So What Did You Get For Christmas?

[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

[ARTHILL]

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

[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!

[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.

[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]

[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]

[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)

[Anonymous]

Underwear, socks, a jacket and two sweaters.

Why?

[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 :)

[loathar]

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

[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

[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.'

[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!

[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

[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!

[Cthetrains]

James, if I can take a few pics with that new lense, I'll drive.....

Rob..you wouldn't have any pics would ya?..hehehe[:-,][:-,][:-,][*^_^*][swg]

[cheese3]

ok here are the pics of my Atlas n-scale hoppers taken with my new kodak C340 5mp camera...

[Anonymous]

My mother and father gave me $60 gift certificate to coryville station (http://www.coryvillestation.com) my wife gave me a pocket knife set with two 484 steamer pictures on them. the knifes have a gloss finish so it makes the pocket knife, look really nice. My kids gave me christmas tree decorations of a F9 engine. not to bad of a christmas.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I got me a few Intermountain MRL hoppers [tup] A walthers building for my layout!! [8D]
Scenery stuff [^][:D][8D] And a Kato UP AC4400CW- which I am working on now.

Happy Holidays, and I hope evryone enjoys their trains.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the Forums Rayman86, Looks you got a good haul. I got a work light to help in assembly and a file set to use on Roundhouse metal parts. Phil

[trainfreek92]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pcarrell

QUOTE: Originally posted by andylmusic76

2 Micro Trains RR cars from my girlfriend

Yes siree friends and neighbors, he's got a keeper![:)]

lets not jump to conclusions but they were micro-trains!!! when you giving here the wedding ring[;)]. Tim

[tcf511]

My wife got me a sweatshirt, a denim shirt and baseball cap all custom embroidered with the name of my railroad and a steam locomotive. Also got a 2006 train calendar for the layout room and several packages of Woodland scenics people and vehicles. A pretty good haul!

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by andylmusic76

2 Micro Trains RR cars from my girlfriend

Yes siree friends and neighbors, he's got a keeper![:)]

[Anonymous]

Trackside on the C&O (Book)
C&O In color (The second book in the series)
Money to spend on new diesels
Atlas Trainman C&O caboose

[howmus]

lessee, I got: Not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR railroad books from my sister (the one I figured would get me some cars from the wrong era). She is really starting to like the model railroading hobby and is amazed at how much history of the world is connected to the railroads. Anyway she found these gems.

Makin' Tracks - The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad

Yonder Comes the Trains - The Story of the Iron Horse ( with some great photos)

Early Railroads by J. B. Snell

Pictoral History of Trains

My Son in the windy city found a print (beautifully framed) of a train coming around the curve at Glass Factory Bluff and the Country Club at Geneva, NY (where I live) It is I think a print of a painting. Hard to tell but I would guess a NYC Hudson pulling a consist of passenger cars sometime in the 1940's.

And! My other son gave me a Micro Mark Magneting assembly jig and some micro drills that can be used in the dremel moto tool.

All this and other stuff too. I think Santa was very good to me this year. Much more fun for me though is the giving of gifts of love to my family this season and all year long. Long live Nicholas, Bishop of Smyrna! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka, Happy Kwanza, and blessings to all people of good will around the world!

[ChessieFan13]

Merry Xmas to all........................I got a athearn bb sd40-2 in csx and a stewart 70t 3 bay hopper in csx w c&o markings and 3 100t hoppers from bachman silver series marked for c&o.................a pin vice..........a movie......cash.........clothing...........and a ak-47 parts kit..........ho ho ho J.W.

[cheese3]

I got 3 n scale hoppers and a new 5 mp digital camera, i will have some pics up later

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pcarrell

The only thing train related that I got was CASH!!!!!!!!

(Come to think about it, that may be the most train related gift of all time!)

You got that right!!

oh, and a DRUMSET!

[trainfreek92]

For train related stuff i got-
1.-N scale GP-38 BAR by Atlas
2- N scale- SW8 B&M switcher by Proto
3- MRC Synchro sound system for a Desiel Loco
4- N scale B&M boxcar by Atlas
5-N scale Vermont Railway Boxcar by Atlas
6- N scale CSX coal car by Atlas
7-N scale NS coal car by Atlas
8-N scale CSX covererd hopper by Atlas
9-N scale New Haven cabbose by Atlas
10- N scale Conrail covered hopper by Athearn
11- N scale Conrail gondola by Athearn
12- N scale BAR reefer by Athearn
13- N sclae- Tropicana reffer by Atlas
14-N scale switches by Atlas
that is what i got train related foir none train related i got a $20 (which will go to trains) $50 doller gift card to FYE 2 shirts, colonge, 3 movies, The Dukes of Hazzard season 3
a video game and candy [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][^][^][^][:D][:D][8D][8D][8D][:)][:)][:)][:)][:D]
[:D][8D][8D][:D]
Merry Chrsitmas Tim