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What kind of train did you start with
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What a great subject!! <br />When I was about five or six years old, my parents had a Lionel Train set under the Christmas tree for me (mid-1950's--yea, shows my age too). Turns out they had to ask the next door neighbor to help them set it up because they knew nothing about the "simple" electronics of the day. I still remember both the 4-6-4 Lionel steam loco and the M&STL 0-4-0 diesel switcher I got a few years later. <br />About 1964, the HO bug bit and I landed a Tyco set with their unusually accurate GP-20. As much as I loved that Geep, I, like so many others, gave up (sold) all the Lionel I had accumulated to that point. I was hooked on HO for a long time. Funny thing is I can still remember my dad telling me in 1967: "When you get to college, you'll get over this interest in trains." <br />Thankfully he was wrong. Although I had to sell all my remaining HO locos, cars, bldgs., track in a move in 1998, I am now firmly hooked on N scale with a layout in the living room of my apartment with MILW/GN power. And I am trying to get other people hooked on the hobby. <br />L R
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