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Poll Question:
What was your first model train? Mine was a Warbonnet Express train set from Athearn which I got in 2004.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 12:37:06 AM
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Lionel "Kickapoo Valley and Northern!"
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 09:40:02 AM
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My first was an O-27 Lionel train set, but the HO Tyco set a few years later was the one that evolved from childhood toy into a true hobby. Tycos were great for that transition, being cheap enough for testing the proverbial water and realistic enough to serve as models. At no point in this incremental process is one forced to dive in head first with a second-mortgage sized investment.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 11:04:53 AM
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The reason why I put Hornby in was because I couldn't really think of anything else that people would usually start with. I probably should've put Marklin or something like that. Oh well. There is an "other" section.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 8:38:43 PM
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President's Choice "Pacific Express" by Mehano for me. I did have a couple of LifeLike cars before that, but I couldn't do a whole lot with them before I got the train set. 
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 8:46:07 PM
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Lionel 027 The Rock Island Line set with a 2-4-0 w/ tender & bobber caboose
It had a PC gondola
yellow UP flatcar (reaquired)
blue Conrail boxcar
paper cardboard bridge, tunnel & depot
Banjo signal & gate
I still got the board it was on but no tracks
Board is being used as a shelf in garage
I used board for my HO Golden Spike set by Bachmann later Still have most of that set too!
I would like to get that brochure that came in it called "How to build a railroad empire"
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 8:53:31 PM
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Life Like Santa Fe Thundering rails. A real P.O.S. but it did the trick for me.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 9:15:23 PM
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quote:Life Like Santa Fe Thundering rails. A real P.O.S. but it did the trick for me.
Originally posted by SPSF_SD45Â -Â February 25 2014Â :Â 8:53:31 PM
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Life Like is pretty much garbage on wheels. They are the definition of cheap.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 11:26:52 PM
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Life-Like garabage? naaah
This is how I thought what was the worst
Starting with THE worse
Tyco
Life-Like
Model Power
Cox
Bachmann
AHM
IHC
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 11:39:22 PM
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quote:Life-Like garabage? naaah
This is how I thought what was the worst
Starting with THE worse
Tyco
Life-Like
Model Power
Cox
Bachmann
AHM
IHC
Originally posted by microbusss - February 25 2014 : 11:26:52 PM
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IHC and AHM are bad? I have a couple of their trains and their ok. Definitely better than Life-Like. I actually think Life Like is much worse than the brown box era Tycos.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 11:44:30 PM
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| I always thought even as a kid, that Life-Like was not the greatest trains. I love their Buildems kits though... I had only 3 or 4 LL cars as a kid, I've bought replacements for those few pieces.
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 07:10:24 AM
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| my first loco was a hornby 0-4-0 clockwork,followed by a hornby dublo duchess,ken
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 09:50:19 AM
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quote:my first loco was a hornby 0-4-0 clockwork,followed by a hornby dublo duchess,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - February 26 2014 : 07:10:24 AM
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Hornby Dublo Duchess of Atholl? I've seen one of those with the box, track, and everything else the set originally came with for $135 at a train show I think. I don't remember the exact price for the set but I do remember the locomotive. Here's a picture of the set that I found on the internet.
Do you still have it?
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 10:10:31 AM
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Worse was Tyco cause of that dumb "Power Torque" motor
I still have some Life-Likes & they run just fine
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 10:41:57 AM
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quote:Worse was Tyco cause of that dumb "Power Torque" motor
I still have some Life-Likes & they run just fine
Originally posted by microbusss - February 26 2014 : 10:10:31 AM
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Ya, the Power Loc motors are and always has been bad motors. I prefer the Tycos from the 50's and 60's.
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 11:13:25 AM
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hi kovacste000,yes i do still have it,along with about 20 other sets,or should say kids have them,as they are all boxed and packed away,and have been for years,my gift to them so to speak,ken
ps the collection took 30 odd years of buying and selling to keep the best and sell the rest
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 3:02:02 PM
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For me it started in 1969 with AHM: a Rivarossi ball bearing Dockside & U25C, and a 5 pole Pennsy C-Liner that ran like a dream.
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 3:44:49 PM
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Well waaay back when my first set was a Lionel 027, with a beautiful red on black Rock Island Alco FA, followed by a USAF Minuteman boxcar rocket launcher, a satellite launcher flat car and a Lionel Lines caboose.
