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What Did Santa Bring You For Christmas?

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What Did Santa Bring You For Christmas?
Posted by Aikidomaster on Monday, December 27, 2010 1:32 PM

What are some of the model railroad goodies that Santa brought you this year? I got a set from Scenic Express to build SuperTrees, the Fine Scale Miniature kit, and water columns from Diamond Scale. I must have been pretty good!Big Smile

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Posted by Eric97123 on Monday, December 27, 2010 2:55 PM

There was another tread but what the heck Stick out tongue  I got an Athearn Conrail SD60 and the Black Gold Asphalt plant from Walthers.. My early gift was Athearn Genesis SD70ACe.

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Posted by D&HRR on Monday, December 27, 2010 2:56 PM

I got an IMRC ES44AC in CP, a UP Athearn SD70ACE, SD60 Athearn EMD lease, a whole bunch of Grand Central Gems trees, an undec Athearn RTR Sd40, a BNSF Athearn RTR GP38-2, 2 Pikestuff buildings and a Woodland Scenics BU police station.  

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Posted by richg1998 on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:48 AM

HO scale Pan Am Railway #350 sound loco, four Pan Am freight cars, two Guilford boxcars, two MEC boxcars and one Ring Engineering EOT device. Athearn Pan Am boxcars are quite difficult to find.

I see #350 once in a while in Northampton, MA and occasionally see the Pan Am freight cars on the CSX line in West Springfield MA.

Rich

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Posted by JonMN on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:54 AM

Lump of coal :(

 

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Posted by richg1998 on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:19 AM

Hard coal or soft coal?

I guess Santa is not aware of pollution when you burn coal.

Rich

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Posted by rambo1 on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:29 AM

money then i hit the store some  kits and a exactrail boxcar for now thinking of the new go transit loco with sound from true line trains.rambo1..

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Posted by Medina1128 on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:13 AM

It wasn't specifically model railroad related, but my wife bought me an adjustable stool (with adjustable back) to sit on while I'm at my control panel. Thumbs Up

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Posted by Aikidomaster on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 1:51 PM

Jon,

That was pretty harsh!Angry You obviously need to talk to the paymaster (usually the wife) and get this rectified!

Your only other recourse is to go to the hobby store and get what you need!! Better yet, by brass, that will show the Grinch that you mean business and are not someone to be trifled with!Stick out tongue

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Posted by galaxy on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 1:57 PM

already covered here in this thread:

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/184471.aspx

my own answer was thus:

Good morning:

My haul from Santa and My Other Half {MOH}:

Locos: DCC OnBoard Chessie GP 40 {I have wanted for a long time}; and a DCC OnBoard D&H GP38-2 {MOH and mine intials are "D" and "H" so we have begun collecting "D&H" stuff- which is nto easy as not a popular fallen flag...

RRCars: C&O and B&O BOx cars {B&O and C&O and CHessie and CSX are my nromal runs}; and A B&O Gondola; and a D&H Boxcar and D&H COvered hopper. I am sure there are mroe D&H stuff in my futer {if we can find it.}

So 2 locos and 5 Cars, good enough for me!

 

MOH {who is into trains also- N scale}- got:

Loco- Kato GG1 {wanted desparately since March and I bought it way back then before they were out}

RRCars: A wanted Santa Fe Overton set, and open air tourist passenger car {both thought to be "key-yute" [Cute]}; several freight cars....including-you guessed it- some D&H!!!, flats, tanker and such; and several {about 8} Pennsy passenger cars to haul behind the GG1! {the GG1 did also see freight service}- so about 25 RR cas in all; and a signal light; and a dozen winter trees for the under-the-table-top-tree-Snowy-christmas-scene-layout with both HO loop and N scale loop that MOH wants to creat-we are working on a new board for the layout now.Next year will be better.

Quite a haul for BOTH of us! from each other and santa claus.

 

-G .

Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

 HO and N Scale.

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Posted by TheK4Kid on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:07 PM

A lump of coal???

