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What kind of train did you start with
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In 1979 I was given my mother's Lionel 2035 train set. It was perfect and wonderful with an operating milk car and hobo car. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread (and I had alot of new fancy toys to compare it to). Best of all, this had been my mother's toy when she was little. <br /> <br />Now, my memory isn't very good as to exactly what happened, but one day the train stopped working. My father and my grandfather were angry and upset with me and told me I had "ruined" it. The train set sat in a box for over 20 years. My father bought a few other engines, a few other tansformers, and some track at garage sales but to the best of my knowlege he never got the train running again. I suspect that reason he never got it to work again was because he didn't have a clue how to set up the train. The other engines he bought were fine (except a bit beat up), the track he bought was a horrible bent up mess, and the other transformers he bought would have burnt down the house. <br /> <br />It never occured to any of these men to actually take the train into a train shop and have someone look at it. After 20 years of wallowing in guilt, my mother and I took out the train set. It was as perfect as I remembered it. She and I made a trip to the local Lionel service stop and it took the man less then 10 minutes to fix the train. It is now up and running in the basement of our home. And, my husband, my mother, and I are planning our first 4 by 8 lay out with tunnels and all. <br /> <br />So, my mother's first and current train is my first and current train. Now, if I can only convince my husband that we can't run the train up a grade higher then 4% (and I'm not even sure the old train will do that) everything will be ok.
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