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Will you get a choo choo for Christmas?

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Posted by Ray Dunakin on Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:24 PM

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LOL! That's funny!

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:20 PM

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. 

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Posted by DavidH66 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 9:39 PM

I asked for a HobbytownUSA giftcard. Makes choosing easier when you have control over it. :P

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Posted by bolter9 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 9:14 PM

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!

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Posted by CTValleyRR on Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:38 AM

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.

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Posted by Burlington Northern #24 on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:13 PM

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.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, December 20, 2014 6:25 PM

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.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC

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Posted by rrebell on Saturday, December 20, 2014 5:31 PM

I am at the point of life that I don't need anything, train wise or other.

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Saturday, December 20, 2014 1:16 AM
If I want something train related for Christmas I have to get it for myself. This year I'm getting myself an Athearn RTR New York central boxcar and an Accurail boxcar kit. I need to stop buying and start buildin.
Come on CMW, make a '41-'46 Chevy school bus!
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Posted by vsmith on Friday, December 19, 2014 8:19 PM

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

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, December 19, 2014 6:00 PM

Uncle_Bob

What, no rhinocerosesses?  Cool

 
Be careful what you ask for.  You might get it - literally.  (Have a big mud puddle handy?)
 
As for me, I most devoutly hope NOT!
 
  • My relatives that celebrate Christmas know that we (self and wife) don't.  So we exchange cards and E-mails.
  • My wife knows what Japanese models cost, so she isn't planning to get me one for New Year's.  Our gifts tend to be more pragmatic than that.
Wishing all a happy Holiday.  Which one?  Depends on which culture you embrace.
 
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - like a native)
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Posted by superbe on Friday, December 19, 2014 5:08 PM

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

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Friday, December 19, 2014 4:42 PM

What, no rhinocerosesses?  Cool

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Friday, December 19, 2014 4:40 PM

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.  

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Friday, December 19, 2014 3:28 PM

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.

 

 

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Posted by "JaBear" on Friday, December 19, 2014 3:20 PM
No, but as I had work to do in one of the towns where one of my closest LHS is, I managed to make the time to drop in and get some scratch building materials I require.
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Posted by farrellaa on Friday, December 19, 2014 3:04 PM

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

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Friday, December 19, 2014 2:38 PM

Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.

www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com 

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Posted by Howard Zane on Friday, December 19, 2014 1:55 PM

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

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Posted by joe323 on Friday, December 19, 2014 7:20 AM

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. 

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Posted by dasBM2-6-0 on Friday, December 19, 2014 4:19 AM

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!

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Posted by Marty C on Friday, December 19, 2014 1:28 AM

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.

 

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:32 PM

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

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Posted by caldreamer on Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:21 PM

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.

 

 

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:14 PM

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. 

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Posted by PM Railfan on Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:22 PM

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!!!!"

 

Sooooo Laugh, but true here too!!  LaughLaughLaugh

 

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Posted by Doughless on Thursday, December 18, 2014 5:53 PM

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!!!!

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Posted by tedtedderson on Thursday, December 18, 2014 5:48 PM

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. Big Smile

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Posted by gn.2-6-8-0 on Thursday, December 18, 2014 4:59 PM

Almost forgot i was also given a new compressor for air brushing....

 

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