Well, guess Santa found out I was naughty, but my son gave me a Fox Valley box car that he weathered.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night, regards, Peter
Nice looking GN car. That one is on my want list along with the FV brown Soo car!
Mine are coming a bit late for Christmas but thats ok - ordered a Rapido F40PH and hoping they'll be running the phase II body style in the next year!
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I hope everyone had a good Christmas!
However, Santa didn't bring me anything! Not even a stocking! My wife didn't get anything either!
Seriously, we decided on no gifts or stockings this year because she had recently agreed that the layout was a go, and I suggested that we should visit her sister in British Columbia next summer, and maybe take a cruise up the BC coast while we were there.
We are both quite happy with the way Christmas turned out.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
We don't let Santa in at our house. That said, I ordered a Tangent 6,000 gal. 3-Compartment tank car from M.B. Klein with some Christmas money I received from my dear mother- & father-in-law:
It will be a handsome and unique addition to my tank car roster when I can get a new layout up and going sometime in the future.
Wish Tangent offered these as a decorated kit. I'd be all over that.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
I got two big books on trains;
The age of trains...from the rocket to the bullet; and trains, an illustrated history from steam locomotive s to high speed rail.
One is a book of pull outs to unfold for each train, the other a regular book
Hope all had a good Christmas!
-G
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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.
Cheers, the Bear
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I got to spend Christmas with my great grandson (5 years old). This was his 1st real Christmas (selfish drug parents!) and he was absolutely thrilled! I gave him a Lionel Little Line train set, an HO Thomas loco, and I custom built him a SP Cab Forward from a wooden steam loco for his wood tracks. I get to spend more time in my train room since he is with us (we now have temp custody). I never thought a 5 year old could learn to run DCC sound equipped articulated locos and manage switching operations! I am blessed this Christmas. BTW I didn't get anything for my trains this year.
-Bob
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Have fun with your trains
farrellaa I got to spend Christmas with my great grandson (5 years old). This was his 1st real Christmas (selfish drug parents!) and he was absolutely thrilled! I gave him a Lionel Little Line train set, an HO Thomas loco, and I custom built him a SP Cab Forward from a wooden steam loco for his wood tracks. I get to spend more time in my train room since he is with us (we now have temp custody). I never thought a 5 year old could learn to run DCC sound equipped articulated locos and manage switching operations! I am blessed this Christmas. BTW I didn't get anything for my trains this year. -Bob
Bob, good for you. My 4 year old grandson does rather well operating my Aristo Train Engineer throttles - these kids today just seem to take to all this tech stuff.
While all of our adult children are doing well now, some of them did have some challenges in their lives in the past. I will pray that everything works out for your family, especially the little one.
I don't ask for or desire train stuff as gifts any more. While my wife is supportive of the hobby, she prefers I buy that sort of stuff for myself - gifts should be at least a little bit of a surprise - hard to do for a model railroader and buy the stuff they really want.
We only bought each other a few things - we are blessed to have most everything we need or want - we try to turn our attentions to bringing joy to others this time of year.
Sheldon
Thanks for sharing that story, Bob. Brought a smile to my face.
I was operating American Flyer at 3-years old and was quite careful about handling both the locomotives and rolling stock. I enjoyed the wood train sets, as well, as that allowed me the opportunity to arrange and rearrange the tracks in any which-way I wanted.
I got:
I am a blessed man.
tstage We don't let Santa in at our house. That said, I ordered a Tangent 6,000 gal. 3-Compartment tank car from M.B. Klein with some Christmas money I received from my dear mother- & father-in-law: It will be a handsome and unique addition to my tank car roster when I can get a new layout up and going sometime in the future. Wish Tangent offered these as a decorated kit. I'd be all over that. Tom
Those Tangent tank cars are nice - I might get one myself. Doesn't Intermountain and Proto 2000 make tank cars with almost as good detail in kit form? I think I saw a few at the last Timonium show.
I got my Christmas present early. I had a lumbar spinal fusion earlier this month. Now, I can walk without being all hunched over, the strength is returning to my legs, the numbness is also dissipating...
