I usually have a small loop of N guage under a little 4’ tree. Its a SF F7 pulling a streamline passenger train. How about you folks, anyone else?
You bet,
An Athearn BNSF GP38-2 manifest train in HO.
We dragged Dad’s Lionel stuff out. They have not been ran in 13 years, and the Dremel and a 60+ year old bottle of Remington Gun Oil got them up and running again. [8D]
Lionel 0 scale Thomas the Tank engine under the tree, my Daughter got me that for Fathers Day. Also I have a Lionel Christmas Trolly going back and forth on the fireplace hearth. I will probably put another loop of 0-72 with the Scale Lionel E7 A-A and 6-72’ passanger cars.
The only odd thing is that I am a HO model railroader. I want to get my two grandkids interested in trains, so I want something they can play with.
Paul,
Dayton and Mad River RR
I will have, as soon as the package gets here - the Bachmann ‘White Christmas’ train set in N scale.
I have it every year. Here is this years edition.
Ours is actually on a table next to the tree. This year it is On30 to go with the Chirstmas Village. By request, each of the cars have been painted and decaled for each of our dogs (we don’t have kids).
Ricky
I have my tree on a narrow coffee table against a wall. I have my Lionel Christmas Trolley going back and forth along the edge of the table. The trolley goes by my tree and a beautiful, animated Christmas Carousel that I have. The table looks magical
I don’t have a train running under Our tree, but I do have the Lionel Christmas ornaments hanging on it. This years ornament is a 2-8-2 Mikado. They are about as big as N scale equipment and are available from Hallmark stores.
I’ve got the train my dad got me when I was little. I use a small circle of O-27 track, my old Lionel transformer, a red box cab electric (sans pantograph), a gon for candy canes, and an old Marx bobber caboose. Sometimes I switch out the loco for a Marx 0-4-0. I’ve drug it around since I left home 40 years ago and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without it. Gotta have some ozone to go with the piney smell of the tree, dontcha know.
Lou
Probably not this year - for the first time in decades. Just too much effort and gruntwork for a man my age is necessary to set up this classic O-gauge Lionel, 1950’s era, layout that serves as a platform base for the tree. However, below is a shot illustrating about 2/3’s of the display from a recent Christmas season.
CNJ831
We have one put up as a part of a Lemax village scene-----only issue being that ‘Spring’ sees it as something to stalk and capture—
If I did have one around the tree, it would be blocked with the amount of presents.
Plus my dog isn’t house trained and he likes to pee on things that smell like me.
I have a G Scale holiday train for one of the trees. It’s one of those that lights up with Santa, elves and other Christmas thingys whirling and twirling. The nieces and nephews like it because they can run it with sound. My HO layout becomes chump change when the tree train is up.
In addition, my Father in law gave me his 1952 Lionel train set two weeks ago. It’s an 027, starter set. I guess it’s a bump up from the Lionel Scout set but not quite as nice as ‘real’ Lionel. It looks to be in fairly tough shape, rust on the track, etc. . I hope to clean it up and use it for under our second living room Christmas tree next year.
Hoping to have an HO Burlington Zephyr on wide radius Kato UniTrack (with a few buildings)
Doc
Lionel with Marx lighted passenger cars
and Jeffery’s house hanging from my tree [:)]
Like everyone else, there are so many presents under the tree they almost fill the front room, they are up to my waist, ain’t it fun, this is the true meaning of Christmas, so much stuff, so much waste, what a time ! ! no room for trains, make room for more presents, isn’t it supposed to be a “Holiday Tree” ?? must be careful not to use that other word.
The same setup as past years, Bachman On30 with our Christmas Village collection. The old setup consisted of a loop with a passing siding that let me run two trains. However I converted both of my locomotives to DCC with sound last spring, and discovered that there is something about the Bachman switches that my DCC system doesn’t like at all. So this year I only have a simple loop and run one locomotive at a time.
Bah! Humbug! No stinking trains around my tree since the kids left many many moons ago. First of all, we have a couple of old cats who have enough problems staying out of the tree. In fact, we have a photo taken several years ago when we came home and found some disarray around the tree. My wife suddenly grabbed her camera which was sitting on an end table and took a photo of the tree. Then I took a second look and there was Patches, curled up in the branches of the tree with just the face and ears showing. After that Christmas we went to a smaller tree.
Also, we don’t have kids at home for Christmas, we go to their homes and make all the mess, so our Christmas time is us and the four legged kids, and then we leave. But I do have the remains of an old Lionel set I had as a kid that used to come out when our kids were still home.
Bob
I keep a loop of Lionel track up in my office all year for my original Lionel as well as the locomotive and cars I got from my late great uncle’s estate. Since I have two cats, I put my tree up in the office where they can’t get into it since I keep the door closed. The tree’s up inside the oval on the one side by my window. It’s quite Christmasy in here. [:)]
Kevin