I woke up this morning to find the complete Lionel Rio Grande Ski passenger set (new, in boxes) under my temporary living room HO layout! (Not that it wasn't there yesterday, but no one need know.) Looks like I'll have to move the couch and add another folding table to the mix today! Now, if Santa would only bring me the new Lionel Rio Grande Verdana!
Anthony
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Congratulations !!!!
...my son...and some relief from this back issue. 😊 Merry Christmas!
Mark in Oregon
I got some track! Which is just outstanding because I'm going to need a ton of it! Also a nicer cigar humidor, which I'm quite excited about because I very much outgrew my first one.
Merry Christmas everybody!!
Lots of good stuff but these are the closest to being toy train related:
Time with family. All I needed😍
Merry Christmas everyone! Santa nailed it this year in my house. Got a box with a spare DCS remote and assorted goodies along with a new RS-3 and a Dominos sugar box car. Trainworld/MTH killed it with this engine. Perfect paint and excellent freight sounds. I’m actually now a little hesitant to weather and decal it with more prototypical MTA signage because it looks so good.
Train-wise, my mother got me a santa fe super chief lionchief set. It's very nice and is running as I type this
Santa brought me the Legacy Chessie GP30.
My lovely wife was still next to me this morning, so she wasn’t lured away by Santa. Phone calls to friends and family found every one well. I guess Santa did good this year for us.
I hope everyone also had a great Christmas. Have a safe and happy New Year.
Jon…only us model railroaders can appreciate a nice lump of coal. Sometimes it pays to be bad. 🤣
@Rixster posted:Jon…only us model railroaders can appreciate a nice lump of coal. Sometimes it pays to be bad. 🤣
Indeed...
My wife and mother-in-law got together and gave me a very generous Charles Ro gift card, which I will put toward my Strasburg RR #90.......assuming it doesn't burn a hole in my pocket before 90 arrives.
My Mother and I agreed to buy our own gifts so we could get what we wanted. So my Mother got me a set of 3rd Rail Southern Pacific PA's A-A and she got Iron she uses in Quilting that sound the cylinder release of of a steam engine. So I win!!!! I also picked myself up a 3rd Rail Santa Fe 3700 Class Mountain.
Anthracite (HARD) COAL. I guess I was pretty bad, otherwise I would have received Bituminous (SOFT) COAL.🤣😂😀😉
Strasburg Camelback
Sounds like most everyone, except for those who received coal, had a fantastic day of model railroading. Unfortunately, I've been doing the keeping up appearances thing and probably won't even get a chance to take my new toys out of the box today. There is also the I'm expecting to explode around the mid section any minute now issue.
I got one Atlas and two MTH Premier boxcars from my wife.
I got myself a Lionel JLC Challenger to reletter from Rio Grande to Union Pacific, as well as upgrade the smoke. I pulled it out of the box today to play with it a bit before I tear it apart.
Time with family.........which was the best gift I could get!
Over 2020, I have received many gifts that count as Christmas presents.....
1. The attic was turned into a train room.
2. I ordered a pile of track and roadbed from Ross.
3. I have additional Mianne parts coming to turn my 6x16 layout into an L shaped 14x22 layout.
4. 48 Glen Snyder shelves
5. Tools, paint, glue and modeling supplies as I need them. Here is one gift that Santa brought me:
Merry Christmas and safe travels to all!
Peter
Today Christmas morning I opened my new set of 2 Lionel Legacy PA diesels, New Haven RR! I'm new here to the forum, and haven't run a train since the 1970s. I'll be asking you all for lot's of advice as I build the track. Gotta have it ready for when the matching (red & black New Haven) 6 passenger cars are delivered, around May 2022!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
@Old Hobo posted:My daughter home from grad school in Canada. We set up Polar Express tonight around tree, but she asked that I not take pictures. Grateful for my family, and time we have together. It was a great gift for my adult children to be here together with me.
It must be Christmas, Old Hobo is here!
Nassau Hobby delivered the SW-8 that I ordered last winter and Ross returned my switches that went back to CT for defective center rail replacement, both arriving on 12/23, so I think they qualify for Santa status!
I must have been really good! Santa brought the Strasburg Camelback and the new Atlas Strasburg holiday observation car!
Devildog, I fixed your post and got rid of the duplicated videos. Now, would you please watch this?
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We had a vey big O gauge Christmas this year, after years of relatively behaving myself. I blame my 26yr old son who really regained interest in the hobby this year. We focused on older Lionel and K-Line sets from the early 2000s and later that have withstood the test of time. Most of what is shown is for his collection, but I did add some Southern and N&W K-Line / Atlas items.
It’s been a really fun year of enjoying the hobby with my son and this Christmas was the results of all the great times that we shared with each other this year.
Lionel:
From the 2006 vol 2 catalog the TMCC PRR Coal Train set, along with all the add-on pieces from that catalog. Included the powered and dummy GP30, 8 die cast three bay coal cars, and caboose with train phone antennas.
From the same catalog, the TMCC PRR Ballast Train set with BB1 electric locomotive, ballast dump car, and lighted work caboose.
From 2015, the Legacy Big Blue set which includes a Conrail SD70MAC and 4 very large 86’ high cube boxcars. One with EOT flasher. We also added a K-Line Conrail extended vision caboose for the times he wants to run other rolling stock with that engine.
K-Line:
From early 2000s, the 6 car 18” PRR Heavyweight Broadway Limited passenger car set.
Similar vintage, the 5 car 18” Southern Heavyweight Crescent Limited passenger car set. (We really fell in love with the detail of these later era K-Line heavyweights.)
Next is a 4 car set of die cast N&W 2 bay hoppers. Been looking for some cars that would fit well with my Lionmaster Class A.
individual cars added were an aluminum PRR tank car and an aluminum Chessie system center flow hopper. Really like the older K-Line aluminum items.
Atlas:
A TMCC Southern SD35 to add to my growing Southern equipment collection.
also received a few slightly used MTH buildings for my layout.
I received a nice Trainworld gift certificate before Christmas. Put a dent in it already. I'm planning a ERR upgrade.
I bought this case from Ikea for myself
No trains for Christmas as Santa said his warehouse will not ship them till next year - sometime. But, Christmas trains got running on my recently completed "Retro" layout and offered a Christmas greeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ruTgOABOs&t=114s
I got this reach stacker for my (to be built) intermodal yard. I may have dropped a few hints.
On the 23rd, I was told my lymphoma was in remission, so it was a good Christmas indeed. Maybe I'll go downstairs and play with the trains later.
I was happy with what Santa brought. However, some of the gifts I recall bringing home from York and Allentown. Santa's helper must have gotten her hands on them! 
lionel congressional 2pk add on passenger cars
Santa arrived a day late, and he was dressed like a FedEx driver!
Inside his "Bag" of toys was this Legacy Penn Central SW8. This was a custom run by Nicholas Smith Trains.
Tom
From my lovely wife 
John
@artyoung posted:On the 23rd, I was told my lymphoma was in remission, so it was a good Christmas indeed. Maybe I'll go downstairs and play with the trains later.
That's the best gift of all!
Bob
I got a few things from several family members.
ATW 66' mill gon and two BNSF Pullman 4750 covered hoppers.
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