Penny Trains I have family in Orrstown, Shippensburg and Chambersburg! Beautiful country!
I have family in Orrstown, Shippensburg and Chambersburg! Beautiful country!
I love rual areas.
In Pennsylvinnia, I believe they call the Christmas village a "Putz" (with a long u).
http://www.josephrampolla.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/christmasgarden
jprampolla I am near Gettysburg
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Banks You're close to York. Do you go?
You're close to York. Do you go?
Never have. I don't collect or buy much new train stuff, just parts. My hobby now is more with my home-made projects and things like the Arduino and servos with the O27 trains. You might want to check my youtube videos. Here is an example of a recent project:
for an idea of where my interests are.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Thanks, I am near Gettysburg but born and raised in Baltimore, MD where the Christmas village/layout was called a "Christmas Garden."
jprampolla My recent efforts, with servos: Great Stuff!!!!!! WWhat part of PA are you from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oyXU0GHvbo&t=28s Still Christmas at my house and will be for a few more weeks!!!! Take care, Joe.
My recent efforts, with servos:
Great Stuff!!!!!!
WWhat part of PA are you from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oyXU0GHvbo&t=28s
Still Christmas at my house and will be for a few more weeks!!!!
Take care, Joe.
jprampolla My recent efforts, with servos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oyXU0GHvbo&t=28s Still Christmas at my house and will be for a few more weeks!!!! Take care, Joe.
That IS a neat photo. It gives you a feeling of being on the platform on a cold December night waiting for the train to take you home.
Since I have this hosted elsewhere now I can post it here. I think this is my favorite from this year. This the MTH Lionel Corp Tinplate O Gauge 263E with 200 series passenger cars. The station is the MTH "North Pole" Polar Express colors with added Lionel lamp posts with wreaths. To the left of the locomotive is my Polar Express extras such as the conductor's hat, watch, and ticket punch. The bell and some tickets.
Trying to update my avatar since 2020
MartyE and Kodi the Husky Dog! ( 3/31/90-9/28/04 ) www.MartyE.com My O Gauge Web Page and Home of Kodiak Junction!
I have left up inside Christmas decorations until Easter, so I guess I am a little eccentric. LOL (only a couple times, however)
jprampolla I typically leave everything up inside until mid Feburary.
I typically leave everything up inside until mid Feburary.
Oh, that's cool! Have I got a story, got it from Lady Firestorm...
Seems that when Lady F was in high school, back in the Pleistocene Era () Christmas had passed, January was rolling into February, and the scene in her house went something like this...
"Mom!", she and her sisters pleaded with their mother, "WHEN are we going to take the Christmas tree down? It's almost Valentines Day!"
"Oh, I want to leave it up just a little longer, my friend Ginny hasn't seen it yet!"
"MOMMMMMM," they wailed, "We have to keep the drapes closed on the picture window so the neighbors won't see it! It's embarassing! It's got to come down, now!"
"Oh, all right..."
And a legend was born in Lady Firestorms family! Good thing it was artificial! If it was a live tree a month after Christmas it wouldn't be a Christmas tree anymore, it'd be a Christmas bomb!
Love your display! Great work!!!!! Take care, Joe.
Penny Trains Flintlock76 An observation: Anyone besides me ever notice it takes a lot less time to take down the Christmas stuff than it takes to put it up? Gee, ya think? Sometimes I feel like just simply going Godzilla and pick up the pieces next year!
Flintlock76 An observation: Anyone besides me ever notice it takes a lot less time to take down the Christmas stuff than it takes to put it up?
Gee, ya think? Sometimes I feel like just simply going Godzilla and pick up the pieces next year!
Well as the prime minister of Japan said at the climax of that cinema classic "Godzilla 1985"...
"Maybe there's a little Godzilla in all of us!"
Flintlock76An observation: Anyone besides me ever notice it takes a lot less time to take down the Christmas stuff than it takes to put it up?
jprampollaStill Christmas at my house and will be for a few more weeks!!!! Take care, Joe.
I love it! My peanuts wish they could have danced as nicely as yours!
All the Christmas decorations came down this weekend, (ow, ow!) Lady Firestorm and myself being traditionalists we hold off till "Twelfth Night," however as we've got company coming we're leaving up the small fiber-optic "RoboTree" with the N gauge "Potato Special" circling it and the new aquisition, the Lionel "Bergen County Traction" trolley, circling the N gauge.
The whole thing's goofy enough we're just not ready to take it down.
An observation: Anyone besides me ever notice it takes a lot less time to take down the Christmas stuff than it takes to put it up?
All the Christmas decorations came down this weekend, Lady Firestorm and myself being traditionalists we hold off till "Twelfth Night," however as we've got company coming we're leaving up the small fiber-optic "RoboTree" with the N gauge "Potato Special" circling it and the new aquisition, the Lionel "Bergen County Traction" trolley, circling the N gauge.
That be the gooood Polar Express!
Finally uploaded some videos to embed...
Aha! There you go! Looks great!
I've gotten a lesson from my tech savy son about posting a picture from Shutterfly and edited the pictures into my last post. Scroll down and take a look.
Thanks.
Penny, your layouts are always so awesome!! I love looking at the pictures you take. They are so calming!!
Roger Carp Hi Becky, Please contact me at Classic Toy Trains regarding your Christmas layout photos. Thanks, Roger Carp Senior editor 262-796-8776 ext. 253
Hi Becky,
Please contact me at Classic Toy Trains regarding your Christmas layout photos.
Thanks,
Roger Carp
Senior editor
262-796-8776 ext. 253
Want some new ones?
8ntruckOK. I've just opened a new account on a third party photo site...
Rob
OK. I've just opened a new account on a third party photo site. Let's see if I can remember how to post pictures.
These are snapshots of the Polar Express themed layout we had set up two weekd ago for a kid's open house at the KATY depot museum two weeks ago. We had somewhere between 400 and 500 people at the event.
Not quite as simple as clicking on a URL address, but my son showed me a way to get a pointer to the pictures.
Great stuff Kev!
This year's tree:
2017
2015
2014
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
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