My fascination started when as a rugrat, Dad would haul out the Lionels and put them around the Christmas Tree. That was pretty great, but the HO scale stuff had me over the edge with the NH passenger train with matching locos, or, the CB&Q silver caboose with the colorful freight cars.
Mom & Dad figured out pretty quick their oldest was hooked for immortality, and used it to their advantage to teach their kid how to tie his shoelaces! ("You can't watch the trains until you learn to tie your shoes!!" Rotten parents!
I buy slip ons now!! LOL!!
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Dad built me a layout when I was six for the Lionels I could roll under the bed, and plug in, a figure eight. OOhhhh that was fun! We moved, and dad would put a piece of plywood up on the pool table, and it was the greatest thing when we got a pair of Atlas switches for the HO.
I built my first layout when I was 13, two 4x8 sheets in an L. It didn't last long, and when I got hitched, and had kids, I worked on rolling stock while I lived in a single wide trailer, then when we got the house, the current layout is number 4 since being here since 1994.
Hey!!
WAKE UP!! IT WASN'T THAT BAD!! Thanks TD!!
