Halloween Village

[dougdagrump]

ME !!!!!!! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:o)]

[Brutus]

Me too! I'm saving up for it right now!

[jimsandman]

"Who's buying the Lionel Transylvania set?"

Well they are out, I seen one at a dealer in Utah yesterday.

Jim

[dougdagrump]

The 4-4-0 w/tender and the caboose are in dealers stores now but my order is still being held pending arrival of the spooky sounds boxcar. Those are scheduled for shipment next week, hope they aren't delayed. [:o)]

[Blueberryhill RR]

Tom, That is really great. Congratulations.
I agree with the other guys. You should be in Hollywood. Great pictures
Chuck

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing. I do a VERY modest (due to lack of space) N layout for Christmas, and your set has a couple of practical innovations.

Thanks again!

[dougdagrump]

Started making the halloween layout today. I'm using a layout that I got from thortrains.com as the basis for the finished item. [:o)]

[Brutus]

See my separate thread - I ordered the Transylvania loco, caboose, plus ghost boxcar. I think I paid too much for the boxcar, though - it was $49, which was full list price in 2000, per the Lionel site, but I saw a pumpkin boxcar on ebay that is currently bid very low....

Anyway - can't thank you enough for this great thread and especially all the pics and the video! Does Yahoo let you post movies and pics for free? How do you get to that feature?

[spankybird]

Thanks Jim. I am glad it has been a help to you.

The Video was shot with my Digial Cam Recorder, then down loaded to my pc and then Up loaded to my Yahoo site. As part of my DLS package, I have some storage space for short Videoes. It is not a good site for hosting pics, as they will not post here on the forum. I use Shutterfly for hosting pics.

tom

[dougdagrump]

Need some info, if I scratch build a tunnel for 0/027 locos what dimensions should I use for width and height(from the top of tracks) ?

[spankybird]

HI Doug,

Is the tunnel stright [?] if so, then 4 1/2 " width should be enough. As for height, check your tallest car or engine and add 1/4 more to it. My tallest engine stack is my MTH 4-4-0.

tom

[dougdagrump]

Thanks Tom, unfortunately it is going to be for the Halloween 4-4-0 and I haven't received it yet.

[spankybird]

I will check my tunnel height tonight for you.

[spankybird]

Doug, I measured from the top of the track to the bottom of the tunnel and I have mine at 5". My MTH engines are slightly taller than my Lionel 4-4-0's.

tom

[Anonymous]

And for Halloween it's almost certain that instead of going "Woooo.... Wooooo"

your loco goes "BOOOOOOO...... BOOOOOOOOO", right?

[tmcc man]

Hey spankybird,
those are good pictures. I am planning one right now, and will have it outside this Haloween for the kids to see. I am going to use the Lionel transylvania engine, and the caboose, and the boxcar

[dougdagrump]

Thanks Tom. [tup]

[dougdagrump]

Good news, the "SpookySounds Boxcar" is supposed to ship to dealers this week. This info comes from a Lionel dealer that normally posts Lionel shipments on another train site. [:D]

[Jumijo]

Does anyone know where I can find 1/48 pumpkins? My layout is going to be set in autumn, circa 1956, and I have a Plasticville farm stand that needs some pumpkins. If none are commercially available, what could they be made out of?

Jim

[spankybird]

The good thing is pumpkins come in all sizes. K-line had some last year. BTW they are the same as Lexmark. Check out Michael’s.

Here are some that I have found over the past years

[Jumijo]

Thank you, Tom.

[Jumijo]

Making scale pumpkins:

Last night my daughter and I decided to try our hands at making some pumpkins for our layout's farm stand. We made them out of Play-Do. The key, as Tom mentioned above, is that pumpkins come in different sizes. We made round ones, squat ones, tall ones, big ones, small ones. In no time at all, we had a good sized pumpkin patch. I used an exacto blade to score some vertical lines down each one. They look great.

Jim

[underworld]

jaabat Fimo and Sculpey are great for little projects like your pumpkins. They come in many shades of orange and yellow. You can also mix them to come up with custom or streaked colors. When you are ready it bakes in the oven to make them permanent. Available at most craft stores.

Everyone Has anybody seen little plastic skeletons??? I'm looking for ones about 3 inches tall for 1/32 scale.

Big Lots has a lot of Halloween houses and figures etc. Much like the Lemax line. Really good prices too! Check at different stores as I have found many store got different shipments. I also saw them setting up a display at WalMart the last time I was there. Some more stuff like Lemax....I got to go back and check them out.

underworld

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[Anonymous]

I got my Transylvania Flyer 4-4-0 the other day and am very happy with it. I didn't get the caboose because I have always felt that car was not so great looking. But now I am having second thoughts. I would have been happier with one of those MPC era bobber cabooses.

As far as Skeletons, Mega Blocks toys has some sets that have some really nice poseable versions in their "Pyrates" toy line. They are Lego man sized and some sets have larger toy skulls too, along with some ramshackle scary bits.

I am thinking of running my General followed by some some log cars except replacing the logs with dried out chicken bones. Any other ideas for creepy loads?

[dougdagrump]

We were at one of the discount stores the other nite and they had some kind of squishy eyeball toys that would be good for maybe work caboose or small gondola loads. They also had some kind of skeletons that were made of some kind of slimey/sticky stuff.

[dougdagrump]

The work on the layout has been temporarily halted, but should start up again saturday. My halloween 4-4-0, caboose and boxcar should be here next week.


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[Anonymous]

Wow! That looks great Dougdagrump.
I love the rock work in the back. What is that material? The symmetrical diagonals look interesting, are those roads or steep grades? It bears an uncanny resembilance to the cardboard backdrop and plastic mat of the 1983 Lionel Black Cave Flyer that I coveted as a Dungeons and Dragons playing kid. On that back drop the tunnel entrances looked like rock monster mouths. Reall spooky. To me the Translyvania Flyer engine is the way the black cave train should have been. I wi***he next train set "shout out" Lionel does is the early 80's TRON inspired L.A.S.E.R. train set. A chrome with glow-in-the-dark high lights Phantom would be the way to go. Now come to think of it the Transyvania engine should glow too.

Very nice work. It is fun to see imaginative variations on the hobbies theme. It seems so much more creative than the same old things.

[Brutus]

Fired up my new Transylvania Choo Choo (ja, ja, track tventy nine, und can I gif you a shine?) this evening = terrorific! Can't wait to get the spooky sounds boxcar though! I've got the engine, caboose with spiders, and an older boxcar with a bobbing ghost so far - they are haunting my hobo set right now, pulled up at the hobo depot. Next weekend I think my wife is getting out all the Halloween stuff she picked up, including neat light-up trees from Hallmark, and the layout will start to take shape. I'll have to check the FAQ or something to find out how to post pics - or can you just upload them?

Anyway, thanks for all the inspiration guys!

[dougdagrump]

I wonder how the Transylvania will look under blacklight, we use only blacklights in our "Haunted Garage" when we pass out the candy. Big Lots has a really neat animated gargoyle that we picked up about a month ago, I was going to use it outside over the garage door, motion activated. But I think that I'll make some sort of column in the back center of the layout about two feet taller than the other items so it can be kind of like a gaurdian. [:o)]

[Anonymous]

Neat idea Dougdagrump it will seem a little like that scene in "Fantasia" set to "Night on Bald Mountain". The sequence with the montain that turns to a demon and directs the phantoms to fly around. By far the spookyest part of that film.

I live in SD myself as a student and would like to see this layout if possible.