What Influenced You?

[Anonymous]

Chistmas, turkey, family, gifts and post war vintage Lionel trains!!!!
I will never forget any of it.

[Anonymous]

Chistmas, turkey, family, gifts and post war vintage Lionel trains!!!!
I will never forget any of it.

[Anonymous]

Now that we know we all started with a trainset as a gift the real question is:
Since every kid got a trainset at some time, what made some lead a normal life and other go bonkers with building basements, garages, and attics to spend a life time there building a minature empire.

[Anonymous]

Now that we know we all started with a trainset as a gift the real question is:
Since every kid got a trainset at some time, what made some lead a normal life and other go bonkers with building basements, garages, and attics to spend a life time there building a minature empire.

[Anonymous]

My dad have an old Lional set in a box that came out rarely. One year I got an HO set for Christmas and "we" built a 4X8 layout. A figure 8 with one siding. The engine could not make it up the grade with more than three cars. I lost intrest and it got packed into a box but not forgoten. A decade or so later and 6 moves the box was reopened. A layout was built and most of the old stuff was better off replaced (I kept the rolling stock to show how far the hobbie has come and memories). A year later and another move most of the layuot is on its side in a shop. Once a month I take some snap track on the floor and run the trains with my 4 year old son. We prefered the layout but you have to do what you can. Maybe we can get green carpet.

Scott.

[Anonymous]

My dad have an old Lional set in a box that came out rarely. One year I got an HO set for Christmas and "we" built a 4X8 layout. A figure 8 with one siding. The engine could not make it up the grade with more than three cars. I lost intrest and it got packed into a box but not forgoten. A decade or so later and 6 moves the box was reopened. A layout was built and most of the old stuff was better off replaced (I kept the rolling stock to show how far the hobbie has come and memories). A year later and another move most of the layuot is on its side in a shop. Once a month I take some snap track on the floor and run the trains with my 4 year old son. We prefered the layout but you have to do what you can. Maybe we can get green carpet.

Scott.

[Anonymous]

Must have been in the genetics. My mum told me she spent many miserable hours in the Scottish "mist"(pouring rain to anyone else) on a footbridge being smothered by coal smoke. Since I cannot remember these events I can only assume my interest is inherent. Modelling is a natural fallout to recreating the past. I am also a history buff so bingo, we have the perfect medium! Also love the old West, so have a turn of the Century(20th) layout, with some license to aquire some of the excellent out of period steam locos being produced today.

[Anonymous]

Must have been in the genetics. My mum told me she spent many miserable hours in the Scottish "mist"(pouring rain to anyone else) on a footbridge being smothered by coal smoke. Since I cannot remember these events I can only assume my interest is inherent. Modelling is a natural fallout to recreating the past. I am also a history buff so bingo, we have the perfect medium! Also love the old West, so have a turn of the Century(20th) layout, with some license to aquire some of the excellent out of period steam locos being produced today.

[ChrisB1962]

asked for trainset because of a prior interest in railroads.

[ChrisB1962]

asked for trainset because of a prior interest in railroads.

[Anonymous]

I think it was 1980 when all my children were at home. I remember we were sitting around talking about what we would have liked for Christmas presents.
I said being a kid in Scotland during the WW 2 was tough because presents were pretty hard to come by, I said I always wanted an electric train set. My middle son gave me a cheap little N scale and I loved it. Many years later, when we were in Germany, he was with the Army and I had retired, he said, "All right Dad. You always wanted to build a layout, we are in the perfect place for it."
So I started buying HO equipment. That was the start of Dalreada.

[Anonymous]

I think it was 1980 when all my children were at home. I remember we were sitting around talking about what we would have liked for Christmas presents.
I said being a kid in Scotland during the WW 2 was tough because presents were pretty hard to come by, I said I always wanted an electric train set. My middle son gave me a cheap little N scale and I loved it. Many years later, when we were in Germany, he was with the Army and I had retired, he said, "All right Dad. You always wanted to build a layout, we are in the perfect place for it."
So I started buying HO equipment. That was the start of Dalreada.

[Anonymous]

Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper as the saying goes I was influenced by my grandfather who was a top link driver with the London Scottish Midland Railway. His numerous stories and pride in having driven the royal train led to my fascination with railways. My younger days revolved around steam locomotives, spending many days at Aberdeen's Ferryhill Locomotive Depot observing Gresley and Stanier Pacifics.
A4's, A1's,A2/3's, A3's, V2's, Duchess', Royal Scot's, Black 5's and many more. I like big steam consequently that is the reason I have moved onto American railroading
with its raw power and charisma. Pity more were not saved from the torch.

[Anonymous]

Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper as the saying goes I was influenced by my grandfather who was a top link driver with the London Scottish Midland Railway. His numerous stories and pride in having driven the royal train led to my fascination with railways. My younger days revolved around steam locomotives, spending many days at Aberdeen's Ferryhill Locomotive Depot observing Gresley and Stanier Pacifics.
A4's, A1's,A2/3's, A3's, V2's, Duchess', Royal Scot's, Black 5's and many more. I like big steam consequently that is the reason I have moved onto American railroading
with its raw power and charisma. Pity more were not saved from the torch.

[Anonymous]

I received a Maerklin starter set for christmas when I was 8 years old. It was
in 1954. My father had picked out the items individually and made a wooden
box for it. In Denmark where I live, the most popular brands at that time was Maerklin and Fleischmann,
and the scale was HO. It was the best christmas ever!

