LET'S SEE YOUR TRAINS UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREES

Nick12DMC posted:

No tree this year....so far. ............off to NYC this weekend for the holidays!

Nick

Opposite issue here. Three trees, no trains. Have a great time in NYC !!!

My little Manhattan holiday apartment oval  SP legacy black GS-2 with some UP Madison passenger cars 

Postwar Lionel 2023 Anniversary Freight Set and 2065 Hudson Steamer with 2400 Series Passenger Cars.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Same thing as in this video of mine from 2011...

Just keeps getting better and better !!!! 

Thanks to all who have posted 

Alex 

Outstanding way to end!

R J Davis' 2011 tinplate recap, year-end 2011:

Miss RJ every year around this time...he was the man...

PD

Here's ours for Christmas this year...

The train now runs!

Today I completed the loop added the TIU and Z4000.  The Lionel by MTH Tinplate Blue Comet cruises under the Hallmark Planes Trains and Automobile tree

My annual one-day layout:

No room for a tree, but here's mine.

Rob, That is so cool that you do that! So many time they are forgotten. Way to step up to the plate!

Mark, Great Christmas Layout. It sure brings the season out along with a nice big smile!

Merry Christmas to all!

Trees can be overrated.  You have what is most important, "Spirit".

mike g. posted:

Mark, Great Christmas Layout. It sure brings the season out along with a nice big smile!

Merry Christmas to all!

Corvair Syd posted:

Trees can be overrated.  You have what is most important, "Spirit".

Mike,

Thank you!!  My wife loves collecting the buildings and people!  And a nice big smile from you too!

Tom,

Thank you!  The tree is in the living room, which is too cramped for a train too.  Our house is small, so the train is in the room one of our married daughters used to occupy.  Also, I don't believe I have seen you before.  Glad to have you aboard!!

Gilly@N&W posted:

Nick12DMC posted:

No tree this year....so far. ............off to NYC this weekend for the holidays!

Nick

Opposite issue here. Three trees, no trains. Have a great time in NYC !!!

Thanks Gilly, Arrived tonight. Sitting with a cold Bud in Time Square!

Nick

Mark,

 Just joined today.  I tried to post here but I messed it up.  Love your wife's Dept. 56 houses and buildings.  Love how they work so well together at Christmas time with Lionel trains.  

Tom

Nice shot Jwally

Great to see so many wonderful layouts and to  know the tradition is alive and well. 

Here is a youtube link to a circa 1915 Voltamp  running for  Christmas .

Best wishes to all for a Merry Christmas and healthy & happy New Year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkltITWyRI

Here's a photo of a bit bigger train (15" )   blowing down last night after  running at Eden Springs Park, Benton Harbor, Mich ....  steam , snow and Christmas lights ...with a 1904 Cagney

Cheers Carey

Excellent entries by everyone so far!  Makes the holiday spirit even brighter.

Here are my entries along with my YouTube video.  Done on a 52" x 96" platform using Atlas O this year (last year was Real Trax). My favorite parts are paying homage to the Boy Scouts with "Troop 1225" campout surrounded by pine tress along with the 1984 Hess Truck that I recently purchased and placed in the layout.  At least to me, the Hess Truck is a part of the history of secular Christmas celebration in America.  As some of you know, I'm an Assistant Scoutmaster with my son's Boy Scout Troop.  No, our number is not 1225.

Continuing with the 1980's, with this year being the 30th Anniversary of Ferris Bueller's Days Off - one of my favorite movies - I had to include a "Save Ferris" water tower.  Can't believe that it's been almost 30 years since I graduated college (Class of '89).  How time flies!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Corvair Syd posted:

Mark,

 Just joined today.  I tried to post here but I messed it up.  Love your wife's Dept. 56 houses and buildings.  Love how they work so well together at Christmas time with Lionel trains.  

Tom

Welcome Syd,

Its pretty air-kool of you to join us here, use the attachment tool at the bottom of the  composing box for pictures. Check off "insert large" and your ready.

Merry Christmas

Very nice Kevin, You have really brought the sprit to the post!

mike g. posted:

Very nice Kevin, You have really brought the sprit to the post!

Thank you Mike

No. 25 making another appearance with the Angela Trotta Thomas boxcar I mentioned in an earlier post.

