Teresa's Christmas Train and Village Display
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2022
- Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the beautiful Department 56 Snow Village and MTH trains in this Christmas display created by me and my dad. For a look at our other display, check out • Digital Story
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Beautifully done. There was a time when I did such things (not nearly as nice) as part of family Christmas tradition. Age and illness put a stop to it years ago. Thank you for the reminder of times gone. I wish you many years of enjoying this tradition and many years of happiness as a family. And most of all, I wish you a Merry Christmas.
Thank you very much. We also wish you the same.
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This is fantastic and the fact that you did it with your dad brings a tear to my eye.
Amazing. When I was little I always wanted to have a train set. Never happened. It was seven siblings in the late 60's and 70's. They still amaze me after all these years.
This is my favorite Christmas village I’ve seen ,you did a wonderful job! I love the vintage vehicles also , nice touch ! Merry Christmas !!!
It’s like being a little kid! The magic of Christmas! You nailed it! Thank you
I love it,especially the man with the lawnmower!😊
My daddy use to make huge displays like this…thank you for the wonderful memories!
I am speechless this is absolutely magical ❤🎄🎄 The love for the details is amazing! Thank you for sharing this 😊
This is precious!! Absolutely love the use of die-cast cars for the vehicles. I have a Christmas village that I keep up all year and seeing ones like this gives me ideas and looks to strive for!!
Wow. So far, by far, my favorite village on CZcams 🎄 I really love how it still looks like a VILLAGE, and not a hyper huge overwhelming city... For some setups, we can't see anything so much it's crowed, doesn't have any charm at all. Yours is perfect. Absolutely love.
What a spectacular setup! My mom got me into Dept. 56 a long time ago. Added pieces each year and will cherish the memories always. Thank you for sharing this. Merry Christmas!
That looks WONDERFUL! I love all the detail, small pieces and the lights. The special effect is cool too! Great video! New sub here!
Beautiful work Teresa Diller, thank you for showing us and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Absolutely beautiful!!!
A magical winter wonderland, with no crime in sight, so nice.......
Absolutely a beautiful Christmas layout and Village display, kudos!!! Clean and crisp, not overdone!!!
Simply fantastic and so charming! Almost wish I could shrink myself and move there! Thank you.
Just Wow.very nice & sweet video. happy Christmas. 👌❤
Wow exactly up my alley ! I’ve been trying for years to get a train for my Christmas tree never happened! Then I started collecting cottages etc , had them in my storage, someone stole ( I have ) them an idea who ! My cottages were repainted to look like real homes , stores , churches they all had lights in them , I started collecting trees , figures with lamp poles , just to get it stolen ! This is beautiful reminds me of my days when I was younger ( oops ) almost gave away my age ! This scene could just make my day , especially if I were feeling depressed! No words to describe! 😊
Wow, I can not imagine how bad it would feel to have someone steel a collection that took a lot of effort, time and money to make. I am thinking your Christmas display would be awesome. I hope you can create a display of your own soon. Very happy our display gave you some pleasure. Take care.
Beautiful! I just saved your video to my Christmas playlist. Thank you Teresa!
Well Done ! Love The Classic Vehicles to give it a Nice Christmas Touch For The Entire Town and Layout .
this is beautiful. how cosy and magical :)
Hermoso simplemente hermoso
Makes me wish my kids were still kids..beautiful!
beautiful! wish I could have one like this. always loved trains
Thank you for sharing the absolutely beautiful layout. Very few of us get to spend quality time with Dad like you have. Your layout is so well thought out, meaningful scenes that tell a story. Also you have everything on scale. Such a joyous tradition to pass on to your family. May God bless you all. I feel like you have inspired many families to spend more time together if they can only lay down those obsessive cell phones.
Thank you for your very kind comments. I am thinking that you are in possession of a very beautiful soul. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I have to agree with many others here in the comment section…. This is one of the nicest Christmas town, train set ups I’ve seen. Just the right amount of everything. The layout of the town, village is great.
