let us all know on the forum what Santa brought you for Christmas !
Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year
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My wife gave me a Polar Express lighted station, a Polar Express operating billboard, a Hamm's Beer reefer, a Peanuts boxcar and a Hershey's Krackel flatcar. A very good day!
I had purchased a PRR Little Joe ( EP-5 )and it came with 3 passenger cars, one had the coupler snapped off from the body. Well Santa brought me a set of 6 passenger cars that went with it, yes a couple are duplicates but that's fine. I also got 3 NYC PA-1 and 2 NYC PB-1.
Wife got me a wallet and I got me a Williams Brass Streamlined K4s from 1989 
It's a nice looking engine, Love it!!
Last Christmas, I was lucky and got a Williams Brass L1 2-8-2 and it was perfect as well.
Got a nice engine shed
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Gift certificates from ACE Hardware since Sidetrack Hobbies don't offer gift certificates any longer but they honor the ACE Hardware ones...Also a gift certificate to Patrick's Trains
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I usually buy some train items for myself every year as my wife and I usually buy our own gifts for each other save for something small our son gets for each of us. I'm very much after my own dad, always spending extra to get my wife something nice while I get practical items like clothing etc. This year was no different until my wife gives me a card with $500 inside and the inscription "go buy yourself some trains"! Pretty cool if you ask me.
Seeing as how I'll be going to the Big E show for the first time in a few weeks, I'm pretty sure where I'm going to spend the money. 
-Greg
I got the vision Niagara and the USRA 425 from the wifee.
I always treat myself to a train for Christmas since it would be impossible for family to possibly know what I already have or don't have. I have two candidate items for this year, in two different scales, but have not purchased either one yet. May make a decision and push the button tomorrow.
I hope Santa was good to the rest of you fine train-loving folks!
Added this to the accumulation. Santa Fe Super Chief set and extra baggage car.
Wish the baggage car was lighted.
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Santa was very good to me this year. Received a couple of treasured books: "Know Thy Niagaras" and "Thoroughbreds." A DCS Wifi module came too! Merry Christmas to all.
Got an O scale Greyhound bus, some O scale figures, and The DCS Companion (to go with the DCS system I purchased myself a couple weeks ago). The rest of the stuff I got is not train related 😃.
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My parents were nice enough to give me most of the new Dept 56 Harry Potter village to go with my Hogwarts Express train set as a combined Christmas/early birthday present. They look very nice.
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I have been looking for MTH 70' UP streamlined passenger cars from the uncataloged Dealer Appreciation Program. Just in time for Christmas I found two car vista dome sleeper set # 20-66147. Now if I can just find MTH 2 car set # 20-69147 or 5 car set # 20-65147...……………………………………………………………..
Merry Christmas to all.
Bob
GregM posted:Added this to the accumulation. Santa Fe Super Chief set and extra baggage car.
Wish the baggage car was lighted.
Greg...
Are those K-Line cars? Could you snap and post a few photos of them? I may be looking for some myself.
As for the baggage car, $20 and 1 hour or so and you can have it beautifully lighted.
Mine started with a couple of ERR Cruise Commanders to get some old engines ready, and a Cruise M for my scale 611.
Ended up getting a Big Mo trailer and a Virginian/NS Heritage 60’ boxcar for Christmas.
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I guess this says it all...
Totally surprised by my wife, she found a Postwar Alaskan set, I did not have that outfit.....Pat
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Pingman posted:GregM posted:Added this to the accumulation. Santa Fe Super Chief set and extra baggage car.
Wish the baggage car was lighted.
Greg...
Are those K-Line cars? Could you snap and post a few photos of them? I may be looking for some myself.
As for the baggage car, $20 and 1 hour or so and you can have it beautifully lighted.
No, this is a Lionel Lionchief starter set. Considering the price the baggage car should have come lighted. The extra Polar Express baggage cars I have purchased for less are all factory lighted.
Good old Saint Nick took care of me this year!🎅
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GregM posted:Pingman posted:GregM posted:Added this to the accumulation. Santa Fe Super Chief set and extra baggage car.
Wish the baggage car was lighted.
