Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
I still have it after all these years
K
:O)
Budliner wrote: I still have it after all these years K :O)
Got a RELAPSE when I got hooked on DCC and Gadgetmania!! Worth every penny and every minute of time. Long way from Jersey City and the 027 around the tree!
RELAPSE!!! I never could get rid of it. It started at 6 year old with a old Tyco HO train set. It was a Tyco train set and yes I still have it and IT STILL RUNS!!! That old F-7A still pull a car or two. My virus quadroopled about 17 years ago. Its a thing that just doesn't go away.
4x8 are fun too!!! RussellRail
I was always highly suceptable to the train bug.
When I was two years old. Dad took me down to the old train depot and we stood on the platform and watched trains go bye.
we stood right near the yellow line, and the train came through doing about 50 (or so he says. I was to young to remember) and instead of being scared and wanting to go home. I was utterly facinated.
Then when I was 4. he brought two bachmann sets home from work. And the rest is history Now I have 120 locomotives. over 600 cars and more track and buildings than I can use at the moment.
James
I was born with the train virus!
My great great grand father was a depot master for the L&A, my grand father owned a timber company and hauled pulpwood via rail, and my dad and I built an HO layout when I was growing up. There is no cure in sight for me.....
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
this is great we all have somthing that sparked this outbreak
hope I never get cured
its like I'm on the internet and all of a sudden whamo relaps
I pick up parts you just never know
it just hits ya
1944, I was 4 years old, folks bought me a prewar American Flyer "O" gauge Hudson, 3 lighted passenger cars and a light tower for Christmas. I remember it like it was yesterday. The Hudson still runs.
Dick
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Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the shadow of the Standard Railroad of the World, you litterally could not turn around without seeing something to do with trains. In grade school our window looked out across a field on the otherside of which was a branchline. Every day about 2 PM or so, a Reading switcher would trundle past with a handful of cars.
In the summer there were the family Sunday outings to the Strasburg Railroad and dinner at the Dutch Haven Resturant. In the winter there was the 4x8 HO layout that spent the summer on the wall of the garage which would be set up in the family room until sometime after the new year. It was just two loops of track with no sidings but it did have two train control. The inner loop was my brother's the outer loop was mine! LOL
The seeds had been planted...
Then, in the early eighties, I walked into a hobby shop and on a whim picked up a copy of MR, and, as the saying goes, that was all she wrote!
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."