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2024 Christmas / Holiday Trains - Post Your Photos Here!

OK, in an effort to prevent “thread clobber,” I thought I’d get ahead of the pack to see if we can get all of our Christmas train shots from this year and years past in on place!

I’ll go first…As before, I like to write as though the Triple O is advertising its offerings. The trains will be familiar, but hopefully some of the plantings and other gradual changes will show that life continues on the 1:24-ish PLAYMOBIL Scale island of No’u’ea…

The Oberammergau, Ogden & Olomana Railroad, better known as the “Triple O,” is again pleased to announce a host of services to celebrate the Advent and Christmas seasons from now through 6 January 2025. Your common carrier will offer services designed to fit all budgets and every imagination, ranging from bespoke gourmet dinner services to rustic “Plantation Christmas” excursions. Be on the lookout for special evening excursions as we approach the New Years which offer spectacular views of a private fireworks show! We add that we are pleased to offer combination packages and charter services as well. Whether you are a local or a visitor, couple or a family, a food connoisseur or luau regular, this Advent and Christmas, tell your agent, “Eh! I like go on the Triple O!”


The Pride of the Triple O, North Star, our original Star Liner, will again head premier service, leading a string of immaculately preserved coaches intended for the most discriminating of our customers. Our shops have maintained North Star’s wood-fired boilers to preserve the sights and smells of a bygone era as you ply the rails in the care of our gracious staff.


'Ula’ula will leave her usual duties to lead festive coaches full of revelers and families seek the sights of Advent and Christmas as only the Triple O can show them while enjoying exquisite fair at excellent fares!


Our business partners at the M&K Sugar Co. have teamed with us once again to celebrate “Christmas in the Country.” Board a genuine - if festively festooned! - plantation train to travel back in time to our secret luau location. “Christmas in the Country” may be booked separately or as part of a package. The package ensures you make all transfers between Triple O and M&K trackage, removing any concern about missing your train home or to your hotel!

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Christmas Train on the SC&M

Jerry

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And from a few years back…

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Jerry,
Would tell us more about your bridge construction?

Bill

If you meant the long bridge in first photo of the Christmas flat cars, it shows the length of my 20 foot aluminum bridge on poured concrete abutments on my layout. The bridge is one piece aluminum 2" x 3" rectangular tube stock. It is visible in my above photo of the Christmas train. I poured the concrete inside a form, with a piece of rebar projecting above and below the concrete and meeting a hole on the bottom of the aluminum tube. The rebar sticks out 6" below the abutment and sits in a poured concrete base. The tube was 24 ft long and I got it home by building a long wood frame and attaching it to my Ridgeline roof racks. You should have heard the sound my cut off saw made going through that aluminum!

The caboose photo is taken on the lower track, and pre-dated my installation of the long aluminum bridge.

Jerry

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…aluminum 2" x 3" rectangular tube stock…

… with little bits of styrene angle adhered to the side of the aluminum tube. Jer, I forget, did you emboss rivet heads on those? and how are they (the is, the adhesive) holding up?

Here’s ours. It’s really really large scale.

The car I just picked up today at the local Greenberg train show for $22. Methinks it’s a custom hack, but with nice decor. The tree has lights, but the trucks no longer have functional pickups so maybe a battery is in order. It’s trucks barely turn enough for this tight circle, we’ll see if it stays on for the long haul!

I can almost hear tiny faint screams from the townspeople when it comes through, so I assume the beasty loco is terrifying them… Not sure if I can do much about that at this point though.

This year’s pick is a Brandywine & Gondor train, powered by the Peregrin Took. Kinda’ long, but tail chasers can be fun too.


Regards, David Meashey

P.S. And this photo is titled: “All trains canceled until further notice.”

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I love what you did with the flatbeds here, Jerry. I went too serious with mine and created loads for them. A photo (or a few) will come soon enough…

I’m still trying to figure out how the Triple O RR is going to make snow ?

However I’m working on it !

Last operation on the line for 2024 was yesterday. Plowed out a couple of sidings with Russell snowplow X-67, then extended the wings and did a lap of the mainline:


Cheers,
Matt

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[Christmas trains O & G ](December 15, 2024 https://youtube.com/shorts/VLHR02O3VCk?feature=share)

This is my trains around the tree Lionel O gage and New Bright G gage. Marie has ordered some G gage Christmas trains.

Hi Cliff- missed your post…Yes I used styrene angle to represent bridge structure, and used E6000 adhesive to attach them, in several years, only 2 have fallen off. Pretty good. No rivets, tho, too many of them!

Jerry

Thanks, John, I appreciate it. The Santa and snowman are actually solar dancer things, and wiggle in the sun. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Jerry

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Exactly how I made my two bridges. It’s prototypical for a welded plate girder bridge. Same animal as the one with rivets, just more modern. No one but us would notice or care.

BUMP! Take a look at my original post for an extra photo under the P.S. And yes, our “little” Ruby is mostly Maine Coon, weighs 18 pounds, and is somewhere between a beagle and a Jack Russel terrier in size.

Best, David Meashey

Hey guys!

Not terribly exciting for most, I’m sure. But, this is the first time I’ve been able to run my trains in a long time and the first time ever that I’ve had them both (all, after my new purchase) out. In our new place, The Fiancee and I have been able to not only have a loop around the Christmas Tree, but also a yard in the living room closet next to the tree.

Here is the yard in the closet. You can see #7 (Toby) up front, ready to go. That engine was recently completed; though I have some cosmetic work I’d like to do. Behind that, is my new 25 Ton Switcher, which will be repainted & lettered to be a model of Providence & Worcester’s #150 (now owned by the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine). And, finally, behind the rolling stock, my Forney.

A close-up of the new engine. It looks a little sillier than I’d imagined, but I’m happy with it’s size. Seems to have some issue with wheel slip on even the most gentle inclines though (our closet floor isn’t level).

A photo of the load in the flatbed. Everything but the trees and wreaths I made by hand. The candy cane crates are Kraft paper, along with the packages. The candy canes and apples are clay. Skids and wooden crates are styrene.

Perhaps some videos will come soon!
Merry Christmas everyone!

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