Model Trains

[Sir Henry]

As a kid I always wanted a train set and never had one. That all changed today when I bought these. I will be getting a red caboose in a couple of weeks as the ones the dealer had in his shop were not to my liking.

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[Cofisher]

Ok Sheldon, we are with you. I love train sets.

[RanchRoper]

This is like mine, still in the original box. Still works. Got it for Xmas in 1960.

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[RetiredSeabee]

Your engine reminded me of an old friend from the Ruger forum. NCLEO89. He was a good man who left the world too soon.
Looking forward to seeing your train get longer.

[Ernie]

Are you going to pint your own graffiti on the box cars? All the trains I see nowadays have it.

[Sir Henry]

Your engine reminded me of an old friend from the Ruger forum. NCLEO89. He was a good man who left the world too soon.
Looking forward to seeing your train get longer.

I was thinking of him today. I know he loved real trains.

[Sir Henry]

Are you going to pint your own graffiti on the box cars? All the trains I see nowadays have it.

I was thinking about it. I would need to see pictures taken back in the 50’s and 60’s. These are the years these were made. The engine is a replication of a 50’s train but it was made in 1972 so even though it’s a replication it is still almost 50 years old.

[BigAl52]

My favorite train set was Uncle Festers from the Addams Family cause he could always blow it up.

[markiver54]

It IS a great hobby!
They have a wonderful set-up at the old historic train station in my home town of Hendersonville, NC.

[Sir Henry]

It IS a great hobby!
They have a wonderful set-up at the old historic train station in my home town of Hendersonville, NC.

BigAl52 told me to get a new hobby and stop watching the clock.

[Spade5]

I got mine for Christmas when I was about 7 so 1954. Lionel with a "steam" engine. I still have it and it still works. Enjoy your new prize.

[BrokenolMarine]

Very nice, I always admired trains. I had friends when I was a kid in Florida, who used to argue who had the best hobby...

Model Trains, RC Airplanes, or Slot Car Racing.

I admired them ALL.... We had a Slot Car racing shop that had a number of tracks in different scales, leagues, championships... The works. Most of the racers bought bare frames and built cars up from there.

The Train guys mostly ran their trains at home. One of our friends and his dad had a cityscape and countryside built in the basement... With track crisscrossing the landscape. Mom wasn't allowed in the basement after she tried to dust the darn thing.

The plane guys were amazing as well. A Stuka, a couple Bi-planes, and a huge bomber.

[Hatchdog]

As kids my brothers and I had a train set with the old three rail metal tracks of the day. I think we had as much fun setting up the tracks with a decent and lots of turns and rolling marbles down as running the trains. I remember the transformer to provide power was probably 10” square and very heavy. Fun memories..

[BigAl52]

One of my neighbors was an avid train modeler. Had a complete set up in his basement HO scale with a regular town mountains tunnels and the setup took up a major part of the basement. It was really cool. I know he put alot of time in its creation.

[Sir Henry]

As kids my brothers and I had a train set with the old three rail metal tracks of the day. I think we had as much fun setting up the tracks with a decent and lots of turns and rolling marbles down as running the trains. I remember the transformer to provide power was probably 10” square and very heavy. Fun memories..

Don’t forget the smell!

[Hatchdog]

As kids my brothers and I had a train set with the old three rail metal tracks of the day. I think we had as much fun setting up the tracks with a decent and lots of turns and rolling marbles down as running the trains. I remember the transformer to provide power was probably 10” square and very heavy. Fun memories..

Don’t forget the smell!

Yep, in fact on Christmas morning we left it on when we went to Mass. Came home to “that smell” and a lecture from dad about leaving it on.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

My HO's are packed away. Need to get them set up again someday. My set-up back in the '60's had the HO Trains along with the HO Cars. I had the Train go around the outside with the Figure-8 Car track on the inside. Also had a switch track that went across the center and bought that special Car-Train combination cross track. I would put the train on slow speed as we raced and if you couldn't beat the train, you had to stop for it, lol. Had some HO signals, street lamps, telephone poles, buildings, etc. Spent hours in the basement all the while having '60's oldies blasting from an old radio. Only they weren't oldies back then, but current gold.

[BrokenolMarine]

My thing was Hot Wheels. I had hundreds of feet of track and three or four of the power houses that had the rubberized wheels inside that shot the cars out. A number of my friends would come over and we would run track all thru the house. Start on the screened porch, go into the living room, dining room, thru the bedrooms, back out to the porch. Spacing the power houses, the cars would make the full circle and come back to us on the porch.

Until they suddenly quit. At the back of the house we found the two Siamese, laying on either side of the track, among piles of cars, where they had been swatting them off as they came out from under my sister's bed.

[Headhog]

I still have my Lionel set I received for Christmas in '56. My father enjoyed setting them up and running them as much as I did.

Paul