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I am thinking about getting back into the hobby, I need to convince my dad that the spare room in the basement would be perfect for a 4x12 N scale layout, or even a smaller HO layout. But herein lies my problem. My father was never really into the whole train thing, he did it to apease me. I know he loves building things and knows how to wire and is good with foam scenery. But he allways seemed to be on the outside of my hobby kinda looking in, not touching the layout after it was "done". He never really ran my trains with me but he did take me to greenburg shows twice a year and allways seemed to get a kick out of it. Now im 15 and we seem to be drifting apart from one another, and I really think getting back into modeling would be perfect for us to bond. I'd love him to get more into it, and make a serious layout this time. I'd love loooooooooove to model our local Long Island Railroad in the 60's. Thats when he grew up and maybe doing that could get him more into it. Doing the LIRR during then wouldnt be hard, heck altas had a RS3 in LIRR paint out only a few years back. And stewart had a VO1000 in LIRR colors also. The problem is convincing him that my conrail GP-38 my santa-fe GP9 and my Cheesie switcher arent enough anymore, only the GP9 has its handrails still! I dont think I could sell the old man on DCC as well "We dont need no digital command whatever!" would be his response. <br /> <br />Does anyone have any advice on how I could get the man back into the hobby?
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