re: Anyone do the tradition of an electric train under the Christmas tree?

We had one- loved the way it smelled think my mom has it still somewhere

wow man, nice train!!!!

what boy doesn't like trains?!

I did have an HO set, too long ago to remember it under the tree or not...

[ anyone ever read Jeremiah?
? Jeremiah 10 ? King James Bible

The Sovereignty of God

1. Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2. Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. }

nobody listens or reads Scripture...we just do what everyone else does ]

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Thanks for this thread Bookmarking for future reference. I've always wanted to run a train under/around the Christmas tree and finally did this year after my son saw a cheap Christmas train set in Home Depot one day about a month ago and insisted on us getting it. He's been begging to play with it and I finally put it up this morning around 2:00am so that he could see it first thing when he woke up.

He is 5 years old (high functioning Autistic with ADHD) and is a freak for trains. Mostly just into Thomas the Train stuff now, but every time we see trains (or hell even just the tracks) he makes note of it. I hope he continues once he gets older and calmer (he’d probably tear it up now and it’s far too expensive a hobby just for him to tear it up). I look forward to possibly sharing this as a hobby with him.

I used to have what I thought was a nice model train set years ago (don’t have a clue as to whether it actually was nice or not), but I loved it. I don’t have a clue as to what happened to it

My mom probably still has it somewhere, but that would be like looking for a needle in a haystack at this point. She actually had an old attorney friend of hers in BR who had a pretty sweet train set up in the attic of his mid-city home IIRC.


ETA: Bless his heart, he just woke up for something to drink, to watch a few minutes of Thomas and to take one of his new trains to bed with him.

I haven't read it yet, but just noticed this timely articlein the Advocate.

Well we did, until...

One of our cats got electrocuted and set the tree skirt and the xmas tree on fire.