Greg...
Are those K-Line cars? Could you snap and post a few photos of them? I may be looking for some myself.
As for the baggage car, $20 and 1 hour or so and you can have it beautifully lighted.
No, this is a Lionel Lionchief starter set. Considering the price the baggage car should have come lighted. The extra Polar Express baggage cars I have purchased for less are all factory lighted.
Greg, thanks for the explanation--it's a handsome set for sure. Hard to understand how Lionel and the others figure out what sets get what features.
My wife got me a standard gauge 408e with the matching 418/419/490 series passenget cars. She also got me some park benches and subway people for the 0 gauge layout. Good stuff
A big plain brown box is en route from Springfield, IL to me and it contains a 5-car set of SF polished aluminum Super Chief cars purchased from a forum member. I'll post pics later this week.
I bought a 2352 Pennsylvania EP-5 Electric in Ex condition on Ebay. It was pretty reasonably priced and runs like a champ. Just put her on the track for the first time this morning.
I also got the revised version of Ron Hollander’s “All Aboard” book on Lionel history plus an old book on historical logging railroads in the Northwest.
Really nice Christmas treats! The loco fills a hole in my collection, too.
Merry Christmas to all!
i got a lot of greenbacks to spend at the the big E in january the annual Railroad Hobby Show occupies four buildings at the Eastern States Exposition, draws 25,000 people, and is one of the most respected railroad shows in the country. Twice, the Railroad Hobby Show has received the Walther’s Showmanship Award in recognition of our efforts to promote interest in railroads and model railroads in the United States. IF your into trains , this is a great show , top of the heap teachman
My wife gave me a Lionel PRR 6-19346 hopper car.
Update: Now Santa brought me a Vision Line Niagara and a 500 square foot layout to run it on.
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Nick12DMC posted:Santa came in big for Mason.
06:00 GMT......
We have spent hours playing trains today
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Merry Christmas
Nick & Mason
You guys must have some deep pockets, congratulations! The Niagara is an amazing engine. I’m sure you all will have lots of fun with it! 🚂🔥🔥
I woke up to a stocking full of switches. Two Fastrack 060 and one 072 to be exact. Also got a Premier Southern SD35 and a Premier C&O caboose.
Other related items included a vintage Southern Railway map and a B&O adjustable wrench.
Santa brought me LC+ Berk and tender (Lionel Lines version) with Bluetooth, and a sealed in the box Conventional Classics 2124W outfit with a 2332 GG-1 with the 3 Madison cars from 2008.
I was Not that good but I guess a flew under the radar lol!
Santa brought my son four Lionel Lines Madison cars (from 1991) and a PWC Forklift Loader Platform & car
My 30 year old son, who has a great sense of humor, gave me the goofy Lionel giraffe car that says Bronx Zoo on it. LOL, Arnold
Train Stuff:
I got three track cleaning erasers, a MIB AHM boxcar, a pair of NOS AHM coupler pins, Greenberg's Marx Vol. II, and a really nice Marx grade crossing gate with most of its original box.
The older son got a K-Line NYC 18" observation car, a pictorial history of the NYC, and two sets of LEGO Power Functions motors/controls for converting his 9v trains.
The younger son got the Hot Chocolate car for his PolEx and the entire series Hell on Wheels on DVD.
A very Merry Christmas to all, and a Blessed New Year!
Arnold, I love those and have collected a bunch of them. Line them all up and they really look funny with all their heads bobbing as they hit the trigger.
Santa brought me a 4ft LGB Truss Bridge for Christmas.
Chris S.
Pretty good train holiday.
For myself I got the Christmas 2816 mth hopper, and for Christmas from my wife I ordered the Reading Company 2816, and a wind up Lionel handcar.
My littlest two kids did great with the boy getting a PE set and my girl getting the pet shop set that she absolutely loves.
The big kid turned 13 today. He has a pretty extensive PE collection, so he got a new car for his Polar express. Know we have two PE’s in the house, maybe I should get one for myself!!
A couple of Repro std Gauge Dorfan Crocodiles showed up CHRISTmas eve.
Steve
