This display is so beautiful!! Nena has a great skill, and an eagle eye for beauty in the way these items have been displayed. The video is wonderfully done as well! Keep doing what you are doing, making a difference in the lives of others! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome village and video. It has been chosen as a "Village Video of the Week" selection for the week starting Friday, August 28, 2020. We've put a link to it on www.TheVillageCollector.com and it could be in the running for the 2020 Hall of Fame. Check it out on the "Village Videos" page of the website. Congratulations!
@RedFae This maybe it or the other lionel On Amazon: Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer Electric O Gauge Model Train Set w/ Remote and Bluetooth Capability Sorry, could not copy link on my phone for some reason.
What do you do with all the streetlights? Don't they come with battery packs? How do you light it all? To keep it lit all day, or all centrally connected. I can't seem to find a how to video on how people put this stuff together especially with all the lighting
Hi Frank, I will combine all the work that went into making this as well as hopefully answer your question and refer others to this reply for any answers as to how it was made, 1. bought a 30" X 8' folding table from BJ Wholesale 2. bought a 4'X8' sheet of 1/2" plywood and an additional 2' precut piece, giving me a total of 10' 3. bought 3-2"X4"X8' boards 4. bought an 0 gauge train from a hobby shop 5. cut 5- 2"X4"-3 1/2' long 6. place 2X4's vertical on table top, then place plywood on top. pulling the 2"X4"'s to the front of the layout, give me a 6" lip in the back to mount a hanging bracket. screwing them in place thru the plywood 7. place train track in the layout I wanted, then placed all buildings in a city like arrangement best as possible and took several photos of where they go back as well as lay them out on the dinning room table in the same arrangement. 8. marked where all power cords for buildings and track would be and marked with a big X 9. removed everything from plywood and drilled 1 5/8" holes for all building pwr cords, and 1/8" holes for track pwr wires 10. placed track in position then buildings back on lay out, placed city lights where they were to go and marked the spot with an X 11. cut a piece of 1"X4"X3' and screwed it hanging about 6" down in the middle of the back of the layout, giving me a shelf for the pwr strips 12. since the lights all have a battery box attached, I had to back feed the lights up under the lay out to where they would appear on the topside. feeding them up thru one of the holes previously drilled for the building pwr cords. them moving them to there location, and using a hot glue gun, secured them in place where I marked the X's 13. I then dropped all building pwr cords down thru the holes and routed to the back. doing this after the lighting wiring so they would not get tangled up. 14. bought one 6" extension cord to go to the outlet strip just for the lights. 15. decided to buy an in-line dimmer and a 6' extension cord with 2 outlets for the 2 pwr strips that pwr the buildings, the dimmer was installed inline, to turn down the brightness of the lights shinning thru the buildings. 16. also bought a set of remote on-off switches with a remote switch that controlled 4 switches. plugged these in each extension cord, so I could turn on or off the Building lighting as well as the street lights. 17. taped down all loose lighting wire on top with masking tape so it would not show thru the snow being added later. 18. plugged everything in, there was room for a few of the lighting boxes on the shelf, but not all, so I just sort of pushed them into the space between the layout and the table top, If I had made the shelf 4' in length, it would of handled the pwr strips and pwr boxes for the lights. 19. dress up all the wiring with cable ties 20. cut an old white sheet, that draped to the floor with the hem at the top raised about 1/4 inch above the plywood, this was to keep the plastic snow from falling to the floor, secured with thumb tacks to the edge of the plywood. 21. sprinkled the fine plastic snow all over the layout including the track, then used hair spray to spray the snow on the track and out abt an inch to keep the train engine from sucking up the snow and clogging the engine. then I cleaned the spry from the top of the track rails for the train to run. 22. placed a cassette recorder with the background music and sounds from an old Dept 56 cassette under the table for the background sounds. 23. used my iphone at the time to record best as possible the short video posted. Hope this all makes sense and answers you question on how I worked thru the wiring issue.
Beautiful display! I particularly like the birch trees with the colored leaves. May I ask whether you made those or purchased them? If purchased, can you point me in the right direction to purchase? Thanks!
Thanks for the reply - I was looking at Dickens' Village buildings when thinking about my first layout but I hadn't decided on a scale. Your train looks to be just the right size. Very cool layout!
@@tommock4928 can you please do a video on this by Christmas before you put everything together showing step-by-step how this is? I have searched high and low last year and there is nothing out there on the how to part of it. Thanks
Impressive ! Loved the background sounds too !
Very lovely village, beats mine all to heck......Incredible video....Merry Christmas in July
I really like your video. I've watched it many times. Thank you for sharing!❤
Now this is really special. A great piece of modelling. Well done.
Pretty perfect ! A +
This display is so beautiful!! Nena has a great skill, and an eagle eye for beauty in the way these items have been displayed. The video is wonderfully done as well! Keep doing what you are doing, making a difference in the lives of others! Thank you for sharing!
Excellent display, I feel like the variety and quality of the trees in it really make this look so good
Super cool !! Great job on the village.
Tom, Beautifully done! One of the best I've seen, looking forward to 2018.
What a great village! It must be the first snow of the season. Nice job and thanks for sharing. See my village for more village fun.
A very fine display! I garnered several tips for my own display by watching your video.
Amazing! 2018 season is so close.
FANTASTIC!!
This was awesome...a lot of work, I'm sure..... but beautiful!
Wow great layout
WONDERFUL, WOW
WOWWW amazing ! what a beautiful village ,well done tom !wish you and family, merry Christmas and happy newyear 2018 .(bruges-belgium)
Very Nice!
