2528WS General Set, and set it up.

There you see the yellow set box on Christmas morning 1959.

Merry Christmas!

Skip

Enjoyed looking at everyone's layouts.

First attempt at a Christmas Layout.  

Trolley on the outside and Polar Express Freight on the inside.

Merry Christmas!

Thanks, Ron.

I love this thread! 

Merry Christmas!

A simple "twice around" layout with my childhood K-Line GN MP-15 & caboose, & two brand-new, birthday-present Christmas cars:

pennytrains posted:

Merry Christmas! 

Your Disneyland display IS AMAZING!!!

Hello everyone, new member here from Central Oregon.  Long time lurker, first time posting.  This message board has been an inspiration around Christmas time and I finally put some time into making something fun worthy of going under the tree.  Keep up the great work and inspiration!

  Here are a few shots of mine. We are way behind schedule this year, as we've had issues with the transformer, lighting and worst, the locomotive for our Troop Train. We've run the same train for 15 years, but this year it shorted out, so I put the Polar Express FT in its place. Bob at Alloway Trains n' Things is hopeful he can have it running before Christmas.

Simply fantastic images from everyone!  

Looking for an ornament like this one, can't go wrong with a Teddy Bear in dress blues!

So I picked up a $10.00 train at Wal Mart and then set it up at my office.  The little scene grew from there, to the point where I glued together a bunch of scrap pieces of foam and made the rock outcropping for my light house.  It's not quite done yet.  I plan to add some blue construction paper under the rock to add a water effect.  This little project has been fun.

Basil posted:

So I picked up a $10.00 train at Wal Mart and then set it up at my office.  The little scene grew from there, to the point where I glued together a bunch of scrap pieces of foam and made the rock outcropping for my light house.  It's not quite done yet.  I plan to add some blue construction paper under the rock to add a water effect.  This little project has been fun.

 

It's funny how we start off with just a "little train" and go crazy from there

Thomas with his Christmas hat And the polar express. Merry Christmas!

Janitor John posted:

Your Disneyland display IS AMAZING!!!

Thanks!    Keeps me out(?) of trouble.    Except....when I watch Godzilla movies I do get the urge....

pennytrains posted:

Janitor John posted:

Your Disneyland display IS AMAZING!!!

Thanks!    Keeps me out(?) of trouble.    Except....when I watch Godzilla movies I do get the urge....

At first I thought your buildings were the collectible plastic toys found in Disneyland.  I had to do a little research to find out you made those out of paper!?!?!?  Being a native Southern Californian, your Disneyland display really warmed me up all sorts of fun from the inside