So What Did You Get For Christmas?

[dragenrider]

My dear wife surprised me! [:O] She got in touch with Mark from One Track Mind in Little Rock and with his help presented me with a box full of N scale goodies! [:D]

Inside I found Woodland Scenics people, cows, and benches; Atlas bridges; various bags of scenic grass; building kits; a car railing guide; and much more. [tup] Wow! What a girl! [:X]

Since I'm normally an HO scale modeler who is just experimenting with N scale this winter, I feel like she's pushing me toward the dark side! [}:)] Oh, well. I'm a pushover where she's concerned!

[selector]

I got January's MRR, the latest MRC, ...oh, yeah, and a brand new BLI PRR K4s!



Swwwweeeeeeeeeeeeettt! [:P][:P][:)]

I am glad to see that so many of you have had a good experience today. Hug a loved one.

-Crandell

[loathar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by On30Shay

The first thing I got was a red hot piece of my beautiful wife this morning. It's just gotten better and better ever since.

SHAY! PLEASE! This is a family show! (you lucky dog!)You got me beat!

[AggroJones]

Got myself a bottle of Triple Sec liqueur, nursed it for a while. Then crawled back in my bed and slept through most of this 'Christmas day.'

[Budliner]

uncle AL gave me a $99 metal modlepower set
nice 5 pc and all are metal nice bobber santa fe cool

oh ya and some $100 radioshack police scanner
I did not think mp was going to be better that rs but I love the train
hmm I can get this
Commuter Rail / MBTA SERVICE
FREQUENCY PL/DPL DESCRIPTION MISC. W/N
Old Colony 161.490 South Shore Help
Cape Cod 160.725 Operations
North Side 1 160.320 Fitchburg, Lowell, Rockport, Newburyport
North Side 2 160.590 Haverhill, Ipswich
CSXs Main 160.800 Framingham CSXs main
South Side 160.920 All South Side Ops except Old Colony
North Side 3 161.160 Dispatch to Train - North Side
North Side 4 161.520 Train to Dispatch - North Side
South Yards 161.070 South Side Yards (also Amtrak & Conrail)
North Yards 160.875 North Side Yards
Engineering 160.695 also 161.565 and 161.460

[loathar]

Budliner- I saw those MP sets at Hob Lob. They looked pretty cool! Congrats..

[ezielinski]

I got:

Proto 2000 Canadian National GP9
Athearn BB Canadian National Wide Vision Caboose
Walthers Cornerstone Railway Express Agency
Walthers Cornerstone Front Street Warehouse
Walthers Cornerstone Greatland Sugar Refining
Walthers Cornerstone Overhead Crane to kit-bash for my Allied Rail Rebuilders
Atlas Interlocking Tower
Various track odds and ends for the layout I'm in the process of building.

My soon-to-be wife really loves me and my hobby :)

[Anonymous]

Underwear, socks, a jacket and two sweaters.

Why?

[Medina1128]

Wow, where to start...
A Lionel Hudson Locomotive lamp - with action and sound!!
An Athearn Genesis powered Santa Fe F3-B unit
A glow in the dark t-shirt with a picture of a UP Challenger on it
A BLI Frisco Line Mikado
A bunch of code 83 flextrack and #6 turnouts
Cork roadbed
Hot glue gun
Woodland Scenics ground foam
Craftsman 19.2 volt cordless drill
Bar clamps
10 rolls of Liquid Nails for Projects
1 bottle of Mod-Podge (for making the local fishing hole!!)
Cornerstone New River Mining Company
Wood model of The Grandview, MO passenger station
Lighted set of passenger cars
Craftsman cordless shop phone (so I won't keep leaving her phone in the basement)
A $75 gift certificate to my favorite train store (Show Me Lines of Grandview, MO)
A roll of 500' of wire (yep, time to wire this thing)
A new daughter-in-law and granddaughter (my son and his fiancee back in AZ went to Vegas and got hitched)

[BRAKIE]

Santa was good to me this year on the modeling side..I got 2 books: Appalachian Conquest by Eugene Huddleson
and
Chesapeake & Ohio Color Pictorial Vol.1 by Harry Stegmaier..

