If you won the lottery...

Winning the lottery is what I call "plan A."

I would have to agree. I think I would upscale a bit and restore a steam locomotive for fun.

better yet is the East Broad Top for sale?

 

 

I'd buy me a new pair of socks...

 

Rusty

Buy the OGR Forum and make everyone use a reasonable avatar and name.

 

Gerry

 

When the lottery first came about here in Virginia my dad said that if he won it he would get the AC fixed...in his 1968 Buick Wildcat!!!  I suggested he scrap that cat and buy a new car instead

If I won the lottery, I would definitely:

 

-restore a steam engine to operation

 

-build a layout completely out of Lionel T-Rail track

 

-have a garage full of antique cars

Why?

Do you still have to buy a ticket to win?

Why not?

 

Rusty

pay off debts

 

get the wife the nice car she deserves but has never had

 

set aside some for the Church

 

sock away kid's college money

 

Adopt more kids

 

expand the house, make a call to some one like Trainworks to come fill the new space

 

Make sure I was invested in some thing that was going to keep me from losing everything.  Definitely build a small hydro electric plant to pass on an income stream to the family when I'm gone.

 

After all that stuff - maybe try to convince John down in Hagerstown MD to let me restore the WM k-2 Pacific sitting down there so we could take it up and down the coast.

 

If I got really crazy for Steam I could provide some backing to Dave Wardale to finish the new locomotive design he started, Maybe just have it make look more American.

 

Heck I might even take a vacation!

 

I wouldn't bother restoring a steamer, I'd just build my own, after buying back my grandfather's private passenger car from the local museum my dad donated it too and fully restoring it to road worthiness and traveling around in it.

I'd buy Neal Young's layout!

i'd prefer Robert Young's...

 

http://www.sterlingrail.com/cl...assified.php?id=9364

Chessiefan....LOL...That's great.I hope you win.

I would have to play to win.

 

then again I am under the impression if you know what you are going to do with the money you never win anyway.

Oh, and if the pots big enough, I'm going to the ISS!

 

Jerry

I would spend more time throwing rocks at trains....... just kidding

Shannon, my wife, won $1,000.00 on a scratch off. She drove directly to Grysbsky Trains, my LHS, and bought me a Legacy diesel. Huge surprise. She then bough shoes. Good deal. 

Now, that's a WIFE!

If the winnings were large enough, I have a bunch of friends, unemployed millwrights, machinists, tool & die makers, mechanics that I would employ and found a new train manufacturing company, ala Louis Marx,  that would build  low cost/blue collar trains.

 

Buy Lionel from Guggenheim, then listen to and implement every suggestion on this Forum.

 

The best way to make a small fortune is start with a large one.

 

-Dave

If it's a big powerball winning I would buy Lionel. I would move them to a state with a large tax incentive and have all manufacturing done there. Then make only conventional trains. If the business goes over to MTH, then I'll buy them too and make conventional only trains under that label also.

1.  Larger Train Room.  Train Barn!

2.  ATSF GP-38 1:1 Scale for the 'garden railroad'

3.  Charlton Heston's basement.

if i won, i would try to help people who need it.  aka like students who there families can not help them with the cost of college, give food and money to the food banks, etc.  i would not spend it but would use the interest to help the people.  i would also want to buy my mother a brand new car of her choice.  put some money aside for my niece and nephews  education.  after i would do all of that i would treat me self to a party with all of my family and just sit there and smile.  life to is short to have to many wants.  when i die all i want to be said about me is that i was a good man, and that i would be missed.  

I would complete my particle-beam accelerator weapons system and complete my plans for global domination and subjugation of the human race.

 

Oops. Thought I was on the Megalomaniac Forum.

One of every Lionel engine from the Dryfuss, to 1983 to revive Gramps collection, a short line, or tourist loop with a nice rail speeder, steamer, and a split window, sunroof, VW Beatle....make that two, the second of which Id convert to an inspection car.

I'd be relaxing on a yacht, island hopping in the Carribean, and toy trains and this forum would be the fartherest thing from my mind.

Cause usually you get those as gifts at Christmas time....

So, that means I'm not allowed to buy a new pair of socks with lottery winnings?  What's this world coming to...

 

Rusty

 

I would fund getting all 4 EBT 2-8-2's running again.

If I won the big one I throw a huge party for all our forum members at the B&O museum in Baltimore and pay for every ones expenses.

If you won a really big lottery it would make your life a lot more complicated and not necessarily better. Everyone notices the few big winners but not the millions of losers.

 

The lottery is a tax on fools and dreamers. You can get as much entertainment by throwing money down a toilet.  

In any substantial way, not a thing I'm not doing now.  I'd probably drink slightly better wine more often, I might stay in larger hotel rooms at fancier hotels when I travel, but my wife and I really do have everything we want.   I wouldn't buy a bigger house, or a boat, or a second home, etc.  I wouldn't buy more toy trains, or more or more expensive cars, or more art or jewelry. 

 

I would buy the North Carolina Zoo another Rhinocerous (long story, not for here) and maybe a Polar Bear (one of theirs died yesterday: they are a bear short), but that's about all I'd do with the money, I think.

The Lord has provided my wife and I with an extremely comfortable living, we want for nothing, so if I were to hit the lottery I guess I'd put some more aside for the kids and most would go to my church. However I guess to win you have to play and I don't lol!

Maybe true, but I wouldn't mind giving it a go & see for myself. 

The people who end up broke or in tax trouble after winning were foolish. I sure would love to have a crack at it. Some would go to the 611 project. There are many people who could be helped.

Rob

 

 

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

                                                            ...Sophie Tucker

 

Jerry

       
       


when I first saw the title of this thread I thought it was asking what things you would do with your model trains/layout and some answered that way, but clearly it was about larger issues. I enjoyed some of Lee Willis' generous suggestions and the comforting thought that he and his wife had all they want/need although they might notch it up a bit in terms of what wine they drink (I'll toast to that!). I have to admit being in Lee's boat in terms of having what we want and probably not changing our lifestyles very much. so, for my money (sans lottery, or maybe with it) I give the prize to traindork for his generosity, compassion and heartfelt feelings about his own legacy. congratulations, traindork. if I were ever to win that lottery, I would hope to be able to contribute to your goals as well.

jerrman

Personally, I just need two antique cars (1958 Plymouth Fury and 1981 Back to the Future Delorean) and getting them in pristine working conditions .

 

That aside, I'd definitely just use the money to be able afford traveling across our nation to see all of these people who have great layouts and having fun seeing them, Neil Young and Dick Kughn being at the top.

 

And oh yes, being able to build one myself, go figure~