Anyone get any decent train items for Christmas?

I was hoping for a box of busted rusted junk for winter fix up projects.

yes, the Wife got me this old Beater Scalecraft k4.... that I won last month and my mom, bless her, still likes to get me a couple of train cars for Christmas.  This year she got me the PRR Christmas Merchandise car and the Ronald Regan Prez  car.  My only issue (well, it's not really an issue) is that the K4 is straight up two rail....and I am not currently set up for that.  It has now forced me to go Gargraves on my highline so I can switch back and forth.... well at least i think I will be able to .

But the best gifts of all are healthy family and so far the kids have behaved fairly well

A Lionel coffee table book..... by Robert Schleicher

I forgot to mention, I received a 2015 All Pennsy Calendar designed by Audio Visual Designs.

As always great photos of the Pennsy in all it's glory.

I love the polar express by Lionel that's what I wanted but didn't get.

There's still time to make it happen. Polar Express This is what I paid for the first issue.

Gilly

That's the set I got this Christmas from the wife and daughters. Evan comes with a oval of lionel fast track, transformer and a BELL

Mike P

I have been searching for the Williams E7 AA set in the Maine Central green and yellow paint scheme for a couple of years. I could not believe it when I found one on EBAY a couple of days ago. It was brand new and I got it for $325.00 . That was my gift to me from Santa!!!!

Steve

I'm a bit late to this party, but I received two great train-related gifts from my wife and son!

Woodland Scenics "Davenport Department Store" building...

30" spray booth from Micro-Mark...

I would rather get some "naughty" trains.  I already have a couple of "naughty" coal cars under the tree.  I am off to a train show next weekend to see what I can find.

Joe

i got a **** juicer....  when my wife mentioned it, saying "what the hell would i do with that" was to subtle and i still got it.  as for trains, i sold out last fall and got rid of my layout.  it was all the newer low-end sets.  over the holidays i bought a couple marx windups and an old engine to "play" with.  eventually, i'm going to try to put together a small under the tree layout.  

Technically, no. However, I did get proof that my wife ordered a GG-1 from RMT for me, it just hasn't arrived yet. Perhaps more importantly, I finally got some alone time in the basement, so I was able to make real progress on my layout, and now I have trains running and all of my accessories wired and working.

i got a **** juicer...."what the hell would i do with that"

What kind of Juicer?  You need to watch a Joey Ricard video on using real dirt on your layout.  I'd bet you could really put that thing to good use.   I'd love to have a juicer.

Ron

I got myself a NIB Unpowered ATLAS O Santa Fe EMD SD40 #1719 unit for myself off of eBay for Christmas this year at a great price. It should be arriving in the next week or so. Sadly, my family does not care about my interest in model railroading (they find it pointless and stupid, as I was told on multiple occasions), so I have to go out and find some good deals in order to slowly expand my roster. Image below credit to ATLAS O (number is incorrect, but same model and paint scheme):

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Well, please don't publish photos, or this thread may get deleted!

They're only obscene in the fact that I've spent obscene amounts of money on them this year!!

I love that SF paint scheme.

There could be a totally different thread for the stuff we hoped we'd get but didn't.

Early in my marriage, my wife would insist on a list of things I wanted for Christmas and my birthday in November.

And each year, she'd ignore every single thing on the list and get me whatever she thought I should have, instead.

Most of those presents went to Goodwill by the following year or would be quite obviously untouched and unmoved where they'd been originally put. And every now and then, I'd get her best griping about why I haven't touched the thing I got for Christmas a few years that I never asked for nor shown any need ot want for.

For example, about 3 months ago I got a lecture about why I have never used a portable photo booth/background she'd got for me about 5 years ago (which was very difficult and time consuming to put together).

I say these things in the past tense, which would suggest things have changed.

They haven't.

After 15 years, I've long since given up on getting what I really want for Christmas from her.

