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I had free run of Dads HO 'trainset.' It was a simple layout, and over-under figure 8 with some sidings, all Atlas snap track. This is was in the late 50s. His favorite road was the Santa Fe and though we were right next to the NickelPlate, as Kid I followed his interest in SF. I wanted a Lionel, and so he broke down and bought a Super O setup for me that I could run on my bedroom floor among my other toys. It was a 'work train; set with a Santa Fe SW1500, crane car, flats with an 8 wheel crane and crawler shovel., a car with a raising platform for 'inspection' a seachlight car, and a work caboose. I had plenty of track. Later, as a teen, on I went back to HO and my folks sold the Lionel. Now in my early 50s I once again purchased all the same cars and loco from that Lionel setup, along with LOTS more, like the famous Santa Fe warbonnet Fs with gleaming aluminum passenger cars. I enjoy collecting postwar era Lionel as a side interest to 'serious' scale model railroading. I still have some of Dad's HO rolling stock, and remember the hours we spent together quite fondly when I look at it. Most of it has disappeared over the years before I got to what was left, but I am happy to have the small collection, and to have re-created the Lionel I had as MY first train. BTW, today we model in On3 and O standard, but maintain a collection of HO to run on friends layouts. HEY YOU DADS OUT THERE.....Please iinvite your daughters into your RR hobby. My Dad did, and by so doing he gave me a gift of many memories with him and a lifelong interest in trains. I have met several women active in both railfanning and modleing, all of whom were introduced to trains by their Dads.
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