rrinker I really wanted the Apollo Lunar Lander but it was sold out everywhere.
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The Lego World Store in Walt Disney Springs, Orlando has all kinds of kits on the shelf that are sold out everywhere else.
Just something to keep in mind if you ever get to Orlando.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
The best Italian lunch from my Judy.
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Nothing train related for Christmas, my son gave me a couple of cordless drills.
However my birthday is only 5 days before Christmas and my wife gave ne a couple of train cars and a WS auto secene.
We are still getting use to our temporary location in Tennessee and looking for a home with enough room for the layout which is still in a storage unit back in Nebraska with most of our vechicles and furniture .
Well, at least I got exactly what I expected. Nothing. We do not trade gifts here, but my brother did send me some molasses sugar cookes. (But still not like the ones that mom used to make.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
"Very nice, sounds like your Christmas cash quickly turned into things you needed."
Kevin
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As far as train stuff goes, I got a LaBelle D&RGW gas motor car kit, a Mantua old time water car, and an original Plasticville diner kit in chrome and red. It may not be as much train stuff as I've gotten in other years, but that LaBelle kit will keep me real busy once I get started on it!
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So I get this present, box is about 4" by 4" by 12" and unusually heavy. I start taking off the Xmas wrapping and see "ATLAS MODEL RAILROAD CO." and I'm thinking 'O ya, it's an HO diesel!' Well no. "Santa Wife" likes to reuse/recycle, so she used an old Atlas train box I had on a shelf the basement to put like a dozen boxes of Gobstoppers in.
That being said, I did get the Menards HO Red Owl store - the more modern one, which is similar to the one we went to back in the sixties in my hometown.
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One of the things I got wern't N scale, (but its a scale I'll be developing more personally in the hobby) I got a TT set with two suburbian coaches, a old Battery controller, (which unfortunatly for me, had battery leakage) and will be replaced with a Kato one! I got some stuff for the future N scale layout including Road tape! Flex Paste, plus a Few 1:43 Diecast cars that will be used for a Future O gauge layout including one thats a 1948 woody in a beautiful blue paint job!
I got with cash from Christmas, a Rosko set, which will be converted to look like a Mini Canadiana using a Tyco body shell (excluding Freight cars, which will be kept in original condition), a Hotwheels Sizzlers Set from 1969 and hopefully more N scale stuff to add on to what I do have already
"Your not without a way to Travel, but I'll leave that to myself to figure out!"
-Max
Safety Valve I got a TT set with two suburbian coaches
What are your interests in TT scale?
I have collected some pre-war prototypes in TT scale to use as terrain for 15mm WW2 wargaming. Most of it seems very well detailed considering when and where it was manufactured.
I had a trip up to St Paul Minnesota the first week of December so as usual I stopped Scale Model Supplies and I found a few items that were delivered by 'Santa': A Kato Union Pacific RSC-2 (new old stock), a set of three Pacific Fruit Express reefer kits, and an Accurail 50ft UP box car kit.
Santa also brought me five Peco #6 turnouts (the last/final ones needed to complete track laying), and Woodland Scenics 2052 and 2053 'Economy' assorted worker/figure packs.
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
- Photo album of layout construction -
Only thing train-related was the 2020 Milwaukee Road Calendar. (I had gotten the 1944 MILW Shippers Desk Map just before Christmas.)
Andy
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Milwaukee native modeling the Milwaukee Road in 1950's Milwaukee.
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This is what I got for Christmas;
It's not much, but I did end up winning $19 on both of those lottery tickets. I'm working on building an Intermodal Doublestacker Train in HO Scale for my collection and to run on the club layout, more info to follow later.
It's not much, but I did end up winning $19 on both of those lottery tickets.
I'm working on building an Intermodal Doublestacker Train in HO Scale for my collection and to run on the club layout, more info to follow later.
My wife gave me a N scale BLI Heavy Mikado (Great Northern). I spent a little time on Christmas day changing some of the CV sound settings, and really like the way it sounds and runs. Very cool !!!