What did Santa leave under your tree?🎅🏻 🚂

DANSSUPERO - Now THERE'S a daughter who really knows what Dad and his associates are all about!    Great coffee mug! 

Santa visited my favorite train store in the lower Midwest with my son and found these awesome orange lithographed American Flyer standard gauge passenger cars to be pulled be my MTH brass piper. I heard Santa struck a great deal and my son helped him pay for one of the cars. 😀

George

lionel santa fe 6-19000 steam freight set for the grandson, age 4.

Oh. I'm way too particular for Santa or anyone else, to give me trains. I buy all my own trains these days. LOL, Arnold

I got an early mth 816 tinplate hopper and me and the kids split a 4 back of Menards M&M rolling stock. My mother renewed my TCA membership - thanks Mom!

My daughter (not Santa) bought me this picture.

She said it was trains going into or leaving Chicago Union Station, but it doesn’t look like that to me. The building in the back looks like the Board of Trade. Could this be trains leaving the Illinois Central station on the South side of the Loop?

George

Wherever it is, George, that's a great painting. Enjoy!!

John

I got an MTH switch tower for the new layout. The MTH skiing Santas car, the MTH lighted Christmas trees car and a Miller Engineering Santa billboard for the Christmas layout! Grandkids are ecstatic! What it's all about! LOL

Santa only brought me some socks but this arrived from Mr Muffin’s on Monday.

video of my new set and my new Menards Shell station. 

i got one of those lionel ready to play sets

may have to seek more of these as they are not bad by my standards and super affordable for someone who is on a very slim train budget and just wants to enjoy a train without all the crazy stuff  the   only problem i had is the set unlike other RTP sets is not remote control and there is no tender for the engine. i really hope one day lionel offers seperate sale engines and cars for ready to play like they do track. i can see myself taking over the living room with these. in the photo you see Bumblebee keeping pace with the old ironsides.

My wife gave me a right angle attachment for my Dremel, and a new old stock Quality Craft O Scale hopper kit along with a sheet of Clinchfield RR decals.

new Lionel hudson, new MTH conrail sd80 mac, 2 new Lionel susquehanna c420s and some cars

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Only train item was a rare and sought after Trains of Texas Gilpin Hotel kit. Since this was a Colorado model, hotel was in Blackhawk, next to Central City gold camp, it was one l was aware of.  There seems to be some kind of mystique to this brand, so l will find that out if l build it, but wonder if l should.

colorado hirailer posted:

Only train item was a rare and sought after Trains of Texas Gilpin Hotel kit. Since this was a Colorado model, hotel was in Blackhawk, next to Central City gold camp, it was one l was aware of.  There seems to be some kind of mystique to this brand, so l will find that out if l build it, but wonder if l should.

It's an interesting question that only you can answer. You should start by deciding what is more important to you, the building and crafting of a a building that challenges your artistic talents, or the collecting of fine, pristine examples of train hobby items. Both have merit. Model kits left unopened in their original box generally have more value over time, but the future value of model train items is uncertain.

George

Hanukkah was very good  ...… got an old plastic Sinclair gas sign to go with my Miller Engineering sign on the layout; a framed Transcontinental 150th anniversary set; and a framed photo and paper "spec sheet" of an old D&H steam engine.

I know the loco is the ALCO  #999 280 EE series steamer made for D&H, but I'm not sure exactly where the photo comes from (there's a negative plate # on it) or whether the spec sheet is an original or copy. My daughter got it inexpensively at an estate sale and the seller didn't know much about it. Either way, it's a very cool piece.

The shot of the D&H 999 looks like a classic builder's shot before the engine is released. Nice that it has the builder's info with it!

Chris

LVHR

lehighline posted:

The shot of the D&H 999 looks like a classic builder's shot before the engine is released. Nice that it has the builder's info with it!

Chris

LVHR

Thanks for the info, Chris. It's a neat piece with both the pic and the info together in one frame.

I got a couple of tank cars and I bought my wife a new Christmas car.  I plan on putting a train under the tree next year.

Santa brought me something new to haul my toys to the club!! 

You're goning to need a bigger tree!

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I got a Lionel 455 Operating Oil Derrick and a copy of the Lucius Beebe book "20th Century". Both awesome gifts.

From my niece and parents, the Lionelville Fire Station still sealed in the box, and an add on car for the 1985 NYC Yard Chief Set along with the Lionel Hallmark Ornaments including the members only gold version. 

Bought for myself, the Lionel BNSF Oil Can Train with add on cars and unpowered unit, and the Erie Mining Ore Train Set with non powered unit.

More diesels and a pair of UP excursion cars. The excursion expansion cars are still in the box, but the locomotives have already "earned their keep" on the club layout after my Kadees came in. The UP Heritage locomotives will be pulling the excursion train after I get a good transition car set up for the passenger cars.

A couple train books for me, one of which is more dated than the other

Train wise Santa was good to me:

Lionel Mr. Muffins custom Hudson

MTH UP SD70 Mac

MTH Chicago Subway - Yellow Book

MTH 4 car military 105 howitzer set

MTH Plated Santa Fe REA car

MTH Stockyard express custom military car. 

Jeff T posted:

Santa brought me something new to haul my toys to the club!! 

Good to hear Santa treated a fellow Ford guy very well too (mine was a very early combined present for Christmas, Birthday, Father’s day, etc 😀). Surprising amount of room for trains in the trunk too!

Enjoy that truck!

My wonderful wife got me a Skyline Chili tank car that was a special MTH production from Dixie Union Station, and my daughter got me a hard to find Williams L&N GP9 dummy, that I quickly turned into a powered unit from a donor Williams GP9. It was a good Christmas!

Jeff

My daughter got me this framed photo of B&O 5304.  Not a train buff photo but it definitely has the angles and framing that interests a photographer.

5304 was the fourth of 20 P7 class Pacifics made by Baldwin in 1927-28.  These were the  president named locos, 5304 was President Monroe. 

 It was the only locomotive streamlined twice! First about 1936 for the Royal Blue, to a design by Otto Kuhler and reclassified as a P7a.  Then again in 1946 as 'The Cincinnatian' to a design by Miss Olive Dennis and reclassified again as P7d.

5304 in its Cincinnatian days.