Marlon
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riogrande5761 tstage We don't let Santa in at our house. That said, I ordered a Tangent 6,000 gal. 3-Compartment tank car from M.B. Klein with some Christmas money I received from my dear mother- & father-in-law: It will be a handsome and unique addition to my tank car roster when I can get a new layout up and going sometime in the future. Wish Tangent offered these as a decorated kit. I'd be all over that. Tom Those Tangent tank cars are nice - I might get one myself. Doesn't Intermountain and Proto 2000 make tank cars with almost as good detail in kit form? I think I saw a few at the last Timonium show.
Rio,
Yes, both Proto 2000 and IM used to make tank car kits but both have gone the RTR route, unfortunately - at least for me. The only way to get those kits now are at train shows and LHSes that still have them sitting on the shelf.
I have 8K & 10K gal. versions from both companies and, as far as detailing, I would give Proto 2000 the slight edge over IM. That said, both make very nice models when assembled.
All the tank cars I have are the single-dome variety so this is my first 3-dome (-compartment) tank car for my roster. How it compares in quality to the Proto 2000 & IM tank cars I'll find out when I receive it later this week. I think they'll be comparable to one another on that front.
Like Dave, same here; no gift for me. Got the wife a few things. I guess I will get myself something from Trainworld.
All the best.
Reinhard
Joe F
Got two MTH ES4400ac locos and a Tangent Airslide.
Russell
I got this....
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
I got a day with my family. 3 sons, 1 daughter-in-law, 1 grandson, 1 granddaughter.
Best present I could have had. It was fun watching my grandson who is 4 and my granddaughter who is 1 1/2 with presents and toys.
Enjoy
Paul
Velo - That is an impresive weatehring job ! Well done by your son !
I recieved som off the wall train stuff. A ginger bread train.
A metal welded train christmas piece of decoration.
And the real winner MOH bought me an N&W miller sign "Roanoke shops" - Nice !!!
Nice little Plymouth switcher by BLI .
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The wife got me a membership to a bridge club. I jump off three weeks from next Thursday.
Actually we don't do much in the way of gifts anymore. We purchase toys and donate them to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. They are very appreciative. And it's something that can even make an old Grinch like me smile.
Good Boxing Day Morning Gang,
Well nothing for the LM&E this year, but we are big "Ticket to Ride" board games fans here, two od my Sons included. From one of them I got the Netherlands expansion set, this should put a new twist on it with dikes and bridges and ferrys. Will probably get to play a little or lot of that this evening. My wife aalways buys me a new tree ornament in the railroad theme from Hallmark. I must have about twenty of more of them now. This year was a Chessie GP-38. and my Grandson got a Bachmann Thomas set that he is thrilled with.
Hope everybody got a tummy full of Turkey as well, We had a big Family Christmas as we do evey year of my Wife's extended family. Must have been about 40 there, but still quite a few missing this year.
Till later, Busy Boxing day.
Johnboy out...............
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
About the same-o things I get every year including a box of sugar free chocolate covered cherries which goes to the trash at first chance-if you ever tried these things you know why..
I got a video game and two Athearn RTR PS4740 covered hoppers both Bunge Corporation.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
A box full of scratch building materials, strips,doors windows, siding.
I didn't need anything right now, but it made a nice addition to onhand stock.
That,along with a stress free day..quite nice
Didn't get anything train-related. Two new pairs of jeans, new pair of pants, new shirt, and $300 cash from Mom and Dad. Got some candy (which will be donated to the candy jar at work) and $25 and $50 Visa gift cards from my brother and his family.
With the $375 in cash and gift cards, I'm thinking of getting:
Kevin
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Santa and his reindeer got stuck somewhere in the Midwest, but rumor has it he is bringing me an F40PH and some superliners.
My daughter got the best gift of all though, a bag of potato chips. I've never seen someone so happy before. She's 1.
God bless my wife!
She gave me this for Christmas :
A Sony DSC QX100 WIFI Camera!
I have tested it briefly, and it looks promising. These pics are unedited and I only used the room lighting:
A really cool gadget!
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Dad just got his second present untrain related but very nice. He's going to make whole slab into table for in front of couch. It's a piece of black walnut and very expensive he said. Making table for my mom.
The best gift I got was my daughter and her family with my 2 granddaughters came up for Christmas. Train related items I received were some figures, some cows, and my 8 YO Granddaughter got me a monster car with big tires that I will use as a prop on my railroad, eventually.
But I also got this. A new 2015 F150 with a tan interior and enough buttons to keep a 3 year olds attention for hours.
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
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