I just purchased my 2nd train set in 2 months. I think I have been hooked. I bought the LIONEL Santa Fe El Capitan with Trainsounds. My new Union Pacific fast freight set is fantastic and my son who is 6 and I have alot of fun running the train. I love the look on his friends faces when they come over to play and see the train set on the layout. They have never seen toy trains like this and hopefully they go back to their Dad's and tell them they want one.
I built a tunnel for the first set with plans for a second set to run on top of the tunnel and run next to the first set. I wanted to get a passenger set sometime in the future and have been keeping a lookout for a sale on them. I think the Sante Fe El Capitan is a great looking set and Hobby Station has them on sale so I pulled the trigger and bought one last night.
I told my wife I needed a second set so I could run one while my son runs the other. She thinks Im obsessed but she did not bat an eye at the suggestion so I jumped at the sale. I picked a good one when I found her.
Does anyone else have this set and if so how do you like it? It is a great looking set and I am sure my son and I will both enjoy it.
I have this set, plus the add-on B-unit and love it. As a matter of fact, I ran ours last night. Great horn! I'm getting the add-on diner car for this set when it's released later this year. Good luck with your El Capitan and with your new toy train addiction!
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Rolo.......Do not look into the light...turn back.....do not look into the light...turn back.....**sound of train horn**...
Awww, it is probably too late now. You are hooked. Same think happened to me about 5 years ago. Now I have way too many sets! Still, it is fun and sets give the best bang for the buck. Now where did that Santa Fe set go, and the operating barrel loader, and has anyone seen my lighted UP caboose?
One word of advice. Go slowwwww!
Yeah, I have the set too with the B unit add on. Nice set and runs good. Good markings and paint. Never had any problem with it.
Rolo,
I too have been bitten by the bug and officially hooked. As I posted my first time it all started when my 20 y/o son asked me to put up my childhood Lionel's this past Christmas. Its been downhill or uphill, depending how you look at it, since. I started with my original 2036 steamer and tender and it's 5 cars (2 are 3472 automatic milk cars) and a 1110 Scout with tender and it's 3 cars, I've purchased an additional 3 steamers with matching tenders and over a dozen other cars, not including the 2 my wife just bought, since then. Plus track, switches and accessories. So, have fun, be a kid again and most of all enjoy that excited look in your son's eyes for as long as you can.
By the way, these guys on this board are fantastic. Eager to help whenever they can and talented too. If you get a chance look at some of their layouts when they post a link, out of this world.
Mike
Congrats Rolo.......I too was hooked about 40 years ago....and I have a train or two around here somewhere.
Tim
jimhaleyscomet wrote: Awww, it is probably too late now. You are hooked.One word of advice. Go slowwwww!
Awww, it is probably too late now. You are hooked.
Well, at least you're buying sets! I have been in the post war market for the past year and a half, and have gone into the modern world, sorry Frank, the PW didn't have the road names.
I have a few pieces that I wished I didn't buy...Find out what you really like! car types, certain railroads, whatever, but find a direction. Of course it will change, but you won't have a maintenance car, and a helicopter car you don't have a use for.
Kurt
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