What wonderful detail. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful Great Detail. Love Every Part. 😊😮. Pete sr. Siny
Teresa, thank you for sharing this beautiful Christmas display. Such a labor of love. Takes me back to my childhood and the wonderful Christmases I had growing up as a child.
Its really nice to know that we inspired wonderful past Christmas and childhood memories. May you continue to create many more fabulous memories for years to come.
Mrs Diller,
Thank you for Sharing your Beautiful Christmas Dusplay with all of us that hold the Magic of Christmas in our Hearts, And Johnny Mathis, and Bing Crosby.
Absolutely Beautiful!!!!!
So great, I could watch this all day.
Thank you for posting this. It reminds me of what Christmas should be.
This is sooo beautiful, tasteful and inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing.
Absolutely fantastic video. Makes me sad I won't be setting mine up any more, hope you do another video.
Awesome... always loved the xmas village displays
NICE!!!...Very well done, and great classic tunes....You must have been collecting all that stuff for centuries!!!...I wish I had the room for such a sweet layout....BTW, love the guy mowing the snow in his yard!!!😁🤔👍👏
Well not centuries but close. Thanks for your very kind comment.
you are very welcome, and have given me notice to MAKE some room for a bit smaller layout man!!...CHEERS!!@@robertdiller5447
Magical! You made my day! Thank you.
This is what I was exactly looking for! Your display is fabulous! Thank you for the inspiration!
So happy our display inspires you. Would love to see it when that happens.
Really outstanding! Thanks for sharing it with us! Merry Christmas!
Thanks Ken glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for the gift!
Looks great, lots of detail.
Number 1 all around. Amazing display!
Thank you so much! 😄 Glad you enjoyed it!
brilliant absolutely brilliant
Beautiful❤
Amazing, gorgeous 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Outstanding Display
Absolutely beautiful great job
Love It! Inspiring! Thank You For Posting This!
Beautiful display 👏😍
MAGNIFIQUE!!!
The Christmas train is wonderfully festive!
So beautiful ❤️!!!!!!!!
Beautiful village.🏙️🌆🎇🏠
Oh so beautiful 😍
Beautiful layout
Espetacular e Emocionante.
Great layout.
THE MOST REALISTIC VILLAGE EVER
In a word.....Beautiful, charming, tasteful , enchanting.....ok ,ok that's several words but all applicable. Great job! Would have loved to see the same set up running beneath your actual Christmas Tree...Ah but then again there is always next year ...Perhaps?
Hi Robert, wishing you and your family a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year 2024. 🎉
Hi, Thank you very much. Hoping the same for you and your family. I hope you had many visitors to enjoy that wonderful display.
Awsome just awsome
Absolutely beautiful ma’am
MAGICAL
Best I've seen, and I've watched quite a few! Could you tell me where your train is from and scale! I'm telling you the best layout I've EVER seen! 1st place hands down! Thank you for allowing us to see your talent!
Thank you for your kind comment and I am very happy that you enjoyed it. The trains are called o scale or 1/48th scale. they are twice as large as ho scale trains. The engine and most of the cars were made by a company called MIke's train house or mth for short. Mth has downsized their business but they still make the Christmas themed engine. This years engine (2022) has Santa and his reindeer stamped on it with the words the night before Christmas over it. It sells for around $400.00. I believe they are going to make the Christmas themed cars again. I am sure they can be found on the internet. If interested in the engine just search for mth christmas engine for 2022. The car next to the caboose has an elf searching the radar for Santa's sleigh and is pretty old. It was made by Lionel trains. If this is something you would want to get involved with, the track I use is called tinplate o gauge track and is now hard to find. It is cheaper than the newer style track made by Lionel but not as nice. But you can find the tinplate track sold by a company called Menards. It is a big box store located out west. Take care.
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Este es uno de mis sueños tener una villa grande con su tren en mi sala la tuya es muy hermosa
This is one of the besttttttttttttt my Mom and I have seen!!!
