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I was infected right after birth. We had tracks behind the house, and one of the first decipherable words I said was "train?". I was about 6 months old, and already staying up all night. My poor mom would be half dead, standing there, trying to get me to go to sleep, and just when she thought she was going to be able to go to bed for a while, my head would pop up, and I would say, "train?". She would say "No, there's no train!" But about 15-30 minutes later, here would come the train, usually a streamer or an Alco S-2 would be on the point. After about a year of this, Mom folded and started being able to sleep and not worry about me. I was up talking nonsense all night, and watching the trains go by about 1 an hour. I never could sleep at night, I don't know if the trains did it, or it's just the way I am.<br> <br>When I was 5, my folks got me a HO layout, set up by the O guage fanatic three doors down. I ended my modeling at 18, and only did real trains until a short time ago, when a friend asked me to fix a couple of old brass locos. I was hooked again, and already have about two dozen cars, about a dozen locos, and a bunch of track I haven't laid yet. <br>
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