It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Now that the basement has started to become my train room, I thought it would be festive to also have a small Christmas tree and break out my Lionel North Pole Central Christmas Train. This Lionel train set is all that survived between all our moves in the last 10 years. Usually I try and set this train up around our big Christmas tree, but wih a new dog and two additional cats added to the family this year, I am not sure the train would survive upstairs, so let’s decorate the basement.

Lionel North Pole Central

I ordered a 4’ tree this past week that arrived yesterday, picked up some garland last night and today I dug the train out from storage with all of the other Christmas decorations.

Tabletop location for tree and train

Lionel North Pole Central

Tree is assembled and extension cords are run

Tree skirt and Lionel track assembled

The lighting of the tree.

I do plan on placing ornaments on the tree still. This is one of the things my wife loves to do for Christmas, so I will probably save a lot of this for her. Plus in early December we will be visiting Frankenmuth, MI and shopping at Bronner’s Christmas Store, so the plan is to try and find some train ornaments there.

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