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First one that was really mine (not Dad's) was a Plymouth switcher made by Tyco and painted in Santa Fe colors (picture and description: http://tycotrain.tripod.com/tycotrains/id16.html). <br />This was a tiny locomotive, with only one truck! My grandparents bought a Tyco set for me for Christmas when I was eight years old (1975), and it was called "The Switcher Freight." Consisted of the loco, two cars, a caboose, and a circle of track. Boy did I have a blast with that thing, just watching it go round and round (especially at night with the lights out!) <br />I'll never forget going to Gimbel's department store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with my grandparents, a few weeks before Christmas, and seeing the massive layout they had set up in the train department. Oh man, I was absolutely drooling. <br />Dad had a Lionel set when I was much younger, with a B&O F unit and a few freight cars, but I think he did something stupid and gave it away or something--haven't seen it since.
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