Was Santa good to everyone?

[Anonymous]

I was just wondering if everyone got any good train stuff for Christmas?  I got the Lionel Penn State boxcar, the Lionel FasTrack Elevated Trestle Set, and the Lionel Truss Bridge.  Looks like I can start redoing my layout tomorrow.  Merry Christmas.

 

SK

[ChiefEagles]

Yes!!!  Even though he did not get my Big Boy here in time [probably March], got lots of good things.

[Anonymous]

He sure was, but not half as good as he was to my daughter. I got the Candy Cane Single Dome Tank Car, and the Gondola with Trees and Presents for my North Pole Central set, along with a few pieces of FasTrack to expand my set.

As for train stuff for my daughter, she got a couple more Thomas and Friends cars.

[luther_stanton]

It was a fine holiday.  Moe and Joe are thankful they are finally unwrapped, out of the box, and unloading the lumber off of their flatcar.  The Lionel Farms Poultry Dispatch car are moving the hens north in a freshly swept car.

[fifedog]

Santa works in mysterious ways.  I received a B&O GP9 (with torpedos/RAILKING), and my boy added a BNSF GP38-2 (RAILKING) to his empire.  But my dear mother showed up this evening with a winter scene of kids building a snowman (unknown make from a local five & dime). It fit right into a crescent shaped bare spot in my town of Meyersdale that is front and center on my layout.  Not a homerun, but definitely a run-scoring ground-rule double.

WHO KNEW? Thanks, Mom.

[Brutus]

I got the Moe and Joe car too, very nice!  Also two operating/uncoupling tracks, some fiber pins for O27 track so I can isolate some track, and a Lionel 1980's sawmill (I got it on ebay for $40 for my wife to give me, it lacks one plank).  Very nice, except they have stuff piled up in front of my temporary layout table and I can't play with my new toys yet!  Also, I got some tiny Santa Express cheap plastic locomotive and caboose with a little circle of track that runs on an AA battery.  Finally, I got Lionel Trains on Track for the Nintendo DS, which is interesting, but I have to get used to planning the consists.

[Anonymous]

Yes!

Mrs. Claus:
B&O Mikado
B&O I-12 Caboose
C&O Super Steam Freight
Post-war Repair and Service Manual - Greensburg - I will post something about this book in a day or two
Model-Railroader - How to build benchwork
Model-Railroader - Bridge and Trestles (WHY DON'T THEY MAKE O-GAUGE VERSIONS OF THESE BOOKS?)

Father-In-Law
Swift Hot Box Reefer Car
Lionel Christmas People Pack

Aunt and Uncle-In-Law
Lionel PSU Box Car

Not too bad a haul this year!

Oh, and the Mrs. ordered the B&O Passenger cars that go with the B&O Mikado, but Lionel in their infinite wisdom decided to delay delivery till March, which is why I ended up with the I-12 and Super Steam Freight, so I'm not complaining!  Passenger cars arrive in March, JIT for my b-day!

[Frank53]

[fifedog]

GEEZ 88! Your family must think you have a one track mind.

...and I'm sure there will be a lot of inquiries into MRS. CLAUSE'S twin sister!

[thor]

Darn! I had no idea I'd been as bad as THAT! Sniff.

[Anonymous]

GEEZ 88! Your family must think you have a one track mind.

...and I'm sure there will be a lot of inquiries into MRS. CLAUSE'S twin sister!

LOL!  No... the Mrs. FINALLY realized that this is NOT a passing fancy!  Plus since I have unloaded nearly $3,000 in Great Northern/Northern Pacific engines and freight so I could switch over to B&O/C&O she realizes she has some catching up to do! :)

Nope no twin.  She is a one-of-a-kind and I'm not letting her go!

I just have to figure out a couple things:

1. How to silence the FasTrack... I know it will be tough but I have to do it, or I have to switch to Gargraves/Ross.

2. What smoke fluid to use.  The Lionel smoke fluid makes her sick and the ProtoSmoke doesn't seem to work with Lionel Trains and the SuperSmoke seems to only work in the PostWar steam engines... Are the smoke fluids that much different?

[Jumijo]

I got a new lacy thong. I'm wearing it now!!!

We visited a home on Christmas Eve that had a train running and smoking. The smoke fluid was Protosmoke scented in some holiday berry. My wife loved the smell of it. I've bought Megasteam and was not happy with the smoke output or the scent. My wife said it smelled the same as Lionel's smoke fluid, even though it was supposed to smell like cedar. 

Jim 

[Anonymous]

I got a new lacy thong. I'm wearing it now!!!

Sharing is great, BUT there are some things that don't need to be shared!

[RR Redneck]

Nothing train related this year. I got a .243 bolt action deer rifle, some camouflage, binoculars, a rifle case, boots, and $100 in x-mas money.

[BMRR]

Santa brought me a Lionel dockside switcher ( U.S. STEEL ) and some rolling stock. I guess I've been good this year.

Stan.

[92hatchattack]

I just got my fist of megasteam a week ago,  and i must say, i love it...   the holiday berry and candy cane scents are pretty good.  I think ill be putting in an order for the hot chocolate soon.  For some reason, i found that to get good smoke, i had to add more fluid than i normaly did with the lionel stuff...  Maybe because its thinner??  i dont know,  but i ended up using about a half dropper full per refill, and now it smokes like crazy....  even one of my locos that i thought had a bum smoke unit is putting out crazy amounts of smoke.

