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Kisatchie

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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2012, 12:31:42 PM »
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Quote from: Bob Bufkin on December 22, 2012, 11:20:06 AM
...plus having 3 dogs and a cat I find it's just not worth doing a tree... 

...Always had an American Flyer under the tree when I was young.  It looked move realistic that Lionel to me.

We have a dog and 2 cats. No tree for us.

I also thought Lionel didn't look right, what with the 3-rail track. I had American Flyer too as a boy.


Hmm... I have a tree in
my treehouse...

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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2012, 12:52:23 PM »
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Not me.  Don't need one since the tree and my layout are in the same common family room.
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2012, 12:54:25 PM »
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Nah,not anymore.I have two big goofy Pittbulls,they don't actually bother the train,but when they start to play,if they accidentally ran into it,it would be dust.They never go near the tree other than to smell it,but my wife starts to play with them,sometimes she gets carried away,LOL!! It's funny..Seems they know it's something special.I just lost my male,Samson,a few months ago.He's give it a sniff,look at me,and wag his tail.
 A funny story..My buddy came to my house with his wife..[Not the sharpest hammer in the drawer..] It was August..She looked at my model railroad,and says:"Where do you put the tree?"
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2012, 02:02:55 PM »
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Used to (Lionel). Then we got four cats...
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2012, 04:13:59 PM »
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Quote from: David K. Smith on December 22, 2012, 02:02:55 PM
Used to (Lionel). Then we got four cats...

I know that story....   
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2012, 04:17:38 PM »
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Got 3 cats and a dog and they leave our Lionel set alone,

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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2012, 05:11:21 PM »
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We have three dogs, one cat and two kittens and have G scale trains under the tree. They leave the G scale alone most times, but when they do get hit in their caboose they vacate  the area pretty quick!!   :o :D
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2012, 07:14:23 PM »
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It's not Christmas without trains!

Here is what goes under my tree:

until they get taken up to put presents under the tree. Then I go back up to the loft (see blog below).

I made layouts for each of my 4 adult kids similar to this one that I once did for my office at work:


I just cut a hole in one of the loops for the Christmas tree to pop out of:


My youngest son loved Micro Machines as a kid, so for his layout I used all his old Micro Machine buildings:


My oldest son lost his layout when he moved back to New Jersey from Nashville (his wife is a talented singer), so it was replaced with the 6'x6' L shaped layout I had made for work (but decided it was too much hassle to set it up every year):


Like I said, it is not Christmas without trains!
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #23 on: December 22, 2012, 09:55:06 PM »
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I don't have one at home this year but I have a loop of Lionel track and a small tree on the file cabinets in my office at work.

Martin
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2012, 10:09:27 PM »
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Wish I could but have 4 cats kind of makes that impossible :scared:
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2012, 07:06:48 AM »
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So how do you guys keep the cats out of the train room? 
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2012, 10:21:16 AM »
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I have one of those nice O scale narrow gauge train sets that Bachmann does.  It runs great and is big enough that my dog doesn't mess with it.

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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2012, 10:40:49 AM »
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Quote from: Chris333 on December 23, 2012, 07:06:48 AM
So how do you guys keep the cats out of the train room?

I close the door
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2012, 12:14:19 PM »
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Acrylic 
shield keps the clumsy coonhound off layout.  While she is only mildly interested in trains but track is very near tail wagging level and that would be a complete disaster.  Twister simulation in Nscale...
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Re: How Many Model Railroaders Have a Train Under Their Christmas Tree?
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2012, 04:19:15 PM »
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This question was asked at our club's Christmas dinner Friday night and not one member has a train under the tree. Very strange. We won't be home so we didn't do a tree.
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