So,I will snuggle down with a hot cup of hot chocolate and start enjoying these books.I plan on ordering Vol.2 the C&O pictorial as soon as I can locate it on line.I better mention the Athearn RTR C&O observation car my Granddaughter got me.[:D]

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Medina1128

Wow, where to start...
A Lionel Hudson Locomotive lamp - with action and sound!!
An Athearn Genesis powered Santa Fe F3-B unit
A glow in the dark t-shirt with a picture of a UP Challenger on it
A BLI Frisco Line Mikado
A bunch of code 83 flextrack and #6 turnouts
Cork roadbed
Hot glue gun
Woodland Scenics ground foam
Craftsman 19.2 volt cordless drill
Bar clamps
10 rolls of Liquid Nails for Projects
1 bottle of Mod-Podge (for making the local fishing hole!!)
Cornerstone New River Mining Company
Wood model of The Grandview, MO passenger station
Lighted set of passenger cars
Craftsman cordless shop phone (so I won't keep leaving her phone in the basement)
A $75 gift certificate to my favorite train store (Show Me Lines of Grandview, MO)
A roll of 500' of wire (yep, time to wire this thing)
A new daughter-in-law and granddaughter (my son and his fiancee back in AZ went to Vegas and got hitched)

Did ya leave anything at the hobby store for me?!?[:0]

[Anonymous]

I only got one train item but its what I hvae been wanting for a while. An Atheran BNSF GP60B.

Other stuff was a few CDs, a couple DVDs, new portable CD player, some new clothes, and $60 in cash which some will probably be spent on train stuff.

[Anonymous]

It was a small yet intimate Christmas with just my wife and son...they were generous as usual, including an Atlas U30C (D&H 707), a very cozy chenile sweater and (maybe) a late gift (after other financial commitments are settled) of a Moog Voyager synthesizer, which will add genuine analog goodness to the keyboard rig.
Rock on, boys and girls!

[ARTHILL]

The JV model of the Boyd mining camp. Will spend most of snowbird seaon in my motorhome putting those together.

[twcenterprises]

Just coal for me.

Lots and lots of coal.......

Coal, coal everywhere, not a lump to burn......

I've been REALLY naughty this year.

Brad

[SP4449]

I got wife a pair of Kato HO SD70MAC locos, one in BN Premerger paint and the other in BNSF Heritage (experimental) paint to go with the BNSF coal train she is building (already has 6 Walthers 6-car sets for it), and a FALLER kit of a lawnmower pulled around a yard by a serpentine belt and a pair of magnets (straight from Germany - my son-in-law has connections). It works like the FALLER Highway setups sold in Walthers. [8D]

She got me a Walthers "Route 66 Motel" Cornerstone Built-up set and then she and my son-in-law and daughter teamed up to get 4 extra cabins to go with it, and a couple of Blair Line Laser cut wood buildings that will go with the motel, and a couple of Athearn RtR flat cars to put my 45 foot Athearn RtR UPS vans on, and a couple of Athearn BB hopper cars, and a couple of SP Vintage Steam video tapes, and some stuff not related to model railroading but fun anyway.

I got the family a G-guage "Holiday Express" train for the tree. [:-,] It wasn't set up when my daughter and family came over and I made a game of "discovery" for my 4 year old grandson. He about bounced the house down jumping up and down on the floor trying to get "papa" to hurry and set the "big train" up (I had an HO setup around the tree he quickly lost interest in) and he was ultimately given the controls to run it. BTW, I bought it at Sears for half Walther's price and it is exactly the same set as sold in Walthers with two exceptions: it came with the Water Tank Car instead of the Candy Dancer car and it had the Sing Along At the Station bulding in it. Heck of a deal. Now to order the other three cars from Walthers. . .

Yes, my family is all train nuts. We have a lot of fun together. My wife and I help set up a modular layout for the NMRA division where we each have modules to contribute. My son-in-law is into Eurpoean models and is on Marklin's mailing list. He and my daughter share a corner and a straight module in the layout just mentioned and my granddaughters share responsibility for a Marklin HO starter set which the 10 year old won in a drawing during one of their weekend trips to Kansas City.

