You just won the lottery for $15,000,000 what is your first purchase?

[Anonymous]

My first purchase will definitely be the 1998 Lamborghini Diablo Roadster in red. Price is $175,000. My second and third purchase will be a yello and a silver one too. I have always dreamed of owning one since they were introduced in 1991. I just have never been rich enough to buy one. If I won the lottery I would though. What will your first purchase be and why?

[camarokid]

A BIG new house with a basement to match for my trains far from where I am living now to get away from all the new friends I would aquire. You can't win that much money and stay in your locale for all the people who will call and show up at your door. YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE!!
Archie

[Anonymous]

The salvageable portion of CSX

[Anonymous]

Don't spend it all in one place. Your first "purchase" will be about half your winnings in income taxes.

Wayne

[Anonymous]

Before I spend it, I need to know: Where do I collect?

[Anonymous]

A First Edition/first printing of Dashall Hammit's "The Maltese Falcon" or of Tom Graham's "Hike and the Aeroplane". But that is just me.

On another thread someone mentioned an empty 747 hanger for their dream layout. Here in sothern Ohio we have a few abandoned Nike missle bases. Huge expansses of open warehouse like space, multiple levels from what I have heard. Just the place to build the dream layout. I hear that the last time one sold it went cheap. That should leave a lot of winnings for benchwork, track, DCC, rolling stock...... And you could survive a not so near miss from a low yeald nuclear weapon.

[Anonymous]

"Hike and the Aeroplane" would complete my Tom Graham/ Sinclair Lewis collection. I heard a story of a book dealer who had it on his online "wants" list & got an email from a less knowlegable seller asking $35.00 for it. Knowing that probably many other dealers & collectors were likly to pounce on it, he immediately emailed and phoned & was up front in telling the person the asking price was hardly a fraction of the book's value. He offered, I think, around $4,000 which the seller immediately accepted. When he paid for book later, the seller said there were over 40 other requests to buy it and not one offered more than $35.00.

Off-topic of the thread I know, but the thread has nothing to do with trains anyway.

Wayne

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm just a model railroader.... I'd buy a house with a basement for a large layout and then the latest Marklin Big Boy. Who needs a 200 mph car when you can't drive it over 70? Shows that I don't need to impress the ladies anymore! [(-D]

[tatans]

Bolivia, and a used brass painted C.P.R. 4-8-4 Northern HO locomotive.

[Anonymous]

10 fully equippted 18 wheelers and a complete infrastructure to maintain the fleet.

Perhaps bigger things will come.

[GN-Rick]

An ENORMOUS basement with a house over it. All other things come after.

[JohnT14808]

The whole kit and kaboodle of the San Diego RR Club at Balboa Park; building and all.

[Anonymous]

I think that I'd buy a building in our downtown and fill as many floors as I could with trains of all different scales.

Then, I'd retire and manage the building.

[twhite]

150 brass HO scale Missabe Yellowstones. I'll work the rest from there.
Tom [:P][:P][:P]

[grayfox1119]

I would build a big MRR addition to the house.....plenty of room for a huge layout. What good would it be to buy all kinds of items if you didn't have the room for them? ROOM has to come first.

[Ibeamlicker]

You guys are nuts I'd buy a real railroad line.Just think about it no more weathering,scenery design,it would all be real.

[Anonymous]

a 100' x 100' shed with 1 million in trains to go in it!!!

[selector]

First, I'd buy my wife the convertible she's always wanted and a big honkin' diamond. [;)]

Next, I'd buy a John Deere excavator so that I could dig a big hole before breakfast, and fill it in after lunch. [(-D]

Then, I'd get us a super cruise through the Carribean and Panama Canal.

While we are cruising, Astrophysics Corp would be building my 150mm apochromatic refractor with voice activated German equatorial mount.

I'd order pizza whiile I thought of the rest. [:)]

[Bikerdad]

A plane ticket to Hawaii, actually, 5. Gotta go visit Momster.

[sparkingbolt]

A good lunch, probably Chinese food. Something spicy.

[ac4400fan]

I can't imagine,what my wife would do to me,with what id do ,with my layout

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite

150 brass HO scale Missabe Yellowstones. I'll work the rest from there.
Tom [:P][:P][:P]

There were only 18 of them. How would you go about road numbering them? [;)]

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Muddy Creek

Don't spend it all in one place. Your first "purchase" will be about half your winnings in income taxes.

Wayne

Sorry to break it to ya Wayne but North of the Border Loto winninings are tax free.

So with my winnings:

Buy my own LHS
Knock down the Neighbour's place and get into "G" scale. (Whether or not he approves)
Hold a super detailing party and get the MESS cleaned up.

I'm sure I can come up with other things.

Fergie

[fec153]

Dodge Durango to haul the Harleys to all the places Deb wants to go. Hunk of property for MRRing and a home to live in.
Certain charities and friends and of course family to take care of. Set up Nonprofit trust for little or no taxes before getting the loot.
Flip

[Anonymous]

I will buy a house to go around my model trains. Then a Volvo

[Anonymous]

Steam Locomotive Pere Marquette #1223, a 2-8-4 Berkshire, which is currently on display in Grand Haven, MI. I'd buy it and restore it and run it on the shortline by my house. Second I'd buy a real ex ATSF FP45 (and maybe an SD80MAC, too[:D]), and do the same.

[TurboOne]

Everyones ideas are awesome. Just the tone in your writing made this a great question. Can you feel the energy this created.

After buying a big house for the family, I want to buy a huge protable layout, that can be set up at different churches and youth functions. Show kids God thru trains. Example have 12 boxcars with disiples names, take one off and see if anyone notices. Make learning fun idea.

Build a family compound so my kids always live close. Have my parents close by so they can be taken care of. Same for my brother and wife's relatives.

Spend a lot of time with family and friends.

Thanks for the question.

Tim

[Anonymous]

a new pickup to haul all my railroad stuff home.

[Anonymous]

Mine's a bit like railjunky2's - one of those big twin-axle flatbed trailers to haul the supplies home for a new layout. This would come after the uprated 2.8ltr Turbodiesel engine (replacing factory 2.5ltr) for my existing Disco, along with assorted suspension upgrades, off-road equipment, new stereo system... - would end up with a 9 year old truck with more power than the brand new ones!

Train-wise, I think it might well involve the largest single order in LGB's history...

[Anonymous]

An office for a layout. I have hundreds of miles of track but not a foot of space.