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Are you going to have an electric/model train under your Xmas tree?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:53 pm
I just wonder how many follow this tradition?
There are some really nice Christmas train setups - especially those that use the commercial ceramic buildings too.
I'm using this 1929 Lionel Blue Comet (this is the big standard gauge version, not the smaller one like the one on the Sopranos episode where Bobby gets killed). The quality that Lionel used in the 30's is incredible - nickel and copper trim, etc. This locomotive had not been run since before WWII, but when I oiled it last night and put it on a test track, it ran like a champ.
There are some really nice Christmas train setups - especially those that use the commercial ceramic buildings too.
I'm using this 1929 Lionel Blue Comet (this is the big standard gauge version, not the smaller one like the one on the Sopranos episode where Bobby gets killed). The quality that Lionel used in the 30's is incredible - nickel and copper trim, etc. This locomotive had not been run since before WWII, but when I oiled it last night and put it on a test track, it ran like a champ.
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Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:57 pm to chinhoyang
Used to have an unhealthy obsession with elaborate toy train sets as a kid. I think never owning a nice one probably drove that fascination, but Mt dad would take us to a local train shop to admire them a few times a year.
Now that I've got kids I don't blame my parents for opting for the plastic options.
Now that I've got kids I don't blame my parents for opting for the plastic options.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:58 pm to chinhoyang
Not this year, but hopefully next. I grew up with that tradition, too 
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:01 pm to chinhoyang
I had fun as a kid playing sniper and demolition expert with my train set, BB gun, and some leftover M80s.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:03 pm to chinhoyang
I have one this year for the first time in my life. It's just a new Lionel polar express train that I got from amazon on black Friday. Gotta start somewhere though
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:06 pm to chinhoyang
Yea, but my train game is much weaker than yours. I just snapped a picture...
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:11 pm to Gaston
I like that set up - goes well with the tree. It has lots of room for presents between the tracks.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:13 pm to chinhoyang
We usually push the tree back further and make the train encircle it, but this year I did it a bit different. I had visions of my son, now 10, and I setting this thing up every year, but it's just been me for the last few years. A few of his cars are damaged so I may need to add a some more.
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:15 pm to chinhoyang
Yep we have one under our tree this year. My grandfather had a large train collection and it is one from his stuff. Kids love it but between the kids and the dog the damn thing is always off the track. Even set up a christmas village between the track and the tree on top of the skirt.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:17 pm to bayoudude
More pics please. This actually interests me. Don't think my wife would go for it.
Does it become more of a hassle keeping it from being knocked over?
Does it become more of a hassle keeping it from being knocked over?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:22 pm to HailToTheChiz
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More pics please. This actually interests me. Don't think my wife would go for it.
Does it become more of a hassle keeping it from being knocked over?
If you add some of the Village size buildings your wife will be ok with it. If you have a daughter, they make a variety of "girl's trains" too.
If you start, I would go with "O" gauge - big enough to take some abuse. The train I pictured is standard gauge - they remake it too in special Christmas trains. The trains are are metal and are big (example pictured below). These metal trains are very durable and will last forever but the new ones aren't cheap.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:26 pm to chinhoyang
My favorite Christmas memory was when I woke up and dad had setup a train around the tree and it went through a tent that was setup as one of my gifts. I can't wait to reproduce that for my own.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 5:19 pm to lsugrad35
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tent that was setup as one of my gifts
That sounds neat - but I can't really picture what you mean - was the gift in the tent? Or did he wrap it in a way that the train could pass through?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 5:21 pm to chinhoyang
CSB or not so much: My grandmother had a separate garage where she kept al my deceased grandfathers "junk". As kids, my brother and I use to love crashing the old trains into one another. When my grandmother died we had an estate sale and the trains and everything that went with it sold for almost 22k. It would have been worth 10x or more if we had not damaged all of them so badly.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 5:24 pm to chinhoyang
I think I may crack and get a Standard gauge from MTH this year. I have enough O gauge to put around the tree now.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 5:44 pm to chinhoyang
Very nice tradition...
I grew up with my dad collecting and setting up Lionel O27 gauge stuff.
He has several sets, old and new, the new stuff being late 70's stuff. My fav is the Southern Crescent.
He will be leaving this earth soon, and is talking to me and others about what to do with these trains. Interesting conversations...
I think he set one a couple days ago. I'll see it next week.
I grew up with my dad collecting and setting up Lionel O27 gauge stuff.
He has several sets, old and new, the new stuff being late 70's stuff. My fav is the Southern Crescent.
He will be leaving this earth soon, and is talking to me and others about what to do with these trains. Interesting conversations...
I think he set one a couple days ago. I'll see it next week.
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 12/9/16 at 5:57 pm to chinhoyang
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chinhoyang
Aren't you the dude that hops trains irl or something?
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