do you run holiday trains?

[Anonymous]

just curious if you all run Christmas and etc holidays trains?
i have 1 Christmas usa ref car i bought for are year we were wed and it plays Christmas tunes.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU! [angel]

[spankybird]

you better believe we do, both O and G gauge



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tom

[Anonymous]

Hi train me
I dont run holiday trains I am to busy enjoying the ones I have to go to the expence of buying once a year trains
if I cannot use a train all year round don't want it.
Dont remind me I have a small fortune in christmas lights to replace and big December electricity bill to work on[:D]
regards John

[SandyR]

Until I got my present Golden Retriever, I had a Christmas layout on the floor. The engine was a red and green and black and gold REA Rogers, and the train included three red LGB tipper cars loaded with Christmas candies, an LGB shorty bulkhead flat with six bottle-bru***ype christmas trees in it, the LGB ore car (the red and white diagonal striping on the corners looked like a candy-cane design), and the LGB 4065 red caboose with a Santa Claus on the rear platform.
Over the years, 'people' and loads varied; I also had a little dark blue nutcracker who made a great conductor, and sundry little Santas, nutcrackers, and elves, who either rode the train or ran it.
The railroad was a 6' x 11' wavy oval that went around the Christmas tree at one end, and a huge variegated Ficus at the other, and I had sundry poinsettias and houseplants on the floor for scenery...and a few buildings.
There were no 'Christmas' cars or engines; I just used what I had.
SandyR

[markperr]

Yes, I run a (relatively) extensive layout at Halloween and an "O" Gauge in the front window during Christmas. I have modified a "Rudolph" train and put it on an LGB Mogul motor block but didn't have time last year to set it up out front. Hopefully, this year will be different. I also have a battery operated disney train with Mickey at the helm, that runs in a loop under the tree.

Mark

[Anonymous]

When my layout is viable, I will decorate the buildings with Holiday Items. I will run a train around my tree this year, but it will be my Bachmann Ten Wheeler pulling coaches. Very little holiday sprucing up on the line.

[Anonymous]

My Dad recently phoned the garden railways shop to ask if they had the latest LGB tramcar with sound.They did and set it to one side for him.When he arrived and it was unpacked it was decorated in Christmas logos.After the initial shock,for both of them,they decided to put it on the test rollers to see what the sound was like.After it had spouted "Yo Ho Ho" a couple of times and launched into a christmas carol they managed to control their hysterics long enough to repack it.They both agreed that there is no market in England for such a thing.
Troy

[Anonymous]

I didn't want a purely Christmas train for my first purchase so I bought an Aristocraft freight starter set with a porter loco. I added a Hershey's gondola and a Hershey's syrup tank car. When I put it under the tree I can fill the gondola with Hershey's Christmas kisses for the Christmas theme. I haven't decided what I will do with the gondola car that came with the starter set - maybe fill it with little tiny gift-wrapped presents.

[vsmith]

I'd like to lay out a circle of track around the tree this year but I need to get a custom circle 3 feet in diameter for it to work, 4 foot is just too dang big.

[Anonymous]

This year I'm going to put a circle of track under the tree and press my Mack Woody, seen here on the right, into service. It'll be fitted out with a Christmas theme. My grandson celebrated his first birthday this week so he'll be able to enjoy it... as I will too!

Regards,
Bill C.
South Jersey

[toenailridgesl]

I take Xmas out to the railway....


Remember, it's Summer here!

[pbjwilson]

I do an under the tree set-up in O gauge.

What I'd like to do this year is an outdoor layout in front of the house.
Build a large box out of plywood - cover it to look like a wrapped present.
Buy a cheap real or fake tree - decorate with lites.
Around the tree a simple circle of track.
Run a simple two or three car train.
That's it. What do you think?