[Anonymous]

I received a Maerklin starter set for christmas when I was 8 years old. It was
in 1954. My father had picked out the items individually and made a wooden
box for it. In Denmark where I live, the most popular brands at that time was Maerklin and Fleischmann,
and the scale was HO. It was the best christmas ever!

[Anonymous]

About 1957 I received a Hornby O Gauge clockwork set for a Birthday present and was hooked straightaway. Have been modelling ever since although I now model US railroads in N Scale. Talk about a radical change. I wouldn't have it any other way. Still got some of the old Hornby. Sentimental fool!

[Anonymous]

About 1957 I received a Hornby O Gauge clockwork set for a Birthday present and was hooked straightaway. Have been modelling ever since although I now model US railroads in N Scale. Talk about a radical change. I wouldn't have it any other way. Still got some of the old Hornby. Sentimental fool!

[cacole]

I was raised in southern Illinois with the Illinois Central main line to St. Louis running right behind our house in the good old days of steam, and a Missouri Pacific track less than 1/2 mile away. When I was around 10-12 years old, I used to ride my bicycle out to the MP roundhouse and the hostler would let me ride around in the cab as he serviced the big mikados and other steamers. I had American Flyer S-scale trains as long as I can remember, and my older brother build an HO layout on a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the basement around the same time. I was drafted into the Army in 1960 and retired in 1986. I collected various HO-scale items during those years as I travelled around the world, but every time I moved items got lost or damaged. I never got into modeling on a more full-time basis until 1994, when I joined a local club. I don't recall ever wanting to become a railroader, but have always liked "electric trains."

[cacole]

I was raised in southern Illinois with the Illinois Central main line to St. Louis running right behind our house in the good old days of steam, and a Missouri Pacific track less than 1/2 mile away. When I was around 10-12 years old, I used to ride my bicycle out to the MP roundhouse and the hostler would let me ride around in the cab as he serviced the big mikados and other steamers. I had American Flyer S-scale trains as long as I can remember, and my older brother build an HO layout on a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the basement around the same time. I was drafted into the Army in 1960 and retired in 1986. I collected various HO-scale items during those years as I travelled around the world, but every time I moved items got lost or damaged. I never got into modeling on a more full-time basis until 1994, when I joined a local club. I don't recall ever wanting to become a railroader, but have always liked "electric trains."

[Anonymous]

My friend had a N scale train set and I thought it was fun,so I decided to get an HO scale CN train set from Life Like Trains.I think it was called Thundering Rails.The sad thing is that my friend is giving up model railroading now.

[Anonymous]

My friend had a N scale train set and I thought it was fun,so I decided to get an HO scale CN train set from Life Like Trains.I think it was called Thundering Rails.The sad thing is that my friend is giving up model railroading now.

[Anonymous]

TRAIN SET

[Anonymous]

TRAIN SET

[Anonymous]

Grandfather and uncle were both engineers for CN out of Jasper and Edmonton Alberta respectively. Then I rode the trains a lot because of a father who was in the Canadian Armed Forces. Finally, my son came along and I started buying trains and taking him on trains which ultimately got him hooked into modelling and myself as well.

[Anonymous]

Grandfather and uncle were both engineers for CN out of Jasper and Edmonton Alberta respectively. Then I rode the trains a lot because of a father who was in the Canadian Armed Forces. Finally, my son came along and I started buying trains and taking him on trains which ultimately got him hooked into modelling and myself as well.

[Anonymous]

I've been watching BNSF trains go by my factory a dozen times a day for the last 6 years and it finally got to me. The tracks are close enough that I won't park on the street between them and the building. We've had a couple of derailments there over the years. I've got a row of windows in front of my work bench and everytime I saw a train go by I'd think of the train set I had 29 years ago when I was 6.

After I got back from our Christmas trip I picked up an HO LifeLike Santa Fe Flyer set for I and the kids to play around with in the garage. It's nothing fancy, but it's a lot of fun playing with my kids and they're more interested in the trains than in my other hobby (tropical fish).

[Anonymous]

I've been watching BNSF trains go by my factory a dozen times a day for the last 6 years and it finally got to me. The tracks are close enough that I won't park on the street between them and the building. We've had a couple of derailments there over the years. I've got a row of windows in front of my work bench and everytime I saw a train go by I'd think of the train set I had 29 years ago when I was 6.

After I got back from our Christmas trip I picked up an HO LifeLike Santa Fe Flyer set for I and the kids to play around with in the garage. It's nothing fancy, but it's a lot of fun playing with my kids and they're more interested in the trains than in my other hobby (tropical fish).

[RhB_HJ]

Wellllllllllllllll..........

If my mother is to be trusted[;)][;)] I had a fascination with trains and a "special" name for them, before I could say Dad.

And it has been getting worse ever since; 1948 wooden trains (that's when I was 3), 1950 wind-up train, 1952 electric train. ....

2004 still electric trains!

[RhB_HJ]

Wellllllllllllllll..........

If my mother is to be trusted[;)][;)] I had a fascination with trains and a "special" name for them, before I could say Dad.

And it has been getting worse ever since; 1948 wooden trains (that's when I was 3), 1950 wind-up train, 1952 electric train. ....

2004 still electric trains!