The only real problem is from about August, I'm not allowed to buy anything that she might buy for me for the holidays but never will. I have bucked that a few times, once buying some On30 stuff at a hobby shop a week before my birthday when she started in with this, "but you have no idea that I'd get this for you," and I replied, "There's no chance at all you ever would, and we both know this." And after that Christmas (again, stuff I never asked for and never needed nor used), she then admitted she never would have bought that On30 stuff...

Me too, this is probably my 7th or 8th year for this great calendar.  I really like the large b&w D. Wood photos.  I just wish they went back to their earlier spiral bound version, but understand that cost and possibility that the manufacturer no longer offers that binding option.  None the less, it is a fabulous calendar.

I'm in the same boat this year, I may have to see if my LHS has an 'Easy Pay' plan and get enrolled in it. I hope the catalogs are much less attractive next year.

Actually just repeating this years catalogs again would be nice for me. As bad as it was this year, I still had to eliminate many items from my want list. I could play catch up.

Santa brought me one also!  Nice book!

I have gone as far as write down item numbers, the phone number of the train/car shop, etc, and most of the time I still wouldn't get what I wanted.Sometimes she comes thru, but the last few years I just ask for a gift card from the store I want something from.

I did very well.  My wife has me buy freight cars, then I have her wrap them.

Here is an Atlas O Steam Era Classics express reefer.  I really like the Steam Era Classics.

Behind it is a N&W Premier caboose to go with my Y6b.  Oh, you can also see the PE figures in front of the express.

Next next is two K Line reefers, NKP and N&W.  The aren't the greatest, but a $25 each and me having no reefers, I couldn't pass them up.

Here is is another Premier caboose, Virginian.  Having lived and worked in Virginia in the '70s and '80s, I like Virginian.

Here re is a nice print my mother-in-law gave me.

last, my daughter and son-in-law gave me this nice repro Lionel sign.

I received this from my wife, I know its not O gage but it can be a pretty cool way to start an around the model room ceiling layout.

I bought myself the Lionel Atlantic Coast Line E-6s from this forum. With the limit we have for gifts, most trains would be out of reach (even freight cars). 

My daughter gave me a 25th Anniversary edition of The Polar Express book. It includes a Keepsake Ornament & Bonus CD read by Liam Neeson. On top of that, mine has been autographed by Santa himself! Santa was on the Polar Express train that they rode somewhere in eastern Tenn.

The reading by Liam Neeson is very nice with appropriate music and sounds, following each page of the book. I would recommend this edition to anyone who enjoys the story as written by Chris Van Allsburg.

I received an lgb electric loco

I got an Imperial Dreyfuss Hudson and four streamlined NYC passenger cars.

I got a Postwar Lionel 3494-150 MP Operating Boxcar and 6572 REA Reefer.  Both in very good to excellent condition with nice boxes  

I wish Santa brought me that spray booth.  My birthday is coming up.  Micromark.com here I come!

I am pretty sure that I know exactly what you paid for this locomotive.  I was bidding on it myself.  Was it shipped from Illinois?  

I Picked them up locally from a private party.  They were still in the factory sealed cartons.  The two powered units cab numbers are 1701 and 1712.  The non-powered cab number is 1715.

Great looking locomotives and they are real stump-pullers. 

I was the only bidder on this locomotive on eBay. It did come from Illinois from the buyer I purchased it from. Can't wait until it arrives in the next three to five days and the day when I find a powered unit to pull it with!

No actual train stuff, but plenty of cash for the January train show! Plus the 10" Android tablet I'm using now that let's me read this forum from the comfort of my recliner!   LOL

I received these Railking Scale Fp45's:

I received an MTH Western Pacific bay window caboose from my son Matthew to run with the Williams A-B-B-A Western Pacific F3 diesels I bought this past Summer. My son Eric bought me an MTH Nickel Plate Road hopper and my daughter Kaitlin bought me an MTH Premier Line 50' Central of Georgia boxcar. All are nice gifts!

Cobrabob.

I picked this set of Williams F3s for under $350 from two sources, all brand new items, this past Summer.

Cobrabob.

  I bought a K-line by Lionel Central of Georgia boxcar from my local Ace hardware.