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

[Anonymous]

A huge train room with an attached house, then a brand new Jaguar, a Humongous Diamond for momma, and a separate house for the kids, ya guys, their both over 18.

[rf16a]

A Doctor to revive me from the shock of winning it.

A whole lotta stuff!

No financial worries ever again for family/close friends.

Those two Baldwin RF-16a Sharks rotting away somewhere in Michigan. I'd either restore them to operating condition or donate them to a museum so all railfans could enjoy them.

[tatans]

Just thinking: What can you buy today with only $15,000,000.00????

[Anonymous]

After Uncle Sam takes his cut, I'll put a portion into reputable IRA's and investment funds, and start a business doing the things I love, and will hopefully not have to worry about things like food, and shelter, until I die.

Take a small house, convert it to solar power, do so for some friends.
Buy a couple new cars,

Buy a nice fleet of brass models, and some craftsmen kits.

Alvie.

[Anonymous]

Rideable steam engine with cars and 50 acres of track with mountains and tunnels and bridges....................................................How much is a real engine?

[twhite]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 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? [;)]

Hey, Aggro, I'll just start from #1--okay, okay, I'll give YOU some!! Happy now?
Tom[:D]

[Anonymous]

I'd buy the whole train shop... I'd be enjoying my favorite hobby and earning money at the same time... hehehe... I'd probably make my dreams come true like buying a whole fleet of Kato GE ACs and Dash 9s and Athearn Genesis SDs... Or better yet, brass... hehehe...

[Train 284]

Some grand scale live steam, 20 acres, lots of HO and G gauge stuff. Ya pretty much train stuff!

[Anonymous]

If I won lotto, I would by a HSV Clubsport with the 6 litre V-8 and 6 speed Manual, a House with enough room for a decent Layout, a G-Scale Train Running into Every Room in the House, and Turn it into a Food and Beeverage Express from the Kitchen where the Butler would be so If I ever needed a drink he could sit it on the train and run it to where ever I am , and save his legs.

With any Left over money, spend it on my N-Scale layout and then open it up for fund raising for Local Charity foundations..
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[Anonymous]

Buy a massive plot of land, build a football feild sized building plus house, inside the building create a massive reproduction of a Conrail subdivision circa 1980. Maybe the northeast corridor. Ken Mccorry already did the buffalo line....

[fiatfan]

The first thing I would do would be to hire someone to quit for me! [}:)] [:D]

Tom

[Dbcxyz123]

A N&W A Class in HO

[:D]Norfolk & Western All the Way!!![:D]

[dinwitty]

snipe all the brass off ebay 8-D

[Bikerdad]

Okay, after I get back from Hawaii (where, btw, I'll give Mom the new car I bought to get around), I'll buy a new Bushtec Genesis trailer (has more room) for my motorcycle, buy a motorcycle for my brother if he'll come with as I climb on my motorcycle and go find a nice chunk of land somewhere in America that satisfies my 4 recreational desires: woodworking, motorcycling, windsurfing, and modelrailroading. I reckon it'll take me 6 months to 2 years to find the land I'd like. [:D]

Buy the land, put a yurt on it to live in while building with my father's help an 1,800 sq foot home with the 3,000 square foot workshop/garage/trainroom next to it, preferably on or close to a good windsurfing site.

Of course, in the meantime, kid's college will be paid for, modest new truck will be acquired (really useful for building the house and such), and a few model locomotives, rolling stock and such will come into my collection. (I probably would get one of the brass Yellowstone's in N scale.) and the vast bulk of the winnings will be sitting in an assortment of investment vehicles being fruitful and multiplying. $8,500,000 (after taxes and the above "commitments") can do a lot of multiplying, to the tune of 1/2 million a year, assuming a reasonable ROI.

Once the house is done, turn my attention to something productive. Making a better mousetrap, or more accurately, a better N scale engine. If my concepts are workable, set about producing them for the market and become, hopefully, the premium N scale motive power producer, eclipsing Kato, Atlas and the German companies as well. Imagine, if you will, an N scale Berkshire that will pull, out of the box, 60+ cars, at a price maybe 50% higher than current plastic locos.

[GDRMCo]

Well I would win the lotto in Europe come back to Aus with triple that amount something in the range of $45,000,000au and buy a huge warehouse, hire a modeling group to build the biggest layout in the world, buy a new mansion, get a pair of Holden Monaros and tune em and then the possibilities are endless.
Mitchell

[Anonymous]

After I won the lotto my first purchase would definitely be a 1998 Lamborghini Diablo Roadster in Titanium [;)]

[Anonymous]

Corvette 1969 stingray with a 350 small block V-8 4 bolt main. a Chevelle with a 502 and all kinds off goodies. then god only knows what.....

[ksax73]

A house with a big basement.

A nice car, doesn't have to be flashy but I will hook it up though.

Pay off my college dept and the rest of my tuition.

Get my masters in Urban/Regional and/or Transportation Planning.

Bypass the last two if 15 million would leave me financially secure for the rest of my life (given that I spend and invest my money wisely of course)

[Anonymous]

restore old depo in hopewell jct n.y. for club in town

[orsonroy]

First purchase would be a 100-acre farm next to the Illinois Railway museum.
Second purchase would be a 110+ year old farmhouse to move to the site.
Third purchase would be a NKP steam engine to park next to the house, after being restored to operating condition.
Fourth purchase would be the "rights" to run her on the mainline!

[RedLeader]

I'll invest in Microsoft, Oracle, Boeing, Virgin, telecomunications and clones. I'll quit my job, look for a trophy wife and a mistress[}:)] , and get a white great Dane named Hamlet and a black one named Othello. Buy a Rachard Neutra house, Buy a Shelby Cobra. Buy a restored P-51 Mustang. Build an maintain a Railroad Museum of local RR history.

[Anonymous]

I'd probobly forget model railroads have my own privet varni***o travel in. Maybe even a small locomotive to haul it around.

[vsmith]

Hhehhehe

A few hundred acres of land someplace scenic, then the two real full size steam narrow gauge locomotives I found for sale on the internet. Then few miles of track and the Steam up parties at my place!

Oh, and a rather large shed so I could build my "retirement" layout, L.A. circa 1940!!!!
That and a killer garage full of numorous classics.

[Anonymous]

How about a 1/1 scale pair of Conrail SD40-2's? [;)]

[tatans]

A 1957 Buick Roadmaster 75, 11 tons of fun and chrome and $14,988,000 for gas.

[SilverSpike]

After unplugging the phone, and after getting the financial engine in place to manage all that dough ( what's left after Uncle Sam is about $9,000,000), I would pay off all the current debt, including mortgage, student loans, and credit cards. Then with the remaining $8.9 million I would set aside enough for the boys college funds, put half of the remaining $$ in various high yield equity funds, take a quarter of the remaining half and play with it, and then donate some to various charities and the Boys Scouts of America.

Oh, and buy a huge building and construct a very large multi-level HO scale layout with help from all my friends.

[Anonymous]

First, pay off the mortgage on the house, 2nd, pay off the debt on my business, 3rd whatever my wife and I want to spend it on. Some of that spending would include model railroading, but no purchase of a real rail line or anything like that. I think we'd replace both vehicles, buy a few "goodies" of one kind or another, take a vacation, etc.

[Anonymous]

The one thing I would NEVER buy again in my life: ANOTHER LOTTERY TICKET!

[Anonymous]

Butch you and me both Man! Lamborghini Diablo it is.

[UPJohn]

I would buy a huge warehouse and build the biggest train layout in the world with like 100 scale miles of mainline