I got the Kato V11 supereleveated double track set. Wow! I spent all day playing with it. Kinda like when I was 6 years old and got the Marx set for Christmas....
Received: 1) $300.00 in gift certificates from my local hobby shop. Wife tells relatives what to get me and they do. 2) 50 gal up-right air compressor. Runs those nailguns and powers air brush just fine! 3) 3 week layoff because local FORD Truck plant is down. Gonna collect some of that "armchair paycheck" (unemployment) money I've paid into all these years!
Last year since I was out of work from my back injury, our chuch made Christmas special by bringing over food, money, and gifts for the girls. This year, being back at work, we decided to give back the same, and instead of buying gifts, gave that money to the church to help other needing families this year. We did go all out on a big dinner for our family, and enjoyed the gift of being together.....with heat, lights, and a roof over our heads.
I got a few Christmas themed cars and my son bought his sister a small steam loco, but the best thing I got for Christmas spanned n and o scale. We spend Christmas Eve at my inlaws, around the corner. My 3 kids and my 2 nephews age range 10 -14, walked home after dinner. When we got home all 5 kids were gathered around the Chrismas layout (4 independent O scale lines and 2 small n scale loops). The 5 of them were oohing aaahing and reaching in to adjust speeds, ring bells etc. My 14 year old, very athletic, very cool nephew was engrossed in adding cars to the n loop, it was great!!!! They then insisted I read Twas the Night Before Christmas ( a tradition that goes back 11 or so years) they then all went to bed and my wife and I sat up with the trains for a bit, did Santas work and called it a night.
Jerry, great to hear your story of receiving and giving back. That's kinda what it's all about. Jamie, love the BN autorack. I agree about those RC racks, they look cool.
The woman, errr, Santa, got me a resin casting set from Micro Mark. Now I don't need to worry about using the last of my Sunrise Enterprise's detail parts! and Jamie, I'm envious! You can never have too many Burlington Northern autoracks!!! -Mike
USPS says my jar of bullfrog snot left the US on Christmas Eve.:tb-biggrin: P.S. Decided to give Trainboard a Christmas present and become a supporter.
I received these items from Santa. My family got them from Kevin D on TrainStore. LMX B40-8: BN GP40M
What I got in N-Scale Let's see... The U.S. Snail brought me a green jar of BFS, courtesy of the Mojave Bullfrog (thanks, guy; once the beloved's Christmas HO goes to bed, I can test it on the Heavy Mountain!) And My Lady presented my with an A-A powered pair of E-8s from Kato for the Broadway Limited - but, due to a mis-read on the woo woo woo web page (she's new to web ordering) she only got me one decoder! Fortunately, we can run up to the store tomorrow and get the other one - they're only 11 miles door-to-door for us! And as payback, I got her an HO Trailer Park and an Ambulance/Medic Unit, both from Busch. The trailer park is a kit, but the EMS vehicle is part of the line that Busch has been running the last few years of high-precision vehicles in HO, and since my Dad was a volunteer here in Baltimore County FD for 15 years before he retired to South Carolina, I finally got a county volunteer unit - wrong station, but at least it's a COUNTY, Volunteer unit! Now, if someone would just do these vehicles in N scale... Oh, well. Hope all you guys (and gals who also speak Train) had a great and Merry Christmas!:tb-biggrin:
Well, got nothing material in N scale -- but I did score a lot of gift cards for the LHS.. and tomorrow they have a 25% sale on Atlas, Athearn, and some other brands, and various other discounts. So, heading down there tomorrow to see what I can find. Luckily, its next to the dollhouse store so I can drop the wife off there, and walk down the street a bit and do *my* shopping without her giving me the old eye-roll-do-you-really-need-that look! We'll see what I come home with, since the Nscale department is rather small.
I received: "Band Of Brothers" on blu ray disc. A new basketball. (Nothing train-related, though.) But now I have two weeks off from work and hope to finally start the scenery on my layout.
For me: Athearn Clinchfield Challenger - to be re-lettered into a poor-man's GN Z-6 For my son: Atlas Trainman starter set + extra track and a few extra cars to get him started in N-Scale. (Plus about three hours of my time helping him take down his HO layout and setup the new N-scale in it's place.) David
My Wife gave me a package of ME outhouses, X-acto #11 & # 24 refill blades, 2 packages WS limberjacks, RoadMaster kits for Komatsu 400LC Logger and a IT18F Log Loader. Not bad at all See ya Ron
What I got for Christmas As strange as it sounds; I was blessed with many of my Family members being in town and together all at once. So I got the best gift I could have ever imagined. As a long time GI you appreciate Family moments they happen all to far an few inbetween.
I recieved all of my N scale items the saturday after. The best was finding an all N scale trainshop by Boston, WOW, Kens trains is stocked with all the little goodies I need. I found FVM and IM 36" wheels for my WOT cars, some wood crossings, couplers, trucks, MT low-pro wheels, and an E-R models bay window SP caboose (a little new for my transition era layout, but nice non-the-less). Now for a few return trips.
I added an Acer mini laptop to support the programing of some 100 plus locos that run here, not all mine, and keep me from using my company laptop for programing. Not set up yet but will be in the next couple of days. There are over 90 locos stored on this computer. Bob.
