[HarrisonCityRR]

Here's the current incarnation of my display with Christmas-themed trains only. At this point in my life the display "evolves" each year rather than getting created anew.

 

[Tom_C]

Video no workie.

 

[HarrisonCityRR]

Fixed

I fixed the link. Should work fine now.

 

[Fire21]

That's a REALLY nice...and BUSY...layout! :appl:

 

[beachhead2]

Great job :appl:

 

[Tom_C]

Nice. What, no shelf trolley?

 

[Big Ed]

Very nice, a Winter Wonder Land. :smilie_daumenpos:

Love the log cabin, is that hand made or a kit?

 

[Bull6791]

Very nice. I love the loop that is in the air. Thanks.

 

[Enon49]

three trains

running three trains

nice

MrToad

 

[ErnestHouse]

That church is exactly what I've been looking for. Is it scratch built or what?

 

[seayakbill]

Very nice Christmas / winter theme layout. Thanks for sharing.

Bill

 

[HarrisonCityRR]

Thanks for the compliments!

To answer a few questions:
- The log cabin is a Department 56 Snow Village piece
- The church (and the other smaller houses in the mountain village) were hand-painted by my mother for my father as a gift in the '70s in a ceramics class. I'm not certain of the maker of the molds. I've searched a few times trying to track the maker down and have been unsuccessful.
- Everything else structure-wise is Department 56, almost all Snow Village.

 

[HarrisonCityRR]

Oh..., and the empty shelves hold my standard-gauge tinplate which are currently underneath the tree. I need to shoot some video of that display and post.

 

[Bull6791]

What do you use to hold the track in the air. Thanks

 

[Riggzie]

nice setup. were dept56 as well. even halloween.
next year im gonna put ho or o in this setup...

 

[HarrisonCityRR]

Nice pics. I would recommend O with the buildings. HO would seem a bit small (to me).

For the trestles I used strips of wood trim from Home Depot. Stained them and cut / assembled with nails and glue.

 

[Tom_C]

On30 works great with Lemax and Dept56.

 

[Millstonemike]

I have no experience with Dept 56. But I had read that the snow village line was close to O-scale while the remainder of products were smaller.

 

[HarrisonCityRR]

I have found that O scale looks ok with all of the Department 56 village series. However it seems to be more in scale with the non-Snow Village series, especially when looking at the figures / people. Standard gauge looks best with Snow Village and its figures.

That said, my O layout is almost all Snow Village and I'm running standard gauge with the North Pole and New England villages. I just keep the figures away from the trains.