When I got older, I got an AHM freight set (1968?) with a Penn Central C-liner, Norfolk Southern gondola, Union Carbide Linde box car, and a C&O caboose. I never questioned that I was running a train with a PC loco and a C&O caboose
both were Christmas sets
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 4:34:15 PM
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I had a Life Like set and didn't survive! The track and loco's sucked and they're really high priced ! Wiley209 is our official LL nut here! My real first set that's done me well is the Bachmann Thunder Rail set. a UP F9, 2 cars and a caboose. Honestly, Tyco is better than LL train set junk! Still have my first Bachmann and HO set and still works great to this day!
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 4:43:51 PM
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quote:I had a Life Like set and didn't survive! The track and loco's sucked and they're really high priced ! Wiley209 is our official LL nut here! My real first set that's done me well is the Bachmann Thunder Rail set. a UP F9, 2 cars and a caboose. Honestly, Tyco is better than LL train set junk! Still have my first Bachmann and HO set and still works great to this day!
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 26 2014 : 4:34:15 PM
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That's what I'm saying! I've actually compared Life Like to Tyco and I'd actually prefer the Tyco engines or rolling stock to those Life Likes.
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 5:44:07 PM
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'LL is also AKA un.life like!
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 7:04:14 PM
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isn't it funny how Life Like turned into P2K?
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Posted - February 27 2014 : 07:41:48 AM
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quote:isn't it funny how Life Like turned into P2K?
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â February 26 2014Â :Â 7:04:14 PM
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Well, Life-Like was basically the resurrection of Varney, which WAS a decent maker of trains, I think they cheapened them up afterwards. I do like some of the LL billboard cars, but most are rather flimsy toys compared to the other brands. Most of my childhood HO engines were either AHM, or Lima. I don't think I ever had a Tyco then. I'll eventually dig out my childhood HO from storage, and document what I had. But I ran those AHMs to death, one was a GE Centercab, I finally smoked that motor, I ran it so hard. I think that was Tempo/RSO as well. For as much use as I gave them, they did well.
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Posted - February 27 2014 : 11:02:58 PM
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My first train set was a gift, a Life Like Santa Fe warbonnet train set.
i know several members have been criticizing, and rightfully so, the cheapness of some of the entry-level Life Like trains, but if the set was not so cheap I probably would never have been given it and maybe never have gotten interested in model railroading (the horror!)
Plus it ran decently enough that I wasn't completely frustrated and sick of the hobby, and after having that for a few years and expanding the set I got some nicer Bachmann and Athearn locomotives.
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Posted - March 07 2014 : 10:54:50 PM
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quote:I had a Life Like set and didn't survive! The track and loco's sucked and they're really high priced ! Wiley209 is our official LL nut here!
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 26 2014 : 4:34:15 PM
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That's because I've started out with Life-Like! Luckily by the time I got old enough to play with electric trains, Life-Like came out with their Power-Loc roadbed track. Plus, the Toys R' Us in our city's mall complex had TONS of Life-Like model railroading products (it used to often be our go-to source for model trains in the days before online shopping.) So naturally, my first electric trains as a kid was this:
When it came time to start a "real" model railroad layout, I got this feature-packed set:
(It's still available, but was renamed "Diesel Driver" and has a Union Pacific locomotive and caboose.)
Yes, the Life-Like locomotives and cars are rather low-end (the locos still use that "Power Drive" motor from the 1980s, and HORN-HOOK COUPLERS), but it was great fun for starting out. And now I've got even better locomotives to use as I expanded, like Mantua or Walthers TrainLine, or even Life-Like's excellent Proto 1000 line (I have one of their Santa Fe F3A locomotives; it's a REALLY nice runner and way better than the low-end stuff.)
Too bad Walthers/Life-Like doesn't have any Proto 1000 train sets anymore, just individual locomotives and cars. You'd get good hobby-quality stuff and their nickel-silver Power-Loc track too! (They also had a super-deluxe Proto 1000 set called the "Triple Train Empire," featuring three trains and their own Power-Loc track loops, building kits and landscaping material.)
And as I said, I have moved up: I may have once used Power-Loc track and low-end Life-Like locomotives, but now I've got higher-quality Atlas snap-track and better-running locomotives, though I still like many of Life-Like's rolling stock, building kits and accessories; my upcoming layout will still have plenty of that, though I will probably weather the buildings...
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Posted - March 07 2014 : 11:06:57 PM
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quote: quote:I had a Life Like set and didn't survive! The track and loco's sucked and they're really high priced ! Wiley209 is our official LL nut here!
