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Back in 1996 when I first moved back to wichita, I spent a while living with my grandparents since our house wasn't completly ready yet. My grandpa would take me to the train museum and train store every saturday, and I would see those big shiny Santa Fe GE's smoking, and I fell in love. I first ran my grandpa;s lionel PA1 with that magnet traction thing, and then I started collecting HO scale. Christmas of 1996 came, and there it was under the tree for me, an athearn box! I opened it to find a BN F45 with all the parts (which of course I lost but still have the engine) In christmas of 1997, I gto a life-like set, that I ran the guts out of and ended up burning the little things that make it tick. In january 1997, BNSF heritage 1 paint was starting to show up (oh dear [:(]) and I went to the train store with my dad and bought a really nice athearn engine (SP F7A) In summer 1998, I got my 4x8 board that I still own. I used life-like power-lock track on it up until 2000, and then we finally laid the roadbed and track. Then came christmas, and it had to go into storage for 6 months.I was so depressed! Then, over that period of time I got athearn kits, and plastic buildings, and ran the guts out of that SP engine. It was on consignment for 3$, so not much loss there. It was made when atheran had the box before the ATSF one, so it must have been older. I got an engine replacement, and a new shell for it. I bought some passenger cars too. Now my layout is nearing its 8 year mark, and still going strong pulling little unpainted plastic men and women [:D] Looks like I did my homework for today..
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