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What is Santa bringing you this year?

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Posted by mj5890 on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 10:49 PM

 

I got $100 from Grandma and $50 from Santa, some candy, pair of underwhere, an N scale tank car(Im HO) but I think its more of a display because the wheels, truck and lower frame work are all molded as one, and then I got a trick lighter that was "suposed to electricuit my hand when I try to light it but I say "suposed" to becase me and my insane smartness fiqured out it was a fake lighter before I tried to light it and electricuit myself.  So I quess I will buy my own train stuff for X-mas this year which will be some paint, decals, metal wheels, detail parts and whatever else I think I need to keep myself busy through x-mas or atleast until the Mad City Rail Show.

Joe

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Posted by CATMAN37 on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 10:24 PM
Recieved my NYC Aerotrain on the 22nd..Santa was a bit early, but just as welcome!!
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Posted by loathar on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 12:08 AM

Scored a new digital camera!Yeah!! [yeah] Does pretty good close ups. Video isn't too bad either.
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Posted by myred02 on Monday, December 24, 2007 7:43 PM
 wesolint wrote:

My YouTube friend Jeremy is Santa Clause this year. He posted a video showing me my new custom painted Kato SD45 in a unique MRL patch job. I, of course, am speechless!

Steve W.

I think Jeremy (we're talking about "mtrails", right?) made a video with your custom SD45 and somebody else's present as the stars... And he even included his own mugshot!

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Posted by stebbycentral on Monday, December 24, 2007 2:28 PM

My gift to myself arrived Saturday: Crystal River Products O-scale branch-line enginehouse kit.  So far I have limited myself to reviewing the instructions sheet, too much going on this weekend to start any new major projects...

 

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Posted by Zandoz on Monday, December 24, 2007 1:15 PM
As of yesterday, my Xmas gift from my wife is a Bachmann 2-8-0 Consolidation...my first steam since a Lionel O gauge unit around 45 or so years ago.  

Reality...an interesting concept with no successful applications, that should always be accompanied by a "Do not try this at home" warning.

Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.

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Posted by BNENGR on Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:14 PM

Hey Steve,

I saw it, nice unit!! Merry Xmas.

Paul (Consistadore)

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Posted by BNENGR on Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:12 PM
The Atlas MP15 is a nice unit, I have one. You'll enjoy it. Better give the wife a kiss.
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Posted by BNENGR on Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:10 PM
Santa will bring my new DCC system a little late, about the first week of January. Better late than never, right?
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Posted by galaxy on Sunday, December 23, 2007 8:13 PM
 cwclark wrote:

 cacole wrote:
I keep asking for a teenage nymphomaniac, but just get socks or t-shirts.  I'm beginning to wonder if this Santa Claus thing is real.    Evil [}:)]

 

I wanted the same thing but got to think'in and decided that at my age i couldn't keep up with one of those....Confused [%-)]     chuck

I agree. It may be nice to have a hot young one or two, maybe even three, but I need a 40-something to keep up with my 40-something body. 2 20's would wear me out!

-G

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Posted by jamnest on Sunday, December 23, 2007 7:55 PM

My wife just presented me with an Atlas MP15 with DCC and sound! 

My first sound locomotive.

WOW what a GAL!!!!

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Posted by HEdward on Friday, December 21, 2007 6:32 PM
Wifey got me a turntable.  Ok, I mentioned that months ago, I'm keeping it anyway.  She also bought some secnic items.  Since the new layout is in the "When the heck are we getting started?" stage, all this stuff can be worked in.  I'm hoping that SOMEBODY give the boys a Thomas set, of any kind except that new trackmaster type.  All the locos in that new whatever it is called, look the same.  Percy is an 0-4-0 not just Thomas in green, and Gordon and Henry are supposed to be much larger than any of the other engines.  Grrrrr.  Actually, the Lionel Thomas set or their Polar Express would be nice to alternate with my 60 year old Marx set on my wife's Dept 56 display.
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Posted by billybob757 on Friday, December 21, 2007 6:10 PM

Well Sanata came a little early in a brown UPS truck and delivered four boxes from Walthers - all addressed to my wife and one daughter.  All I was told is that "you are getting what is on your Walther's wish list."  Well I know there are several items on my wish list so I know I am getting something.

Bill 

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Posted by wesolint on Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:49 PM

My YouTube friend Jeremy is Santa Clause this year. He posted a video showing me my new custom painted Kato SD45 in a unique MRL patch job. I, of course, am speechless!

Steve W.

 

 

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Posted by JON1968 on Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:10 PM

 LD357 wrote:
 I got an Email from S. Claus and apparently he DID NOT renew his FFL!....something about liberal congress and new laws and all sorts of legal crap and forms, blah blah blah.... So, I won't be getting what I WANTED!  LOL  But he did say that he is considering sending a money order which might go for some lumber and access. to start that n scale layout I've been contemplating for a month or so, but it looks like I'm going to be the one getting me what I wanted, Claus dropped the ball big time this year! 