[chuckger]

Train Me,
I run a Christmas train by New Bright like the one in the pic posted by Tom. Have all the extra cars too.

chuckger

[Anonymous]

Yes, the New Bright Holiday Express every year for the last four years.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by troybetts

My Dad recently phoned the garden railways shop to ask if they had the latest LGB tramcar with sound.They did and set it to one side for him.When he arrived and it was unpacked it was decorated in Christmas logos.After the initial shock,for both of them,they decided to put it on the test rollers to see what the sound was like.After it had spouted "Yo Ho Ho" a couple of times and launched into a christmas carol they managed to control their hysterics long enough to repack it.They both agreed that there is no market in England for such a thing.
Troy

Troy,

I guess the Isles aren't ready for the "in-your-face-blatant-commericalism-of-christimas." I too agree, there is no market in England for such a thing.[:p]

In any case, I think a simple decoration of layout building and some minor redressing of your existing equipment is a honorable enough tribute. The redress can come from all those little wreaths and christmas trinkets that appear as early as October, but hearld the start of what my religious preference calls "Advent."

So many people have little christmas "villages," mostly Victorian in style, that there is plenty of little stuff out there.

Same for election seasons and Easter!

[Anonymous]

well Troy & Capt.
here on this side of the pond its a Joyous Holiday we Celebrate and Christmas has always brought fond memories of train's. people don’t think about trains most of time here in the states just at Christmas time. we don’t care much for "in-your-face-blatant-commercialism-of-Christmas." here either! but we put up with it.
myself I put up my stickers Jesus is the reason for the season.
I do enjoy running my trains a lot and listening to Christmas music.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Carrales

QUOTE: Originally posted by troybetts

My Dad recently phoned the garden railways shop to ask if they had the latest LGB tramcar with sound.They did and set it to one side for him.When he arrived and it was unpacked it was decorated in Christmas logos.After the initial shock,for both of them,they decided to put it on the test rollers to see what the sound was like.After it had spouted "Yo Ho Ho" a couple of times and launched into a christmas carol they managed to control their hysterics long enough to repack it.They both agreed that there is no market in England for such a thing.
Troy

Troy,

I guess the Isles aren't ready for the "in-your-face-blatant-commericalism-of-christimas." I too agree, there is no market in England for such a thing.[:p]

In any case, I think a simple decoration of layout building and some minor redressing of your existing equipment is a honorable enough tribute. The redress can come from all those little wreaths and christmas trinkets that appear as early as October, but hearld the start of what my religious preference calls "Advent."

So many people have little christmas "villages," mostly Victorian in style, that there is plenty of little stuff out there.

Same for election seasons and Easter!

Wait a minute, Troy...No market for this in England????[:0]

You guy's bloody well INVENTED Christmas !!!

I've read about how extravagantly insane the Victorian Christmas's got and still do to this day.

You still get Bloody Carolers who go door to door and wont leave until you pay them too!

12 days of Christmas and all that?

You cant "offically" have a party until you open your party crackers and put on those stupid little hats! ( I think its a law there isnt it?)

So a LGB Trolley with electronic carolers is "not the right product for England?"

What? were they signing with German accents?

"Deck zee hallz vith boughs unt hoolly...
Fa la la la la la la la la la
Tiz der seazon to be joo-lly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Don ve now unt gay appa-roll..
Fa la la la la la la la la
Troll zee ancient Ule tide Ca-roll..
Fa la la la la la la la la

...No market in England indeed![;)]

Just wait until the boat loads of the dancing Santa's we get every year start arriving from China, You too will feal the overwhelming urge to destroy something on sight.[(-D]

[spankybird]

Here is a link to a thread I posted on the CTT forum about building a holiday layout.

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24279

you may wi***o take a look at it.

tom

[Anonymous]

Believe me Vic and Captain.If I tried to bring a train in to stick under the christmas tree,I would be celebrating the New Year without my dangly bits.Trains are tolerated in the garden,just[:-^]

[Anonymous]

Well there will be one around the tree this year, probably my girls lionel I bought thenm last year. I only wish I new I was going to take the "G" scale plunge this hard and had given more thought on the selection, based on the room we had for a train inside, NOTHING, NOTA, ZILCH! So "O" around the tree
and perminent "G" outside....eventually.