MERRY CHRISTMAN AGAIN,  MAN,  AM I EXCITED, SANTA JUST PULLED UP WITH HIS SLED AND 8 GATORS. HE GAVE US PRESENTS. MAN AM EXCITED. I GOT A SOCK OF COAL, I GUESS THE STEAM ENGINE IS COMING.        HOPE YOU GOT WHAT YOU ASKED FOR, GOOD LUCK AND A MERRY CHRISTMAN. BAYOUMAN

Life was so simple but poor fella's didnt have model trains !!

I warned a kid the other day, who was doing something he shouldn't while mom wasn't looking, that Santa would bring him a lump of coal if he didn't behave. 

Poor kid had no idea what I was talking about.

Hmmm.,..I wonder how many HO hoppers a lump would fill...