CP5415 Only train related stuff I got was..... A Walthers Canadian Pacific ( gee i don't know why?) Autorack & some Athearn Crappy Tire Intermodal containers. Add a Rush Concert DVD, a Wii Game & a Bob Segar CD & my list was complete. Gordon
Only train related stuff I got was.....
A Walthers Canadian Pacific ( gee i don't know why?) Autorack & some Athearn Crappy Tire Intermodal containers.
Add a Rush Concert DVD, a Wii Game & a Bob Segar CD & my list was complete.
Gordon
What I got, A fifty dollar gift certificate at LHS. What I did not get, and was hopeing to have by now is my Bachmann ALCO 2-6-0 with snd from Caboose Hobbies. I guess there not in yet.
Truck.
Nothing, Santa said I was a very naughty boy this year
Have fun with your trains
vsmith Nothing, Santa said I was a very naughty boy this year
Did he at least leave you COAL...so you can heat the house???
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Yeah but if you were having fun being naughty, it might of been a good trade off.
None!
I strongly discourage anyone, Santa included, from supplying me with anything remotely connected to my model railway. The last thing I want is people spending money on out of era or out of geographical area models that I would never use on the GER.
It's NOT a "toy train set" where anything goes.
Cheers
Roger T.
Home of the late Great Eastern Railway see: - http://www.greateasternrailway.com
For more photos of the late GER see: - http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/rogertra/Great_Eastern/
Well, Some had good hauls, some had none,
let us hope everyone had some fun,
But let us not forget the true SPIRITof the Day,
Be it the The babe in a mager of hay
Or simply the SPIRIT of giving and sharing
That lets others know you are caring!
{original Poem created by galaxy, NOT copied}
My wife and family were very generous this year. She said that with everything i went through with my surgeries, I deserve it. She is so good to me. I received half a dozen RR Athearn RR cars and a few model power vehicels. and a half a dozen building kits. My son got me two books on weathering and a Harbor Freight Airbrush Compressor set up. Very nice.... i am blessed with a wonderful family, but i already knew that.
Corey
Railroading In Council Bluffs
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For some thirty years now I have been collecting Chinese made British OO scale models, mostly made by Kader (Bachmann). These are successors to the British made models, Tri-Ang and Hornby that we had as children.
Here in Australia, there is a serious mining boom under way and the financial crisis elsewhere has only been reflected in reduced purchasing of consumer goods while watching for any signs of recession.
Anyway, there has been a retail customer drought and hobby shops have been hit hard.
My local hobby shop decided to sell off the remaining stocks of Bachmann British OO passenger cars (only), not the locomotives or goods wagons, for $10 each, just prior to Christmas. I ended up with 21 cars...
Five Mk2 or 2A cars in 1966 blue/grey
Five Mk2 or 2A cars in Network Southeast
Five Mk 1 cars in Network Southeast
Six Mk 1 Mail Vans in Rail Express Systems
This adds missing eras and schemes to my collection. I already had appropriate locomotives for all of these trains...
I wasn't the only crazy customer, or I might have ended up with more.
M636C
Uhhhhh....
Hi. No trains for me but I did get 3 company house models, 2 books of advanced weathering techniques and 2 books on scenery techniques. All together just what I wanted, clever Santa. Chris.
I didn't get any trains, per se, but I DID get a cool metal Union Pacific sign to hang in the basement, er, train room. And, I got a Missouri Northern Arkansas calendar (both from a neighbor). The MNA serves our area; bringing oil tankers to a local oil company.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
For reasons unknown Santa was very generous to me this year. I received an Atlas NYC PS2 covered hopper, an Athearn RTR NYC 50' box car, a Trainline NH track cleaning boxcar, some flex track and two Atlas Atlas #6 turnouts.
It was a real good day
John R
John R.
ChadLRyan Uhhhhh....
All it needs is a little weathering, some ground foam, static grass and a couple of trees. I don't think it's DCC compatible.
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No trains for Christmas and it was a general disaster as parents can't play nice in the sand box - typical in-law consternation - causing a shipwreck. I have two divorced sisters who may be faced with the same common denominator ! Will need to make a new years resolution to avoid it next year!
Anywho, maybe I could say my Christmas presents came early as I had saved some extra money from doing lawn work on the side to buy 3 Athearn Southern Pacific SD45's. One is an L-shaped window version I snagged off of Ebay for $71 and the other two are "new run" SD45R's with the full light package for $85 ea - one from Kleins and the other from TTH.
