Former Layout by Tom Kaufman

Tom Kaufman and his wife, Jill, enjoy setting up temporary display layouts. Their layouts are typically themed around an upcoming holiday. In late 2022, they set up their Christmas-themed layout at the Suncoast Model Railroad Club Christmas Show. The track is all A.C. Gilbert American Flyer. The ceramic Christmas village buildings provide the ambiance to reflect the theme, with lit Christmas trees lining up and down the town's Main street. The train consists of a Lionel GP7 and Lionel passenger cars (three-car passenger set and an extra dome car), all decorated for the North Pole Express. On display to the right of the layout is a set of "staging" tracks that include their (almost) complete set of Christmas cars that both Jill and Lionel produced from 1990 to present day. They also had some classic American Flyer steam engines on display, as well.

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