Awesome village and video. It has been chosen as a "Village Video of the Week" selection for the week starting Friday, August 28, 2020. We've put a link to it on www.TheVillageCollector.com and it could be in the running for the 2020 Hall of Fame. Check it out on the "Village Videos" page of the website. Congratulations!
Do you remember the exact name of your train set? I've tried to just look up rail King Pennsylvania 2-8-0 but it comes up with more industrial cars.
I think it is this one or the other on Amazon : Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer Electric O Gauge Model Train Set w/ Remote and Bluetooth Capability.
This is a beautiful display
May I ask, what size table did you use?
4"X10" Melanie, I also give a more detailed description of how I made this come together, if you like, check out my reply below to "Frank Garofalo"
Ugh, I'm in love with that train!! I feel like my Polar Express is not enough! Someone link me to this particular, please~ T_T
It is the lionel Pennsylvania O gauge Amazon had it but it was sold out. This whole set up is gorgeous.
@RedFae This maybe it or the other lionel On Amazon: Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer Electric O Gauge Model Train Set w/ Remote and Bluetooth Capability Sorry, could not copy link on my phone for some reason.
What do you do with all the streetlights? Don't they come with battery packs? How do you light it all? To keep it lit all day, or all centrally connected. I can't seem to find a how to video on how people put this stuff together especially with all the lighting
Hi Frank,
I will combine all the work that went into making this as well as hopefully answer your question and refer others to this reply for any answers as to how it was made,
1. bought a 30" X 8' folding table from BJ Wholesale
2. bought a 4'X8' sheet of 1/2" plywood and an additional 2' precut piece, giving me a total of 10'
3. bought 3-2"X4"X8' boards
4. bought an 0 gauge train from a hobby shop
5. cut 5- 2"X4"-3 1/2' long
6. place 2X4's vertical on table top, then place plywood on top. pulling the 2"X4"'s to the front of the layout, give me a 6" lip in the back to mount a hanging bracket.
screwing them in place thru the plywood
7. place train track in the layout I wanted, then placed all buildings in a city like arrangement best as possible and took several photos of where they go back
as well as lay them out on the dinning room table in the same arrangement.
8. marked where all power cords for buildings and track would be and marked with a big X
9. removed everything from plywood and drilled 1 5/8" holes for all building pwr cords, and 1/8" holes for track pwr wires
10. placed track in position then buildings back on lay out, placed city lights where they were to go and marked the spot with an X
11. cut a piece of 1"X4"X3' and screwed it hanging about 6" down in the middle of the back of the layout, giving me a shelf for the pwr strips
12. since the lights all have a battery box attached, I had to back feed the lights up under the lay out to where they would appear on the topside.
feeding them up thru one of the holes previously drilled for the building pwr cords. them moving them to there location, and using a hot glue gun,
secured them in place where I marked the X's
13. I then dropped all building pwr cords down thru the holes and routed to the back. doing this after the lighting wiring so they would not get tangled up.
14. bought one 6" extension cord to go to the outlet strip just for the lights.
15. decided to buy an in-line dimmer and a 6' extension cord with 2 outlets for the 2 pwr strips that pwr the buildings, the dimmer was installed inline, to
turn down the brightness of the lights shinning thru the buildings.
16. also bought a set of remote on-off switches with a remote switch that controlled 4 switches. plugged these in each extension cord, so I could turn on or
off the Building lighting as well as the street lights.
17. taped down all loose lighting wire on top with masking tape so it would not show thru the snow being added later.
18. plugged everything in, there was room for a few of the lighting boxes on the shelf, but not all, so I just sort of pushed them into the space between the layout
and the table top, If I had made the shelf 4' in length, it would of handled the pwr strips and pwr boxes for the lights.
19. dress up all the wiring with cable ties
20. cut an old white sheet, that draped to the floor with the hem at the top raised about 1/4 inch above the plywood, this was to keep the plastic snow from falling
to the floor, secured with thumb tacks to the edge of the plywood.
21. sprinkled the fine plastic snow all over the layout including the track, then used hair spray to spray the snow on the track and out abt an inch to keep
the train engine from sucking up the snow and clogging the engine. then I cleaned the spry from the top of the track rails for the train to run.
22. placed a cassette recorder with the background music and sounds from an old Dept 56 cassette under the table for the background sounds.
23. used my iphone at the time to record best as possible the short video posted.
Hope this all makes sense and answers you question on how I worked thru the wiring issue.
Thanks for such a detailed explanation!!!
Looks great, maybe just place the camera on a tripod or flat on the snow. The shakiness really detracted.
Beautiful display! I particularly like the birch trees with the colored leaves. May I ask whether you made those or purchased them? If purchased, can you point me in the right direction to purchase? Thanks!
Keith, they were purchased from a Christmas Shop years ago, I believe they are since retired, I have seen them recently listed on Ebay.
Thanks, Tom. I was able to pick some up on EBay.
O scale gauge??? Which is it.
The train is from, RailKing, the one I bought was the Pennsylvania 2-8-0 passenger set, scale and gauge is referred as the same.
Hi, is that an O scale train?
Andrew, yes it is "O" guage
Thanks for the reply - I was looking at Dickens' Village buildings when thinking about my first layout but I hadn't decided on a scale. Your train looks to be just the right size. Very cool layout!
How make....?
@@tommock4928 can you please do a video on this by Christmas before you put everything together showing step-by-step how this is? I have searched high and low last year and there is nothing out there on the how to part of it. Thanks
Check my Reply to Frank Garofalo below