STEAM LOCO: a winning Powerball ticket;
ROLLING STOCK: a winning Powerball ticket; and
STRUCTURE: a winning Powerball ticket.
You probably realize by this time that without a winning Powerball ticket it is a lost cause to be wishing for anything.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
Well starting out again in Model RR'ing, so I would take anything right now.
But if I had to choose it would be
1. BLI Paragon2 CSX with DCC and Sound
2. Freight cars
3. Engine Shed
Well this year for the holiday, I have high hopes for good RR stuff. My wife, sister in law, father in law and my mother all asked for wish lists MRR related.. Its too bad my "wish" list and the list they got aren't the same....
My "wish" list would be any shay, 2 or 3 truck... A whole pile of log cars, and the mccabe lumber co. sawmill. And the digitrax zephyr w/extra wireless remote.
The list the family got includes the log cars, freight car kits, couplers, metal wheel sets, paints and powders, static grass, ground foam... Mostly all you need under 20 bucks.. There should be a lot of stocking stuffers..
Merry Christmas everyone!!! Have a safe holiday.
In addition to peace on earth and a job to make a living, there is this Railmaster kit of a Sn3 WP & Y RR I have fallen in love with. Put it on my Christmas wish list, maybe Santa reads this.
Unless I rob a bank there is no chance to collect the 575 $ they are asking for the kit ...
BATMAN Okay you are allowed one loco,one piece of rolling stock and one structure. What's it going to be???? For me. 1. A nice C.P.R. steam loco. A mikado or Pacific. Maybe something from Division point. 2. A heavywieght C.P.R baggage car or coach. 3. A really nice grain elevator kit. WHO'S NEXT
Okay you are allowed one loco,one piece of rolling stock and one structure. What's it going to be????
For me. 1. A nice C.P.R. steam loco. A mikado or Pacific. Maybe something from Division point.
2. A heavywieght C.P.R baggage car or coach.
3. A really nice grain elevator kit.
WHO'S NEXT
Well, what I really need is a job...... been laid off since June of this year and it is really starting to suck.
Since I'm too old to believe in Santa Clause I know this will only be a wish list but:
1.) a small steam engine maybe a two truck shay.
2.) Not sure of the company but one of those really cool beer advertising box cars, the company has several of the local and regional beer companies represented from across the country.
3.) one of those really cool downtown deco kits
Tom
On30 rolling stock to suit, water and coaling tower and the Loco/caboose is already coming.
As far as the holidays go, this is a rather quiet one this year. One of our Shops hold a special sale and we are building up for it with a sort of a warchest for Christmas eve.
I was going to ask Santa for one of the new MTL heavyweight RPOs. My brother and his wife live in a city with hobby shops. The RPO is not in Santa Fe yet but who kjnows when MTL will bring it out or how long it will be around. I got out my Santa Fe Head End Cars and found that the MTL car is not quite like the Santa Fe heavyweights. Great looking model, probably close enough for me. Then I checked my Quarter Century of Santa Fe Consists and found no full RPOs ran in the train I want to model. I think I will not put Santa on this hook.
However I am going to ask Santa for a couple bottles of Delta Ceramcoat craft paint in "deep river green". I have adopted that as the standard color for my bay water backgrounds, and water surface...
need some for touchup and my local Michael's has run out of that one color. Don't know when they will get it. Two other differentr brand stores in town have Delta Ceramcoat but somehow the colors are different, the catalog number on the bottles in different, they don't have anything that is written like or looks like deep river green. There is a Michael's store about a mile and a half from my relatives' house...
A new DCC package and someone to install all those decoders; for free.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
Hi Again !
I've already posted my "wish list", but thought I'd pass along some advice - although probably most of you already have it figured out...........
Starting when I had Lionel trains in the '50s, I realized that my parents and aunts/uncles wanted to buy me train stuff but just didn't have a clue. And that same situation has followed me ever since.
Now I've always felt that if you are going to buy a loved one a gift, make it something they want - or at least need. But lets face it folks, most of our loved ones just have no idea what would make us happy "trainwise".
