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What kind of train did you start with
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My very first train in 1950 at age 3 was a tinplate Marx set, which I totally trashed as a 3 year old. <br /> <br />My first real train came in 1953 when my dad built me a 4x8 layout with a pair of Lionel FA's and a 2-6-4 steamer, plus a lot of rolling stock. They got everything at Lobaugh's the forerunner of all hobby shops. My favorite car, even more than the operating junk, was an dull pumpkin orange NYC boxcar. I had a grandmother who really disliked me, but got me the nicest gift ever, an N5C PRR porthole caboose. <br />In a fit of total stupidity, we sold my "obsolete" Lionel stuff for $20 to buy an HO Gilbert set with the switcher and tender. Learning from the first experience, I still have all of my trains since 1959.
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