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Two-Year old chucked Life-Like Santa Fe on floor
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Swamp, <br /> <br />Kids! LOL! Hopefully your kids will stay interested in trains. Mine only wanted the train around at Christmas Time and had no real use for it at any other time. Now my GRAND SON on the other hand, lives eats and I think dreams of Trains. At 2 years old, HE KNOWS the difference between the looks of a Steam Train and a Diesel and has his own little preferences as to what he likes. <br /> <br />He is VERY good around the layout downstairs. I purposely do not take him down to run trains every time he's over. That is "SPECIAL" time for him and I and I try to always have something fresh for him to see and experience when we are down there. Needless to say this keeps his enthusiasm up. <br /> <br />On the subject of cheaper engines....I have had good success with the Bachman Engines. I have a few of the FT Diesel units and the look pretty good on the layout and seem to run well. <br /> <br />I had converted to DCC on my 4x8 layout and went through the pain of installing a DCC encoder into an HO Thomas the Tank Engine. After doing that I added a DPDT switch so I could go back to DC operations to run his Bachman FT units and some of the newer Thomas Engines. If your kids like the Thomas Engines, the "HENRY" engine seems to run very well and looks very very nice. He can pull three of the larger coaches that can be purchased from Bachmann and even with their length seem to negotiate or tolerate small curve diameters well. <br /> <br />I hope this helps! <br /> <br />Chris
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