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 !!!
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.
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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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.
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Safety Valve I got a TT set with two suburbian coaches
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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.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
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
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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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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"Very nice, sounds like your Christmas cash quickly turned into things you needed."
Kevin
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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
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 .
The best Italian lunch from my Judy.
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rrinker I really wanted the Apollo Lunar Lander but it was sold out everywhere.
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.
I want that one - but it's rather pricey. I really wanted the Apollo Lunar Lander but it was sold out everywhere.
There's also a group that made a few custom parts to produce a Lego Scale train model of a Reading T1 4-8-4 - I really want that one, too, even if I never set up more than a simple display track to show it off.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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rrinkerI did get the giant Lego Yoda. Despite having les pieces than the Saturn V I got last year, it took twice as long to build.
My oldest daughter, a few years ago, gave my wife and I the Lego Millenium Falcon. She said we had to assemble it together, and she bet it would end our marriage.
It is still in the box!
Only things vaguely train related are some tools - a laser level which will come in handy getting the benchwork up, and a combo tape measure that has a standard tape plus a laser distance measurement - supposedly accurate within +/- 2mm which is plenty accurate for benchwork building.
I did get the giant Lego Yoda. Despite having les pieces than the Saturn V I got last year, it took twice as long to build.
chatanuga So I went to The Train Station (Columbus, OH) this afternoon. I left happy, and I'm sure they were happy with the business I gave them. Came home with: 2 Woodland Scenics 4% incline sets 1 Woodland Scenics 4-inch riser set 12 lengths of cork roadbed 4 new freight cars 1 Walthers double-track railroad bridge concrete abutment (2-pack) 4 bottles of paint 1 DVD Should keep me busy a while. :) Kevin
So I went to The Train Station (Columbus, OH) this afternoon. I left happy, and I'm sure they were happy with the business I gave them. Came home with:
2 Woodland Scenics 4% incline sets
1 Woodland Scenics 4-inch riser set
12 lengths of cork roadbed
4 new freight cars
1 Walthers double-track railroad bridge concrete abutment (2-pack)
4 bottles of paint
1 DVD
Should keep me busy a while. :)
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
HarrisonKevin- are you gonna leave threepio in his box, or take it out and display it?
This model is going to stay sealed in the box with the original price tag from 1977.
I am really thrilled that my future-son-in-law put effort into a gift he knew I would want.
On the second day of Christmas my Judy bought for me.
Actually it was for my birthday.
The first pair didn't fit.
But she got some nice boots for me.
Keen Revel lll's Oh ya
The Durans didn't fit or I would have got those.
Kevin- are you gonna leave threepio in his box, or take it out and display it?
I got a DPM kit, my brother got me a PRR searchlight caboose, some kadee washers, and to my suprise, a D&H 1980 timetable.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
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I got a boatload of new memories (see my other post in the diner).
I bought this for myself, but it really was not for Christmas.
My daughter's fiance gave me this super-cool model mint in the original box:
I think it is pretty neat that both these gifts are shiny and brassy colored.
I got a CMX track cleaning car and a couple of hundred bucks worth of PWRS gift certificates. I also got a case of select very fine wines, the kind you don't share. For some reason, a ton of fine chocolate from various people that either has or will be given away. I ate about a pound of the stuff Christmas day but I have no wish of any more as a pound I won't notice, any more and it shows up on the scale. Lots of athletic wear as well.
My sister gave us a vacation saying we do so much for everyone else it is the least she could do. May go to Vegas for a few days.
The best thing I got was having the kids home. They still crawled into our bed Christmas Eve and I read them The Night Before Christmas as I always have done.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I got nothing and really preferred it that way. I don’t like people spending money on me. I’ve worked hard to make a good living. I’d rather see someone spend their money on someone less fortunate.
My four year old son got lots of neat train stuff though.
Ed
Semi newbie HO scale modeler coming from the O scale world
gdelmoro Mike is that the brass hybrid?
Mike is that the brass hybrid?
I just got the lump of coal...
The good news is that it was anthracite!
Jim
From my brother and sister-in-law, I got the Mister Rogers issue of Life magazine (which I already had a copy of), school pics of my nephew, and a $100 Visa gift card. My parents didn't get presents this year, instead getting us money ($350 in my case). Planning on hitting The Train Station (Columbus, OH) tomorrow as well as some other things that have been on my wish list for a while.
Got me a Genesis Powered by our people locomotive and two Tangent CSX hoppers.
Russell