secondhandmodeler wrote: Nice trees everyone! I figured I would post one picture in this thread. wjstix, I was planning on comming up to Shakopee Sat. to visit my mother. If we get the weather they're talking about, I don't think we'll be seing mom this weekend!
Nice trees everyone! I figured I would post one picture in this thread.
wjstix, I was planning on comming up to Shakopee Sat. to visit my mother. If we get the weather they're talking about, I don't think we'll be seing mom this weekend!
Well you should be able to get to Shakopee Saturday, but you might be there a day or two!!
Well, I finally got the tree up yesterday so it is time to make my contribution.
Only one tree this year (and a small one at that), so it got double track! All the trains are new this year. Got an Annie 4-4-0 decorated for Christmas, and Then the new "additions" to the Circus Train. I didn't want to run a circus train because we did last year, but it is one of my daughter favorites and the one she likes to show off to her friends. Also this year is 100% DCC. The PFM sound units stayed in the storage unit.
View from the living room.
View from the hall.
As normal click on the images to enlarge.
Being as I don't have room under the tree to set up and run a train,I put train ornaments on My tree.Most of the train ornaments are made by Hallmark.I have 15 to 20 in all.Every year hallmark comes out with a new addition,sometimes a single car and sometimes with a whole train.This year is the freedom train which consists of an engine a coach and an observation car.Here are a few pics of some of them.
That's my little N scale Christmas Garden. I run an Atlas shay on it with a couple of tourist cars.
I don't keep it under the tree, though... too many four legged critters in the house... the hair would wreak havoc on the little drive gears...
Merry Christmas everyone!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Here's the HO layout I made for my dad 2 years ago.
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Awww, c'mon - who wants to see a bunch of trains running in circles under a Christmas tree?
Opus and Rudolph, apparently. They're huge Flyer fans. (Or is that Bullwinkle?)
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
OK...Change of plans...Have a train AND A NEW DIGITAL CAMERA!!!
Don't think I'll bother with a decoder for this one!Buddy waiting patiently for Santa.
Over 50 years old and still runs which is better than i can say for me !
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Great Western Rwy fan wrote:Being as I don't have room under the tree to set up and run a train,I put train ornaments on My tree.Most of the train ornaments are made by Hallmark.I have 15 to 20 in all.Every year hallmark comes out with a new addition,sometimes a single car and sometimes with a whole train.This year is the freedom train which consists of an engine a coach and an observation car.Here are a few pics of some of them.
you are first person besides me that i have seen with those ornaments. i have all of them and the little micro ones too but they are on the smaller tree.
trainboy414 wrote:you are first person besides me that i have seen with those ornaments. i have all of them and the little micro ones too but they are on the smaller tree.
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Plus I've suplimented the Hallmark's by converting my entire N-scale fleet to Christmas Tree duty. The open hoppers are the hardest because of the low center of gravity, and getting them to balance.
That's my Christmas Tree Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbCv-H4xSe8
Wolfgang
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Texas Zepher wrote: [I've suplimented the Hallmark's by converting my entire N-scale fleet to Christmas Tree duty. The open hoppers are the hardest because of the low center of gravity, and getting them to balance.
[I've suplimented the Hallmark's by converting my entire N-scale fleet to Christmas Tree duty. The open hoppers are the hardest because of the low center of gravity, and getting them to balance.
OMG, now that's thinking outside the box(car). It does resolve an issue I have with the Hallmark series ornaments though. I only have one; the Norfolk and Western J-class locomotive. We usually don't use it as a hanging ornament because it's so heavy. You have to find a really sturdy branch, or it falls off a lot. Regular N-scale cars would be much lighter by comparison.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
We started our Christmas tree tradition this year with the Lionel G-scale Polar Express...