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Pro's? Happiness. Since he was 1 year old, my grandson has run around the house yelling "Choo-Choo" everytime he hears a truck or an airplane pass by. Last weekend I took him to his first train show, where he couldn't get enough of the layouts and the whistles and horns of the various sound systems. <br />I just finished setting up my now 20-month-old grandson's first HO set under the Christmas tree. He was asleep in his crib, and when he woke and came into the living room he was so excited to see that simple loop of EZ track that he couldn't stop the excitement that was coursing through him. <br />I laid down on the carpet, and he came right up along side me and laid down with his dear little face cupped in his hands. As I opened the throttle for the first time, his bright blue eyes got so big I couldn't take my own eyes off him and the wonderful smile he carried. He sat, unmoving, for over an hour, just watching the three passenger cars run around and around. As they disappeared behind the tree, he would anticipate the re-emergence of the train from the other side of the tree. Then he climbed up on my back and gave me the best hug around my neck!!! The entire time he just kept saying "ChooChoo", and later, as we took his older sister to the local mega-bookstore, he walked right to the magazine rack and picked up a new edition of a model train magazine. He also has Thomas the Tank and Percy HO scale locomotives, but when I tried to run them on the "layout" for him, all he did was point to the passenger set and pout until I put it back on the tracks for him -- he didn't want the "kid's" version of a train!!! What could be better than that experience as a reason to have a model railroad? Was there a down side? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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