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My first train set was the Lionel 027 cast iron yard goat 040 and work train in 1956. It was more of a toy than an interest in model railroading until I nailed the track down to dad's ping pong table. I found most of the train a few years later when we moved to a new house and traded it to a hobby store in Birmingham, Mich. for HO scale track, power pack, some freight cars and I think a Train Master. That went together on a 12X8 open grid table which was an ambitious effort to build a model railroad in the mid 60s. My sisters boyfriend had graduated from trains and gave me his HO scale Lionel set which I added to my stuff. In the late 60s when I went into my Junior year in HS, trains weren't cool anymore and I set aside the Lionel stuff to return to my sisters boyfriend and sold my collection. I got on with life and traveled the world for a while until the early 1980s when I got an interest in model railroading with my son. I found that my folks still had the HO Lionel stuff so that was added to the D&J Railroad. Now the D&J Railroad has grown to a full basement empire with DCC almost worthy of coverage in MR.
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