My Hanukkah Train (2017 version)

C&O Allie,

    Congrats on a great H-Train, looks fantastic!

PCRR/Dave

Love it, great idea!

Bogie

Nicely done Allan.

Very nice!

Cool!

Great Idea Allan!

Happy Hanukkah.

Frank

Bet everyone liked the train. 

Mazel Tov.

Allan,

The Hanukkah train looks and sounds great!!  I even guessed the heritage of the Berkshire, and I'm a Pirates fan!  Very well done!!  Thank you for posting!!

As a fellow Jew, I say awesome job! Lionel needs to offer one of these for those of us who can't custom paint. 

Nice!

Thanks All for the kind words!  If there is anyone who is interested in doing what I did, I'm attaching a Word Document with all the decals I used on the train.  They are all derived from the K-Line Box cars and then re-colored/sized for the various applications.

I'm happy to help anyone who is interested in the project!

Very, very nice!

I agree with MAXRAILROAD- Lionel should offer something like this.

Awesome!

Very nice job Allan. It's cool to see how creativity is used in our hobby. 

Great Job Allan ! 

Thanks for sharing the Videos & doc file with us . 

Max , You you are right about Lionel or MTH  making a train for Hanukkah ! 

I would buy one ! and  I am  Christian !     I grew up in a Jewish Neighborhood  in Milwaukee, WI  . Lots of Christians as well !  

Great People !  

Beautiful!  Very creative,  Thanks for sharing.  

Nice job, Allan, but that Berk needs a rabbi sitting in the conductor's seat. 

Here's our 2017 Hanukkah train. It consists of:

• LionChief Thomas
• Lionel's new Hanukkah boxcar (which I believe is Lionel's first-ever Hanukkah-specific item)
• K-Line Hanukkah boxcar from 1994
• Lionel 6411 flatcar with a menorah adhered to it

The toy train fan is our 18-month-old granddaughter. Our other grandchildren also love our trains.

Granted, our Hanukkah train is not on a par with Allan's, but we're having fun with it!

Happy Holidays to all!

Keith

Ditto! Awesome! I absolutely loved it!

That picture of the little kid ecstatic watching the Hanaukkah train is priceless! 

Nicely done, Allan.  I have never seen a cab number like that.  

Keith - very nice!  My daughter was the same way as were all the other kids at the celebration!

Number 90 posted:

Nicely done, Allan.  I have never seen a cab number like that.  

Thanks Tom!  The number on my caboose is 18 (chai) in Hebrew, so it is kinda unique as well.

Here are close-ups of my cars (please note that the presents Flat Car now has two N-scale Happy Hanukkah cars:

Keith L posted:

Here's our 2017 Hanukkah train. It consists of:

• LionChief Thomas
• Lionel's new Hanukkah boxcar (which I believe is Lionel's first-ever Hanukkah-specific item)
• K-Line Hanukkah boxcar from 1994
• Lionel 6411 flatcar with a menorah adhered to it

The toy train fan is our 18-month-old granddaughter. Our other grandchildren also love our trains.

Granted, our Hanukkah train is not on a par with Allan's, but we're having fun with it!

Happy Holidays to all!

Keith

Keith,

Your photographs of your granddaughter are priceless!!!

Loved it.

It's nice to see something nice, fun and innovative.

Alan

That's very cool 

  I'm thinking an operating radar or tv car could be spinning a Dreidel next season.

...how about a Super Chief diesel with Menorah stacks 

Maxrailroad posted:

As a fellow Jew, I say awesome job! Lionel needs to offer one of these for those of us who can't custom paint. 

Why not?  Atlas came out with the “Angel train” a few years back. 

Very well done Allan! A little creativity goes a long, long way! 

Steve

Allan,

the Mogan David car makes the train! I love it!

Allan and Keith, nice looking Hanukkah trains.  Below is my version of a Hanukkah train.  Happy Hanukkah to all Jewish OGR members and Merry Christmas to all Christian OGR members.  Happy New Year to all.

Steve - love the troll and the factory!

Steve, looks great! Very creative and nicely executed. Thanks for sharing.--Keith

This is GREAT! I would like to do something like this, on a Lionel prewar train! Any suggestions on a project like this? Any help and advice that you can share will be GREATLY APPRECIATED! I sincerely thank you in advance and hope to hear back from you soon!  

Jeff 

Punkrockpub posted:

This is GREAT! I would like to do something like this, on a Lionel prewar train! Any suggestions on a project like this? Any help and advice that you can share will be GREATLY APPRECIATED! I sincerely thank you in advance and hope to hear back from you soon!  

Jeff 

Hi Jeff,

Updating engines/rolling stock as needed is pretty easy.  When I did mine, I had an idea as to what I ultimately wanted.  Then it was simply a matter of figuring out how to redo the decals to reflect Hanukkah.  That usually involved paint and then me making decals.  To make them, I scanned the side of one of the K-Line Box Cars and then cleaned up the scans to make my decals.  I then added them into a Word Document so I could scale them to fit as well as change their color, etc to match the car.

When printing the decals, they either went on clear decal paper (if the background of the car was light) or on white decal paper (if the background of the car was dark or if I wanted the label to be white).  For the "presents", I found pictures of Hanukkah Wrapping Paper that I then scaled and printed on sticker paper so I could "wrap" pieces of scrap wood.

I've attached all my decals/paper below, so feel free to use them as you need! 

I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have.

Thank you so so very much Allan!!!!! They're BEAUTIFUL!!! By the way, who did your customizing? Whoever it was, did a smashing great job!!! If you will, please drop me an occasional line on how the progress will be on my Lionel Prewar Train!!! Also, did you get the image of the family from the K-Line cars?

Jeff 

Punkrockpub posted:

Thank you so so very much Allan!!!!! They're BEAUTIFUL!!! By the way, who did your customizing? Whoever it was, did a smashing great job!!! If you will, please drop me an occasional line on how the progress will be on my Lionel Prewar Train!!! Also, did you get the image of the family from the K-Line cars?

 

Jeff 

Jeff,

I did all my customizations myself.  Being an engineer (mechanical engineering) helps.  

I did not scan the family, but I'll try to get it tonight scanned and cleaned up and then will attach it to this string.