Soooo, for the last 55 years or so, about a month before Christmas, I'd put together a wish list - with item number, description, seller, and probable price, and then pass it on to my Mom or wife or girlfriend. There would always be more on the list than I knew I would get, in order to allow for a surprise factor, and of course availability.
In my situation, it really worked out well. I was somewhat surprised on Christmas morning, my loved ones knew they were getting me something I wanted, and all was well!
By the way, in the '60s - '70s, my favorite presents were Athearn BB kits and packages of KDs.
Hey, for what its worth........
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
shayfan84325 One of Linn Westcott's columns was about how our hobby could be a prototype for world peace, because we model railroaders are so good at problem solving and getting along.
One of Linn Westcott's columns was about how our hobby could be a prototype for world peace, because we model railroaders are so good at problem solving and getting along.
Oh, really? After reading the thread about MRR Club Philosophies, I kinda wonder.
Anyway, my list:
1. Locomotive: A pair of BLI Baldwin Centipedes. (MU'd, they'd be considered one locomotive, right?)
2. Rolling stock: Walthers NYC observation Hickory Creek
3. Structure: Walthers Hulett Ore Unloader.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
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First and foremost peace to the entire world, jobs for all those who want them and support for all of our troops .
OK now to the relatively unimportant stuff:
Engine: Galloping Goose
Car: any malted beverage billboard reefer
Structure: Woodland Scenics new built up Firehouse
Merry Christmas to all and a very Happy and Properous New Year.
Robby P.Our wedding anniversary is a week after christmas,
Only one wish for me, a second run of Blackstone HOn3 K27's.
Lets see...............
I hope to get some 50' Railbox's. Just love them!!! Maybe some buildings. I need them. The problem with all of that is...........My wife would let me pick them out rather she gets the wrong thing. Which is fine.
Our wedding anniversary is a week after christmas, and I hope to get my "model railroader" renewed. I stopped it about a year ago, but look at it every month at a book store.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hi!
Model Railroad stuff has been a mainstay for my Christmas / Birthday for literally decades. Yet, this is the first year I can't produce an "endless" list of wants, mainly because I pretty much have all I want/need in that area. Actually, there is stuff I want, but it isn't produced (yet?)......
Locomotive - A "yet to be produced" BLI Paragon ATSF Hudson or Pacific DCC w/sound
RR Car - A Walthers IC baggage car, and a "yet to be produced" Walthers IC RPO
Structure - Can't think of any - may I substitute vehicles???
Vehicles - A CMW collection of '50s Pontiacs, and a "57 Black Ford Fairlane convertable with red interior and white top, with the "T-Bird" 312 ci motor and the special "V" trim on the front bumper.
Hey, if I were Santa Clause, you all would have your MR wishlist order waiting for you by your tree on Christmas morning!!!!!
A medium-sized steamer, maybe a Mohawk or Pacific, with sound and DCC. It's got to look good on 18-inch curves, theough.
An old tank car, appropriate for the 1930's.
The Earl Smallshaw "Tenement Row" kit.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
barrok Well, let's see: loco: SW1 by Walthers or in brass; I'm not picky.... Prefer undecorated. rolling stock: Stock car lettered for GTW Building: Slaughter house/packing plant kit with stockyards! Can you guess what one of my upcoming projects is going to be? Merry Christmas everyone! Chuck
Well, let's see:
loco: SW1 by Walthers or in brass; I'm not picky.... Prefer undecorated.
rolling stock: Stock car lettered for GTW
Building: Slaughter house/packing plant kit with stockyards!
Can you guess what one of my upcoming projects is going to be? Merry Christmas everyone!
Chuck
umm let me think chuck.....could it be an Auto Industry since youre modeling the Motor City? LOL
My wish list..
Kato SD70M Norfolk Southern horsehead scheme 2600 numbered series.
I will be happy with 8 coal or Auto racks in the CR/NS (coal) names or any 90's+ (autoracks) roadname
Flood Loader, not western, more of the square eastern type.
My list includes things that won't be available at Christmas time or don't exsist yet.
