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Post by edlloyd on Apr 2, 2024 23:59:55 GMT
If you could only own 1 train set which one would it be and why. If you can add a picture even better. It doesn't have to be one you already have. Maybe it is one you have always wanted. I will start us off and say mine would have to be the first set I ever had. My father bought it for me when I was a little boy and it went under the tree. It was an 1960's Lionel freight set. I will have to take a picture of it and post soon. I kept it my whole life and just recently took it and had the engine serviced and a few of the cars needed new couplers. It is ready to run now and I plan on doing a short video of it in an upcoming YouTube video. I am basing this decision on sentimental reasons.
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Post by eddieg on Apr 3, 2024 0:45:23 GMT
1948 GG1 set with the 3 Madison cars.
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Post by david1 on Apr 3, 2024 0:54:12 GMT
Never got it but I'm with Eddie G,
Dave
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Apr 3, 2024 1:16:15 GMT
If you could only own 1 train set which one would it be and why. If you can add a picture even better. It doesn't have to be one you already have. Maybe it is one you have always wanted. I will start us off and say mine would have to be the first set I ever had. . . . I am basing this decision on sentimental reasons. Yeah, I'm kind of in the same place. My first "set" was part of an assembled layout built as a Christmas present from my retired PRR signal engineer grandfather when I was six or seven, some 70 years ago. The original layout, engine and one of the passenger cars are long gone, but the rest survived and are on my main layout today. The missing observation car was easily sourced, but it took me a bit of sleuthing to discover the Marx freight set that was the heart of my original rolling stock:  From the catalog listing, I figured out my original engine was a non-smoking Marx 1829, and after some adventures I was able to source one . . . and then a few more. I'm currently running *two* 1829 smokers, one pulling the original freight consist (plus an add-on car carrier loaded with Matchbox cars on loan from the local grandsons!  ), and the other pulling the reconstituted original passenger consist. [If I get a chance, I'll shoot a video and insert it here later to display my reconstituted and twinned original train(s)!] So, If I am permitted to split my original consist into two separate consists, with two 1829 smokers substituting for the single original non-smoker, I'd have to say my first train(s) is/are still my favorite(s)!
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Post by seayakbill on Apr 3, 2024 1:29:31 GMT
Lionel's Father & Son, O Gauge / HO Gauge combination set, as long as I don't have to pay the $4000 to $5000 to acquire it. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill |
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Post by af3020 on Apr 3, 2024 1:42:31 GMT
Like edlloyd, it would be back to basics for me - old set #1 from Christmas 1951.  The good news is, with the exception of the load of used flashbulbs in the gondola, I still have it.  ...as well at the stocking stuffer tank car my Grandmother gave me that same year.  As for the why - it's the train that sparked a life long interest in trains which is still going strong. |
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Post by rtraincollector on Apr 3, 2024 1:44:33 GMT
Lionel 409E with original set box and inner boxes. Along with everything that came with it back in the 1920's/ 1930" ( 1927 -1932 )
I actually have the set but it's a repaint, so color is slightly wrong and I have no boxes or other parts for the set.( the apple green set )
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Post by Adam on Apr 3, 2024 11:06:50 GMT
While I still own parts of the set when I was a kid, there are pieces missing. I would love to own a complete, maybe NIB, set. They are still sold once in a while so maybe I will pick on up one day but usually they are parts missing. This is the set. I have most of mine but missing the track, box and what I have is in sad shape.  |
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Post by atsda on Apr 3, 2024 14:59:32 GMT
There is a common theme emerging here; and my choice fits - my first train set is my favorite. It was a hand-me-down that was my cousin's that my uncle gave me when I was 6. It was a Lionel Berkshire 736 and tender with a Silver Cloud coach and Silver Dawn observation car (2500 Series fluted Aluminum). I still have and run them, and they remain my favorite - it smokes, chugs, and whistles just like it used to. I recall as a kid putting the cars on the track in the dark and just moving the cars back and forth by hand - watching the flickering lightts behind the passenger silloettes - and occasionally throwing the O22 switch controller and watch the lantern rotate - those red and green colors remain engrained in my mind. About 20-years ago, I purchased the companion Dome car - although it ovbviously fits in the consist, it's not part of the original for me. Alfred
(I'll post a photo from a few years ago.)
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Post by atsda on Apr 3, 2024 15:08:03 GMT
First set: Here is the train positioned on a tight O31 section of the elevated track section. Alfred (By the way, the 736 has the distinction of being serviced at Madison Hardware in NYC. Attachments:
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Post by david1 on Apr 3, 2024 15:18:27 GMT
This thread has one consistency in that every wished for set is from the post war era and or the MPC era.There is not one modern era train set.
Always wanted that gg1 and Madison cars but never did get it. Even back in 1970 when I first got into trains it was too expensive for me.
My first engine I ever received was the B unit NYC F3 2344 that my Mother paid $1.00 for it in a after Christmas sale back in the 1950's. Still have it and the complete ABA.
Dave
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Post by healey36 on Apr 3, 2024 16:07:13 GMT
I'd probably want to run down a nice Flyer 9900 cast aluminum Zephyr set. They are around, but most of them have metallurgical issues, typically severe pitting of the car undersides. It was the one Streamliner that The Old Man was unable to acquire...it would be fun to have one.  |
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Post by dennym57 on Apr 3, 2024 16:32:48 GMT
It would be my PRR K4 and cars.
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Post by jdstucks57 on Apr 3, 2024 18:46:43 GMT
If I could only keep one, it would be my Lionel 2016 set that I inherited from my father. It is the "Genesis" of my collection. If I had to start over all over again with only one train, this would be the one. - Jason  |
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Post by edlloyd on Apr 3, 2024 20:04:24 GMT
I love seeing the pictures and videos. The overwhelming theme here appears to be first trains and sentimental which I totally get. I will add that unfortunately I no longer have any of the old boxes, track, or transformer. I was trying to salvage the boxes but they just got way too bad and I shucked them. I think that is a pretty common thing to see.
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), and the other pulling the reconstituted original passenger consist.
