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Do you run a Christmas Train?

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:19 AM

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I trimmed off a few of the lower branches for a better view of the train.Whistling

What is the date that photo was taken?  Now tell the truth or shens!

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:25 AM

I admit I've been lazy most years and haven't put a train around the tree, although a few times I've set up an HO train.  Now for the past 4 years, my wife and have a cat so I would need a cat resistant train, which probably means Lionel or G scale, which I don't have at present.

Well, I do have one Lionel Hudson steam engine and tender that I got for Christmas at age 4 back in 1963.  It has not been run probably since the 1970's and being that I was curious as a kid and liked to take things apart, the whistle in the tender is gone, and the steam engine is missing the pilot wheel set and it's looking pretty ragged.  Basically it needs restoration. 

I hesitate to buy one of those large scale Christmas trains because they look so "cheap", but might consider a Bachmann G scale.  It's a conundrum but with a cat, I think something large would be harder for the cat to derail.  Pirate  Anything smaller and lighter probably is an exercise in futility.

Cat owners, what do you recommend?  Being I just moved house, not sure if a train will happen this year but it's on the to-do list.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:48 PM

riogrande5761
Cat owners, what do you recommend?

When I was a kid we had slot cars which were on the floor and we played a little cat and mouse game of trying to drive past the cat before he could attack. Cats are usually only interested in objects when they are in motion.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, December 14, 2017 1:34 PM

riogrande5761

 

 
BATMAN

I trimmed off a few of the lower branches for a better view of the train.Whistling

 

 

What is the date that photo was taken?  Now tell the truth or shens!

 

WhistlingSmile, Wink & GrinLaugh

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, December 14, 2017 4:18 PM

Lionel trains are assigne to Christmas tree duty, and they do entertain cats. 

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Posted by Geomaticsdude on Thursday, December 14, 2017 5:48 PM

Here's a Christmas coffee table layout I did 10 years ago...roughly 3.5' square, I used some Department 56 North Pole series "structures", a Bachmann ON30 0-4-0 Porter some 4-wheel Boulder Valley carriages. Foam based, Peco ON30 track and turnouts. It lasted a couple of years before we remodeled the living room and didn't have room for a coffee table any more. Smile

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, December 17, 2017 5:40 PM

My daughter made me glue all the branches back on!Grumpy

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Posted by BobL609 on Sunday, December 17, 2017 6:09 PM

For the first time the old reliable Bachman O gauge has been put up in favor of the LEGO Holiday train which runs on batteries.  This makes my two granddaughters totally ecstatic and of course drives the dog nutz. Y’all Have a Happy, healthy and prosperous holiday season.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, December 17, 2017 7:42 PM

BobL609
LEGO Holiday train

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This cute Christmas Train was on the Florida Lego Railroaders layout in the Tampa Train show today.

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Posted by BobL609 on Sunday, December 17, 2017 8:05 PM

That be the one....cute huh.

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Posted by richg1998 on Sunday, December 17, 2017 8:20 PM

I use to run 0-27 old Marx tinplate but it was so loud I gave all the Marx stuff to a nephew for his young boy. It did not take much speed to topple those 0-4-0 metal engines.

Also gave him my 1970’s plastic Lionel 0-27. He is having a great time.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Sunday, December 17, 2017 9:07 PM

OK, so, my first train around the tree was a Marx Santa Fe set, from my dad, who died when I was 7.

My current Christmas train, a Hawthorne Village thing, Green Bay Packer train, does not run around the tree, but on a seperate table.

I'll be setting it up this coming Christmas (2018), but here are a few pictures from previous times.

 

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Posted by rrbnsf on Monday, December 25, 2017 3:29 PM

Technically last year's, but not much has changed.

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