“Merry Christmas Everyone!”
Merry Christmas! This being Christmas Eve and tomorrow Christmas day, I expect the question that’s really going to be on mine and everyone else’s mind is-- whaddja get???
So, My Question For Today is Really Easy…
– What did Santa bring ya?
If you’re still up for another one…
– Did you get what you were hoping for?
As always I’m looking forward to your comments and opinions!
Merry Christmas!
John
Believe it or not, I have so many trains, and unbuilt kits, I don’t need or even want any more… UNTIL I have the time to get the layout running. Then I am sure my wants will pick up.
But anyway, a few days ago I saw Santa holding court at a local mall. For the moment, there were no kids waiting in line, and I took the opportunity to tell Santa what I really wanted for Christmas…a little spare time to work on the layout.
Santa stopped his cheery look and gave me an incredulous “take.”
"With all the things people expect me to do this time of year, you ask ME about spare time!?!?!? "
Anyway, happy railroading to all and to all a good night.
Alas, no trains for me, but my kid scored big time with several hundred pieces of wooden track! [:)]
Santa did not stop by at our home this year - just like last year.
Our son joined us for a couple of days and thus we received the most precious gift there is - time with the family on a beautiful Christmas day! What more can a man desire?
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Ulrich,
You are absolutely right-- and a beautiful scene there for you as well!
Merry Christmas to you!
John
The only train thing that I got was some much needed bullfrog snot. MERRY XMAS!!!
My step-daughters got me an eBay gift card - Yes, it’s train stuff, because eBay is my favorite hobby store. I suspect that a vintage craftsman structure kit or a vintage brass loco is in my future.
The greatest gift that I got was from my cardiologist - he still doesn’t know why my chest aches, but last week’s angiogram shows that there is NOT a heart attack in my future. So you guys are stuck with me for a while longer.
Happy holidays and good health to you all.
My haul from Santa and My Other Half {MOH}:
Locos: DCC OnBoard Chessie GP 40 {I have wanted for a long time}; and a DCC OnBoard D&H GP38-2 {MOH and mine intials are “D” and “H” so we have begun collecting “D&H” stuff- which is nto easy as not a popular fallen flag…
RRCars: C&O and B&O BOx cars {B&O and C&O and CHessie and CSX are my nromal runs}; and A B&O Gondola; and a D&H Boxcar and D&H COvered hopper. I am sure there are mroe D&H stuff in my futer {if we can find it.}
So 2 locos and 5 Cars, good enough for me!
MOH {who is into trains also- N scale}- got:
Loco- Kato GG1 {wanted desparately since March and I bought it way back then before they were out}
RRCars: A wanted Santa Fe Overton set, and open air tourist passenger car {both thought to be “key-yute” [Cute]}; several freight cars…including-you guessed it- some D&H!!!, flats, tanker and such; and several {about 8} Pennsy passenger cars to haul behind the GG1! {the GG1 did also see freight service}- so about 25 RR cas in all!!! ; and a signal light; and a dozen winter trees for the under-the-table-top-tree-Snowy-christmas-scene-layout with both HO loop and N scale loop that MOH wants to creat-we are working on a new board for the layout now.Next year will be better.
Quite a haul for BOTH of us! from each other and santa claus.
I got no train or model train items which is just fine with me – I don’t really need a thing other than time and more skills. Well that is not true; I do have my eye on a new lens for the camera.
Actually I did get the gift of time with Friday off from work so instead of wasting my time on this computer I tackled a box car kit that I bought years ago – 1937 AAR steel boxcar in Southern lettering. The kit is from IMWX* and turned out to be enough of a challenge to take me most of the day – it has been far too long since I just grabbed one of the many unbuilt kits on the shelf and went at it. I had started this one years ago – promptly botched step one which was the roof walk – and put it aside until now. Assembly took the better part of the day, with a few breaks, and as usual with this kind of kit there is a learning curve - that I have to relearn given how much time elapsed since I last built such a kit. I bet if I immediately turned around and started in on one of these detailed complex kit it would take much less time.
I previously posted about my intent to start in on that kit … in 2006! So it took four full years to get over botching that roof walk.
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/65530/804677.aspx
The kit gives you a choice of doors, Youngstown and Superior, and fortunately I had a photo of a Southern 1937 AAR boxcar in a Train Shed Cyclopedia #17 that showed Youngstown.
Dave Nelson