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2008 Redmond Creek Christmas layout

General Discussion
#1

Started working on this years layout the past Friday. Took a couple hours to lay the track. Even though I have it written down exaclty which piece goes where I always find that it is slightly different each year. Saturday, I put down the road bed. This takes even longer than laying the track. Sunday, I started the wiring and finished today. Tested it out and perfecto! Got the trolly line down, road bed, wired and test run. Again, perfecto! Worked on getting lights in the passenger cars and caboose for the first time today. All works great!

Gonna start the scenery tomorrow. Will be posting pictures and videos once it’s finished.

Here are a couple vids and pics from last years layout.

Slideshow:
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/vids/christmastrain2008_1.htm

Front and Rear view video:
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/vids/christmastrain2008_4.htm

Night run:
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/vids/christmastrain2008_6.htm

Redmond Creek Logging run:
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/vids/christmastrain2008_8.htm

Enjoy!

#2

Cool.
I have a couple of “Christmas Trains” to run on my outdoor layout.
I like what you do. Much warmer indoors.
Ralph

#3

Neato videos and pics, but don’t you think we are rushing Christmas a bit, haven’t even gotten through Thanksgiving yet!!! Must be a kid a heart like me? Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! There now I said it! The Regal LOL

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#4

Nice lookin layout. Ever think of leaving it up year round?

#5

Tim,
Video tip.
The shorter the car you are pushing with the camera, the more track you will see and less walls when you round the curves.

#6

Jerry Hansen said:
Neato videos and pics, but don’t you think we are rushing Christmas a bit, haven’t even gotten through Thanksgiving yet!!! Must be a kid a heart like me? Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! There now I said it! The Regal LOL

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Nope! As it usually takes me about a week to set this all up and we have obligations for this week, need to start this when I did.

#7
John Bouck said:
Tim, Video tip. The shorter the car you are pushing with the camera, the more track you will see and less walls when you round the curves.
Yup... but you can'ts get much shorter than the loco in this case.
#8
Terry Burr said:
Nice lookin layout. Ever think of leaving it up year round?
My downstairs layout is up year round. http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr
#9

Ok… all is up! Pictures to follow shortly.

#10

Here is a 34.7MB video of the Night Run of the Santa Claus Train. This is a large file to download so be patient!
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/videos/2008SantaClausTrainNightRun.htm

Here is a picture slideshow of the layout
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/images/2008ChristmasLayout/flash_detected.html

Enjoy!

#11

Very nice. Beautiful Christmas tree too.
Merry Christmas.
Ralph

#12

And here is a video of the Day Light run 17.5MB
http://timothydehan.com/redmondcreekrr/images/2008ChristmasLayout/DaylightRun.htm

Enjoy and Merry Chrismtas.