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What kind of train did you start with
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I asked Santa for some futuristic train that had some type of gray snap together track and carried ore and had conveyors. As I remember the set also had a molded in gear track down the center so the thing could climb walls also. (I don't know how the ore stayed in). Well I was some what disappointed that Christmas of 1972 when he brought me a Tyco set instead. It was a 36" circle of track, Santa fe F7 in frieght blue, with the red caboose that looked more like a Pennsylvania prototype. It came with a B&M blue hopper, A green Western Maryland flat car with tractors and a white JC Penny box car. (I wonder where Santa got it) Well dad put the track on a piece of plywood that he painted green. He also painted light grey roads and a darker grey for the track roadbed. (no ballast) He used tongue depressers as ramps for the road crossings. It had casters so it could roll under a twin sized bed. I can't tell you how many hours or how many scale miles that train put out but I ran it like that for a good 3 years. I still have that original plywood board but I took the track off so I could expand it. (should have seen the look on dads face when he found out). I still have all the components of that original set and the 3 others that Santa brought me over the years. It still can run (about the only thing I did to it was lube the engine and change the couplers to Kadee) I am still in HO today, although I do own some N scale stuff, and I thank my lucky stars that Santa brought me the wrong set. <br /> <br />Kevin <br /> <br />p.s. see some of my model work at www.geocities/krskev
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