Much Happiness in the coming year and may the "God of Model Railroading" smile down on all of you.[:D][:D][:D][8D]

[David_Telesha]

More pics:

An old TM kit I got for Christmas (I picked it out). Built it last night - needs some weathering:


Atlas NH NE6. I really took a liking to this scheme - VERY SHARP looking - the ends of the body and coupola are white with orange trim on the windows and the door is orange:


What I'm currently working on - Branchline NH coach - never can have enough of these:

[traintownofcowee]

Well...
I got 2 Lionel GS-4s painted as the American Freedom Train.
4 train cars from the 1976 American Freedom Train.
An Alaska Railroad McKinley Explorer train set.
VERY RARE American Freedom Train Patch, coin, and three tickets!
John Bull Train Set.
A A.H.M. Seaboard Railroad Spirit Of 1776 FM Locomotive.
All Aboard America Book.
A A.H.M. Union Pacific Challenger #3950 (I already have #3985 made by Rivarossi)
A Lionel SP Caboose painted in Daylight colors.
And tons of pins.
(All of these models are in HO scale)
That's All Folks!

[Anonymous]

I got a Lionel O Guage Polar Express set, a couple of RR books and $200.00 dollars in LHS gift certificates!!!!! Yeah!!!!!

[traintownofcowee]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twcenterprises

Just coal for me.

Lots and lots of coal.......

Coal, coal everywhere, not a lump to burn......

I've been REALLY naughty this year.

Brad

Well...
I guess you could sell that coal to one of those tourist railroads. For some $cash$.
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[Anonymous]

The wife took me to Office Depot this morning and let me pick out a flourecent\magnfiy lamp. Let there be Light and sight

[wctransfer]

Well, i got a lot of good stuff, not all trains, and not much money, so ill bite

SOO LIne RTR SD60 6017
SOO Line 6 post boxcar, maroon/white
Lionel Clock
Number 58 couplers

And this is for trains, but not a train.

My brand new Olympus FE110 with 5 MP and 2.8 optical zoom. Yumm. I have 21 bucks, and 40 soon cuz my cuzin bought my older camera. 60 bucks, ahhh , well ill save it for a while.

Alec

[Anonymous]

hmmm...

dont have specifics with me but i got,

2 Kato Passenger Cars
2 Dummie Sante Fe's
Atlas Utah copper car
Atlas Gas car
Roadbed
My little bro got me a bridge (how sweet!)

Merry Christmas to all

pavariangoo

p.s (lucky u shay)

[Anonymous]

I recieved a flat car with John Deere tractors on it, a refueling truck, and some new automobiles. Also recieved a gas station kit. [^]

The big surprise was non-MR related from my bro. An awesome remote control 1/18 scale Panzer IV Ausf. H! Needless to say, my model railroading activities will probably be on hold for a while! [;)]

[David_Telesha]

Finished my Christmas coach yesterday, pictured above under construction - 7884 in Hunter Green - built to NH specs with the bathroom on the left - the partition of the other bathroom is showing through the window on the right, though its across the aisle on the correct side. (the picture makes it look like they're on the same side, but they aren't)


Heres another I built earlier this year - 7836 in Pullman Green:

[wctransfer]

DANG! Nice paint! That thing is beautiful!

Alec

[BRVRR]

Here's a link to my gift from the wife! A BLI NYC Hudson. Great little loco with awesome sound.
[url="http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24452&whichpage=3"]
Enjoy!

[RMax1]

Got 4 train dvd's and a new drill. Made the annual trip to Hobby Lobby and stocked up on supplies. Got a $5 gift certificate to Amazon.com that gave me an excuse to buy 2 books I have been wanting. All in all a good Christmas.

RMax1

[Anonymous]

3 Athearn RTR 53' Jindo Containers(CSX), all four Walthers RTR Goldline CSX Difco Dump Cars(A 3 pack and the single car), 3 Walthers RTR Goldline CSX Ballast Hoppers(Finally found 'em!), a special item I will describe below, and the [censored] stomach virus everyone within 100 miles of our town has had. [|(]

Now, the afforementioned "special item" is an Athearn RTR ACL excursion train, NOT available in stores. A good friend of mine works for CSX. CSX was offering these sets to all employees, at a cost of course. The cost, though, was about half of what you'd pay if you bought each car and locomotive seperately. I have to say, this set made my Christmas. I had been looking for a CSX-related excursion train to run on my layout, so this came at a great time.

Matt

[Anonymous]

- MRC Tech 4 260 power pack
- 1 year subscription to Model Railroader magazine
- Atlas FP7 Santa Fe Yellow/Silver warbonnet (experimental paint from the early Amtrak days)
-2006 BNSF color calander
- Great Model Railroads 2006
and some non-train stuff