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Christmas/Holiday trains

General Discussion
#1

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Holiday. Now that Thanksgiving is over it time for the Christmas trees to come up and the lights to put on outside. I like to get the tree up early so i can get the trains running around and inside. The only time I have an excuse to run the trains in the living room LOL. Lets see everyones Holiday pictures out and in. Here is my set-up. The challenge will be to keep my 9 month old from taking the decerations. He loves the trains and when they are not running he gets real low and trys to look for them under the tree. Of course I have to trun them on for him. Not that I mind. LOL

#2

Dear Shawn,

That’s the spirit ! Beautiful job decorating. Lucky boy to have such a dad.

Got me motivated, now… exterior lights… Christmas tree… decorating/trimming… train around it… gotta run…

Biggest problem is figuring out where the tree will go, as SWMBO wants it in a different location each year…

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik

#3

why do you have electric heat and a fireplace in the same room? Seems a shame to be using two anti-green devices for heat in the same place! Shame, Shame, Shame!

#4
Andrè Schofield said:
why do you have electric heat and a fireplace in the same room?
Any smart country boy always has a back-up. Wood stove for when the power goes out. Electric for when you're to busy/lazy to cut wood. Ralph
#5

Where’s my rolodex…need to find the number for Greenpeace and Al Gore…

#6

It’s his lektricity, and his fuel inefficient log burner, and home if he wants to use or abuse let em its his, he can do what he wants!! Just like in trains!! Hee hee LOL The Regal

#7
Andrè Schofield said:
why do you have electric heat and a fireplace in the same room? Seems a shame to be using two anti-green devices for heat in the same place! Shame, Shame, Shame!
LOL its not electric heat. Thats the blower on the wood stove. Once we get into the dead of winter the stoves is on 24/7. In the fall and spring we only use on the days when the temps go below 40. Ralph also nailed it. Out in the country you need a backup. We actually have base board heat thats oil.
#8

I burn rain forest trees in an open pit for heat, and have puppies running on a treadmill to generate electricity to light my house with incandescent light bulbs that I leave on all day long. I drive a truck with the largest engine I can get and never tune it up or inflate my tires to the proper pressure. I have to add two quarts of oil for every gasoline fill-up. And I eat meat, medium rare.

#9
David Hill said:
... And I eat meat, medium rare.
Sissy. Real men eats it raw.
#10

I hope they are only pure bred, yuppie dogs on the tread mill. We are all “Kerrs”, but some like to think they are better than the rest of us. :wink: I like to cut up “Long Gone and Busted” equipment for kitbash fodder. I had a guy almost in tears at the train show this last weekend. But to keep it on subject and to show I have no bad feelings toward him, I wished him a MERRY CHRISTMAS. It was a great moment.

#11

so back on topic…best I could do this afternoon…Milam was grabbing for the camera, Caidyn was trying to close the flash, and Luke and Eli were engrossed in a Lone Ranger episode…

(http://www.lscdata.com/users/cale_nelson/Thomas/thommy.jpg)

That is the HLW Mack I painted up like Thomas a few years ago pulling “Annie”. the wire is for the lights on the tree. 6+ hours round the tree on 1- 9.6v charge

#12

:wink:

And we call this the “Holiday Season”. Enjoy the boys!

#13

Shawn -

Your pictures have inspired me to consider setting up my Christmas switching layout - a 4 Foot circle around the tree with a track stub yard attached. The problem it was designed to use an old console TV as the base. That TV went to the landfill 4 years ago. There is also a new large piece of furniture in the corner where the tree used to go. Not sure I could overcome thees obstacles before New Years :smiley:

#14
Jon Radder said:
Shawn -

Your pictures have inspired me to consider setting up my Christmas switching layout - a 4 Foot circle around the tree with a track stub yard attached. The problem it was designed to use an old console TV as the base. That TV went to the landfill 4 years ago. There is also a new large piece of furniture in the corner where the tree used to go. Not sure I could overcome thees obstacles before New Years :smiley:


You could always get the aristo 21 or 31 inch curves. I just got the 31 inch for a micro layout im going to make.

#15

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/PB300039.jpg)

(http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp52/steamnut1917/PB300037.jpg)

And before anybody says it. The ‘fireplace’ is electric, the heater part only gets run when the house gets really cold, and the ‘fire’ during dinners, movies, or cuddles…

#16

This is an old picture. I used to set this up when the kids were little and that was many moons ago. The track has been recycled into a couple of switches on the layout.

(http://rgsgardenrailroad.com/Xmasgrtng.jpg)

Newer picture:

(http://rgsgardenrailroad.com/xmas2005_01.jpg)

#17
Shawn said:
Jon Radder said:
Shawn -

Your pictures have inspired me to consider setting up my Christmas switching layout - a 4 Foot circle around the tree with a track stub yard attached. The problem it was designed to use an old console TV as the base. That TV went to the landfill 4 years ago. There is also a new large piece of furniture in the corner where the tree used to go. Not sure I could overcome thees obstacles before New Years :smiley:


You could always get the aristo 21 or 31 inch curves. I just got the 31 inch for a micro layout im going to make.

True - but no budget for track this year. That and SWMBO wasn’t to enthusiastic when I asked her if there was another place to move her African Violets to so I could set up the trains again for Christmas :frowning:

#18
Jon Radder said:
That and SWMBO wasn't to enthusiastic when I asked her if there was another place to move her African Violets to so I could set up the trains again for Christmas :(
Now I feel kind of bad. Kim is the one that insisted on double tracks again this year.

I MIGHT have a spare circle of used Aristo R-1 it would need cleaned up tho…

#19

Mik said:

Jon Radder said:
That and SWMBO wasn’t to enthusiastic when I asked her if there was another place to move her African Violets to so I could set up the trains again for Christmas :frowning:

Now I feel kind of bad. Kim is the one that insisted on double tracks again this year. I MIGHT have a spare circle of used Aristo R-1 it would need cleaned up tho…

Thanks Mik - I have plenty of track available. Just can’t convince the current space occupier that the window will look better with track in it. That’s where the stub yard goes. The circle of track goes around the tree. I could do jut a circle, but it get’s pretty boring, especially since everything I own is huge for a 4 foot circle. An engine, boxcar and caboose will chase it’s tail.

(http://photo.cvsry.com/Xmas_Layout_00_2.jpg)

(http://photo.cvsry.com/Xmas_Layout_00_3_640.jpg)

#20
Jon Radder said:
Shawn said:
Jon Radder said:
Shawn -

Your pictures have inspired me to consider setting up my Christmas switching layout - a 4 Foot circle around the tree with a track stub yard attached. The problem it was designed to use an old console TV as the base. That TV went to the landfill 4 years ago. There is also a new large piece of furniture in the corner where the tree used to go. Not sure I could overcome thees obstacles before New Years :smiley:


You could always get the aristo 21 or 31 inch curves. I just got the 31 inch for a micro layout im going to make.

True - but no budget for track this year. That and SWMBO wasn’t to enthusiastic when I asked her if there was another place to move her African Violets to so I could set up the trains again for Christmas :frowning:

I think a train around the African Violet might look good. Then put a bunch of them in some gondolas. LOL