TRAINS TABLE UPDATE

The long awaited post about the TRAINS!!  So Scott has a set of old, I mean REALLY old O Gauge trains that were his fathers when he was a child.  We used to set up a small loop around our Christmas tree when our kids were small, and then just got out of the habit (we kept moving our location for the tree and some of the places the train would not fit.  So the trains have been boxed for years.  One of his dreams has always been to set up a permanent table to run the trains. Now that we have the basement finished his dream is coming true.  He started by buying a piece of ply board  and 2 x 4 boards for the "table", saw horse legs to support it and green paint to paint the grass.

 Once it was painted we set it up on the legs and he proceeded to lay out the track on the board.  Jeremiah and Moriah have been his junior conductors helping with just about every step.

Not to be outdone, I found a train puzzle and had the kids work it with me.  We will be framing it to hang on one of the walls in the basement.

The primary train table is going to be Summertown.  Scott has run a smaller piece of board down the wall of the basement to the corner, where he has set up another smaller table called Falltown (he painted it brown).

For Moriah's birthday we bought a wooden doll house to the scale of the train set and set it up on the Falltown table.

Scott put it on a lazy susan swivel base so she could turn it around and play with it or have the front of the house facing out.  She set up a cow yard with a white picket fence to one side of it and it looks adorable!

We are working the board around the other wall, where he will cut a hole in the wall between the living room and bedroom and we will be setting up Wintertown (I get to decorate this one)  Of course we had  to add a Tardis since we are Doctor Who fans....

I will do an update once we have finalized Wintertown.We have had so much fun with this project, and the grandkids are thoroughly enjoying it!.