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What kind of train did you start with
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My first train was a Lionel set from Santa (aka: mom & dad) when I was six or seven. It came with the missle launcher flatcar & exploding boxcar. We set it up on a 4X4 platform with the help of my maternal grandfather from whom I caught the model railroad bug. <br /> Sadly my first set was also lost in the name of progress to HO in my early teens. The HO stuff was sold or tossed in my late teens before joining the Army. While stationed in Germany in the mid '70s, I was introduced to N scale (European prototype of course). When I got out of the army in'77 I bought some N scale track, cars & two Rivarossi light pacifics (I still have the pacifics & they still run). Trains were put on hold for a while due to job, house & family needs. <br /> I've been back into the hobby and N scale since '89 and loving every minute of it. <br /> <br /> When my son was around eight, my grandfather gave me two sets of Lionels for him to have. This is actually what started getting me back into the hobby. Both are from at least the early '60s, one set has a cast metal pacific, the other a plastic Sana Fe F unit. Shortly afterward, my grandfather passed away. We set up the Lionels with two ovals on a 4X8 sheet of plywood and bought some buildings and accessories. For the next year and a half my son and I had fun running trains before other interests began occupying his time. I carefully removed the track, had the locos cleaned & lubed by a shop that specialized in Lionel, and stored them away wrapped in plastic. My son is now in his senior year of college and hopefully someday his interest in model trains will return. Until then he knows that the trains are safely stored away and that they will be his when he's ready, on condition that he can't sell them while I'm still alive.
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