Halloween here on the blog has apparently been hit-or-miss over the years as evidenced by my spreadsheet entries. I featured a series of posts for my first ever Halloween-themed setup back in 2016. Prior to that Halloween had always been a day of Trick-or-Treating with the kids replete with costumes, candy, and fun, but nothing special as it relates to my hobbies. That all changed in 2016 when I got hit with the bug and started building kits from free downloads on the Web and placed them on the Halloween 'layout'. It wasn't much of a layout in 2016 as the only train set was this tiny wind up Scooby Doo set from Boley.
And then I got involved with my Edge-of-Town (EoT) micro-layout and there would be no trains running on the larger board from 2017-2019 and no Halloween set-ups on the EoT.
By 2020 the larger train layout board had track on it and I was back to running trains on it again. I blogged Halloween set-ups in 2020 and 2021 BUT NOT 2022! And so I sit here scratching my head wondering why I didn't post anything last year!!?? That's just nutz!
Well hell. Okay fine. We're gonna rectify that this year.
My Halloween set-ups for 2020, 2021, and 2022 were all done out in The Cave on the large layout board. In order to do a proper holiday display I had to move a lot of things out of the way and generally disrupt any progress made on building a permanent layout just so I could do these displays. That all changed last year when the Christmas layout was set up in the living room on a 4'x6' board I made just for it. This year, that board was in-place and ready to go early - just a few weeks back as a fatter-of-mact! It's what I used for the Pirate playset posts and it is now home to this year's Halloween Spooky Town. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
The Board
Playtime
Spooky Town 2023
The First Train Set For The Holiday Season
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