My IT guy was able to get our contact pages for the OldChristmasTreeLights.com page working, so it's a matter of time before I get the contact and signup pages working here. Thanks for your patience.

- Paul

Beautiful, Pete, thanks for sharing!

That is great, Paul! Thanks for sharing!

Nice clear photos; they'd be a good reference for anyone trying to replicate or restore those particular models.

Can't imagine why the seller imagines the set is worth seven grand.

Good tip for indoors. I haven't run the O gauge Lionel Polar Express, though I own one. But the materials did make it sound like it required wider curves. The American Flyer Polar Express (also made by Lionel) requires 42"-diameter curves. And most of my Large Scale (G gauge) trains require a ...

I borrowed a "railbender" to make some very tight curves, so I could run a train on one of those plastic tables at a church event. VERY short locomotives would run, but they couldn't pull any cars. Click on the link to see this on our FB page.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid ...

Very nice photos, thanks! Love the tinplate!

This is a link to a Kalmbach page, just to show the kinds of trains people are using with their ceramic villages (Dept. 56, Lemax, etc.)

With the caveat that most ceramic village structures and accessories are much larger than traditional putz houses, maybe it will give you some ideas of how Lionel ...

Paul, those are ridiculously charming, especially the first two! They look good with your village structures, too. Thanks for posting.

Welcome, Paul.

For the rest of you, this Paul R. has a totally different last name from the Paul R. that is holding this site together with bailing wire and twine.

That's why he's using a different member name.

Paul, a lot of folks use trains with their towns. That's why we have a section for ...