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I had various train toys when I was little, but my first real train set was an electric Playmobil G scale set that I got when I was about 4 years old. It had a red diesel switcher, gondola car and boxcar and a circle of track. There were people that you could put in it and you could take the roofs off. Before long, a cattle car, caboose, straight track and many more people and accessories were added to it. I still have it all and even added two passenger cars to it a couple of years ago when I found them for only $10 each at a toy store that was going out of business. <br /> <br />My first HO train was a Bachmann circle set with a chrome Warbonnet F9, UP hopper car, RI boxcar and ATSF caboose that I got on a summer trip to Minot, ND when I was 5 or 6. For Christmas of that year, I got another Bachmann F9 circle set (CP this time), a CN gondola car with coal, an EL boxcar, a Canada grain hopper car, an Atlas station kit and extra track. My dad had put green astro-turf on a piece of plywood for me to set it all up on, which would become known as "The Green Board". <br /> <br />I continued to accumulate more HO trains and when I was in Grade 2, my dad built me my first layout. It was a large L-shaped layout that could run three trains simultaneously and included a bridge and four sidings. Things just continued to grow from there and the rest, as they say, is history...
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