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Post by JDaddy on Sept 28, 2019 2:26:09 GMT
LOL this set... I remember putting it on the track, turning off the lights, and I and my friends, watching the sparks come off of it and light up the room!   |
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Post by Pennsy484 on Sept 28, 2019 6:15:41 GMT
The 4-4-0 Generals do it for me since that was my first train. Found this on Youtube of the set I got. This is not mine, but this is the exact set i got. I still have it, but this one is in much better shape. That is a nice set! That's something that would not have appealed to me in the past, but now I think its great! What year were those made? |
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Post by Pennsy484 on Sept 28, 2019 6:28:44 GMT
My father's 1451ws outfit plus Sunoco tank car. This is THE train for me. It is smooth, spins out (no magnetraction or tires on these), and I love the metallic ringing sound it makes. My father didn't have much as a child, and this was actually shared among him and his 3 siblings. It stayed with him once they grew up. He would set it up under tree at Christmas. Then it was put back into the original box until next Christmas. Not meaning to sound like he's dead, ; he isnt, but hes 81. Funny thing is that he wasn't really ever a train guy like we are. Once I got older, he just stopped putting up the trains and never had a big interest in it. I have it now. It still is kept in that original box. I run this only sparingly and on special occasions, including every Christmas day. I haven't seen a better 2026. |
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Post by pebo on Sept 28, 2019 10:22:46 GMT
My New Haven F3 freight set from 1958 for sure! Here is a picture previously posted....  Peter |
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on Sept 28, 2019 12:07:37 GMT
Nice! I never had Lionel as a kid. I started in N scale with an Atlas GP30 and some cars. It was a red Burlington engine. I recently bought a MTH GP30 in Burlington red just because of that little engine from 45 years ago...
Tom
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Post by Adam on Sept 28, 2019 12:31:28 GMT
The 4-4-0 Generals do it for me since that was my first train. Found this on Youtube of the set I got. This is not mine, but this is the exact set i got. I still have it, but this one is in much better shape. That is a nice set! That's something that would not have appealed to me in the past, but now I think its great! What year were those made? They were made in the early 1980's. It was a lot of fun to play with when I was a kid but it suffered significant abuse. The flatcar is lost forever and parts of the engine are missing (though I reproduced some of them with my 3D printer). |
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Post by rockymountaineer on Sept 30, 2019 4:15:36 GMT
Not only do some trains generate a quick throw-back in time, but for me some of the Lionel catalogs take me back to my childhood like it was yesterday. In particular, Lionel's 1966 catalog whose cover features a young boy with his father smoking a pipe... gazing at a 773 steamer barreling down Super-O track... sends me back to the train shop my Dad and I would visit on Saturdays... like it was YESTERDAY. Same effect when paging through certain pages of that catalog. Unbelievably magic.
I have both the original 1966 catalog that has some dog-eared page corners as well as dealer markings inside it... like a Virginian FM Trainmaster with a $65 MSRP marked down to $52, or the catalog's mega Super-O train set with a $225 MSRP marked down to $180. WOW!!! And I also have a pristine version of the 1966 catalog for sentimental and nostalgic reasons, that I purchased from Olson's out in the state of Washington. Doesn't get any better than that, when it comes to daydreaming trains and taking a walk down memory lane.
David
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Post by Traindiesel! on Sept 30, 2019 7:29:44 GMT
This is a subject that brings lots of happiness and also some sadness. It's sad because all the people, except for my mother, that were involved with my first train sets are now gone. I was fortunate enough to live nearby most of my extended family who were also into model trains, in addition to my Dad and Grandfather who got me started in this wonderful hobby. It makes me sad that I cannot share my future layout with all of them. The years have flown by in a heartbeat and are gone forever.
But it does warm my heart when I look at or run the Lionel Post War sets from my childhood and remember my Aunts and Uncles trying to distract my attention away from the trains, knowing how much I loved both them and the trains. I remember with great fondness of building layouts with Dad and my Grandfather, the anticipation as Thanksgiving approached, and how my dad taught me basic electricity and wiring and my Grandfather taught me basic carpentry skills and how to securely pack away the trains after Christmas (usually in late February).
2026 Steam engine and assorted freight cars. (My grandfather purchased this set ten years before I was born.)
The General Set with the Sheriff and Outlaw car.
Union Pacific silver FA AA diesels with matching passenger cars.
The #60 Trolley (Still a big favorite of mine)
The Military set with blue #44 Rocket Launching engine
Lots of Super O track & two ZW's
Plasticville buildings
I still have all of these sets. As you can see, none of these trains were trains that you would ever see on the real rails. It almost caused me to abandon O gauge for HO. That is, until I discovered Williams and Weaver trains, followed by K-Line and MTH pulled me from the abyss. Even though I operate scale command control locomotives and rolling stock now I still love my original sets just as much!
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