Lets start the ball rolling. What did Santa bring you this year?
Lets see............
Some shop lights for the layout. Nothing as far as rolling stock, or buildings. Santa (aka the wife) wanted to make sure I got the right thing. So maybe a trip to the hobby store tomorrow.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
The Jolly one done brought me a Athearn RTR CR SW1500..This loco is a thing of pure beauty.I fully believe Athearn pulled out all the stops on this one and I also recieved 2 Atlas N Scale cars.I will return these cars since both are 40' stock cars and doesn't fit my era..Thankfully the receipt was included.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
A Sears digital multimeter - so I can get the layout wired properly.
A set of NYC subway cars (Walthers Proto 1000) - reminiscing about my childhood in Rockaway Beach, NY
Happy Holidays
Co-owner of the proposed CT River Valley RR (HO scale) http://home.comcast.net/~docinct/CTRiverValleyRR/
Well the Atlas short bulkheads did not come so i did not get nothing.
Russell
A book about the CNW 400 passenger trains and a Badger airbrush. Oh, and a twenty inch replica of the "A Christmas Story" leg lamp! So far so good!
Nothing train related, but a digital photo frame which is somewhere in UPS's system. I also got some stuff for my new computer.
Will
Cold hard cash to be spent hobbywise anyway I wish.
The only thing Model RR related I got was a Mehano 4-8-2 in CNR livery which I'm thinking some day may turn into a CPR 4-8-4
Merry Christmas
Gordon
Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!
K1a - all the way
Greetings,
My wife (and Mother-in-Law) bought me a Top Side Creeper from Micro Mark. It is now assembled and is stored under the train table for use later. Before I put it away I did try it out and it does really let me get to the hard to reach areas on the layout.
Time to go to my parents house so they can spool their grandson.
Christopher
The train related stuff was a metal sign that reads Ricky's Train Station with an RR Crossing Sign on it and a Digitrax SuperChief. As I put in another post, I didn't realize I'd been THAT good!
Plus I got some nice thermal shirts that will come in handy in th layout room as it can be chilly at time.
Ricky
For non train stuff, I got a new hockey stick, and I'll be getting money later, so I can buy new skates
For train stuff, I got:
Unless "Santa" (my parents) forgot about it, Walthers forgot to ship my decal paper... And for some reason, my airbrush was removed from my order due to "shipping restrictions..." After the holidays, we'll give them a call to deal with the centerbeam and decal paper issues, as well as find out what went wrong with that airbrush...
Merry Christmas!
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A BIG magnifier light for my workbench so I can actually see what I'm working on, compared to the 4" one I have. And some decoders so I have nearly enough to do all my locos.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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The jolly old fellow brought me a $50 iTunes giftcard and 5 Atlas boxcars; 2 Evans 53' ft. dbl. plug door and 3 FGE 50' boxcars. And in other MR stuff, I got Great Model Railroads 2010, an issue of N scale railroading magazine, and 6 bottles of Elmers (I was running low on homemade scenic cement.) Also got plenty of Green Bay stuff; a throw blanket, little nerf football, and a Greg Jennings jersey.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Ahhh, Santa did good this year!
Trainwise, he dropped off:
- P2K HO Illinois Central E7/E7 with DCC & Sound (the new "orange" actually matches the orange on all the previously issued light & heavyweight cars
- Walthers new HO IC lightweight baggage car
- Athearn "old style" IC trailer truck
- A book on the IC in southern Illinois in the '30s/'40s
- A book on the Chicago train stations with lots of neat pictures.
Yesss, I mainly model the ATSF of the '40s/'50s, but I do allow some IC trains on the layout - as the IC of my youth really cemented my love of trains.
ENJOY!
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Looks like everyone is going to be having some fun over the weekend. Me, a few ancillary items for my 5000 mile a year cycling habit (ya, 5k)and an awesome Michael Buble CD that makes me want to grab my wife and dance.
