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alamantia
12-15-2007, 07:57 AM
I set um my lionels but I am finding out there are abiiiiiiiiit too noisy on hard wood floors, i was thinking LGB, what doe you use?
bad64chevelle
12-15-2007, 10:33 AM
We do usually, but we got a late start (we just got the tree today) and it wont be up until tomorrow. I doubt this year we will have trains up though.
Anti_Rice_Guy
12-15-2007, 10:34 AM
It's not a lionel or anything but we set up a Santa train thingie that goes around the tree.
EchoMirage
12-15-2007, 02:12 PM
i knew a girl in school who pulled a train under a christmas tree once
Savage_Messiah
12-15-2007, 03:35 PM
i knew a girl in school who pulled a train under a christmas tree once

:rofl::rofl::rofl:
bad64chevelle
12-15-2007, 04:22 PM
i knew a girl in school who pulled a train under a christmas tree once

sounds like my ex.
Blacdout96
12-15-2007, 07:09 PM
haha. i used to have HO scale trains and id putthem under the tree...but it was wise to take them off christmas eve or they'd get broken form the presents under the tree.
JSPERFORMANCE
12-16-2007, 09:24 AM
haha. i used to have HO scale trains

They are probably the same ones Echo's ex had !! :lol:
TAdan
12-17-2007, 08:03 AM
I do. I've got two loops of Lionel O gauge under the tree this year.

My dad and I have been collecting for years.
alamantia
12-17-2007, 09:45 AM
I do. I've got two loops of Lionel O gauge under the tree this year.

My dad and I have been collecting for years.

Same here, I'm rocking the post war 2433's now but god daym are they loud this year
SteveR
12-17-2007, 09:49 AM
I used too. I had a few old Lionels and some HO trains too. They're all in a box somewhere now.
79CamaroDiva
12-17-2007, 09:51 AM
we used to put a train under my parents tree, but now they go on vacation every year before christmas so the train hasnt been up in 6 years or so.. they haven't had a tree for the last 3 i think. actually, i dont even have a tree in my apartment either. :( makes me kinda sad.
SteveR
12-17-2007, 09:52 AM
actually, i dont even have a tree in my apartment either. :( makes me kinda sad.

ROAD TRIP !!!! :D
79CamaroDiva
12-17-2007, 09:55 AM
ROAD TRIP !!!! :D

to where? are you suggesting we go back to that tree farm in vermont?
SteveR
12-17-2007, 09:56 AM
to where? are you suggesting we go back to that tree farm in vermont?

we should hit Canadia this time :D
79CamaroDiva
12-17-2007, 10:01 AM
we should hit Canadia this time :D

:evil: i think i dont like you right now. :lol:
SteveR
12-17-2007, 10:02 AM
:evil: i think i dont like you right now. :lol:

lol ok ok, we can get one in Floridia :D
MonmouthCtyAntz
12-17-2007, 11:31 AM
My mother does, im in the process of moving so no trees here this year
NightRydaSS
12-17-2007, 11:32 AM
u kno, for a minute there i thought the title meant something else...lol
TAdan
12-17-2007, 11:32 AM
Same here, I'm rocking the post war 2433's now but god daym are they loud this year


Well there is your problem! Those babies are notoriously loud. The later models were a bit quieter. Even when they are in perfect shape they are loud. I have a pair of them, and I dont usually run them.

In the latest issue of Classic Toy trains they even mention that they are unusually loud. So dont feel bad, hehe.

I try and switch the trains a few times a week, we have a bunch of em, and this is the time of year that they get the most activity.

Here are some pics of the collection...

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TAdan/trains4.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TAdan/trains3.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TAdan/trains2.jpg
alamantia
12-17-2007, 12:42 PM
I have a set of postwar erie PAA's similar to those union pacifics behind the Lackawanna FM in your pic, their quieter and Im looking in to a 726 berkshire, that being worm gear driven has to be pretty quiet too
TAdan
12-17-2007, 12:48 PM
I have a set of postwar erie PAA's similar to those union pacifics behind the Lackawanna FM in your pic, their quieter and Im looking in to a 726 berkshire, that being worm gear driven has to be pretty quiet too


Those Alco style engines (like your Erie pair) are some of the best and quietest runners I've encountered, you cant go wrong with them.

I have a couple 736's and they run great. I'd try and find a 736 over a 726, the 726 dosent have magne-traction.
Pampered-Z
12-17-2007, 01:28 PM
I haven't run any of mine in years. I have a fairly large collections and every time I say just a loop around the tree I end up taking over the entire living room until my wife gets mad enough to makes me stop! Plus she hates the smell of the smoke, but I just gotta have the locos smoken!

When I set them up around the tree I used homosote with the cork covering to detent the sound. Works real well!
edpontiac91
12-17-2007, 02:09 PM
Well there is your problem! Those babies are notoriously loud. The later models were a bit quieter. Even when they are in perfect shape they are loud. I have a pair of them, and I dont usually run them.

In the latest issue of Classic Toy trains they even mention that they are unusually loud. So dont feel bad, hehe.

I try and switch the trains a few times a week, we have a bunch of em, and this is the time of year that they get the most activity.

Here are some pics of the collection...

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TAdan/trains4.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TAdan/trains3.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TAdan/trains2.jpg

Man, did you say COLLECTION OR A WAREHOUSE? That is amazing and what a nice layout. You're of course NOT MARRIED. What wife in here right mind would WASTE an entire room for that, when it could be a lot more useful to display CRANBERRY GLASS or STUFFED BEARS! :rofl: