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What kind of train did you start with
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I vaguely remember getting what was probably a Marx set when I was about 4 that I was too young to even know how to put on the tracks. When I was about 6 and after months of begging I got a Lionel 3 rail set which I have no clue what happened to. I remember dropping it off our oak table unto the floor several times - it was very fast! Nothing ever seemed to hurt it. <br />I got into 'serious' railroading around 1978 when I was about 10. My mom bought me a Bachmann N scale set with an oval of track and a loco and cars in Burlington Route. We lived near Burlington Northern tracks and I remember thinking it was the same thing! That original set was added to every Christmas and birthday for several years after that. By the time I was in my 20's I had at least 150 cars and several locos. <br />I also dabbled in HO in high school because I was tired of track problems with N scale. Ironically, I switched back to N later because I found the newer (or maybe I was just an older, more mature track-layer) N stuff more reliable than HO. I also liked that you could pull about as many cars as you had track to put them on with hardly any of the problems associated with long trains in HO. <br />Anyway, recently I've been buying up HO sets on clearance every year after Christmas when the bug got me again... hard! I've spent the past several months dabbling with the sets I've stockpiled, but have decided to return to N and have already begun planning layouts and buying track. I also have a Lionel Safari set I bought this winter (after Christmas clearance, of course!) that I set up for my twin sons. I can't wait for them to get old enough to share this with me. My 5 year old daughter is already an accomplished engineer! <br />Well, I guess I've rambled enough...
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