Since money is generally tight like many others here, Christmas has too many other financial pressures for me to play Santa for myself.
Merry Christmas to those who can enjoy it without all the family troubles.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
I have one hard fast rule. No one buys me trains for Christmas. Not for many years now, since the last time it happened my well intended wife bought me a steam engine that wasn't even a Santa Fe engine.
I buy my trains myself, without help, without birthday/Christmas present help, and everyone is quite happy.
Bob
Just a few items:
An Atlas Middlesex Manufacturing Kit
2 Fox Valley Models B&O Class M-53 Boxcars
and 1 Kadee 40' PS-1 NYC Boxcar
and to top that all off, on Christmas Eve, I got an email from Caboose Hobbies, my pre-ordered Bachmann Alco S-4 w/DCC Sound on Board - Erie #529 is about to ship, and they finally charged my card. So, I'll be getting one of my presents a little bit late.
Gil, known as Bill somedays ...
Where ever you go, there you are !
what?
ChadLRyan what?
LOL
Alton Junction
No Trains but a real Steam Whistle!
Santa was generous this year. We got a Bachmann B&O EM1 and a Tsunami sound decoder to install in it, plus a couple more FVM B&O boxcars. Here's a shot of the loco:
Happy New Year everyone!!
Santa brought me a new train room...
with a pretty nice house stuck on top!
Now all I have to do is get about 100 boxes unpacked and moved out of my layout room...
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
Truck,
Caboose e-mailed me today that the 2-6-0 is being shipped along with Broadway NYC boxcars.
Well, I generally make an annual Christmas trip to see my kids (now all adults), in Denver and I manage to squeeze in a trip to Caboose Hobbies. Didn't get much this year, but I always make a purchase when I'm there. Living in Boise, Idaho, I don't get much exposure to hobby stores, especially of the Stature of Caboose. I have a shortage of detail parts, which I would generally have to purchase online or order through the mail, I made a modest "haul" of such detail parts as freight car and caboose details. I also picked up a Walthers Modular structure to fill in one of those voids in the backdrop on my layout. My Christmas gift to me!
Well being Santa at my house I spent well over $1400 for my small layout and that stuff is just tools and a few parts that I've needed for quite a while.
Had a very good Christmas though.
Wadda ya mean I'm old ? Just because I remember gasoline at 9 cents a gallon and those big coal burning steamers.
rogertra None! I strongly discourage anyone, Santa included, from supplying me with anything remotely connected to my model railway. The last thing I want is people spending money on out of era or out of geographical area models that I would never use on the GER. It's NOT a "toy train set" where anything goes.
That's why, over the years, I sort of "conditioned" my kids to check w/ a friend/ proprieter of my favorite LHS. I always made sure he knew exactly what I was interested in.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Think you might break it up into at least a load of chunk coal?
Well, Santa brought me a piece of paper in an envelope and it turned out to be a rather generous gift certificate to my hobby shop here in Roseville. Just got back after turning the little piece of paper into actual goodies. 3 Tunnel portals, a retaining wall, a HUGE roll of plaster cloth, 3 Rio Grande wood boxcars, 2 outside braced automobile cars (Milwaukee, T&P), and some background fir trees from Busch. Now I can finish that unfinished section of the Buttes (the backside). One of the clerks said to the other: "Never have to worry about Rio Grande stuff staying on the shelves very long when Mr. White comes in."
You've GOT it, baby, LOL!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Actually was rather surprised, this Christmas. I usually do get a few train items that I have pretty much picked out, however this year was quite different. I had preordered my EM-1 some months ago, didn't think it would even be here for Christmas. Got a call from my friend/ fellow club member that it was delivered. With work slow and buying all those goodies for all, I really couldn't buy this thing now. I guess all my "crying" to kids and GF, they did some "covert" steam handling and wasn't I quite surprised to find a Spectrum box tucked inside a Bosch tool case they must have dug out of the basement.
I got a superliner dining car and coach in phase ivb off my amazon wishlist from my mother in law and a copy of "The Corn Belt Route" from my mom which was a very good choice and totally unexpected.
PennCentral99 ChadLRyan: Uhhhhh.... All it needs is a little weathering, some ground foam, static grass and a couple of trees. I don't think it's DCC compatible.
ChadLRyan: Uhhhhh....
AS others will sometimes tell you- ANYTHING can be converted to DCC...All you have to do is get the CORRECT decoder! {with or without sound}