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 Posted - December 06 2013 : 3:32:13 PM
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My first engine was a AF S ga #307 4-4-2 Locomotive.
When HO became more popular in the 60's.
My first engine was a Tyco Shifter- Pennsylvania.
Being the industrious sort, I drilled a hole in the front of the engine and stuck a pea light in there, as I wanted it to have a headlight. This still runs well....
Edited by - AF Kid on December 06 2013 3:33:25 PM
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Posted - December 06 2013 : 6:44:30 PM
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This was posted in the LOTW a few weeks ago. My first HO loco from Christmas of 1969? Close enough!
No longer powered but still in existence.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - December 06 2013 : 8:06:22 PM
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My first S gauge AF loco...
My first HO, Tyco Prairie and F...
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Posted - December 06 2013 : 10:07:09 PM
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I can tell you my first was an Athearn F7B dummy with the old plastic one piece trucks.
I think I cut it down to make an F7B slug at some point. Crazy ideas.
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Posted - December 07 2013 : 9:59:32 PM
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How about a vintage picture of me at age 14 AND my first HO train? I believe this was my first, I think a C&O SW-something? RS-? I really don't know, I think it might have been an AHM engine. I THINK I still have this engine, packed away in storage, along with the rest of my early childhood HO stuff in under-eave/attic storage.
Man, I miss being thin.... 
Jerry, now age 53
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - December 08 2013 : 6:27:24 PM
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My IHC Pacific, originally from a President's Choice set (which I still have). 
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Posted - December 08 2013 : 7:33:34 PM
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These represent my first...I made sure the originals did not survive my teens...sigh...
An AHM/Pocher 4-4-0 "Genoa" American and a TYCO trolley...the originals would have been 45+ years old if I hadn't of interceded in their futures...
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Posted - December 09 2013 : 12:51:47 PM
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| That AHM C&O was called an "Alco 1000" - sort of a generic S1-S2-S3 of some sort. It's old enough to exist in both a vertical armature drive and the later horizontal armature variant. I had one too -
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Posted - December 09 2013 : 1:33:22 PM
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I still got mine Its a GP 18 & for some reason it was in my Golden Spike set
I'll get a pic of it later this week 
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