LET'S SEE YOUR TRAINS UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREES

Janitor John posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Not a under Christmas tree but still a Christmas layout.

 

Must be a rough end of town if the Local Hobby Shop needs armed guards at the door, lol!

John: Trains are our national treasure.

Some great fun here. This years edition under/near the tree,sort of!

United States Toy Train Company Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) five-car train set.

Hello everyone 

This was such a great thread, It has so much Christmas spirit. 

Thank you all for your beautiful posts. 

Merry Christmas 

Alex 

Merry Christmas, everyone.

abbrail posted:

 

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Loving your use of cardboard!!!

This train is a mix of Bing and Ives. It is every bit of 100 years old, and still runs like the day it was made!

Chris

LVHR

Not exactly unDer the Christmas tree but where it once stood. Recovered about a 1/4 of my stolen collection just in time to captivate 5 young minds with they're introduction to o gauge trains had great fun. It's amazing how a 4x8 sheet of plywood and some track and trains can dominate other things and stop everything in its tracks now everyone wants to be Paw Paws best buddy.

Recovery? Do we know this story? That's so cool you got something back.

Here is a video of my setup under our tree. Merry Christmas to all.

Christmas Day: Something new for a layout under his future Christmas trees - a scale Lionel extruded-aluminum NYC passenger consist.

Does it look like this eleven-year-old continues to be a happy member of our hobby?

FrankM.

lehighline posted:

This train is a mix of Bing and Ives. It is every bit of 100 years old, and still runs like the day it was made!

Chris

LVHR

If only the same could be said for all of us at 100 years old!  LOL

Awesome train.

JoeSage posted:

Santa asked me to post this for him.

Be sure to tell Santa, aside from the sanitary issues, he shouldn't set that greasy pizza directly on the white carpet!

Moonson posted:

Christmas Day: Something new for a layout under his future Christmas trees - a scale Lionel extruded-aluminum NYC passenger consist.

Does it look like this eleven-year-old continues to be a happy member of our hobby?

FrankM.

He looks like he is hooked!!  I would be happy with that gift too, but I'm an old guy!  The hobby is alive and well

Here's a crappy cell phone video of our 2016 train tree. We usually have about six more feet of room but we put the trains in a different room this year. Merry Christmas 

roundtownrr posted:

Here's a crappy cell phone video of our 2016 train tree. We usually have about six more feet of room but we put the trains in a different room this year. Merry Christmas 

Roundtown, your green Diesel just won Best Light display for 2016!  WOW!!!

The LGB Christmas train running under the tree again this year.

Christmas morning with the PE FT Diesel Set underneath. 

I don't post on here too often, but love scrolling through this forum reading the stories and learning new things and mostly looking for good pictures.  

I wanted to share this short video I took on Christmas morning of my tree loop with a small siding and some of my girlfriend's grandmother's Christmas buildings.  Running PRR LC+ and I decided to combine my Passenger coaches and Christmas freight into the same train for some fun. Hopper car running empty on peanut mms. Merry Christmas to all!

Here's a video of our new Hogwarts train and our Polar Express on the layout I posted photos of earlier.

Lionchief plus Santa Fe FT's pulling some EL Capitan cars under the tree.

How do you like your lionchief plus??

Wyatts dad posted:

How do you like your lionchief plus??

They run great except they both came with some defects in the painted finish I'm currently trying to get resolved.

Hello everyone

  This has to be one of the best Christmas threads, and it's still going!!!! A big thank you to all who have posted. The Christmas spirit is fantastic.

Alex

Christmas layout 2016

first video up on youtube: https://youtu.be/n3TYP0PHR1Q

Alex M posted:

Nick12DMC posted:

Christmas in NYC update.

Had an early surprise Christmas present from my Wife. The location of the apartment we are staying in. 

We got the tree up. More pics to follow.

Anyone recognise the bridge behind the tree ;-)

Nick

That looks like the Hell gate bridge to me ! 

Alex 

The Hellgate Bridge on the left and the Triborough Bridge (AKA Robert F Kennedy Br.)

Not exactly Train around the Tree. More like Tree on the Layout. You will have to excuse the silence at the end. Song  Andrews sisters Winter wonderland deleted by You Tube Nobody's perfect.

Running Trains

Who says ovals are boring!    That's a great video! 

I'm a little late to the game (the holiday season was brutal this year), but here we go. Nothing spectacular, but wanted to show using the Legacy system.

BTW, one of my gifts from Mom and Dad was that auxiliary water tender behind the Mikado.

Keith- @ MI & OH valley lines...

just now took your link to YouTube, and was delighted to see your xmas 2011. That video is what hooked me into model trains. Thank you for the great video. I am really enjoying my table. 

John

@NYC Fan posted:

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

OK...1959...I to got the famous  "Flying Fox" for Christmas!!!   I have found them on ebay... Like neww in the box will set me back $750.00     I think it was 12.95 at Higbee's in Cleveland..

Consoli/Western Coil Zephyr under the tree a couple years back:

Wow, not sure how this thread "pop'ed" up at this time but its a great thread and one we almost all can contribute to.  Just for fun, here is "my" layout in 1946-47 (or was it Dad and Grandad's?) .  The Lionel work train pulled by a turbine was my Christmas present that year...I was 3!!

Best Wishes

Don

Here's ours from 2019/2020. This was right before we started the layout.

There are MANY postings to this thread, which proves ...  Santa knows toy trains and Christmas go together like cookies and milk.

Here are my photo contributions, starring Matthew and Hudson, my great grandsons with trains.

Mike Mottler    LCCA 12394

not under, but around...