1. HO Intermountain ESS44AC in BNSF with sound (not available til March)
2. HO modern reefer car (doesn't exsist yet)
3. Some time to complete my train station (no work, although it would be nice to get paid for building it myself)
Will
Hi from Belgium
Loco: One Walthers/Life Like Nscale Y3 2-8-8-2 of course with sound.
Cars: New heavy weight consist from Micro Trains in Nscale.
Structure: One skyscrapper from Custommodelrailroads/CMR in Nscale.
There are just the three in your choice because the list is a never ending one......
Have a nice day......
Marc
... just a job for me, so I can make a living on my own. Living off social security checks is no fun, wherever you are on the world. But at 53, this will remain a wish in Germany.
My wishes for the world?
A little more respect for our fellows, an end to all those unnecessary conflicts, so we can start to battle the real challenges we face today.
mononguy63 It's an odd sensation, but I have no list of "just gotta have" items this year. Is being content with what I already have sufficient grounds for having to return my Model Railroader Membership Card?
It's an odd sensation, but I have no list of "just gotta have" items this year. Is being content with what I already have sufficient grounds for having to return my Model Railroader Membership Card?
I resemble that!
Thanks to 44+ years of astute buying, every square on my locomotive roster is filled in. Ditto for EMU, DMU, passenger and freight cars. OTOH, nobody, anywhere, makes kits for the structures I measured and photographed in Japan in the 1960s. (I suspect that many of them were built without plans...)
A functional replacement for this deteriorated hip might be nice...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
luvadj 1) Peace on Earth 2) Goodwill toward men
1) Peace on Earth
2) Goodwill toward men
I second the above! I've wondered, if we could get everyone to stop fighting for one day, would we decide to try for two, then three, then...
...well, decades and centuries are made of days.
This year Christmas came early for me. They closed the manufacturing plant where I worked in August, and - here's the Christmas part - I start my new job next Monday! HR Manager for a mortgage company. It feels good to be back among the living.
Trainwise, my three wishes would be for a brass steam loco that needs a mom (so I can breathe new life into it), a great LaBelle boxcar kit (36' please), and a dusty old Campbell's railroad station kit.
Icing on the cake would be a Jordan's Highway Miniatures model T roadster pickup kit in my stocking.
Here's to 2010 being the best year of the 21st century, for all of us!
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
I'll have to deviate from the prescribed list as Santa (well, at least Mrs Claus...er Keil) is bringing a new Digitrax Super Chief so that pretty much busted the limit for anything else!
Ricky
1. It's not like I don't already have too many locos, but how to choose just one..... W&R NP 4-6-6-4 Z-62. An American Model Builders ATSF sidedoor Waycar kit.3. FSM JS-6 Skinner's Row.
jwhittenwe're both still scratching our heads... maybe I'll get her a head-scratcher.
Get two and I'll take the other!
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
1. Brass Missabe SD-M (But id settle for a 2-8-8-4 :)
2. Brass GN Business Car (I'l trade someone an Overland UP City of San Fransico!)
3. Walthers Diesel House
Mechanical Department "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."
The Missabe Road: Safety First
Merry Christmas Peoples.
Hmmm now lets see.
1. A Union Pacific Steam engine(I already got electric and diesel.)Edit:I really don't care about the specific engine. I can't find any steam engines nowadays.
2. Union Pacific Tender.(It would go well with the steam engine.)
3. A good sized clapboard or brick station(my old station is small and can't keep up with the growth.)
1: BLI NW2 or SW7 with sound/dcc in BN. (I have an SP one and am impressed, I just one a BN switcher)
2: Accurail partially enclosed autorack
3: a ready-built Turntable capable of handling an AB set of F-units.
I know I'm getting a BN Big Sky Blue (GN patch) GP20 with sound/dcc. I'm gonna try to make #1 happen for myself by selling the SP NW2.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
mononguy63It's an odd sensation, but I have no list of "just gotta have" items this year. Is being content with what I already have sufficient grounds for having to return my Model Railroader Membership Card?
Same here-- my wife and I asked each other what we want for Christmas and we're both still scratching our heads... maybe I'll get her a head-scratcher.