You just won the lottery for $15,000,000 what is your first purchase?

[tjsmrinfo]

buy land and clear it out
work a couple more years building interest then a nice house
work a few more years and have a large building built to house an HO scale layout
give some to my friends and girlfriend invest most of it
retire and live on the interest

[JPowell]

Buy my 1st house... and pay cash for it! ( approx $175,000.00)
Pay off the Jeep and Kia
Put about 100,000.00 into savings for the step-son's college education ( He's only 8 so I figure that in the next 10 yrs, this should cover atleast 4 yrears of college)
The rest, depends.... I know some will go to the layout , some new engines, and structures, track, etc...
The CFO must also have some as I don't want to be a 'hog"
JP

[Anonymous]

First thing I'd buy would be land. Heck yeah. Buy a big tract myself in some beautiful area, then buy other properties and flip them so that I can maintain...then start building. :)

If we're talking toys, sure I'd dump a lot into trains, I'd build my private zoo (lifelong dream, already have a lot of reptiles at home), I'd buy an Aston Martin Vanquish (always wanted one) and some collectable motorcycles, etc.

[kelticsylk]

My wife and I have been thinking about this a lot lately...When we hit Powerball we retire!

Most of the money would go in the bank for future generations. We'd pay off any debts like student loans, mortgages, etc...Then we'd split a small chunk of it (several million) between the kids and us.

Since I use Train Simulator I'd probably get a REALLY nice computer. Since I'd be able to afford real model trains, I might be tempted to build a layout...A Z scale model of the Pennsy in an old warehouse would be nice...or maybe O scale in a football stadium?

I like the idea of buying a real railroad...A nice short line or tourist trap with steam.

Nah! sounds like work...

The only other thing I can think of is a 20" reflector telescope for those clear starry nights. Of course, I'd also have to get my Mazda Protege fixed...and then....[:)]

[GDRMCo]

Well here in Aus we do not get a tax on our winnings so I would have heaps of do***o spend. Heres my list of buyings:
1. a pair of Holden Monaro's tuned to make 550bhp and 600Nm of torque. I would get 5-Axis to make me new bodykits for em to make em look like the Monaro GTS i drew.
2. get a warehouse and get a custom made layout depicting the run from Mt Isa to Townsville main of the CT,MtI&C.
3. buy my dad a Ferrari F430 hardtop
4. buy mum a Nissan 350Z Roadster
5. buy my bro a Nissan Skyline Z-Tune
6. complete all my promises
Mitchell

[Anonymous]

Forgot to mention, I'd also buy a 1969 Dodge Charger and paint it like the General Lee! YEEEEEEHAAAAA!!!!!!![:D]

[Anonymous]

By a Digital rebel a tripod and nice houses on the Cajon pass North Platte right beside Up yard Rochelle illinois and Duplainville Wisconsin

[Anonymous]

First I'd tithe, then give one of many BIG offerings to my church, then get
out of debt, then buy us [ my wife +2 kids and myself] new cars, then a new
layout with a house over it, and finnish my hotrod.[:D]

[Anonymous]

Two SD40-2s in UP paint and a SD40T-2 in SP.

[Roadtrp]

I'd see if I could get Pelle Soeborg to sell me his Mojave Desert layout.

[:)]

[davekelly]

After giving contributions to a couple of groups (Boy Scouts, Disabled American Veterans, American Diabetes Association) gonna get me a big basement with a house to keep it dry.

[Anonymous]

My very own pair of ex-NW SD40-2s! Forget Chevy, Ford, or Dodge--I'll have the most horsepower and torgue on the block! Now, I just need someplace to run them.......

[Anonymous]

The first check would not be for a purchase.

It would be for my tithe, Malachi 3:10.

[twhite]

QUOTE: Originally posted by luct

A pub in Cornwall, UK

Put some genuine Cornish Pasties on the menu and I'll be your most frequent customer.
Tom [:p][:p][:p]

[trolleyboy]

I'd give our traction museum a nice deposit.Then I'd grab a nice piese of land and build a new house with an uncluttered all layout type basement. I'd also make sure there was enough back yard for a nice live steam ride on type layout.You know a nice couple mile run. Rob

[on30francisco]

I'd buy a house with enough space to build a decent layout. In the San Francisco Bay Area, this would take about one-fifteenth of the winnings before taxes. If the space were substantial, I would build an indoor large-scale logging layout in addition to modeling in On30.

[cbq9911a]

After writing a six figure check to the local RR museum and paying off the mortgage, I'd buy a BLI Hudson to go with my Marx and Gilbert hudsons.

[cspmo]

Fill my car gas tank.

[rockythegoat]

QUOTE: Originally posted by plane_crazy

You'd have to ask my wife

I hear ya. I assume I would continue to get my $20.00 a week allowance.......[:(]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TurboOne

Everyones ideas are awesome. Just the tone in your writing made this a great question. Can you feel the energy this created.

After buying a big house for the family, I want to buy a huge protable layout, that can be set up at different churches and youth functions. Show kids God thru trains. Example have 12 boxcars with disiples names, take one off and see if anyone notices. Make learning fun idea.

Build a family compound so my kids always live close. Have my parents close by so they can be taken care of. Same for my brother and wife's relatives.

Spend a lot of time with family and friends.

Thanks for the question.

Tim

Nice idea, Tim. But how's this for an idea. Make it a passenger train, making all the passenger cars named after the disiples. Make the motive power an A-B-A lash up naming the lead A unit "Father", the B unit "Son", and the trailing A unit "Holy Spirit".

[Anonymous]

You'd have to ask my wife

[Anonymous]

A pub in Cornwall, UK

[UPJohn]

I would buy a huge warehouse and build the biggest train layout in the world with like 100 scale miles of mainline

[Anonymous]

Butch you and me both Man! Lamborghini Diablo it is.

[Anonymous]

The one thing I would NEVER buy again in my life: ANOTHER LOTTERY TICKET!

[Anonymous]

First, pay off the mortgage on the house, 2nd, pay off the debt on my business, 3rd whatever my wife and I want to spend it on. Some of that spending would include model railroading, but no purchase of a real rail line or anything like that. I think we'd replace both vehicles, buy a few "goodies" of one kind or another, take a vacation, etc.

[SilverSpike]

After unplugging the phone, and after getting the financial engine in place to manage all that dough ( what's left after Uncle Sam is about $9,000,000), I would pay off all the current debt, including mortgage, student loans, and credit cards. Then with the remaining $8.9 million I would set aside enough for the boys college funds, put half of the remaining $$ in various high yield equity funds, take a quarter of the remaining half and play with it, and then donate some to various charities and the Boys Scouts of America.

Oh, and buy a huge building and construct a very large multi-level HO scale layout with help from all my friends.

[tatans]

A 1957 Buick Roadmaster 75, 11 tons of fun and chrome and $14,988,000 for gas.

[Anonymous]

How about a 1/1 scale pair of Conrail SD40-2's? [;)]