GP-9_Man11786
LOL! That's funny!
I bought myself a couple hoppers I redecorated into Wheeling & Lake Erie (see Weekend thread). I should be getting money, so perhaps another loco to redo into Wheeling.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
I asked for a HobbytownUSA giftcard. Makes choosing easier when you have control over it. :P
like most of you, I'm my own Santa when it comes to trains for Christmas... With my wife's blessing if course! This year is all Amtrak. My son is getting a wooden P42 with 2 streamlines for his Thomas layout and we're getting a Kato P42, sound, with streamliners for our HO layout. also getting the Intermountain Canadian Nationail Gevo as soon as its available. Should be fun!
Like many of you, I stopped requesting train stuff because people didn't read "Proto 2000 E7" or whatever, they just saw "model train" and bought me something. I got tired of getting N&O scale stuff, tacky plastic buildings, and the wrong road names for my layout. Even when they got it right, it was a Bachmann Silver Series New Haven box car, of which I now have over a dozen.
My wife and brother usually go in together and get me a gift certificate to MB Klein or Walthers, so I can sit down late Christmas morning (after the chaos subsides a bit) and order things I REALLY want.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Nope, because I'm thinking I'll buy myself a pair of Arnolds new N scale U25C's in the NP roadname after Christmas.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Although I had to order it myself, I'm getting an Intermountain NYC F-7 with sound for Christmas.
The first step in upgrading my F-7 fleet.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
I am at the point of life that I don't need anything, train wise or other.
At another site, A freind picked up several large scale train items for a ridiculously low price from one of forum members who was moving and needed to sell off his stuff quickly, beating me to one of the said items. About two weeks later he gives me a phone call and says "want one?" .0001 of a second later I said Yes! He offered it to me at the same ridiculously low price he paid, so my Christmas present this year is a ridiculously low priced lightly used LGB 0-4-4 Forney :-D
Have fun with your trains
Uncle_Bob What, no rhinocerosesses?
What, no rhinocerosesses?
After 49 years my wife and I have long ago given up trying to surprise one another.
Here's what I'm giving myself in her name.
I have always wanted a slope back but wanted DCC as well. This loco has it all, (no sound). I like hearing the clickty clack of the wheels on the track just as much.
Hope Santa is good to all and to all a Merry Christmas.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
I'm trying hard to con my wife, my in-laws, and my family into buying me some stuff -- even a gift card/certificate -- but no idea how successful my weaselling has been till Christmas comes.
I know I am getting a Huge PRR wall map but I bought it :-( I wish they would take all the hints, advice on I would like X,Y,Z... Oh well it is not for me anyway My girls make it fun. Just to see their faces.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I will be ordering an Athearn Challenger for my train present. My wife says I should buy something I really want but don't need! This is just what she described!
-Bob
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
I still remember Christmas 1950. Coming downstairs, I found arrows with an above note....Christmas this way. They led me into the basement where on Dad's pike was a Lionel 773 Hudson and three Irivington redish brown pullmans with little bows on them..."Merry Christmas, son!" Of course after the excitement wore off and several loops around Dad's layout I was told I could play with them if I made the honor roll or turned 21...which ever came first. Those who have visited me and my Piermont Division layout over the years may have noticed the 773 and three cars in my upstairs display area. I finally got them in 1986....a long friggin' wait, but well worth it.
This is what I miss the most about Christmas, as it always meant trains. Of course over the years I turned this into a full time endeavor, but changed scales to HO.
Still civilians when visiting still equate trains with Christmas as some still ask if I set these up this time every year or do I take them down after New Years.
Oh well........
HZ
Santa dropped off my GPS - 38-2 in Conrail attire for testing a few weeks ago. Seems he likes to shop at the Greenberg show after Thanksgiving. This Loco will formally enter service on January 3rd.
Joe Staten Island West
After a hiatus of (too) many years I'm just getting back into model railroading (HO)... so tat this point I'm still in the planning stage for layout....BUT....some goodies are coming just AFTER Christmas -- Alco 2-6-0 loco (B & M), GE 44-ton switcher, 40' freight car and caboose (Bachmann B & M)...Designing a switchyard now....once the plans are finalized, it's track, turnouts, signs, signals....fun stuff for the long winter days ahead!!:)
May your freight ALWAYS travel smoothly....and ON TIME!
I have an adult daughter with a sense of humor who knows I love my railroad. Last year she included five "mooners" figures in my presents so I created some scenes with cops or railroad personnel chasing them. For my birthday she gave me a cop handcuffing a suspect so I added a scene with them. I fully expect that one of these times I will have to figure out where to put a couple fornicating on the layout. Preiser has just about any off beat stuff you can imagine and she has discovered it. I did arrange for two Santa Fe GP7u topeka cab engines to show up. One from the wife will be wrapped under the tree, the other one has already left the box ,had a keep alive added and been programmed. That one is a gift to myself.
Marty C.
I buy enough train stuff throughout the year that I would feel guilty asking for more for Christmas. However, in past Christmases I have received some pretty neat train stuff that was a suprise for me. The first was Bachmann's Hogwart's Express. That's what got me into HO from Marx tinplate. A couple of years ago my son bought me a C&O wreck crane with a working boom, and my wife bought me a CP tie car which fit right into my scheme.
I will be genuinely suprised if I get train stuff this year. However, I think I am getting something that at least smokes! I believe my wife and son have colluded to get me a new BBQ smoker! I could be wrong but I happened to read a couple of e-mails asking for advice on them, and there is a rather large box in the garage covered with a tarp. No, I wasn't prying. She sent the e-mails from work so I wouldn't see them, but her brother dimwittedly responded to our home e-mail despite her specific request to not do so.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Howard:
As a friend (Mke Cohen) once said " Us Jews ought to be proud, how man times can you say that a local boy made good". Refering to Jesus.
As far as a choo choo for Christmas, I have two Kato 9-44CW's and an Atlas SD60M. They cost $40.00 each, which is a good price for thes engines.
I'd rather give a list of things I'd like for Christmas that way I still don't know what I'm getting and I don't end up with a 1970s Frisco box car and a 2006 Ford Thunderbird on a 1950s inspired layout.
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
Doughless "If I happened to get a giftwrapped box under the tree, and after unwrapping it, it revealed yet another train, I strongly believe that my entire family would just roll their eyes and get up and leave the room!!!!"
"If I happened to get a giftwrapped box under the tree, and after unwrapping it, it revealed yet another train, I strongly believe that my entire family would just roll their eyes and get up and leave the room!!!!"
Sooooo , but true here too!!
Douglas
My wife and kids know me as someone who, over the years, buys trains on the internet, and also sells them occasionally. FedEx boxes and USPS boxes are frequently sitting in plain view when the kids come home from school. They know when daddy gets another train. The frequency of boxes containing trains appearing on our doorstep has increased lately.
If I happened to get a giftwrapped box under the tree, and after unwrapping it, it revealed yet another train, I strongly believe that my entire family would just roll their eyes and get up and leave the room!!!!
- Douglas
I sent my wife the link to the walthers website for a k-d boxcar. Last I checked they're sold out. Will I be a lucky one? We'll see if I was good this year. I also asked for hobby shop gift cards from the brother-in-law. I want to try my hand at scratchbuilding.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.
T e d
Almost forgot i was also given a new compressor for air brushing....