Anyone get any decent train items for Christmas?

Bnsftrains,

I always receive just what I need. In that case it's always, "decent". I have no idea as to what I'll receive this year. This Christmas is producing many mixed feelings, each different in each of my children. Even if I do not receive anything train related. The one special gift I'm able to enjoy is one more Christmas with my family. You see my friend, what's decent to you has an entirely different meaning.

 

God Bless,

"Pappy"

I got a Unique Arts cattle car and two hoppers from Santa - me.

Nothing yet from Santa ! 

 

from my self - I bought the Lionel Lion Chief Frosty the Snowman set plus the extra boxcar. 

 

The family does not buy trains for me anymore !  I have traded some stuff off for different cars !  feelings were hurt !  My mistake in not telling them that happens in the model railroading business!  My brother somewhat understands because He collect Baseball & Football cards ! 

Yep....my good friend and neighbor Mickey Selligman gave me a wonderful book on U.P. passenger cars AND an original Pullman car coat hanger!!

 

Alan

hello guys and gals..........

 

I am getting a Lionel Amtrak GG1 #18303 AFTER Christmas oh well. The cars in Feb.

 

the woman who loves the S.F.5011,2678,2003,200

Tiffany

Yup...I got a really nice postwar Lionel 2055 "Santa Fe" Hudson, and a couple of double door box cars.

I got the scale Polar Express earlier this month and that's good enough for me. I also received some RK Amtrak fp45 that I want to convert to sdp40fs Expecting the ToT next week. I hope it arrives in tact.

MTH SD 70 set with DCS remote commander.   It came early and has been well run.   A very nice locomotive.

New Legacy 990.  Let the fun begin.

 

Chris

Santa has informed me that due to situations beyond his control my Christmas train gift, the 3rd Rail ToT, will not make it until, most likely, the new year.  While i'm disappointed, i don't blame Santa.  

Well decent has a few meanings though. But majority is all things are decent. I just woke up and will see what I get soon

Let's see some pictures.

Got the scale Polar Express Heavyweight Baggage car to round out my Polar Express 10th Anniversary Berkshire.  Disappointedly, my visionline Big Boy was nowhere to be found but on the bright side, Santa left a tracking number!

 

-Pete

My wife and best friend bought me a great train book on trains of the world and two dvds from Herron Videos about the Norfolk and Western.  On my own I treated myself to several of the Lionel die cast semi-scale freight cars from 1991 which I have wanted for a long, long time.  The best of all was all of the fun I had last night with my three Grandchildren.  What a treat.

I bought a 10th Anniversary Polar Express LionChief set for my son (and myself).  Its the first set for both of us.  I bought the PE baggage car,and snow tower, lots of extra fast track, and a couple of Woodland Scenic buildings.   I also bought a bunch of Lemax buildings, mountains, trees to make a winter scene.

 

I also bought him a Lionel lamp for his room.  Its the one that has the locomotive with moving wheels and train sounds. 

I only got train items this year!  Only took a decade for my wife to get it right! Lol.

- Lionel oil field
- Lionel telephone poles
- 6-27515 PRR flat car
- MTH trailer for my future trailer park
- 4 packs of scenic accents figures
- Complete set of Arttista figures for the lemonade stand and ice cream vendor
- Polar Express DVD

- Greg

It was a good haul this year for train gifts. Lee Willis' first book, MTH Norfolk Southern boxcar with flashing crossbucks, three Plasticville kits (one duplicate), three calendars, and the MTH Montour Railroad Mikado shipping now, probably arriving in early January. All in all, I'm happy.  

The Lionel Pocono set is quite decent.  Good sound, good smoke, terrific caboose.  On the minus side, the animal car is not lit and the animals are impossible to see as they are set in the middle of the car and not near the "windows".  Also the hopper coal load is a light blue.  In the catalog and box art it is black (kinda like real coal).  Anthracite is not blue coal.  It burns blue.  Easily fixed with some glossy black krylon.

Santa delivered the long sought after, K-Line Great Northern Empire Builder! F7 ABA, express mail car, and 11 wonderful 21" passenger cars.

The Three Kings will be bearing the 3rd Rail (Golden Gate Depot) GM Train of Tomorrow!

Kato N Scale UP FEF-3, cab# 844, and matching 7 car passenger set.  The first delivery of the items will not include DCC, sound or lights in the cars.

 

I purchased from a vendor that installed DCC, sound and lights in each car along with a tender light which is not available from KATO.

