Train layout for Christmas 2025

OldFeller

OldFeller

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Making a Lionel & Dept. 56 Christmas Village - 2025​

By Dave Hohman (not me @OldFeller)


From the maker of this layout (Dave Hohman) and this video from Youtube...
"Here is this year's Christmas Village Video. I took approximately 3 weeks to set up. It will take 5-6 days to take down.
Yes it comes down every year that's what makes it special.
There are 11 running trains, 3 workmen cars, approximately 250 houses and probably over 1,000 people.
This is a lifetime collection."


 

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Aunt Bea said:
What is it about Christmas and trains? 🤔

I still remember the smell of brimstone that our old train transformer gave off and our mother constantly checking to make sure that it didn’t overheat and burst into flames … it never did!
😉🤭😂
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It amazes me how we think alike. I had the same thought as I watched this.
Trains, especially Lionels, have always been an expensive investment. My father said that in 1948 when he bought a simple starter train set that it cost a week's salary. So when people were frugal except at Christmastime, they would only buy trains at that time. Advertising promoted train sets at Christmas with pictures of a layout in and around a Christmas tree.
 
You actually did this? I froze the video several times trying to catch a pose with a face showing. Yeah, it looked like you. Do you put this up every year? I don't even put up a tree anymore. I particularly liked the part of video taken from the moving cab toward the end. Amazing, truly amazing.

I'm an n scaler with nothing but rolling stock. I had plans of one day of building an empire in my basement, but never made it that far. I haven't enjoyed utube this much in about a year. Congratulations on a master piece, and remind everyone to go in and out through the front door of the house, not the outside door to the train room.
 
OldFeller said:
"Here is this year's Christmas Village Video. I took approximately 3 weeks to set up. It will take 5-6 days to take down.
Yes it comes down every year that's what makes it special.
There are 11 running trains, 3 workmen cars, approximately 250 houses and probably over 1,000 people.
This is a lifetime collection."
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Where do you store it all!?!?!
 
JustDave said:
You actually did this? I froze the video several times trying to catch a pose with a face showing. Yeah, it looked like you. Do you put this up every year? I don't even put up a tree anymore. I particularly liked the part of video taken from the moving cab toward the end. Amazing, truly amazing.

I'm an n scaler with nothing but rolling stock. I had plans of one day of building an empire in my basement, but never made it that far. I haven't enjoyed utube this much in about a year. Congratulations on a master piece, and remind everyone to go in and out through the front door of the house, not the outside door to the train room.
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No, @JustDave, I didn't do this. If you look back, you'll see that the introductory remarks are in quotations because I copied the introductory remarks from the video maker.
 
Aunt Bea said:
What is it about Christmas and trains? 🤔

I still remember the smell of brimstone that our old train transformer gave off and our mother constantly checking to make sure that it didn’t overheat and burst into flames … it never did!
😉🤭😂
Click to expand...
This is a nice video and answers your question.

Why We Put Model Trains Under A Christmas Tree​


 

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