Every year, Grandpa H puts up a Christmas holiday train. This year he got a new passenger car. I believe the interior lights up and it has passenger seating and everything.
A and Grandpa unpacked the rest of the train. It's a Bachman, G scale.
There are various figures who come with the train. There's an engineer, a Santa, and three Elves.
The Engineer shoves coal into the engine. He had a little mis-hap the trial run and fell out of the coal tender.
The train has a gondola car--filled with giant gifts--and a caboose.
The caboose has a tendency to become uncoupled with the rest of the train. I think the couplings have to do a kind of back-and-forth engagement before the caboose will stay attached.
Once the train and track are set up, Grandpa will put in a smallish tree, a mirror (for the frozen pond) and various English Village buildings he modeled after a real English Village that is the Ancestral Origin of the Family (and which they visited about twenty years ago).
Sunday, December 1, 2013
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