 

 TOO FUNNY!  I think I got the same mail.

  Santa shouldn't bring me anything, I've got WAYYYYY too much now!  I need two more cabinets to store my rolling stock and a new metal shelf for all the building kits and parts I have!  I think I'll settle for unnerpants and socks, maybe a Cabelas gift certificate. hehe

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Posted by galaxy on Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:50 PM

I already have coal,... 

 Hopefully santa took my hints and i will get a saddle tank steamer and the PRR star box car like the one I saw at the RR Museum of PA at Strasburg this summer.

I think I will have to get my own PRR Mountain 4-8-2 #6755 with the raised firebox (not the jacketed mountain) from BLI that resembles the static M1b that I fell in love with at said museum. Wish I had the $$ to get that baby up and running again! I have favs among steamers, but never have I fallen in love with such a magnificent piece of machinery! (not even the big boy at Steamtown in Scranton)

Hopefully I will get cash for the latter!

Hope everyone gets what they want.

-G

-G .

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Posted by CPrail on Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:29 PM

Santa will be dropping off a Subscription to my favorite Model Railroad Magazine, I have recived a few nice things with gift exchange from the Sunday morning club we have here, a nicely done CP rail Cupola Caboose with working Marker lights and a nice reed switch to turn them off and on.

thats it so far.....

Mike.....Thumbs Up [tup]

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Posted by jbinkley60 on Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:40 PM

 ARTHILL wrote:
Maybe a 120 foot turntable.

Wow, that needs a huge Christmas tree .... :)

 

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Posted by bladeslinger on Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:16 PM

well, i gave the wife the three latest Walther's sale booklets (one of which the prices expired the next day), and I went throught the trouble of tearing out all the pages that did not have anything I wanted on them, and then circling items which were on the remaining pages that I would like to have.  I'll have to wait and see exactly what might have been ordered, but one box under the tree looks a lot like the same size and shape (and weighs about right) for the Walther's Built Up Yard Office (which will look good in my yard whenever I build my layout!)  I'm not sure if anything else might have came from Walther's or not.

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Posted by Fergmiester on Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:59 PM

Coal! Lots of Black, dusty, dirty but beautiful, shiny coal!!

Gotta keep the Steamers rolling!

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Posted by concretelackey on Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:01 PM

When asked what santa should bring me I said gift certificates from the LHS to start my layout. The next question- why gift certificates? I answered "because I don't won't santa to bring me a pile of crap!"Sign - Oops [#oops]

 

Not sure if I'll be getting anything now.....Sigh [sigh]

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Posted by chugchug on Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:43 PM

I do "need" a Walthers 90 ft. Turntable.

Hope it will fit in my sock!

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Posted by TheK4Kid on Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:54 PM

My buddy from the LHS called and asked me when my girlfriend  became interested in trains. I said what are  you talking about Denny,?

Well when she came in , we had two Bachmann HO Berkshire "765" s , and when she left we only had one.

 Hmmmmmmm?????????

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:54 PM

I always find it amusing that coal is the gift you get for being bad..yet most of us probably wouldn't be that disappointed getting it.  After all, where there's trains, there's coal.

I don't have too much train related stuff on the way for the holidays, but after all the hoopla is over might treat myself.

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Posted by graphitehemi on Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:46 PM

And it should be here just in time for X-mas! Dinner [dinner]

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Posted by jamnest on Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:47 PM
Not sure, but the wife had a expenditure from MB Klein on her credit card statement this month.

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Posted by ArtOfRuin on Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:43 PM

I'm probably not going to get anything train-related this year for Christmas or my birthday (Dec. 29) except maybe a gift certificate to a LHS or a subscription to a railroading/MMRing magazine. If I do get a model or scenery piece, it'll most likely be a low-end item.

To be honest, I'm not wishing for anything train-related this holiday season, nor did I ask anyone for anything train-related. I've had to set them aside because right now, I've got a lot of not-so-fun stuff I have to deal with. What I'm wishing for most is help solving those problems. Afterwards, I can build and play with my models as much as I want! 

-Jonathan Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, Is just a freight train coming your way - "No Leaf Clover," Metallica
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Posted by hohon3 on Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:26 PM

Christmas?  Heck.  I'm turning 60 on the 28th.  I'm retiring on the 29th.  And those two events are rightfully deserving of something special . . . . so I've ordered myself a pair of K-27 Mudhens from Blackstone Models.  And guess what, the hobby shop just called and said they're in.  I guess I'll be leaving a few minutes early today.  Oh happy day.  May be Santa could spot me a couple of their new freight cars?

 George

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Posted by Harbinger on Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:54 PM
Lumber! lots of lumber!  I just got my layout space for my birthday.  Im about finished finishing the walls.  Now comes christmas.  MWUAHAHAHAHAAHA

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