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Post by Adam on Apr 5, 2020 21:41:06 GMT
I was about 8. I wanted a train set pretty bad. My uncle had a basement layout and always let me run trains when we went over. That sparked the interest.
My first set was a Lionel James Gang Train Robbery set. I still have most of it and it runs, but has seen better days. It’s a General style AT&SF set. The fun part is a boxcar that has the good guy, in white, and the bad guy, in black, in a gun fight.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Apr 5, 2020 21:58:44 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 I am definitely not one of them - except when I have a new train box to open. Or I finish a project, but that hardly ever happens.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 22:06:34 GMT
Probably about 1952. 027 Pacific Lionel Lines that is upstairs in the train cabinet. Bet we can have running in five minutes and it hasn’t run in at least 8-10 years.
It may have been earlier. I do not remember getting it and it may have been for me to “grow into” while Dad tested it out.
Still have the boxes.
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Post by JKP on Apr 5, 2020 23:32:07 GMT
18 or 19 when I started collecting O gauge trains, 36 when I started a layout.
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Post by Country Joe on Apr 5, 2020 23:52:40 GMT
I was about minus one week old. Santa brought my first train, a Lionel 2020 work train set, for Christmas 1949 and I was born a week later. This is a photo from the internet of the set Santa brought. It shouldn't come as a surprise that I don't remember receiving that set. It was always there.
My first memory is from Christmas 1954 when I was almost 5. Santa brought me a Lionel New York Central F3 ABA. It made a big impression on me. I've been in this hobby my whole life except for a few teenage years when trains were displaced by other interests.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2020 1:26:19 GMT
My brother received a Lionel set for Christmas. I was about 8. He didn't have to much interest in it and I ended up taking posistion. Not sure where that set went but I've been in and out over the years. I believe it was 2012 when I jumped in and stayed.
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Post by jimk on Apr 6, 2020 21:27:51 GMT
8-10 with a Marx 1666 loco and figure eight set and then again at 58 when I scrapped the HO layout that had stalled.
Jim K
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Post by kars2026 on Apr 7, 2020 2:10:55 GMT
I got my Lionel 2026 for Christmas 1949 or 50 I was about 10 or 11. I had it packed away for years and got it all out two years ago. I now have 2 more 2026's and a 1668 along with a lot of cars and accessories on my 5 X 10 layout. I would like a bigger layout but space is a premium.
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Post by sdivtim on Apr 7, 2020 4:07:47 GMT
At 5 years old, I was given a set from a father of a live steam member. It was all starter type K-Line with the exception of a caboose. I already was into live steam and trains general way before that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 19:43:56 GMT
I was a lot younger than everyone posting here when I got started. My parents attended the 1968 TCA convention in Cleveland, and at the time my mother was pregnant with me. So, I got a very early start.
John
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Post by eddieg on Apr 7, 2020 19:50:50 GMT
Christmas 1938. I was 8 years old a 224E freight set. When I started getting interested in girls when I was about 14, My father gave them to a poor family in NJ.
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Post by ptc on Apr 7, 2020 20:03:59 GMT
Eddie, nobody would believe your age. You are spectacular.
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Post by thebigcrabcake on Apr 8, 2020 4:59:01 GMT
I grew up with HO Gauge trains. It wasn’t until I was 45ish that I got my first O Gauge train. It was a first generation O27 Polar Express.
Emile
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Post by ptc on Apr 8, 2020 12:37:23 GMT
"It was a first generation O27 Polar Express."
Oh boy, and look at how far you have come with our hobby, Emile.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2020 13:54:31 GMT
I grew up with HO. I never even new guage was made. One day I thought I would show my girlfriend my hobby. So I did, she said wait till u see what my father has The next time I went over to her place she showed me his stuff Floor to ceiling O guage trains all pre war 2 deep all the way around his basement now she is my wife and HO went out the window now I have a small collection of O Guage trains and a small layout
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