Here’s a fun little Christmas video I made, featuring the lights and displays in our neighborhood. Sorry, no trains, but I hope you’ll enjoy it anyway.
Merry Christmas!
Here’s a link if you can’t see it on the forum: https://youtu.be/9bV1Afmy_wc
Nice video!
Merry Christmas right back at you and to all our friends on Large Scale Central. What a wonderful time of year to celebrate all that we have and the friendships we share. One of my greatest blessings is the friendships and comradery we share on this site. Enjoy the Season and remember the reason.
Hmmm I don’t see no video … (bad English for Emphasis!)
Thanks Ray - Merry Christmas to you and all of my LSC family. While we wait for your video, here is some train related Christmas video I shot last night, It is unedited (raw) HD and long, so the files are huge. Hope it will play for y’all. This is the Northern Lights Limited at the Railroad Museum of New England, shot with pocket digital camera on a monopod…
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In the mean time, while I figure out what has changed at my hosting service so self-hosted video no longer plays please enjoy these stills…
As of today I am a Christmas Orphan, my sister took her family to Argentina this morning … bah … …(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif) I missed their Early (Nov) Xmas gift giving with my dislocated toe … wot a year!
What to do to amuse myself? Well I might could be in the market for a live steamer … used of course, there’s only one check and I do have my eye on a magnetic tumbler. So who has gotten too lazy to fire it up? Make me an offer?
Merry Christmas to all of my Christian friends here and Happy Holidays and Best Wishes to all my other friends here.
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and to our Jewish brethren in this wonderful train community a Happy Hanukka.
The December holidays can have many meanings…for our family, a big part of this time will be bringing a new PUPPY! into our family two days before Christmas. But first, this is a picture of our Heidi, who died last April, and whom we had for over ten years. She was the best dog ever.
And here is the puppy:
We need a name! Any suggestions would be appreciated. She is a female and the dad’s name is Diesel (nice!). I would like a train-related name, but whatever we come up with will be a joint family choice, so I won’t get away with something like Steamer. Arrrrrgggg.
edit: right now we’re leaning toward Sam, as in Samantha…but who ever heard of a train called Sam?
Here ya go Ray. Merry Christmas!
Phoebe (tho she’s not a Snow) it’s a cool well know train name.
Vids; Google did something with YouTube yesterday, I wonder if it screwed our links?
Thanks Ray.
I plan to buy the lumber for the benchwork for the indoor layout this week and start putting it together! I want to get it together before the contest gets underway! Have a good holiday to those of you that will be gone until after Christmas. We flew to Virginia at Thanksgiving to celebrate Thanksgiving and an early Christmas with our son and family. . We are home for the holidays!
Well, if she turns out like any of my dogs, I would suggest names we didnt use, but would have been apropriate.
Trasher
Messer
Barkey
Pita
Mischief
Knock it off
Stop it
Move dog
David Maynard said:
Well, if she turns out like any of my dogs, I would suggest names we didnt use, but would have been apropriate.
Trasher
Messer
Barkey
Pita
Mischief
Knock it off
Stop it
Move dog
When I was a kid we had a St Bernard, his name was “Dino” after the Flintstone’s dog.
Ha! Dino could be good…and the Colorado Rockies mascot is supposedly a dinosaur. Now, Maynard, this dog’s dad was over 200 lbs and the mom was 145 lbs. I’m thinking your suggestion “Move!” might not be a bad choice.
John
First of all let me commend you on a spectacular drag of green box cars…very Christmassy!
As for a name for the new pup… I suggest one of these Steam Era railroad terms:
BANJO—Fireman’s shovel; old-style banjo-shaped signal
BREEZE—Service air
BOUNCER—Bobber Caboose
CHECKER—A company spy, particularly one checking up on loss of materials or of the receipts of an agent or conductor
DINGER—Conductor (man who rings the bell)
FLIMSY—Train order. (Standard practice is to issue these on tissue paper to facilitate the making of carbon copies)
JANNEY—To couple; derived from the Janney automatic coupler
KEELEY—Water can for hot journals or bearings.
WIGWAG—A grade-crossing signal
She’s an 0-4-0… OHFOUROH
Dave
I like the suggestions, especially Banjo, that’s a good one, but Checker made me break down laughing…good name, but it might be a little too laden with memories:
How about Steamer?
