So What Did You Get For Christmas?

[lyctus]

I did well; aside from 2 x Bachmann heavy mountains (painted,undec.) I got a beautiful Bachmann China diesel loco DF 4B in candy orange with yellow stripes...what a beautifully made model, and runs so well....a loco I recently travelled behind in China. And , I also got a Fischer Price GeoTrack for me and brand new first granddaughter Chelsea Rose, who is almost 4 weeks old. In a couple of years the floor is gonna be COVERED in track !!!

[jeffers_mz]

Well let's see...Santa was more inclined towards tools this year, he brung me a set of three nice benchplanes, a belt sander, a Dremel, and a drill index from Rocklers, coupla shirts, some jeans, etc.

"He" brought the kids a drum set, some legos and barbie stuff, and two trains sets for my son, a Model Power military set and a Lifelike freight set, and a Bachman Grinch train for my daughter. I added in a Gandy Dancer and bobber bagoose for my daughter, and a Bachman crane/MOW car and some more military cars for my son.

Outside of Santa's purview, I picked up a Spectrum Shay, an OT flatcar, and three OT D&RGW passenger cars just before Christmas, and a Spectrum 4-6-0, three Santa Fe ribsides, and a pair of MDC synchro sound units since.

Hey, regardless of what his list says, I haven't been bad ALL year, right?

[Anonymous]

Train related included: an Atlas Virginian Trainmaster with sound, a BLI C&O T-1 with sound (these are my first two HO locos with sound), an O.Winston Link calendar, 2 N&W historical society calendars (one color/one b&w), and one book on the Pocahontas Land Co., plus an unopened Bachmann bicentennial N&W train set.

[jdamelio]

My wife gave me the Branchline Laser Art Flag Stop station, Huntinton Valley on the Reading's Newtown branch. I think I can convert it to the New Britain station on the Doylestown branch.
Also N Scale Model Railroading by Robert Schleicher, good reference even if I work in HO.

Bonus is going to a PCM T1 #2102 in Rambles paint.

[whitman500]

I got:

Digitrax Super Chief Radio-Equipped
BLI NP Switcher with Sound
A 12-pack of ore cars from Walthers
Renewal on my MR
MR calendar
MRP 2006

[Anonymous]

Here are some pictures of the GP60B and some flatbed cars that I bought yesterday. I still need to get a dummy engine to put in front of behind of the GP60. It looks kind of funny going around the layout without an operating cab.

[Anonymous]

If I want anything. I have to get it myself.

[Anonymous]

From wife a $100.00 gift certificate from N Scale Supply.

From my Mother-in-Law a WS learning kit.

From Santa an air compressor.

[Anonymous]

2 LS&I Boxcars
1 23,500 Gallon Tank Car
1 33,000 LP tank car
2 Milwakee Road 3-Bay Covered Hoppers
1 Digitrax Zephyr System
1 Digitrax DZ143
1 Difco Side-Dump Car
1 Soo Line Red Paint
Woodland Scenics Trees
Woodland Scenics Bushes
Woodland Scenics Fine Ballant
Money

[james saunders]

i got a toolbox which hides all my tools for Mrring and couplers etc, i also got $$ for xmas which means i can buy structures... finally :-)

OZJIM

[cwclark]

I was a good boy this year...santa brang me 2 walthers tank cars, two flatcars with spring coil containers, a working highway crossing flasher, two boxes of pieser unpainted figures, to yard tower spot lights, and the best of all ...a sylvan great lakes freighter that i'm going to turn into a container ship when i model a section of the port of Houston docks...chuck

[Anonymous]

I got some new TREES, Foliage Clumps, Talus, and some Woodland Scenics Glue ( THX SIS'!). -----NScaler5

[nsscot]

got the last Soo sd 60 by athearn to complete what i have.. cant find the 6042 in red so have 5 now 3 white and the 2 red i have on hand with 4 protos 2000's

[mustanggt]

I got this stuff....
An Atlas sound equipped CSX 840-C
An Atlas BNSF GP38 (paid for this one, but unwrapped it)
A Kato BN SD70MAC
Some decoders
Some DVD's
Some CD's
Clothes
Adio skate shoes
And that feeling of being spoiled, PRICELESS[:p]

[Anonymous]

- MRC Tech 4 260 power pack
- 1 year subscription to Model Railroader magazine
- Atlas FP7 Santa Fe Yellow/Silver warbonnet (experimental paint from the early Amtrak days)
-2006 BNSF color calander
- Great Model Railroads 2006
and some non-train stuff

[Anonymous]

3 Athearn RTR 53' Jindo Containers(CSX), all four Walthers RTR Goldline CSX Difco Dump Cars(A 3 pack and the single car), 3 Walthers RTR Goldline CSX Ballast Hoppers(Finally found 'em!), a special item I will describe below, and the [censored] stomach virus everyone within 100 miles of our town has had. [|(]

Now, the afforementioned "special item" is an Athearn RTR ACL excursion train, NOT available in stores. A good friend of mine works for CSX. CSX was offering these sets to all employees, at a cost of course. The cost, though, was about half of what you'd pay if you bought each car and locomotive seperately. I have to say, this set made my Christmas. I had been looking for a CSX-related excursion train to run on my layout, so this came at a great time.

Matt

[RMax1]

Got 4 train dvd's and a new drill. Made the annual trip to Hobby Lobby and stocked up on supplies. Got a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com that gave me an excuse to buy 2 books I have been wanting. All in all a good Christmas.

