Does anyone here have a train operating around there Christmas tree? I'd love to do it one year but have never found any N scale rollingstock that has a Christmas theme ------------------ Regards Paul Cassar-Moderator & Member number 50 SPAD Investigator #1 ICQ 61198217 http://users.bigpond.net.au/railroad2000
I have a Plastic Battery operated G-Gauge train that has snow on the roofs for our Christmas Tree. It just runs in a big circle, whistles, smokes, plays Christmas music and scares the heck out of the cats. It's fun, for a while...then it has to be turned off or we'll go NUTS! ------------------ Brent Tidaback, Member #234 BNSF Railfan-to-the Max and a N-Scaler to boot! Ship it on the Route of The Roadrunners! The Aransas Odessa & Western, a division of the BNSF
G-guage is the Christmas guage around here . In fact I asked my 4-year old if he wanted to run the HO scale this year and he threw a fit..."the big guys go around the tree daddy!!" Well, just so he loves trains too !! Happy Holidays and Happy Modeling!! John ------------------ The Santa Fe and Southwestern, Chief of the Southwest!!
Micro-Trains releases a Christmas car each year. There have been boxcars, 2-bay covered hoppers, and a pair of 33' open hoppers amongst others in the past. I have a couple of them. Gary. ------------------ Gary A. Rose The Unofficial TC&W page TrainBoard Moderator and Member No.377 N to the Nth degree!
I have a 2ft x 4ft N scale permanent winter scene on short legs which I put in the living room during Christmas. It consists of a simple dogbone loop with a short spur. there are 2 buildings (a station and a 2 story house), 1 scratchbuilt trestle across the frozen creek, a frozen pond, a tunnel, and 218 snow covered trees. I have similar set-up at the store which uses an atlas plate girder bridge instead of the trestle and has only 171 trees on it. This operating display is protected on 3 sides with pexiglass, is placed against the window and when I tried to put it away after the Christmas season ended (2 years ago), the customers protested, and it has been out ever since (I will eventually replace it with a summer scene) For a Holiday Train I have a few Microtrains and Con Cor Holiday cars pulled by a Life-Like GP-20 painted in Hudson Bay Railway colors, and for my home set-up, I have most of the Miccotrains (Missing 3) cars pulled by another Hudson Bay GP-20. Happy Modeling. Cheers, Terry
A few years ago, I was given an N scale Bachmann Christmas train set as a gift. The set consisted of steam engine (2-6-0, I think) & 3 old time passenger cars. The track is what made it neat. The set included a circle of snap-together track sections that included supports to suspend the track up in the Christmas tree! The track sections looked like curved plate girder bridges. The supports came together at a circular plate which attached to the trunk of the tree at about eye level (depending on the height of the tree). Control (or lack of it) was supplied by a rudementary on-off switch. Mine was a gift, but I did see them at Target stores that year. Started out around $50 and went down to $15 in the after Christmas close-out sales. Anybody else get one of these? ------------------ Mike Drzycimski Arlington, TX The Southview Lines
Hey Mike,I have one of those.I was told that the locomotive was good for about 20 minutes and then it would be junk.Well it must run on a slooooooooooooooooooooow clock cause it's now 5 years old and still runs great.I just wish there was some way to control the speed though. ------------------ Catt!#118 - Moderator and A freelancer to the end
For running a train around a Christmas tree, better make it a Bangor and Aroostook! Charlie ------------------ Ship It On The FRISCO! | IAMOKA.com