Very beautiful job
Precioso!!!
WOW, Very Nice !
Amazing ! I grew up with Milwaukee R.R. This is talent !!😅
WOW! Thanks for sharing! I have the Starbucks store too! 🚂❤️❤️ Merry Christmas! 🎄
Nice layout
Belo!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏❤️🌲🌲🇧🇷
I never get tired watching this video. I see & learn something new every time I watch it. I just put together a small Halloween village lol. This year inspired by you & collected a bunch of cars & will attempt to do streets & sidewalks in my Christmas village this year, somewhere around late November I should have it up. Take care.
Hi, really nice to hear from you again. Creating these displays is a labor of love for all of us that do this. Ultimately, we hope it brings some joy to anyone who might view our display. Without that all that work is for nothing. So again I would like to thank you for taking the time to let me know that you enjoy our efforts . Very happy to know that we inspired you to create a holiday display .I hope you have many years of happiness while doing this. Really looking forward to seeing it this November. By the way, I was at MIchaels yesterday and noticed A vw bus made by lemax. It has presents on top with a christmas saying on the side. I did not purchase it as I model in the 1950,s. Also I think it might be a little out of scale. But you might be interested. The price was $19.95 with 25% off. Take care, always nice to hear from you.
I watch your video often, totally impressed by the realism it depicts. I checked out the VW, & agree its not the same scale I'm using... I do like the 1950's models as well. I have collected a mixture of vehicles, all metal. The two way traffic sure does take up a lot of room 😂, but I will just forgo a few buildings to make them fit. I made a ski slope & some mountains to go in the back of the village, I have planned out the measurements for each section. Last time it took me 10 straight days almost around the clock...hopefully this time it may be easier, since the pieces of the puzzle all fit together better. Always nice to hear from you too. Take care.
@robertdiller5447 Hi Robert, I just posted my main Christmas Village 2023 & beach scene to my channel. Take care!
Amazing
AMAZING!!! GIVING MY WIFE AND I SOME GREAT IDEAS
Wow! What a beautiful layout! Your village is adorable, so spacious & uncluttered, spectacular job. I actually thought I was the only one that sets up the village on the floor (posted here on my channel), I know what its like to work like that crouching on floor lol & doing one section at a time. Love your village!!!! 😁
Hi, I am responding to a comment by you that for some reason has gone away. Thanks again. your enjoyment of our display alone made it worth doing. The bare trees are made using old telephone wire. Do you know the saying that it is easy to carve a horse, just remove all the wood that does not look like a horse. ha ha. But it is sort of true making these trees. I take a bunch of wires and begin by twisting them into a trunk.Then I take the remaining wire and make individual branches until it looks like a tree. sometimes adding more wire to each branch using ca glue at the base of the branch. Especially if I want to make one branch into two or three. I always twist the branch closed till the end and then untwist it back a little so the ends have a little curl to them. I hope this makes sense. I then cover the trunk with phenoseal calk and paint it. The sidewalks are made of 1/4 in masonite. I followed two u-tube channels to make them. "Just for the fun of it" Making sidewalks for model trains. And "Jr's o scale trains" How to make o scale sidewalks. I just painted them a concrete color and used a pen to make the lines, instead of covering the masonite with drywall compound. The upper level of the display sits on a raised hearth. The hearth is covered in 1/2 inch pink insulation foam painted white. I built two sections of a hollow box using 1/4 inch plywood to extend the hearth to the wall. Then built another box to run along the other wall to make it L shaped. Both boxes are covered with 1/2 pink foam.At the end of the L shaped box, I installed the skiing run. I carved it out of pink foam using a hot foam cutter. The rock wall was a challenge for me. I started by stacking three sections of 1 inch foam and a section of 1/2 in foam to make a stack 3 and 1/2 inch high block. I then carved it to the circular shape I wanted. Then using a foam cutter I carved the rocks. I came close to giving up. The rocks were carved by using a foam cutter with a ridged needle on the end to cut the lines of the rocks into the foam. sort of like using a pencil. I then shaped each rock with a foam cutter that had a u shaped profile on the end. I hope this helps you. I have some pictures that would make it easier if I can figure out how to send them to you. If anyone reading this would want to see the trees and the sidewalk, search on u-tube teresa's train and village display. Take care I will gladly respond to any other questions that you mite have.
