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[quote user="CNJ831"]Let me also point out that exposure to Thomas in America is by no means a very recent phenomenon...it might be appropriate and enlightening to ask just how many teens here on the forum can honestly claim that the bulk of their interest in the hobby directly sprang from watching Thomas on TV or playing with show-related toys and not some other logical source, like a hobbyist relative or conventional tin-plate trains under the Christmas tree? Now that would be a telling bit of information.[/quote] Be careful, Mr. Vulcan, some of us influenced by that first generation of Thomas on Shining Time Station back in the late '80s are already in our 20s...It helped that the stories were much more interesting and narrated intelligently back then, not as if one was talking to a 3 year old.Anyway, Thomas was a major influence in my early life.  Yes, we had an HO scale train running a circle around the Christmas tree (which probably influenced me to model in HO just because that's what we had), but my only exposure to what trains did was Thomas...things like "shunting" [;)] cars in a yard, working a mine/quarry, freight drags, branchlines, turntables, a roundhouse...it's all there and an intelligent part of the action in the original stories.  Heck, there's even narrow gauge in the mountains.  Perhaps more importantly, it showed that trains could be different and interesting (in the variety of steam locos) as opposed to the standardized models that have existed in the latter half of the 20th century.  Thomas is the beginning of a journey into history, and is probably why I'm primarily interested in trains, steam locos in particular.Ray
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