Gosh, you make me feel good now!

 I got whole bag of coal!Laugh

Been breaking it into little pieces of coals for my gondola cars with my hammer

Anyone want to come over and help?

 

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Posted by TheK4Kid on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:09 PM

A lump of coal???

Gosh, you make me feel good now!

 I got whole bag of coal!Laugh

Been breaking it into little pieces of coals for my gondola cars with my hammer

Anyone want to come over and help?

 

TheK4Kid

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:50 PM

The only train related thing that Santa brought was an Athearn Santa Fe Brick County Seat Station with Freight dock.    He found it on e-bay and outbid the person by $1.01

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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 4:15 PM

My cordless screwdriver went down some weeks ago. And - wow - I've got a new one from the children. Big Smile

 

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Posted by graftonterminalrr on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:04 PM

My loving wife got me:

a 1989-vintage Proto 2K "undec" (painted black from the factory) EMD BL-2

and an unbuilt P2K 4472 PS2-CD high side covered hopper kit in Frisco paint (one of my favorite HO kits ever, actually, I've built about two dozen and they go together very well).

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Posted by citylimits on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:37 AM

Smile

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Posted by fender777 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:31 AM

I had a great xmas.The wife got me 2 Walthers Background Buildings'2 goldline hoppers.The set of 100 figures hand painted and a dremel cordless.Wow I am one happy camper.BOB

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Posted by tatans on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 9:28 AM

Like many MR's I got far too much stuff, the basement is full, so is the garage, storage sheds, now what to do with the semi-trailer full of train stuff I got at Christmas,  I guess just add it to the ever increasing stockpile of unopened boxes, brass locomotives, building kits, car kits and so on,  must make more room for the stuff I buy in the future also, must be something about model railroaders that like to  accumulate stuff.             Can any of you out there suggest what to do with all this "stuff"  I couldn't begin to use the smallest amount of it, even in 6 lifetimes. 

 

 

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Posted by joe323 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 11:55 AM

2 Switchers a 70 and 45 ton GEs both DCC on board

2 Gondolas and an Evans Coil Car

A Conrail caboose

The EZ command walk around thottle for the office layout.

Oh and a bag of coal (actually aquarium charcoal) to smash and make loads for the gondola.

 

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Posted by Packers#1 on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:48 PM

haha, well among the Packers gear I got (which includes the digital camo knit cap :D) and CDs (including the Thousand Foot Krutch Anthology, Switchfoot's New Way to be Human and Learning to Breathe, and Norma Jean's Redeemer (on backorder, but shipped) I got for the layout:

  • Atlas B23-7 Conrail #2002 (ran it for 5 mins then took it apart and stripping paint)
  • Atlas Frisco 2 Bay Airslide covered hopper
  • Walthers Paragon Heating kit (decent, but I MUCH prefer DPM after assembling the Walthers kit abt 75%)
  • Polly Scale paint (Railbox yellow, BM Blue, and DRGW Freight Car red)
  • Highball ballast
  • Micro Engineering right hand turnout
  • 3 lengths of Atlas flextrack (on order)
  • Atlas rail joiners (metal)

It's going well on the layout. replaced a pair of insulated joiners that were killing a turnout (runs well now), cut up a Trackside Transfer kit I've had for a while, and re-arranging stuff. video soon.

Sawyer Berry

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Building a protolanced industrial park layout

 

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:32 PM

graftonterminalrr
and an unbuilt P2K 4472 PS2-CD high side covered hopper kit in Frisco paint (one of my favorite HO kits ever, actually, I've built about two dozen and they go together very well).

Really, I have trouble with the little supports that go on the bottom between the hoppers.   If I glue them in advance the glue smears along the edge before they pop into place.  If I try to glue them after the fact the cement doesn't seem to suck into the crack like it should.

What is your method?

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Posted by Charlie on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:32 PM

I got Overland Models 3406.1 Union Pacific Staff car 202 Cabarton for my UP business train.

Charlie

MP 53 on the BNSF Topeka Sub

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