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Here is our Steam Engine Fantasy Christmas Tree
This was photographed a few years back.
A few years ago we moved the Office of Steam to a home with lower ceilings.
We use the same tree with the bottom section removed the bottom section making it a 7 foot tree.
I also stopped using the 900 incandescent that it came pre wired with and wrapped it with 500 LED bulbs.
You will see below old and new versions of the same tree.
Gil
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Here it is as it looks today in the new Office of Steam
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Wow!!!! I see a piano in there too. I play!!!! Nice setup, my god.
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Merry Christmas to all!
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https://youtu.be/4IeIyl6poSE
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Hello again.
I remembered that the last time we were in Minchinhampton for Christmas I made a rather poor video of the event.
https://youtu.be/u5ghfxZhYOM?si=EXN8Wdk1yMEOwCw5
Merry Christmas.
Tony.
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Hi,
Alas, this year our Christmas tree isn't very festive. We will spend our Christmas in Minchinhampton which is a small very old village in the Cotswolds with our son and his family. As a bonus our daughter and her family will also be there.
So, this year our old Christmas tree which is in our front garden is our contribution to the season, it was only three feet high when it was planted many years ago!
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Our only Christmas decorations are in the hall, if you can call them that!
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It is an early start tomorrow to get to Minchinhampton for midday to sing carols in the square.
A Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year to all the members of the Forum.
Take care Tony.
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Here is our Steam Engine Fantasy Christmas Tree
This was photographed a few years back.
A few years ago we moved the Office of Steam to a home with lower ceilings.
We use the same tree with the bottom section removed the bottom section making it a 7 foot tree.
I also stopped using the 900 incandescent that it came pre wired with and wrapped it with 500 LED bulbs.
You will see below old and new versions of the same tree.
Gil
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Here it is as it looks today in the new Office of Steam
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Love the train / town around the tree - very classic setup!
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Excellent Christmas set up Rich!
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Here is version 2 of my Christmas Tree setup, this time my Wurlitzer 1100 playing 78 Christmas records. Though if you are in Russia, some of the songs are blocked.
Oh, the platter is running much slower (properly) because I had the belts swapped before (opps, operator setup error). Now the engines are flying around in circles in wrap speed LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYEbNDXTULw
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For a steam engine junkie, it doesn't get much better than this beautiful setting. Thank you 😊
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Thanks guys! Here it is running with my Dad's little music box, which is freaking old too - I am surprised it still works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8RPtZh-R2w
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Nice Empire setup Richard, "Classy"
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Got the main bits up but the stocking & tree trimming will happen on Wednesday night, which that part is a family thing. This year I got my Empire display up next to the tree.
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Lovely setup!
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Got the main bits up but the stocking & tree trimming will happen on Wednesday night, which that part is a family thing. This year I got my Empire display up next to the tree.
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That's a really lovely tree Tommy, what's the significance of the pickle ,pray tell ?
The pickle ornament is an old tradition. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle#:~:text=In%20the%20tradition%2C%20an%20ornamental,a%20year%20of%20good%20fortune.
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I am a huuuuge fan of Christmas, so I was trying to convince my partner to let me put this stuff up the day after Halloween which wasn’t acceptable, so I had to wait a few weeks. I do usually leave Xmas up until mid January, or even late.
Always been a fan of lights and Xmas music, even though right now dealing with bouts of depression; The lights always help me.
It’s never too early!!! ;D
Sorry to read that Travis, steam up an engine or two and do some vids....keep yourself busy mate. Hope it passes for you real soon. ATB
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That's a really lovely tree Tommy, what's the significance of the pickle ,pray tell ?
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I usually put up at least two trees. This year just the one that I left up since last year, minus the
lights and ornaments. They're on it now with the pickle.
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That's an awesome display !!
Good on your family for putting it together and donating the donations.
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I’ll have to find the picture from the daylight of the extension cords to power the trees. They filled the entire box of a Colorado pickup with cords from Menards one night and got a thank you letter in the mail for their purchase 😂 I think my aunt spent like 4 or 5 grand on extension cords that night 😂
Grandpa wouldn’t take a dime from anyone driving through, everything donated went to the local ambulance.
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Wow....Nick, that is a better display than some of the Indianapolis sponsored, professional displays I have paid $40 to drive a car through with the grandkids.
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The big singing face at 2:30 was his final big project. He was still climbing a ladder and putting lights on the galvanized cattle shed on the cars right hand side when he was very sick and looked about 90 pounds
https://youtu.be/Sr2tNfQfeoM
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Just looked on YouTube and found a bunch of videos by searching “Severson Christmas Lights”
A good majority of it was homemade because being on a farm the decorations had to be bigger. Grandpa never said what the light bill was, just that it was far cheaper after they switched to LED 😂 you could watch the meter spin so fast, you’d swear it was going to start smoking 😂
Top two searches on YouTube (they sent music to your car radio that matched the lights. There were like 20 computers on one of the fences controlling them)
https://youtu.be/cFJfCCLLf3M
https://youtu.be/o6szY30axJU
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I actually used to help decorate too much… my grandparents and aunt who still lived with them would put up a huge drive-thru display on their farm and would get 300-500 cars driving through a night. They collected donations and gave $15-20k to the local ambulance every year, actually earned enough to buy a new ambulance. It would take almost 3 months to set up and I was out their many days driving t-posts, heavy lifting and putting lights on the roofs that they didn’t want to go on. They were going to be on one of those tv shows but grandpa got cancer and passed in September of ‘14, we put the lights up one more winter to show off his final projects and had a night of fireworks out there. The lights are now on display in a park in Iowa after they donated them to a town and my aunt and grandma still travel
down there to help keep things going. Putting up a tree is about enough for me any more 😂
I do have my other grandpas Lionel set and I would like to put that around the tree this year so my kids (his great grandkids) can enjoy it with him. I will be sure to post a picture, but it won’t be till after thanksgiving 😆
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Too early! 😂
I am a huuuuge fan of Christmas, so I was trying to convince my partner to let me put this stuff up the day after Halloween which wasn’t acceptable, so I had to wait a few weeks. I do usually leave Xmas up until mid January, or even late.
Always been a fan of lights and Xmas music, even though right now dealing with bouts of depression; The lights always help me.
It’s never too early!!! ;D
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Beautiful tree & lovely warm room.
Thanks, Bruce.
It was a lot of work. Dreaded it and drank 4 cups of coffee to get the courage to assemble it. 12 footer.
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Haven't even "shot" my turkey yet, so Xmas is not even on the front burner at this point.
Won't be having an actual, formal, indoor tree, in any case but I figure the two Giant Sequoias in the front yard are all I really need along those lines anyway!?!?
Like I said, some may not put one up.
I spent all day putting this one up.. it’s a 12 footer, not even my 10 foot ladder can get to the top, and I manually strung the lights!!
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Beautiful tree & lovely warm room.
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Too early! 😂
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Haven't even "shot" my turkey yet, so Xmas is not even on the front burner at this point.
Won't be having an actual, formal, indoor tree, in any case but I figure the two Giant Sequoias in the front yard are all I really need along those lines anyway!?!?
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Some of you may not even put up a tree, but I’d love to see yours if you have one this year!
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