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Here's my first-ever Christmas layout at work. I've built other work layouts that did not have a Christmas motiff.

I work as managing editor of Soldiers Magazine (the US Army official magazine). I created an Army themed layout with Soldiers and changed the Lionel billboards to recruiting ads and stuff.

Each of these train set costs $9.99 at Walgreen. I posted info about that several weeks ago on this forum.

The trains are operated by battery, as conventional controls with wires and transformers is way too complicated for me and I prefer lo-tech :-)

I came in early this morning to make this video, but on some trains I cut the speaker wires when people are working so they are not annoyed or distracted by the trains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM9DEFTiZg
 
Location: Northern Virginia | Registered:: February 25, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Pretty darn cool! I wish I had one of those in my office!

--Greg
 
Location: Harleysville, PA | Registered:: October 20, 2004Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I like that!


"Ladies and gentelman take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice."
MAJ Sidney Freedman.
 
Location: lakeville ct | Registered:: September 24, 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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SE-18 Do you know if thoes set's are still available? My local Wall-Greens doesn't have any.
TumbleWEED
 
Registered:: October 25, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Thanks, guys,

I purchased 3 from one Wal-Green in Manassas and then picked up 4 sets in nearby Gainesville, Va.'s Wal-Green.

The store is not very helpful. In fact, they didn't even know they carried them. I found the first sets way up high over the cosmetics section and had to jump up to get them (I'm 71" tall). In the second store, same thing, they didn't even know they had them and these were buried under the pharmacy pill section.

Seems there's no one section for toys in Wal-Green and you have to do a real hunt to find them.

I checked 2 other Wal-greens and couldn't find any. So 2 out of 4 aint bad. They might have been hidden as well.

Oh, btw, they run well but IMO need some weight added to them to run better for traction. The couplers are link and pin and are somewhat difficult to couple and uncouple, but hey, I ain't complaining.

Also, they take just 2 AA batteries. I'm using rechargeables.

You can ask your Wal-Green manager but mine wasn't helpful at all.

I checked other stores like Toy R Us, Target, Lowe's, HD, Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite-Aid, Cosco, etc etc, and it appears that ONLY Wal-Green has these. They are made by Gold-Loc.

The other stores, btw, have the overpriced Western Express series that uses the bigger batteries. They cost about $30, which is way too much money to pay for a train set. Big Grin
 
Location: Northern Virginia | Registered:: February 25, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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Walgreens also has ceramic village buildings for $7, figures for $1-3, in case you want to add to your Christmas theme. I have not seen them in stock yet at my Walgreens, but I'm sure they'll be coming soon.

Don
 
Location: Lincolnshire, IL | Registered:: January 19, 2008Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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That's the spirit!
 
Location: New York | Registered:: November 16, 2001Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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looking good


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Location: ny | Registered:: March 22, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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