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Cash! (some might be spent on some turnouts)
I went to a really great Christmas dinner from the construction company I've been working for.Some very unexpected gifts like company shirts/jackets/hats and tools!Plus a pay bonus I wasn't expecting.After a long time being unemployed, I think I've finally found a place I can call home!It was REALLY nice to have money to buy gifts for my family this year!MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
loathar Cash! (some might be spent on some turnouts) I went to a really great Christmas dinner from the construction company I've been working for.Some very unexpected gifts like company shirts/jackets/hats and tools!Plus a pay bonus I wasn't expecting.After a long time being unemployed, I think I've finally found a place I can call home!It was REALLY nice to have money to buy gifts for my family this year!MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
Santa made me very HAPPY! All in HO scale.
-Athearn RTR ATSF GP60M #144
-Athearn RTR ATSF GP40X #3800
-Athearn RTR BN SW1000 #394
Now all i need is decoaders for them.
"New Haven Power" by J.W. Swanberg. Amazing book -- it has specs for every loco (including trolleys and RDCs) ever owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford (including ones it inherited from predecessor lines). I believe it has at least one photo of each engine, too! Plus descriptions / photos of freight and passenger cars, signature trains, and a section on artwork as well. Train Geek Heaven.
Also a gift certificate to the LHS -- wanna guess where I'm headed tomorrow?
Also got a Wii Fit Balance Board.... is someone trying to tell me something (no, Honey, I really don't spend all day in sedentary activities!). Kids got Guitar Hero 5, though, so I haven't had 5 minutes on the Wii yet to try it out.
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I got some street/wall lights and a book about the Railroad stations of the US from my wife, and I´m getting one more thing that is still in transit (Santa must have made a wrong turn somewhere..).
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Since I started this thread, I guess I should say what I received as well. Santa....(my wife)... got me something for my "other" hobby. She purchased me a Rock River Arms 5.56 M-4 Carbine.
Gotta love the wife...LOL
SD60M Santa made me very HAPPY! All in HO scale. -Athearn RTR ATSF GP60M #144 -Athearn RTR ATSF GP40X #3800 -Athearn RTR BN SW1000 #394 Now all i need is decoaders for them.
TCS T1
- P2K BN GP20 in the Big Sky Blue patch scheme(had fun when trying to paint the rails and step edges white, the whole thing started to fade) Pics of the model after the "fun":
5 Athearn RTR cars, the last 2 I'm gonna get rid of:- L&N single door boxcar- DVS FMC box- GRN ACF box- MKT 50' express reffer- MP 40' AAR box
Not train related; 3 shirts, 4 pants, a digital money jar, and a roadside first aid kit.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
CTValleyRR "New Haven Power" by J.W. Swanberg. Amazing book -- it has specs for every loco (including trolleys and RDCs) ever owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford (including ones it inherited from predecessor lines). I believe it has at least one photo of each engine, too! Plus descriptions / photos of freight and passenger cars, signature trains, and a section on artwork as well. Train Geek Heaven. Also a gift certificate to the LHS -- wanna guess where I'm headed tomorrow? Also got a Wii Fit Balance Board.... is someone trying to tell me something (no, Honey, I really don't spend all day in sedentary activities!). Kids got Guitar Hero 5, though, so I haven't had 5 minutes on the Wii yet to try it out.
You may want to throw something at the TV after you do all the inital steps to find out how "fit" you are. It assigns a "weight" to your character and it also told me something about not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time or work on tall buildings!
Got a Bachmann H16-44, 10 cylindrical hoppers and 10 40' boxcars, a bunch of scratchbuilding parts and bits, a coupla books and a DPM Gold kit of Olsen's Feed and Larsen's Implement.
And we got a Lionel Trainset to place under the tree next year-------with 'Spring'?-----are they kidding?
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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I don't know if I can give Santa the credit or not but how about a not dead wife back from cancer surgery at the hospital and a not dead daughter from a horrendous wham by a drunk driver. Train wise it was a very slow year, under the tree there was an Empire Builder game variation "China Rails" under the tree. I got to (had to) pick out all the gifts this year so it wasn't much of a surprise - it was the cheapest train related game I could find.
I can relate with Loathar. I am so thankful that Loathar is back employed after a long hiatus. However, I am presently unemployed and there were no Christmas gifts this year in our family. My daughter did come through for her dad. She bought me a copy of Realistic Model Railroad Operation. I am so thankful for the small things in life when things are very tough. Merry Christmas to all!