Show us your under the tree layouts!

George sorry to hear about your knee. I hope you're on the mend.

Skip is that the office layout?

Here's mine, just a simple rectangle under the tree.  Looked nice against the snow outside even though it doesn't show up in the picture.        

My layout is not under the tree, my tree is IN my layout!

Moved two 444 Roundhouse sections to make room for the tree, and added a post-war 115 Lionel City station. 

NYC Fan posted:

Hey!  I just watched The Polar Express today! 

Here are my old trains under the Christmas tree  2008 - 2016.

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My Christmas layout this year...just a figure 8, but I connected on side with a pair of switches so I can change direction...  

My son is have a grand old time. You can see a Legacy B6 sitting on the coffee table too

PRR Bruce posted:

I was actually thinking of going with a LEGO train under the tree this year to mix things up.

pdxtrains posted:

Mixed trains modern with post war. Lionel post war steamer pulls Polar Express. Texas Special pulls Mickey Christmas. AN LC + Pennsy Mikado pulls my childhood milk car and barrel car. A ps3 Santa Fe loco pulls 90s era silhouette passenger cars that I love so much. Some tin Marx goes around the Skating rink. Finally, just for fun, the Zombie train, because why not? Add Scrooge’s house, counting house, and  Bob Cratchits place and the North Pole village, and there it is.Fun!

PDX, great layout and mine is a mismatch as well.  My temporary Christmas layout is my only layout for the year so this is when it all comes out.  One word of advice though: take your videos with your phone in the horizontal position.  The viewers get to see more.

Currently under the tree is a Lionel 224e with passenger cars restored in quasi polar express livery with a set of tin plate traditions houses.   

george posted:

Here's mine.  Rather simplistic this years due to the fact I blew my knee out.

Looks great!  I'm sorry you hurt your knee!!

Here is what I have under the tree.  My wife got the idea we should have a second tree with just the train ornaments, so here it is.  I will show photographs of my 4x8 Christmas layout I just finished Saturday once I get a Christmas train running.

My round the tree layout

The K-Line MP-15 & caboose are from my first set, which I received for Christmas in the late '80s.

A little Standard Gauge on the floor and O above.

Just got my tree up tonight.  Oldest son ask for this locomotive.

Santa and a helper have tied down their handcar on the QA&P house track next to the depot and headquarters while Red Visney brings the Polar Express northward toward Amarillo on the FW&D mainline.  Frosty enjoys the action, cigar-in-mouth!

She likes PRR

Joe, Looks good!  Does she like egg nog too?  

yankspride4 posted:

My Christmas layout this year...just a figure 8, but I connected on side with a pair of switches so I can change direction...  

My son is have a grand old time. You can see a Legacy B6 sitting on the coffee table too

One of the nicest designs I've seen. Never thought that I would like a white tree, but it blends very well with the snow flowing down the hill. The houses being on that slope rather than on a flat surface, and covering the figure 8 to hide part of the trains journey, makes it very interesting.

Dave

Mark Boyce posted:

Here is what I have under the tree.  My wife got the idea we should have a second tree with just the train ornaments, so here it is.  I will show photographs of my 4x8 Christmas layout I just finished Saturday once I get a Christmas train running.

Nice cozy look to your set-up, Mark.  I see you have a spotlight aimed to catch Santa coming out of the chimney!

Dave

Dtrainmaster posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Here is what I have under the tree.  My wife got the idea we should have a second tree with just the train ornaments, so here it is.  I will show photographs of my 4x8 Christmas layout I just finished Saturday once I get a Christmas train running.

Nice cozy look to your set-up, Mark.  I see you have a spotlight aimed to catch Santa coming out of the chimney!

Dave

Yes Dave, I still have to hook up the motion sensors and cameras!  

Thank you Dave!  The location and thin tree was my wife's idea.

Dtrainmaster posted:

yankspride4 posted:

My Christmas layout this year...just a figure 8, but I connected on side with a pair of switches so I can change direction...  

My son is have a grand old time. You can see a Legacy B6 sitting on the coffee table too

One of the nicest designs I've seen. Never thought that I would like a white tree, but it blends very well with the snow flowing down the hill. The houses being on that slope rather than on a flat surface, and covering the figure 8 to hide part of the trains journey, makes it very interesting.

