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Hello everyone. Im just starting to rediscover the train hobby with my 4 year old. He has a Brio set with Thomas cars, a Thomas take-a-long set, a Thomas set made by TOMY (how many Thomas 'guages' are there? and all are not compatible..) and his favorite, the Fisher-Price GEO-TRAX which I even enjoy. Running 4 IR controlled 3-4 car trains concurrently on the same track with manual switches and risers. We even run one backward, against the flow to keep our interest up. <br /> Recently I pulled down a 25 year old Bachmann set that I had when I was a kid. It has a collection of Bachmann and Tyco track and switches and a Bachmann 4 car train headed by a GP-7 Diesel of Santa Fe livery. It was in poor condition as the engine was very spotty on where it would pick up the DC off the track. I cleaned the track and it got a little better, but it was never good enough to make a complete tour around ny track. I gave up on it after My boy broke the fragile coupler on the front of the diesel and started to cry. This is a train that is intended for 8 and up I believe. Anyway, a few days ago, my cheap sister picked up a Life-Like starter set called the Rail Master. It is 36" circle with 4 cars and power supply, nothing fancy, but it was $5.97!!! I asked where she bought it and I went back and bought the last 2 sets they had. So now I have 3 sets and want to start building a 4X8 for the newly vacated guest room. Im not looking for the best, but I am looking for the least expensive source for track, not the road bed track, but the standard code 100 stuff like ATLAS snap-Track. Do they still make the brass colored rails? Mail order is fine, as the life-Like web site has a few rolling stock cars for 1.50! This is a hobby that I can expand on with minimal cash outlay with deals like this. <br /> I actually think the GEO-TRAX is a very well built product and can see my kid getting a few more years out of it. I just bought the stramliner with view cars on Ebay for 12.00. This is the best looking engine of the whole bunch and it is not available ANYWHERE for some reason, I dont think they made alot. OK, looking forward to getting this off the ground. Thanks in advance
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