Hi Robert, so sorry I had inadvertently deleted the comment as I wanted to post it here on your channel instead of mine. So I'm glad you wrote back here on your channel. To recap on my comment, your village is so entertaining, every part of it, I even chuckle at the arrest scene 🤣. You have a story for each section, amazing!! I played your village back many times to sketch out your layout on drawing paper. Your bare branch trees are a masterpiece! (as well as the rest of your village), that crafting is beyond my level and I will have to stick with the Dept 56 bare branch trees (lol). I will try the sidewalks and the upper level. I will study those videos you recommended, thank you. I like the front of your train where you have the train station and gazebo, it's not overly populated so that it doesn't obstruct the view of the passing train at the ground level. It's amazing that each house has a different scene in the front yard and the little brown pathways you created are awesome. Every single detail is appreciated! It's the view/layout I want to accomplish bec since I have mine too set up on the floor (thank you for your comment), when I sit on the couch to look at it, I had created it where all is visible, very hard to do on a flat surface. How tall is your raised hearth and the one you built going to the wall? I will let you know if I have any questions, I'm not sure how you can send pics of your work in progress, would love to see them. I'm building a new water scene to leave out year round about 17.5 x 33 inches, I leave on my hutch. For the water, I used the toilet paper & glue method for the 1st time, it came out great, was surprised how it worked. 😁 The water scene is just comprised of 2 Lemax buildings, a lighthouse & Arthur's fish n chips. I will post to my channel once completed. I made some things out of popsicle sticks following youtube videos (a tiki bar with bar stools, and a picnic table) it's the tiny details that will make it come to life like your village. You are the meaning of inspiration! Thank you so very much!
@@les1217 Hello again , the hearth is 10 inches tall. The lower section of the display sits on a 1inch section of pink foam from home depot. So the boxes would be 9 inches tall. Then I laid a 1inch section of foam on top. If you ever use the foam on the bottom of your display, remember to have a thin section of plywood to kneel on so as not to crush the foam. I doubt that making the trees is beyond your skill level, it really just takes patience and desire. But the dept 56 are very nice and I would not hesitate to use them. I am really thinking of purchasing some myself. As a child, it was wonderful to wake up and discover a surprise snowfall. Especially when the snow clung to all the branches. That was my inspiration to make them. Now because of a very long driveway and a bad back, I much prefer viewing them on our display lol. What a great idea for a year round water scene display. I am looking forward to viewing it on your channel. Thanks for explaining what happened to the missing comments. I only saw it when I went back to enjoy your display. your comments were very kind Thanks again. I have always wanted to create a water or beach scene. I knew about the toilet paper method and now, because of you , I will try it. Take care.
sorry the upper level is covered with a 1/2 inch layer of foam. I'm not really sure of the exact thickness of the foams . Home depot sells two types. One 1/2 inch(?) and one 1 inch (?)
Hi Robert, thank you for this info! I just got done with my beach display and have posted it to my channel. Take care!
😲😍 cudenko ! Rozkoszne wspomnienie dzieciństwa.., a może nigdy nie przestajemy być dziećmi..?
Mamy nadzieje ze nigdy nie przestanlesz miec wspanialych wspomnien z dziecinstwa. Hopefully, you will never stop having wonderful childhood memories.
The best one I’ve seen, I too trying to make mine but I’m lacking space but need my garage cleared for my car.
its sooo good!
Mega cute ich liebe es ❤
Awesome
Это потрясающе!
takes me back to the good old days i know it's in the usa but the same in uk with old steam trains here .
