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Post by ptc on Apr 5, 2020 14:47:47 GMT
Interesting question. I was eight years old when Santa brought me a Lionel Berkshire freight set. This was the start of our hobby that has lasted for me through the years, and, I get as much of a kick out of it now as I did a long time ago.
How about you?
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Post by Joe Saggese on Apr 5, 2020 15:07:29 GMT
I know it was in the early 1970s. I was about 11 or 12. Santa brought me the Lionel Cannonball Express.
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on Apr 5, 2020 15:54:30 GMT
Always in model railroading since I was a kid.
I am a late bloomer as far as O scale is concerned. I was 53 when I bought a MTH Erie 0-8-8-0 Camelback, my first o scale train.
Tom
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Post by Spice7 on Apr 5, 2020 15:58:47 GMT
About ten. I received the New Haven EP5.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 16:01:52 GMT
I received a B & O Passenger train set when I was 6 or 7 years old for Christmas. Then I got back into trains when my son was about 9 years old. Marriage went south and now I am back into this with the Bride,(Cheryl), for the last 3 1/2 years It will be for the long haul now.
Gary.
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Post by Sir James on Apr 5, 2020 16:07:57 GMT
Seven or eight It was a Marx 999 freight set.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 16:21:19 GMT
3. Hand-me-down Uncle's 225E set. He got it Christmas of 1940, had moved into H0 before the family decided I needed the set. Still have the engine and some cars. Track and switches at brother's place. Transformer long since dead. Have more!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 16:53:48 GMT
I was TWO when my father sold his coin collection and purchased my first Lionel trains on the carpet central. Super O track, 773 Hudson with a Pennsylvania tender. ZW transformer, operating milk car NYC F3 diesels. My mother has pics somewhere
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Post by harborbelt70 on Apr 5, 2020 17:03:00 GMT
I can't remember back that far any more but at a guess I was in second grade so probably 7 or 8 when my Dad started buying Lionel in earnest. I know he still had many when I was 17 because that's when he passed away and we packed them up. I then got back into the hobby in a big way in early 2000s by which time I was - old.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 17:16:04 GMT
I'm with Tom, I had HO as a kid, but got into O about seven years ago at the age of 50.
Andy
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Post by josef on Apr 5, 2020 17:45:08 GMT
LOL. My first "O" was a Marx wind-up, then a battery run train set. When I had a paper route, bought an HO and built a small HO layout. Then got interested in "N" scale and had a huge layout for over 20 years. But eyesight not as good and moving to Florida, trains were in my blood. I would say last 5 years I got into "O" and love it.
On the Marx wind-up. Won a lot of pennies from my buddies with it. We use to bet a penny were it would stop. You could wind it as little or a lot, but your pennies were put were you thought it would stop. I knew my engine and how it ran and how far on each turn or less of the key. You had an inch leeway, (learned to read a ruler also), and 1/16 over/under meant you lost.
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Post by RailCat on Apr 5, 2020 18:00:42 GMT
Mine was for Christmas 1949 and I was 5...so doing some quick math, that does indeed make me a super senior! Received a Lionel Scout 1115 Train Set and at $15.95...I’m sure my folks had to overextend their budget back in those days. Although I never had a ‘real’ layout until around 2012...I’ve never had anything but O Gauge trains.
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Post by dennym57 on Apr 5, 2020 20:08:50 GMT
I was seven or eight.
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Post by Yellowstone Special on Apr 5, 2020 20:11:56 GMT
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Post by josef on Apr 5, 2020 21:14:16 GMT
I can't remember back that far any more but at a guess I was in second grade so probably 7 or 8 when my Dad started buying Lionel in earnest. I know he still had many when I was 17 because that's when he passed away and we packed them up. I then got back into the hobby in a big way in early 2000s by which time I was - old. We have a lot of youngsters here
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