RMax1

[BRVRR]

Here's a link to my gift from the wife! A BLI NYC Hudson. Great little loco with awesome sound.
[url="http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24452&whichpage=3"]
Enjoy!

[wctransfer]

DANG! Nice paint! That thing is beautiful!

Alec

[David_Telesha]

Finished my Christmas coach yesterday, pictured above under construction - 7884 in Hunter Green - built to NH specs with the bathroom on the left - the partition of the other bathroom is showing through the window on the right, though its across the aisle on the correct side. (the picture makes it look like they're on the same side, but they aren't)


Heres another I built earlier this year - 7836 in Pullman Green:

[Anonymous]

I recieved a flat car with John Deere tractors on it, a refueling truck, and some new automobiles. Also recieved a gas station kit. [^]

The big surprise was non-MR related from my bro. An awesome remote control 1/18 scale Panzer IV Ausf. H! Needless to say, my model railroading activities will probably be on hold for a while! [;)]

[Anonymous]

hmmm...

dont have specifics with me but i got,

2 Kato Passenger Cars
2 Dummie Sante Fe's
Atlas Utah copper car
Atlas Gas car
Roadbed
My little bro got me a bridge (how sweet!)

Merry Christmas to all

pavariangoo

p.s (lucky u shay)

[wctransfer]

Well, i got a lot of good stuff, not all trains, and not much money, so ill bite

SOO LIne RTR SD60 6017
SOO Line 6 post boxcar, maroon/white
Lionel Clock
Number 58 couplers

And this is for trains, but not a train.

My brand new Olympus FE110 with 5 MP and 2.8 optical zoom. Yumm. I have 21 bucks, and 40 soon cuz my cuzin bought my older camera. 60 bucks, ahhh , well ill save it for a while.

Alec

[Anonymous]

The wife took me to Office Depot this morning and let me pick out a flourecent\magnfiy lamp. Let there be Light and sight

[traintownofcowee]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twcenterprises

Just coal for me.

Lots and lots of coal.......

Coal, coal everywhere, not a lump to burn......

I've been REALLY naughty this year.

Brad

Well...
I guess you could sell that coal to one of those tourist railroads. For some $cash$.
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[Anonymous]

I got a Lionel O Guage Polar Express set, a couple of RR books and $200.00 dollars in LHS gift certificates!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

[traintownofcowee]

Well...
I got 2 Lionel GS-4s painted as the American Freedom Train.
4 train cars from the 1976 American Freedom Train.
An Alaska Railroad McKinley Explorer train set.
VERY RARE American Freedom Train Patch, coin, and three tickets!
John Bull Train Set.
A A.H.M. Seaboard Railroad Spirit Of 1776 FM Locomotive.
All Aboard America Book.
A A.H.M. Union Pacific Challenger #3950 (I already have #3985 made by Rivarossi)
A Lionel SP Caboose painted in Daylight colors.
And tons of pins.
(All of these models are in HO scale)
That's All Folks!

[David_Telesha]

More pics:

An old TM kit I got for Christmas (I picked it out). Built it last night - needs some weathering:


Atlas NH NE6. I really took a liking to this scheme - VERY SHARP looking - the ends of the body and coupola are white with orange trim on the windows and the door is orange:


What I'm currently working on - Branchline NH coach - never can have enough of these:

[SP4449]

I got wife a pair of Kato HO SD70MAC locos, one in BN Premerger paint and the other in BNSF Heritage (experimental) paint to go with the BNSF coal train she is building (already has 6 Walthers 6-car sets for it), and a FALLER kit of a lawnmower pulled around a yard by a serpentine belt and a pair of magnets (straight from Germany - my son-in-law has connections). It works like the FALLER Highway setups sold in Walthers. [8D]

She got me a Walthers "Route 66 Motel" Cornerstone Built-up set and then she and my son-in-law and daughter teamed up to get 4 extra cabins to go with it, and a couple of Blair Line Laser cut wood buildings that will go with the motel, and a couple of Athearn RtR flat cars to put my 45 foot Athearn RtR UPS vans on, and a couple of Athearn BB hopper cars, and a couple of SP Vintage Steam video tapes, and some stuff not related to model railroading but fun anyway.

I got the family a G-guage "Holiday Express" train for the tree. [:-,] It wasn't set up when my daughter and family came over and I made a game of "discovery" for my 4 year old grandson. He about bounced the house down jumping up and down on the floor trying to get "papa" to hurry and set the "big train" up (I had an HO setup around the tree he quickly lost interest in) and he was ultimately given the controls to run it. BTW, I bought it at Sears for half Walther's price and it is exactly the same set as sold in Walthers with two exceptions: it came with the Water Tank Car instead of the Candy Dancer car and it had the Sing Along At the Station bulding in it. Heck of a deal. Now to order the other three cars from Walthers. . .

Yes, my family is all train nuts. We have a lot of fun together. My wife and I help set up a modular layout for the NMRA division where we each have modules to contribute. My son-in-law is into Eurpoean models and is on Marklin's mailing list. He and my daughter share a corner and a straight module in the layout just mentioned and my granddaughters share responsibility for a Marklin HO starter set which the 10 year old won in a drawing during one of their weekend trips to Kansas City.

Much Happiness in the coming year and may the "God of Model Railroading" smile down on all of you.[:D][:D][:D][8D]