Mark Boyce posted:

No room for a tree, but here's mine.

Charming, Mark. It's more than a Christmas layout - you've captured a happiness, there, which is palpable to anybody whose heart is open to it. (It was difficult to select one photo to represent it in my answer.) I can see why your avatar photo presents you to us with such an authentic smile - you are a happy man.

Bless you.

FrankM.

Finally finished my Christmas layout for 2016.  Now I need to decorate the tree  

Merry Christmas to all forum members and their families.  May 2017 be filled with health and happiness.

Popi posted:

Thats cheating!

Things sure are looking up there Popi.

MERRY CHIRISTMAS EVERYONE! Nothing too fancy and a siding in front of the Fireplace.

No tree this year.  How about "I love Lucy" cast and their railroad?

http://buzztache.com/25-never-...love-lucy-in-color/2

Miken posted:

Finally finished my Christmas layout for 2016.  Now I need to decorate the tree  

To me, this picture is one of the coolest things about the Lionchief trains. With a minimal amount of instructions, the ability to hand the remote to a kid and let them go. My 3 year old nephew is the master of their Lionchief. 

Goshawk posted:

Miken posted:

Finally finished my Christmas layout for 2016.  Now I need to decorate the tree  

To me, this picture is one of the coolest things about the Lionchief trains. With a minimal amount of instructions, the ability to hand the remote to a kid and let them go. My 3 year old nephew is the master of their Lionchief. 

I second that motion Mike!  I've taught both my kids how to use the Lionchief remote since they were two.  And now they are masters of the Layout.  Friends and neighbors always ask how my 3 and 5 year old "know how to do that", lol!

Lionel / Dept 56 Hudson upgraded to TMCC Railsounds and 6 Lionel /Dept 56 freight cars

Steve,

Glad to see you here!  The Dept 56 train is great!  And there is that beautiful pickup!!

Lionel/ DEPT 56 HUDSON W/ Railsounds & Dept 56 Freight cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFivkUkY6b8

LIONEL Happy Holidays RS-3 Red & Green Hauling Lionel Christmas freight cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnb-eQoJls

Here's my Christmas layout.  Just a simple loop of O-42 tubular track, and the train is an MTH Railking UP Consolidation with four Williams Madison cars.

My actual Christmas Tree layout is posted a couple of pages back, but this one is Christmas-y, and there is a big tree  in the middle, so...... 

This is the upper level of my basement layout, and it is where I keep my Dept. 56 buildings, most from The Christmas Story line. There is a loop of O-27 track, as well as a loop of HO for a Bachman On30 set I received as a gift.

Moonson posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

No room for a tree, but here's mine.

Charming, Mark. It's more than a Christmas layout - you've captured a happiness, there, which is palpable to anybody whose heart is open to it. (It was difficult to select one photo to represent it in my answer.) I can see why your avatar photo presents you to us with such an authentic smile - you are a happy man.

Bless you.

FrankM.

Frank,

Thank you for the nice reply!  I am glad the happiness comes through.  The intent is for a happy village in a simpler time.  My wife contributes most of the buildings and people, but lets me arrange them; except for a few surprises just as she plants on my everyday layout.  

The collection started with a lot of Dicken Village buildings we ended up with that her grandmother had collected.  Most of the Dept 56 buildings came from a dear neighbor who wanted to thin her collection last year.  Then there are Lemax and others my wife picks up throughout the year at the thrift store.  Our favorites are the three churches, one with lit interior worshippers and nativity, one with moving carolers, and another that looks like my home church as a child, two Fuzziwiggs warehouses, one with dancers spinning inside with Scrooge and the spirit looking in, Bob Cratchet's home, a Santa workshop with Santa hard at work, and on the hill a lodge with Norman Rockwell painting inside.

As to the happy avatar; I don't have many photos of myself, and folks say this one is the best.  I am happy because of all of all I am thankful for.  This season to celebrate our Savior's birth, a loving wife of 32 years, good health, two wonderful daughters and the two best sons-in-law, elderly parents in good health, sufficient employment with retirement on the horizon, and this great hobby and so many wonderful friends with similar interests!  I could go on, but my fingers are sore.  lol

Merry Christmas to all!