We did this a couple years ago, but I thought it might be fun again.
Submit your best trackplan for around the Christmas tree layout. Any scale, but over 32 sq feet. will be disqualified.
What do you guys think?
-D
I may not submit one as my layout is most likely over the size limit. My tree will be on my layout but it won’t dwarf anything. The tree is only six and a half inches tall. I do a new one every year as they tend to dull over time or get lost.
just a circle around the tree but the family has to decide upon which train they want me to run.
My usual oval around the tree with my 15 year old battery powered G scaled Christmas Train that i got at Big Lots for $19.99.
Previous years have always been Lionel and Marx 027 double loops, last year one train in a crossover dual loop. This year my daughter (4.5 year old train fan) choose the HO trolley in a loop.
None for me. Romance of a Christmas train = good. Putting a $400 sound equipped loco on the floor to be chewed on by the canine members of the family = bad.
I had thought of setting up my L G B set…but my dog is afraid of my HO scale trains as it is.
Track plan for my Christmas Tree layout is the traditional oval round the base of the tree. I have a choice of the Harry Potter Hogwarts Express, a Lego O gauge set, or an Aurora early N gauge set my brother picked up at a Marine Corp PX during the Viet Nam war.
The cat will watch the train run with intense concentration. Fortunately this is too much of a fraidy cat to actual pounce on a moving train. She will crouch on the rug, lash her tail, quiver with excitement, but she never actually pounces.
No tree = no train this year! At about $ 70 to 80 for a 5 ft. tree, we are not going to have one, just can´t afford that expense.
I hope to be able to put up a tree on my layout next year, should it be finished to that degree by then.
No tree layout this year In fact no tree (just a ceramic one) Orachino our new puppy ruled
I have not put a train around the tree in several years, perhaps I shall do so this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3GW0hgv-m8&feature=share&list=UUSILhTgkBAy9IIh6Sj04z_g
What I forgot to say - just a simple loop of HO track with a single trolley and now I want to build the new HO layout (even though I am still working on the Lionel layout!). How addictive is this hobby[(-D]
One of my favorite memories is the 4 x 8 dominating the living room next to the Christmas tree with “catzilla” attacking the city - and eating the little plastic people!
Each of the trees gets a loop of track except for two placed closely together that will get a single figure 8 and one train for the two.
Where are you? We buy at least one from the Salvation Army or Goodwill every year. We have one we got about 30 years ago that we paid $7 for. I think we are up to 37 or so. I’ll give you one if you are in my area. Write a PM.
Hum Zepher, Ulrich lives in Germany, I have the address if you need it? [:D]
Ken
I’ve got my prewar Lionel train running around an O-42 circle under the big tree upstairs, and then a Marx train running on a square of O-27 track around the smaller tree downstairs. My HO layout is in the same room as the small tree, so that’s why I decided to do the O-27 for that one.[:)]
Being very much a (dork) fan of the movie, I like the idea of setting up a large-scale Polar Express set around the tree. MB Klein’s got them for a couple hundred bucks. Ah, it’ll have to be next year. Maybe by then I can teach the dogs to chew on each other rather than trains…
Again, just a simple oval, it’s the buildings that make the scene. For years I ran my On30, then the last two years switched to vintage American Flyer. Last year we didn’t put up the structures, since we were in the middle of trying to sell the house. Just an oval of the Flyer track on the floor around the tree. A very 1950’s look. This year I am going to reinstate the complete layout, again in On30 scale.
Thanks for the kind offer, TZ, but with the speed of “parcel” delivery these days, it´ll probably arrive just past Christmas.
This is not going to be the first time without a tree - my wife and I have somehow grown used to it. On my new layout, which is still in the planning stage, there is a little market place, where I intend to put up a Christmas tree for the holidays. It is in O gauge, so it´ll be a 12" tree!