My name is Locomotive.

Unfortunately, we all have a few of thode.

Well done!!

Pete...I think you are sipping on the egg nog a little too much...

Alan

Alan, I wish.LOL

Pete

Don't feel so bad.  Chances are your owner will keep buying more and more engines and you will have plenty of company on the shelf.  Ever think of getting a little work done?   A tuck here, a pull there, maybe some cruise and a funky new sound.  Don't sound so defeated.  Darn it man! - upgrade yourself while you're still young!

LOL

Wow, an upgrade.........now why didn't I think of that?

LOL

Pete

Maybe some grafitti

Oh that hurts........LOL

Ha.....After all the terrible mean things I said about graffiti. LOL

Pete

Frankly, I imagine you are just an old loco who is full of hot air, or vapor and jealous of the newer diesels . . . .  I suggest you go somewhere quiet and blow of some steam . . . 

You can move to my house. You may sit on a shelf, but you WILL get TLC and run from time to time.

Unless you can't run on O-27 curves.

If that's the case, you're just screwed.  

If you're a steam engine wearing a N&W livery, have your owner put you on eBay. I'll typically go 50 cents on the dollar. When you arrive you'll get run on the modular layout. Like to pull long trains? Me too! Be prepared to pull for several hours or until you get nice and warm.

With my current roster, you'll get run for thousands of visitors within a 2 year rotation. Look at the bright side, you're too small to be cut up for scrap metal! And since beer cans are now aluminum, that unfortunate option is also off the table. 

Gilly

Hello Locomotive.  I am Caboose.  Once, I was a bright red, and had beaming lights inside.  My owner dropped me a few times, and my roof corners broke off, and my lights burned out.  Then, I was thrown into a large box with other old toys, after my original storage box was lost.  After a couple of years, I was taken out of the large box and put into a sand box, pushed through the sand, and left outside to weather and get peed on by the cats.  

One morning, I found myself in the garage, with a 25 cent sticker on my roof.  A little boy picked me up and asked his mom if he could have me.  She said yes.  I was taken to a new home, washed and given a fresh coat of paint.  My wheels were oiled and I was hooked up to a wind up train.  Today, I am once again happy to be running around a Christmas tree.  My roof corners are still broken, but the little boy is happy and smiles and makes happy noises when he sees me.  I am happy too.  It's what I am supposed to be doing.  Maybe a new little boy will find you too, and give you a new home. Then all will be well again for you too. 

Merry Christmas to one and all.   

I kind of like your analysis. Makes me want to run some of those trains parked on a siding. 

Locomotive. You will be back in service soon. With all the new engines arriving DOA and others sitting in the dead engine track due to lack of repair parts. Your owner will soon rediscover that you were the most reliable and useful engine. 

Doug