A Lionel train just looks like Christmas. Doesn't even need Christmas themed freight cars. Just being a Lionel is enough.

Love the snowmen addition!

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe? I'll be darned if that don't look like the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe.... I swear that's the Texas Chief pulling 'round the bend...😊

The best way to contact them especially for parts is email. I've received several emails back and forth from MTH over a 2 day period last time I needed help. Good luck 👍

Looks fantastic! Was hoping Godzilla would still be hanging around 😂

Fantastic!

I like the old musket hanging above the door way!🤠

Older homes have such unique architecture. I'm loving how that short room divider/ structural support wall creates the perfect mid-room Island for the tree and layout! The kind of perfection that can only be discovered, not deliberately planned!

That's awesome! I like how the station is placed in that little area by the wall! 🤠

Great video, thanks! Merry Christmas!

Will the Christmas stuff stay up or taken down by the end of Christmas

Nice collection of Lionel. I especially enjoyed seeing the prewar set.

Well done. Train layouts are one thing, but you have a way of making your Christmas layout look magical.

That series Alco from Lionel were, aestheticly, the perfect O27 prime mover.

That's a cool Christmas tree layout!

hello i have a 2055 and i love it and my first train my parents gave me a 665 for christmas in 1959 i still have it and i have all the hudsons except for a 685 and 773 my nameis tom and i am 70 years old

👍 nice!

Love the that massive ZW and those old postwarriors. It's not all about Lionchiefs and Legacies!

CONGRATULATIONS FROM MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY, SOUTH AMÉRICA!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Lionel trains and Christmas vacation! It doesn't get any better!

00:43 Lol!!!

Looking great at 75!

It shorted in the top at the lighting

“;-)”🚂

Love it!

Truer words have never been spoken! But what about the sound? 🤠

If you mean that whiff of ozone that only 120 volts running through oil oilcloth insulated wire can produce, then, yes.

Love that RS-3 pulling the el train. But my old eyes having trouble with the steamer. What specifically is it? Lovely layout. Merry Christmas.

Well done video , gives me some ideas for small under the tree area .

The wide two wheel set on those passenger cars had way to much wear on the flanges, and that might be the biggest weight drag on this train. MTH should have used the beveled fast angel wheels on those cars. The tight curve is the other operator issue here.

If you can’t get the inner seat part you could solder 2 wires from top to bottom to save the car I have the same set and battery was bad and it did crazy stuff I put a bcr in it

MTH is a garbage company and the owner Mike is proof. I will never own a mth product again.

OLD SCHOOL Lionel will still be running in 80 more years...

I have wanted to get one of these sets and convert it to 2 rail. Its just too 'scale' to run with my beloved pre and post war Lionels on classic 3 rail track. This is better suited appearance wise, running with my 2 rail scale trains. Nice Lionels on the bench there..

What happening When the car shorted the springs acted like resister. This allowed some of the power to charge up the engines circuit board. That is why the sound turned on. The short is in the top part. It most likely the two plates are touching. I bet it is next to where the springs touch. You can use a flat head screwdriver to spread them apart. Use a thin blade screwdriver or knife. To fix this spread the two plates apart. Check if it the still shorting. Now if you cannot locate a replacement part then you maybe able to fix the original yourself. You will need to remove both springs. You want to find a tool to reform the holes. Maybe a pencil or a metal rod. Be careful. Heat up a pot of water to boiling. Then dip the end of the part in the water to soften the plastic. Then ream the hole slowly. And reheat if needed. You can get compression springs online.

this what you do is cut the tubes off for the prings and get some platic tubes of right size thet can be painted after you glue them on. do not use springs they casude the short. so soder proper gage wire with enuff slack on on it from the pickups to the lights the slack is so you can open the car. They probly do not have parts laying around so thats what you do to fix it

Using a multimeter is a lot less risky budro 😊

Well, from here it looks like the contact strips in the roof are actually touching in the center where their supposed to be a gap. There's your short.

Good thing you were in the room to catch it bursting in to flames. It could have been much worse. Thanks for sharing your story.

Can you just use the bottom portion with the seats from one of the $10 cars with this shell? The issue as I see it is that the contact of the springs to the metal strips in the roof, were arcing. Not fully seated properly during original assembly. I’ve always wanted to buy this set, but I’m strictly a Lionel collector these days. I’m tempted. It’s a fifties era beauty!

For the plastic around the springs to melt the springs have to get very hot For the springs to get hot there needs to be a large current flowing through them which would lead me to think there is a short circuit some where in the lighting circuit Nathan5Chime said “it looks like the two metal buss bars are touching where the black screws hold them in place” I tend to agree with this poster If there is some way to increase the gap between the bars, that may fix the short To fix the seat unit I would cut away the melted plastic, replace it with some tubing & the springs from a ball point pen

Cool train, Walthers has it in HO gauge. Try some train shows or find someone with a 3D printer that can make that piece.

You might think twice about putting underneath your Christmas tree.

Can you email me l can make you the part you need , l would like to copy the shell and send you a copy free , just ship it to me , with return shipping label ( Thanks Doug in Rome GA ) .

Thanks for sharing your trains and talents what a beautiful train , l can her you calling 911 , l have a train on fire in my train room ( Doug in Rome GA ) 😂

I would just rewire it with tiny LED wires and soder them 2 that plate

Wonder if Lionel bought this tooling for this engine and cars if so Love 2 see 👀 Lionel 2 release this set again would love 2 own it do you know if Lionel acquired this set and tooling?

You might be able to get someone to 3D Print it for you

The Aerotrain was designed by the GM auto design group and used bus coach bodies on railroad trucks for the train. It was ahead of its time and not well accepted.