What’sUnder Your tree this 2004 Christmass[?]
#10E (in gray) pulling a #332, #337, and #338 (all in red and cream).
AF Milwaukee Road EP-5 with either assorted freight cars or orange strip streamliners.
A Lionel standard gauge #38 electric pulling a boxcar and caboose, a Marx 3000 CP steam engine puling a train of six-inch 8-wheel cars and a Lionel 202 UP Alco with postwar freight cars.
Marx 591 steamer pulling assorted 6-inch cars–anything red or green and trackworthy that I can either find or cobble together. The 591 is the only locomotive I have that can reliably negotiate the switches I have, so it gets the nod. For buildings, I have two J. Chein stations from the 1920s and various paper buildings I’ve constructed to look period. For figures I’m using the Cobblestone Corners figures from Dollar Tree. They’re dirt cheap and look the part.
The layout is two reverse loops connected by a few sections of O27 tubular track on a 5’x6’ board. Switches are Sakai; track is a mixture of Lionel, Marx, and K-Line. It’s much nicer than the simple circle of track I had set up last year, and I still put it all together for next to nothing.
Due to our two large golden retrievers, my whole layout is overhead, around the walls of our living room, passing behind the top of the tree. At the corners there are villages done with Dept 56 style buildings. Running the loop, soon to be double track, are my Dad’s original Lionel 1655 set from 1949, and a PRR B6 0-6-0 semi scale switcher. Track is all Lionel tubular with 042 curves, traffic control is handled by a pair of MTH PRR signal bridges with a full compliment of position light signals on them. I hope to have the relay matrix done this year to handle up to four trains on two loops. Too much dog hair on the floor for the open gear drives and they both love to chase the train when I set up a floor layout. Train stays up all year, but the villages only get lit up around the holidays. Cheers Mike and Michele T
Frisco Geep (mint) pulline postwar operating cars filled with little presents for Mom and Dad
The Lionel polar express will be making an appearance under the tree this year. [:D]
Nothing as fancy as some of you. Just my Williams Berkshire and a set of MTH passenger cars. Might run some freight cars once in a while.
Bill
The Polar Express. Plus a mixed consist of K-Line and Lionel Christmas cars.
M.T.H. Standard Gauge 384 steam set. The Pennsylvania passenger version. That is, if it ever gets here! If it doesn’t get here in time, it will be one of my Lionel sets - probably that Lionel Lines starter set from 1996. I really like that thing. It has that traditional toy train vibe that I love. [:D]
Just got the tree up tonight(finally), but when we do get around to the point of a train in the next day or two, it will be my 681 pulling a string of mixed postwar cars.
A simple plastic holiday battery set, or may be my brothers h0 Lima 0-6-0 tank engine with some small carriages from Fleischmann…
I’m not getting the big machines down in the living room with all the animals hopping in and over it. they stay safe and sound on their layout and they can whatch christmass through their new window!
Under our tree we have a 4’ x’8’ village of Dept 56 and others with an ‘O’ gauge train running thru it and around the village is our ‘G’ gauge train.
And here is our Santa Hand Car pulling an ore car filled with presents
tom
Well My Train Is The Ecerd Savings express going around my 4’ Tree Around my 8’ Tree
in the Living room a Lionel Starter set In the kitchen a plastic train
I need some snow
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Yes, it is outside going around an inflatable Christmas Tree on the Deck
It’s the Sam Club’s Christmas Special with LGB Track. (Bachman track is junk.)
It smokes and chugs with a 9 volt battery not included, but for $130, it is a pretty nice set for under a tree, inside or out.
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