Well the weather here in Northern Virginia was very nice today. About 60 degrees. The Fed EX guy stopped by about 10 am with the Bachmann Big Haulers Holiday Set I ordered. (Wasnt expecting till next week.)
My 12 year old son and I opened it up and our eyes lit up as we unpacked the trains! We had some Aristo track I had purchased last week and we spent the next hour putting a small layout in the front yard. We wired it up and ran the trains all day.
A day I will always remember.....
I knew you guys would kill me if I didnt include a picture...
Happy Holidays to all.....
Hey there,
Glad you two had fun! What a perfect way to spend a day. Thanks for the pic. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Later eh...Brian.
Looks like ya'll had a great day!!! Guess you have another one under the tree???
BTW my eyes always light up at a sight of trains
Yes We do, I have run a 74 Lionel Rock Island Line I got for my 8th birthday. Until next year! I got my son the 06 Lionel Holiday set. We will use that from now on.
Wonderful! Simply wonderful! What a great way to spend Christmas and pass on a family tradition. Bravo!
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
dlgillen wrote: A day I will always remember.....
Tom Trigg
That's it!!
The downwards spiral to bankruptcy has begun, and the muttering of strange things like 0-4-0,4-6-2, A-1-A A-1-A, and uncontrollable urges to be near trains will herald the arrival of model railway disease
There is no cure to this NON fatal condition
All you need now is some more garden trains and you will be hooked beyond all hope
Hope you and your son had as much fun as it looks like you did I still sort of remember the day I got my first train set.
regards John
Yeah mate thats a good thing, ypu can consider yourself lucky to have experienced it few of us do.
My youngest son is 40 years old and owns a couple of Mac Donalds stores, so i dont think it is going to work for me. Even worse,my eldest is 46 and he is a stockbroker, an even tougher assignment i think.
I have 6 grandsons and they come and go as far as interest in trains is concerned. I also have 5 hranddaughters and they aren't interested at all.
Rgds Ian
Yes Tom as usual you are quite right, i am also in my spare time a mentor at the lacal high school and i have a very good record at firing young men up and changing their lives and their prospects. I have a blue card, which allows me to legally work with young people and i woukld like to get some of these young blokes interested and even get then to do some of the hard work but unfortunately i cannot do that legally, this is to withlegal aspects of the Queensland mentoring programme.
Ian, have to ask what do you mentor them in? Here in the states seems like every time you turn around on the telly you hear about a guy/gal messn with the kids. I hate to see that and there is ONE MAJOR problem with it, we feel the kid is right all the time. Now remember that came from a ex cop I had my share of cases with this.
Sad thing is now I shy away from kids. From what I seen it has been sicking.
All of the kids in my neighbourhood know I have a railway and not one has shown any interest. At least another member here has got the bug with his son, as already said, here lies the path to bankruptcy.....................
Kim
William i am a legally qualified mentor and as such i can only mentor boys, i would like to interact with girls as well and the school would like me to also but with things as they are they are we are not willing to try anything like that.
What i mainly do is talk over, their relationships wiith their family and freinds, kids at school and that sort of thing.
But they all end up the same way and that is pointing them to a better future, as far as employment and career is concerned. Career advisors can do this too but i am approaching things from their point of view.
I usually start with telling them about my wife and her sister Susan and then i say, do you want to earn $12.00 per hour or $50.00 per hour? They of course say 50 and then i get right into getting a proper career and i write them a resume' etc and the corner is turned.
The fact that i have been very successful in a very big city, gives me a head start.
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