 

as for xmas,

 from the soon to be wife i got some stuff i picked out at a show...

my first scale rolling stock, a lionel PRR scale double door boxcar

a kline PRR tank car,

and as a suprise, she got me a cool 0-27 PRR yellow lighted transfer caboose....  really cool and adds some more eye candy under the tree...  loving it all!

[guilfordrr]

Santa left me a Great Lionel Layouts DVD, Woodland Scenics trees, an O gauge telephone booth, and a 3 year extension on my CTT substriction! Yay!

[fifedog]

To 88 - are you dumping your BN/GN stuff because you can stop by Bayview and see "pumpkins" on a daily basis.

To RR REddddd - don't shoot your eye out kid.

To jabaat - remember, the rose goes in the front...

[ben10ben]

I got what I wanted, which unfortunately wasn't train related.

A Canon F-1N camera with AE finder FN and AE motor drive FN. This is one solid tank of a camera, quite unlike anything I've ever used before. I've not yet weighed it, but I'd put it at around 4 pounds for the camera, motor drive, and the 12 AA batteries that allow it to shoot at 5 frames per second. It's certainly not one of these newfangled featherweight pieces of junk that they try to pass off as cameras. I always thought my T90 was a heavy camera, but it's extremely light in comparison. 

[Jim Duda]

I got EVERYTHING I wanted - no surprise since I was a VERY GOOD BOY in 2006! Here are just a few of the things that were in my stocking and under the Tree: Gallon of white teeth paint so my smile dazzles like the snow. A new hairpiece so I can hang out with the Ohio kids and the babes will look at me instead of Buckeye the Buck. A years supply of BOTOX so I can continue to look like a Chippendale. A TMCC II / DCS interface to DCC. Bob Nelson's advance copy of his new book "BASIC Electricity for Fledgelings" (Day Care, Pre-School, and Roseyville Folk Level). 5 gallons of TexASS BBQ sauce (for BEEF - NOT PORK). New Snow Blower. Speaking of Snow Blowers, I just got back from Denver...they called me last week and needed help at Stapleton on the main runway. You guys would have been proud of me!!! (See my avatar)

[darianj]

Santa brought me:

 - PE Baggage Car
 - PE Diner Car
 - PE Hot Chocolate Car

and a trip to he NY Botanical Gardens Train Show next week.

I also picked up a few Subway sets myself!

[palallin]

My wife got a book on the Durango & Silverton, an O Gauge Primer, and the On30 Annual (2006).

I got an early #045 Gateman in VG condition (for my Standard Gague Layout), an Atlas bridge expander kit (from which I will 'bash two girder bridges), the Hallmark UP ornaments for this year, and the funds necessary to build new shelves for my Standard Gauge trains.

 The boys got a Polar Express to share and the diner and baggage to add to it.  The older boy got a BNSF LEGO engine, and the younger one got Harold for his Duplo Thomas sets.

[LL675]

brought me a MTH N&W hopper and a K Line Speeder. Still no Pennsy Decapod though.

[mitchelr]

Santa was especially generous to me. I got a K-Line Plymouth Switcher with ore cars decorated in Western Maryland colors and a Wiliams GP9 in Western Maryland colors too.  In addition I got several vehicles for the layout.  Will try to post some pix to SPF.

 

Take care,

 

Mitch 

[Dr. John]

Better than I deserved!

I received -

• a Sandisc 4GB MP3 player
• a new cordless drill
• a Palm TX pda

No train stuff. My son's girlfriend did buy me some Lemax accessories for my Christmas village. Smart girl!

[highrailjon]

 OH YES!!!!

[cnw1995]

Very nice, Jon. I got a Schllying (sp) Rail Zeppelin - the silver one - a Philadelphia Corgi trolley - a Bowser motor to power it - a streamliner photo book - and a surprise: a gandy dancer hand cart which my beloved spent almost twice MSRP....

[Anonymous]

To 88 - are you dumping your BN/GN stuff because you can stop by Bayview and see "pumpkins" on a daily basis.

To RR REddddd - don't shoot your eye out kid.

To jabaat - remember, the rose goes in the front...

fife,
Not entirely sure what you are referring to...

I dumped the GN/NP stuff because I wanted to model the Maryland and PA Appalacians on my big layout.  I like the Pacific Northwest, but to do the type of scenes I am interested in, the Rockies would have required a lot more space than I want to devote to mountains.

That and it is a lot easier to find B&O/C&O train stuff around here than it is GN/NP.

[fifedog]

I forget that not everyone is a railfan. I was refering to BNSF units showing up on a daily basis on CSX, many in the new GN Heritage scheme.

I too model the appalachians through Sand Patch.

[Anonymous]

I forget that not everyone is a railfan. I was refering to BNSF units showing up on a daily basis on CSX, many in the new GN Heritage scheme.

I too model the appalachians through Sand Patch.

fife,
OK, NOW I get you!

Actually I've not seen the BNSF engines on the CSX lines around here.  I'm actually rather fortunate to have the Maryland Midland RR run right behind my house!  I've lived in Bal'imer for about 1.5 years and just two weeks ago was stopped at the RR Xing for the first time!  Of course the camera was back at the house so I wasn't able to get any pics!

Before I moved here from Pittsburgh I lived in Aliquippa and Sewickley.  If you are familiar with those areas then you are familiar with the Conway Railyard.  It was pretty cool living so close to the tracks.

Oh, and a friend of mine's father used to live in Leetsdale on the Ohio River side of the tracks.  They used to stand on the bridge over the tracks and Rte 65 and drop cabbages into the PRR Steamers as they passed below them... some of the stories he told us kept us laughing for hours!