What Influenced You?

[willy6]

my dad set up his LIONEL layout every year at christmas. when i retired from the USN in 1992 i had a 2year old son and we were walking through a hobby shop and i got re-inspired..........and blamed him to my wife.

[willy6]

my dad set up his LIONEL layout every year at christmas. when i retired from the USN in 1992 i had a 2year old son and we were walking through a hobby shop and i got re-inspired..........and blamed him to my wife.

[rf16a]

I got a train set for Christmas when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It was an AHM set with an 0-8-0 switcher, a few cars and a caboose. I still have that equipment, although its a little beat up. The engine still runs.

I also have parents who were then and are now supportive of my interest in trains.

I hope this survey helps in the quest to get more people involved in the hobby.

[rf16a]

I got a train set for Christmas when I was about 3 or 4 years old. It was an AHM set with an 0-8-0 switcher, a few cars and a caboose. I still have that equipment, although its a little beat up. The engine still runs.

I also have parents who were then and are now supportive of my interest in trains.

I hope this survey helps in the quest to get more people involved in the hobby.

[Anonymous]

train set.

[Anonymous]

train set.

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Puckdropper

Train set got me started, but I got it because of an existing interest in trains.

Hey, that's exactly what I was gonna say!

Received a Lionel set around the Christmas tree from my Dad (who's turning 80 next week!) back in 1956 when I was three years old. Dad would add to it over the years on various occassions and eventually build a train table in the basement, adding grass, roads, trees, houses (with lites inside), operating crossing gates and street lights! After that he lost interest and I was on my own. At age seven or eight we traded it all in for HO.

When I was around 13 I went into a local soda fountain and store. They had a large magazine rack at at some point I had the thought that since they seem to have magazines for everything else, they surely must have one for model railroads. I looked, discovered a 1966 issue of MR (the issue with the english deacon(?) on the cover), and I've been a reader of almost every issue since! Thanks, MR!

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Puckdropper

Train set got me started, but I got it because of an existing interest in trains.

Hey, that's exactly what I was gonna say!

Received a Lionel set around the Christmas tree from my Dad (who's turning 80 next week!) back in 1956 when I was three years old. Dad would add to it over the years on various occassions and eventually build a train table in the basement, adding grass, roads, trees, houses (with lites inside), operating crossing gates and street lights! After that he lost interest and I was on my own. At age seven or eight we traded it all in for HO.

When I was around 13 I went into a local soda fountain and store. They had a large magazine rack at at some point I had the thought that since they seem to have magazines for everything else, they surely must have one for model railroads. I looked, discovered a 1966 issue of MR (the issue with the english deacon(?) on the cover), and I've been a reader of almost every issue since! Thanks, MR!

[Anonymous]

My Dad was into O gauge when I was just a boy. To protect his layout, he gave my brother and me Lionel trains (much more than just a "set") for Christmas 1949. I am in HO now, and have been at it pretty much all my life. Oh yes, the HO thing started at Christmas, 1953. Love trains, love the hobby, miss steam locomotives.

Tom

[Anonymous]

My Dad was into O gauge when I was just a boy. To protect his layout, he gave my brother and me Lionel trains (much more than just a "set") for Christmas 1949. I am in HO now, and have been at it pretty much all my life. Oh yes, the HO thing started at Christmas, 1953. Love trains, love the hobby, miss steam locomotives.

Tom

[on30francisco]

I got a huge Lionel "Super O" gauge train set when I was a kid.

[on30francisco]

I got a huge Lionel "Super O" gauge train set when I was a kid.

[Anonymous]

Since i was born, i have watched CSX trains go by my parent's business every day. I would drag my parents outside when i was little. Since then the business has moved, but it is still close to the tracks. Then my dad bought a train set and a MR subscription. It's all downhill from there. 10 years after I saw my first model train at age 3, i love MRRing more than ever.

[Anonymous]

Since i was born, i have watched CSX trains go by my parent's business every day. I would drag my parents outside when i was little. Since then the business has moved, but it is still close to the tracks. Then my dad bought a train set and a MR subscription. It's all downhill from there. 10 years after I saw my first model train at age 3, i love MRRing more than ever.

[soumodeler]

A friend gave me a train set when I was 10, and it exploded from there after a visit to a local model railroad club.

soumodeler
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The Southern Serves the South!

[soumodeler]

A friend gave me a train set when I was 10, and it exploded from there after a visit to a local model railroad club.

soumodeler
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The Southern Serves the South!

[cwclark]

This topic has been posted a lot over the years (I voted other) so here it goes again..I come from a railroad family..i have two great uncles, my grandfather, two uncles, and a cousin that work for/ retired/ desceased from the SP...i grew up around trains but never worked for a railroad, (tried but never got hired by one,) so modeling them is the next best thing...I had a train that passed twice a day behind my house where i grew up and it's just kind of in my blood...chuck

[cwclark]

This topic has been posted a lot over the years (I voted other) so here it goes again..I come from a railroad family..i have two great uncles, my grandfather, two uncles, and a cousin that work for/ retired/ desceased from the SP...i grew up around trains but never worked for a railroad, (tried but never got hired by one,) so modeling them is the next best thing...I had a train that passed twice a day behind my house where i grew up and it's just kind of in my blood...chuck

[aloco]

Watching real trains in action.

[aloco]

Watching real trains in action.