🤯 mind blowing here, for sure.
This is all beautifully and nicely well put together and designed fantastic too. Enjoying every minute of this masterpiece, which by the way it is.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you
@@robertdiller5447
Very welcome you are
Very very nice ❤ merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 😊
It's about time someone took the care to create a display where the people, cars, and buildings are all to the same scale. most displays are cluttered and have no rhyme or reason with all different size miniatures with most being too large. This display tells a story or many small stories with the vehicles and clothing style of the characters all being time specific. Great look back to classic Americana Christmas, maybe even a little Norman Rockwell to it...Very Nice Teresa
I have long wished that dept 56 or Lemax would produce scale sized Christmas themed figures. Maybe Even slightly larger figures. I believe they would look a lot better than those over sized ones.
WOW!!
WoW.
Bedford Falls in modelscale: you hit it on the spot !!!
Just one tiny thing: replace the dieselloco for a modest steamer.
Thanks & season greetz from 🇳🇱
I totally agree with you . Other than my Santa Fe f8 diesel this is the only diesel engine I own. But I felt it went well with the Christmas themed rolling stock. Have a very Merry Christmas.
This Is amazing I still remember all of the stories that when Mrs Diller or Mrs Mckiernant would tell me when she taught me about the city's and models she had. But I wish I could say goodbye so if this ever reaches here tell her thanks from Alex
She was My 5th Grade Teacher
Hi Alex!!! It is so nice to hear from you! Thanks so much for your comment and compliment. I miss having you in class, you were such a great student and always eager to learn and help. It was always so nice to see you when you came back to visit after school, I wish I was still there to say hello. Your comment here was very sweet, so thank you! It made my day! Please keep in touch :)
@Teresa Diller This was again a amazing video this is the 3rd comment I'm trying to post but I'm officially in votech in Piscataway hopefully I will one day see u again but thus is one of the memories I have in my head I am working on a new one my self a layout if you would like to comment on my video it's on my personal channel
I copy the previous comment about setting up elaborate displays when the kids were young, but then they grew up, married, and had their own families with their own decorations and displays. This one that we are seeing is spectacular, to say the least. I wonder if Starbucks was around then, according to the time period that is represented? Just wondered. God bless.
Yes, you are correct in thinking that Starbucks was not around during that time period. We hesitated to use it because we wanted to represent the 1950's. But we liked the way it looked and caved in. Starbucks started on March 30, 1971 at the Pike Place Market in Seattle Washington. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. We appreciate your kind remarks. Take care.
Hi mckiernan im yelaine ur student ur the best teacher ever ❤
Looks really nice! Make one on a 4×4 living room table. Train one it and one under the tree.
Great job with the village and video. Very enjoyable to watch.
thanks, I totally enjoyed watching your beautiful display and seeing all the great trains i loved them all.
Wow🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love Christmas villages where did buy the pieces for your village? Thangs ❤
Beautiful but we're coming for your display crown next year
Great, can’t wait to see it
Congratulations! That is an excellent video! Your detail is terrific. I was wondering where your vehicles came from? I could sit and watch that display all day! Great job and I am sure many enjoy your efforts! Merry Christmas! Thank you for posting and sharing with us all!
The vehicles were collected over many years from attending train shows. Most of them are from a company called Brooklin. They have a website and you can find them on Ebay. The ones I have are not new. They go for around $50.00 a piece. I enhanced them with a product called bare metal foil. So if you found them on ebay they might look a little different. If you search 1/43 scale vehicles many more kinds will show up. The new Brooklins are much more expensive.
@@robertdiller5447 They are so much different. They shine like crazy! I'm in the same situation, my cars came from 40 years of keeping my eyes open at all different stores, flea markets, train shows etc. Your collection is really great. All unique and no repeats! Anyway enjoy the village and have a Merry Christmas!
😮😮😮cute😍😍😍😍