ModelRailroader.com Reader Poll - December 4, 2003

[Anonymous]

Usually do but out of town this Christmas

[Anonymous]

Well...not exactly UNDER the tree, but on a table beside the tree, there is a little Christmas village with lighted buildings, a frozen pond with skaters, a sleigh full of carolers and an operating HO layout made up of flex-track tightly wound to a 12" radius on which I can get a 2-4-0 engine to pull a short wheelbase Overton combine and a bobber caboose. Fairly frequent derails due to the tight radius, but it looks great and the grandchildren love it...and so do I!

[Anonymous]

I have in the past, but this year, our tree has gotten signifigantly smaller, as such there is no room for a train like there used to be.

[Anonymous]

I will have my O 27 Lionel under my Christmas tree and a HO under my parents tree.

[Anonymous]

We probably won't have our Christmas Express set up under our tree this year. But who knows, by the time we get around to putting up the tree, the train may come out, too.

[douginut]

Will have a 15inch radius circle of track under the tree and Bachmann Trolleys of the seasons greetings type. cats are now exiled to the basement for the duration.
Granddaughter will play with the trolleys an trains as will her mother take HER engine and cars out of the box and show her husband how it is done.
Our living room is too small for the Bachmann Big Haulers train we bought for this but enjoying the WRONG train is better than having no trains up to enjoy/1
Doug, in Utah

[Anonymous]

Yes, for the first time in 50 years.

D. Neff, Lake Havasu City, AZ

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, my Irish Wolfhound does not understand that he should not chase the train around the tree. Comic video potential aside, the damage to tree and train from paws and tail would put a serious damper on holiday celebrations. Also, tooth marks tend to reduce the value and desirability of ancient Lionel steam engines.

[Anonymous]

Yes already up and running. Have an actual 4'x4' HO layout that I built back in 1990. It has a tree stand in the middle and is fully detailed. I store it on end with a heavy cardboard cover over it. I pull it out on the Friday after Thanksgiving and clean the rails and add any new details I have picked up over the last year. (please read my thread on finding an HO scale nativity scene.) The Layout includes a couple houses, a diner, a church, a station, a skating pond, a barn with cows and horses and Santas workshop way back in the "North" . The track is a figure 8 folded upon itself so the station has 2 level tracks and there is a bridge on the opposite side of the layout where the track goes over itself. I have a few box cars painted for Christmas and one of these days I'am going to detail the loco to have Santa as the engineer. I'll post pictures to my web site if anyone is interested. e-mail me for site address [e-mail]

[Anonymous]

The train is already under the christmas tree. A Bachmann 0n30 old timer with a 1890s lighted Chrismas village.

[trainsrus1]

Yes, a train is running around the tree this year. I have four HO scale CB&Q F7s (ABBA) pulling an 18 car freight. With a crossover in back of the tree, the train can make two loops around the tree.

[Anonymous]

Will again have my New Bright Holiday Express animated train under a freshly cut Christmas tree. Seems that I started with a 3 car train has expanded into a 7 car train and a village, that's turning into more of a city any more.

May also have an HO train this year, my son is getting his 1st HO train set this year from Santa. 2 gauges, 1 tree.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fergus

QUOTE: Originally posted by CP5415

With a very curious kitty & an adventurous 2 year old, a train under the tree would be doomed 10 seconds after it was set up, so I think I'm going to pass this year.

Gordon

Learn to live dangerously, makes for some good stories when they get older![}:)]
A train under the tree can be hypnotic for a young child, the look on their face makes Christmas what it is, Magical.[:)]

[Anonymous]

YES !!! I have train's under my tree. I have a musical battery operated,
Holiday Express and my 1925 Lionel standard gauge E8 pulling three cars,
plus I use tins from M&Ms as a village. It looks Great !

Mark nielson