Side Shot Saturday - Starting 28 October
Oct 28, 2023 15:38:09 GMT
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 28, 2023 15:38:09 GMT
There's another thread on the Forum about exactly when to start the Christmas train season and the consensus led by the Master (PTC Brian) seems to be November 1. So this is a little early but there was a specific reason for it - the visit of some youngsters to our household. That meant that I decided to put on the tracks the most colorful and illuminated rolling stock I have got behind what I treat as the Christmas engine, a Lionel #6001 fantasy grey scheme NYC Niagara:
Every time I unbox this car set I am fearful because MTH's LED strings are very fragile, have a reputation for failing and are not replaceable with the stock you can source from even the best hobby LED suppliers. However this set has stood up since 2018 and you will note that the engine runs with a wreath on its nose:
I've had to replace the original wreath recently with something very festive:
Now the little person for whom this was mainly intended doesn't have (at barely 4 months of age) the attention span to appreciate it, or not yet, but we had another visitor just a few years older who did the usual youngster's thing of getting down on the floor to look into the cars and saying "wow" when spotting that there are "little people" inside:
Not that any of this is a patch on the real SP Christmas train:
But I still like it.
Every time I unbox this car set I am fearful because MTH's LED strings are very fragile, have a reputation for failing and are not replaceable with the stock you can source from even the best hobby LED suppliers. However this set has stood up since 2018 and you will note that the engine runs with a wreath on its nose:
I've had to replace the original wreath recently with something very festive:
Now the little person for whom this was mainly intended doesn't have (at barely 4 months of age) the attention span to appreciate it, or not yet, but we had another visitor just a few years older who did the usual youngster's thing of getting down on the floor to look into the cars and saying "wow" when spotting that there are "little people" inside:
Not that any of this is a patch on the real SP Christmas train:
But I still like it.