 

Exceptional N Scale work from KATO

 

http://katousa.com/N/FEF/index.html

 

Take a look

My friend Charles gave me a 4 DVD set of 2 America By Rail DVD's and 2 Canada By Rail DVD's. Perfect gift for me to be able to watch while I rehab from Rotator Cuff Surgery 2 weeks ago. Merry Christmas Everyone!

No trains this year, something that has become common over recent years.

 

Plenty of dead presidents to buy my own with and yet another new Macbook to hunt 'em down with! 

to start, an MTH Jordan Spreader! Will be converting to 2 rail shortly. 

 

Thanks Kara!!!!! I mean, Santa!… 

This! Very excited to see how it works...

bnsftrains,

    You bet and mine was delivered early by Santa in her Christmas skirt, life does not get any better than that!

PCRR/Dave

My 2014 Christmas present form Mrs Santa - my new Meadow River Lumber Company - Legacy Shay Engine

I got a Williams N&W "J" loco and tender. Haven't had  time to run it yet

billshoff,

   That Williams N&W is a very cool Engine, have fun with her.

PCRR/Dave

My wife gave me a K-line scale die-cast PRR hopper and a 3-volume book set of PRR photographs.

 

My first LionChief Plus loco. B&O Pacific. Pulls and smokes like a champ. Very impressed at the features/performance packed into a <$300 item. Great job, Lionel!

Santa was very good this year. A set of Northern Pacific 21" North Coast Limited passenger cars, 3 beautiful Brooklin model cars, and of course the Daylight Cab Forward.

 

 

I got this!

 

 

 

I think it's for my coal hoppers.

 

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

 

Jerry

Bnsftrains,

i think your choice of the word "decent" was most inappropriate in describing Christmas gifts. All gifts are "decent", to use your wording. While i did get some nice train stuff including a surprise PRR signal in my stocking, the best gifts were having some close friends and family over for Christmas Eve, and being able to give some of my closest train buddies custom made Fonda, Johnstown, & Gloversville R.R. coffee mugs.

Perhaps you should re-think your choice of words before entering "post".

 

jackson

 

Ticket to Ride: USA 1910 board game expansion pack, and two Lionel ornaments:



While my brother and I were going to get my grandma, I can tell you what Union Pacific is getting: five-brand spanking new SD70ACe's!

The guys got Williams F7s, a repro 238E, some HO switchers...

...and I got a 3D printer. In other words, a train kit!

I do suppose the idea of "decent" varies vastly among train buyers today.

 

Christmas, twenty-five years ago I re-entered the hobby. Everyone talks about the technological improvements made during Richard Kughn's reign at Lionel. Often overlooked is his efforts to improve and mass market starter sets again. So I started again with a Lionel starter 4-4-2 steam engine bought at a department store... I might not otherwise had seen the set.

 

It wasn't the high end Super-O trains of my youth, but it was sure good enough to rekindle the flame. A couple more starter sets were bought, including K-Line and I was on my way.

 

All these years later, I still have all these trains and they all still work perfectly. I've never once had a DOA or something defective that had to be sent back for service. The smoke unit in the original 4-4-2 has been replaced once, but that was a decade ago and that still works like new.

 

Granted, the trains I like don't have all the new features. But unlike so many on this forum, I don't experience all the problems so commonly grumbled about. I sure can live without the problems... there's enough of those in life without having them on the train layout too.

 

Funny, but I'm sure when I was a kid, I imagined my trains were far more real than they were. Today, when I hear that "bicycle horn buzzer" that Lionel used in those postwar diesels, I thought "well, that's hardly realistic." Yet at the time, I probably imagined it was.

 

Well, my imagination has remained well intact. I watch my trains and they do everything the high-end trains do, but without all the added expense or frustration.

 

And I run trains for FUN, not frustration. And when as an adult, I found out how much money that Lionel set I had as a kid listed for, I called my dad out of the blue and said "thanks." He said "for what?" I had no idea that childhood train set was almost 2-weeks pay for him.

 

That was a Merry Christmas. And all these years later, my so-called inferior, non-scale, toy trains still make me just as happy as they did years ago.

Gotta have something to do the coal hoppers I purchased this year, I only got 16 of them?

I got a Lionel Baldwin Locomotive Works I-12 Caboose and a five car set of MTH Premier Pittsburgh and Lake Erie 70' Ribbed Passenger cars. I'll post pictures later.