Dave

Thank you Dave for the compliments! Really appreciate it. I'm proud of this one.

Here's a shot that shows the platform without the snow and houses and a quick video.

A small layout. The child won't stay under the tree long term either.

Just finished this years version of Polar Express 3x around the tree. We added a few things this year....Billy's house, Herpolsheimers, Santa's flying sleigh and the swimming swan.

The Polar Express layout looks great Jim!!

Matt_GNo27 posted:

The K-Line MP-15 & caboose are from my first set, which I received for Christmas in the late '80s.

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In followup to my earlier post, for my around-the-tree Christmas layout, I use the K-Line K-950 20 watt AC transformer that came with my first train set, the K-Line K-1702 Great Northern Flyer. (I use the WBB 00233 80 watt AC transformer for my modest permanent layout detailed here.)

As you can see, my Christmas consist consists of two non-operating cars, a motor-driven aquarium car, and a lighted caboose. The MP-15 lacks sound. I am a little surprised that such a puny transformer can handle the inclusion of the aquarium car.

This week I made two additions. First, I picked up a K-Line K-952C controller, so that if I run one of my other locomotives, I can use their whistle/horn and bell features. Then I decided to add a momentary switch, normally on, to use as a direction-change button. Not only is that nice for my own use, but it gives my son an easy-to-use action feature. The switch was too tall to fit inside the K-952C controller, and I could not figure out how to open up the transformer to see if it would be possible to install the switch internally. I resorted to our old friend JB Weld, and rather ungracefully mounted the switch to the exterior. Aesthetics aside, it works just as I had hoped, and my son has enjoyed starting, stopping, and changing the train's direction. Sometimes, he tries how quickly he can cycle through the reverse unit. :-)

Last night I swapped out the MP-15 for my Lionel 6-28687 SP&S Dockside Switcher #600, and soon discovered the limit of the transformer. With the smoke unit turned off, the whistle worked as it should, however, once the smoke unit was on, the whistle ceased to work. After a couple of minutes of running with smoke, the transformer's circuit breaker tripped, thus giving me the upper limit of the transformer's capacity.

pennytrains posted:

NYC Fan posted:

Hey!  I just watched The Polar Express today! 

Those buildings are perfect for a P.E. North Pole scene. Are they custom built or available somewhere?

Didn't we do this already ?  That's okay, it always nice to see pictures.  We love pictures.  Here's a shot of my first time in a long time Christmas layout.  haven't had one for many yeas.  hopefully, next year I can be a bit more artistic.

At my son's house:

Our 2 yr. old granddaughter.

That's his backside.

It’s not Christmas unless the trains are running....

As I stated I can't run trains under the tree because the little dog likes to nudge the engines off the track, so I posted a static train under the tree.

So here is what I have going on a 4 x 8 table in what is now a spare room.  (Whoops!!  I see the new Polar Express foursome look like they were hit by a passing train!!)  See if you can pick them out!

Remember, Jesus is the Reason for the Season!

Christmas ornament overflow went into my 212 gondola!

Mark Boyce posted:

As I stated I can't run trains under the tree because the little dog likes to nudge the engines off the track, so I posted a static train under the tree.

So here is what I have going on a 4 x 8 table in what is now a spare room.  (Whoops!!  I see the new Polar Express foursome look like they were hit by a passing train!!)  See if you can pick them out!

Remember, Jesus is the Reason for the Season!

Very nice Mark! Great little village you have there. Love the church - sometimes we forget the reason.

Sean

We only have the outer two tracks  in place so far. No accessories yet.  A bit hard to see the tree here, but it’s a good tour of what we have done so far.  

Sean007 posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

As I stated I can't run trains under the tree because the little dog likes to nudge the engines off the track, so I posted a static train under the tree.

So here is what I have going on a 4 x 8 table in what is now a spare room.  (Whoops!!  I see the new Polar Express foursome look like they were hit by a passing train!!)  See if you can pick them out!

Remember, Jesus is the Reason for the Season!

Very nice Mark! Great little village you have there. Love the church - sometimes we forget the reason.

Sean

Thank you, Sean!  Yes with all of the expectations of others, I need to remind myself sometimes!

A B6 pulling Christmas cargo to the North Pole.

Under the trees.... on my layout.....

Does this count?