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I recently got all my old Tyco HO stuff out of storage at my Dad's. What prompted this is the fact that my daughter begged for (and got) a cheap Life-Like set. The best part is.....she loves that cheap P.O.S. every bit as much as I did my TYCO. As I unwrapped each old engine, car, and accesory of my old TYCO stuff, I saw my father and grandfather building my layout down in the basement of my childhood home in the month or so before Christmas. Of course I had no idea what they were up to; before the track hit the plywood, I was evicted from the basement. But I remember them spending hours down there working on it. Then that moves me into all the wonderful time I had running my railroad, building new building models with my Dad, that horrible 1st do-it-yourself tree experiment, the HO scale WWII military battles that took place on my layout (sometimes the Germans took Harrisonville, sometimes the Allies held them off). At any rate, I think you get the point. I'll be buying some TYCO stuff to rebuild a few of my most cherished childhood memories. I don't know what happened to the whistle, I'll need parts for my steam engine, what happened to the bulldozer that unloaded the big pipes? I may pay top dollars for these, not because I'm collecting TYCO, but because I'm collecting memories. I hope I can build some memories that are just as good with my daughter and her Life-Like Trains Santa Fe set.......and if she pays alot of money to replace small pieces of this in 30 years will I think she's foolish? No, If I find out shes looking for these pieces, I'll buy them for her if I'm still around........ My .02 cents on TYCO, Fools, and their money........
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