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Christmas Trees and Trains Go Together!
Regular contributor John kindly sent in this short article to share:
Not many things express the season like a train around the Christmas Tree. Whether your set-up is elaborate or a single train going around and around, everything seems to go better when both are incorporated into a festive scene. It doesn’t have to be expensive either, and the Tree looks even nicer with a train going around it.
The pictured scene is a 4-foot Christmas Tree, an inexpensive HO Bachmann set with track and an engine with three cars, and Cobblestone Corners winter/holiday figures. The 3-1/2 x 4-foot table covered with white shelf-wrap (to simulate snow) finishes and holds the scene, and overall costs about $100 dollars. One word of caution – do not put tree-wrap or fake snow paper too close to the track or train, as the material acts as a magnet and gets itself wrapped around the wheels, causing all kinds of havoc.
Many of us have fond memories as a youngster of seeing a train around the Tree, and a lot of those children are today’s modeler’s with tremendous layouts. But even if you’re not an active modeler, a train around the Tree adds much to the enjoyment for children or adults alike.
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I Can remember trains under my Christmas tree at my house and my Grandparents when I was a child. They were both 3 rail O Scale with a small Village with the tree in the center.