My name is Patrick, and I am 48 years old. I was born on Pearl Harbor Day in 1966 in Cushing, Oklahoma. I grew up with Lionel, Athearn, and Tyco O and HO gauge electric trains. I collect a lot of postwar Lionel items (mainly from 1947 to 1959) and anything else that strikes me as cool. I have a growing collection of HO scale '50s & '60s era Santa Fe warbonnet locomotives, and while I can certainly appreciate many of the modern Williams, Atlas, MTH, and Lionel items (despite their sometimes steep price tags) , my heart belongs to the vintage stuff more-it just has more character!
Current Lionel restoration projects:
1947 2020 Pennsy S2 Turbine (needs worm gear and has one damaged driver)
1947 Pennsy 2332 GG1 (needs worm gear)
New Haven F3 A-B-A
New Haven EP-5 rectifier