This week I started pulling out my Halloween stuff for this year's Spooky Town display. All regular work on my Milwaukee North Western layout will be on hold until after the season. Here are the first pics o taken after the initial set-up and it's a sure thing this will likely change in the days to come. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
The Christmas layout is still being worked on and I'm waiting for more things to come in. I decided to annex Tintown and use it as additional Christmas display. The Marx Skyscraper and most of the German tin buildings were taken off the layout. I found - totally to my surprise - a Lemax carousel I got it as a present many years ago and never used it until now! I also have a bunch of cardboard and tin gingerbread type house that once were candy and cookie containers. I think they lend a nice touch! Enjoy! Opa Fritz
I get so wrapped up in other projects (or life in general) that, unfortunately, holidays come and go with me being absolutely, totally, zero percent prepared for them. Holiday train displays are few and far between, more so since room to make them has simply disappeared for the most part. There's no room in the house so I have to cobble together a display out in The Cave. It's still fun but, like I said, sometimes life happens and I just don't have time. This year I really wanted to do a Halloween display so I set my sights on it early, clearing off my small plot of toy train real estate out in The Cave. I also built another cardboard buildg this year - The Shadybrook Sanitarium - the first one in four years. I like how the display turned out but gosh what can I do to get more room out there for the next display besides bulldoze the joint? LOL Here's some pics from this years Halloween Spookytown Village. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