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 26 2014 : 4:34:15 PM
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That's because I've started out with Life-Like! Luckily by the time I got old enough to play with electric trains, Life-Like came out with their Power-Loc roadbed track. Plus, the Toys R' Us in our city's mall complex had TONS of Life-Like model railroading products (it used to often be our go-to source for model trains in the days before online shopping.) So naturally, my first electric trains as a kid was this:
When it came time to start a "real" model railroad layout, I got this feature-packed set:
(It's still available, but was renamed "Diesel Driver" and has a Union Pacific locomotive and caboose.)
Yes, the Life-Like locomotives and cars are rather low-end (the locos still use that "Power Drive" motor from the 1980s, and HORN-HOOK COUPLERS), but it was great fun for starting out. And now I've got even better locomotives to use as I expanded, like Mantua or Walthers TrainLine, or even Life-Like's excellent Proto 1000 line (I have one of their Santa Fe F3A locomotives; it's a REALLY nice runner and way better than the low-end stuff.)
Too bad Walthers/Life-Like doesn't have any Proto 1000 train sets anymore, just individual locomotives and cars. You'd get good hobby-quality stuff and their nickel-silver Power-Loc track too! (They also had a super-deluxe Proto 1000 set called the "Triple Train Empire," featuring three trains and their own Power-Loc track loops, building kits and landscaping material.)
And as I said, I have moved up: I may have once used Power-Loc track and low-end Life-Like locomotives, but now I've got higher-quality Atlas snap-track and better-running locomotives, though I still like many of Life-Like's rolling stock, building kits and accessories; my upcoming layout will still have plenty of that, though I will probably weather the buildings...
Originally posted by wiley209Â -Â March 07 2014Â :Â 10:54:50 PM
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Life Like is definitely good for starting out with.
-Steve
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Posted - March 07 2014 : 11:56:29 PM
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quote:Lionel "Kickapoo Valley and Northern!"
Originally posted by gmoney - February 25 2014 : 12:37:06 AM
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Oh, back in Lionel's dark age.I searched it on the internet and I can tell it's from Lionel's dark era.
-Steve
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Posted - March 08 2014 : 8:50:44 PM
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Well, I started out with my father's old n-scale stuff from the 60's: a little Aurora freight set with a German 0-6-0 and a few american freight cars, a big Arnold ATSF streamliner that got burnt out decades ago and doesn't run, and some really nice German commuter set that I've never tried to run. I ended up getting some more N-scale stuff over time when I was little, and still occasionally pick up a freight car or two when the mood strikes me.
My parents gave me a Bachmann starter set for my 5th birthday as my first HO stuff, and I usually call that my first model train. A UP F7, two cars and a caboose. Looking back, I actually had one HO loco before that - a LL teakettle we brought back from a trip to Maine when I was 3.
An Athearn Hustler showed up a year or two later when a vendor at a train show simply gave it to me. What a malicious thing to do... it addicted me to those things, I now have 5 Hustlers and am looking for the black one next. I finally got it working at age 12. It's back at the workbench again now, getting some paint touchups and window glazing. I'll still be working on that damn switcher when I'm 90, I swear...
On my 7th birthday I got an Athearn Amtrak streamliner with an F9, an RPO (since repainted), a dome car and an obs. Shortly thereafter followed 5 or 6 freight cars from Northlandz (I still have a northlandz boxcar and tanker!), and a battered 89' Athearn flatcar from a thrift shop (I had never seen kadees before... oh how that car baffled me as a little kid!)
Christmas, age 8 or 9... a big Bachmann Reading Bee-line set, 2 SD45's, 5 or 6 cars... got me hooked on HO for good. Age 10, an AHM C628 and ten cars... that was my first train show. It's just gotten worse ever since
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Posted - March 08 2014 : 9:38:47 PM
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quote:Well, I started out with my father's old n-scale stuff from the 60's: a little Aurora freight set with a German 0-6-0 and a few american freight cars, a big Arnold ATSF streamliner that got burnt out decades ago and doesn't run, and some really nice German commuter set that I've never tried to run. I ended up getting some more N-scale stuff over time when I was little, and still occasionally pick up a freight car or two when the mood strikes me.
My parents gave me a Bachmann starter set for my 5th birthday as my first HO stuff, and I usually call that my first model train. A UP F7, two cars and a caboose. Looking back, I actually had one HO loco before that - a LL teakettle we brought back from a trip to Maine when I was 3.
An Athearn Hustler showed up a year or two later when a vendor at a train show simply gave it to me. What a malicious thing to do... it addicted me to those things, I now have 5 Hustlers and am looking for the black one next. I finally got it working at age 12. It's back at the workbench again now, getting some paint touchups and window glazing. I'll still be working on that damn switcher when I'm 90, I swear...
On my 7th birthday I got an Athearn Amtrak streamliner with an F9, an RPO (since repainted), a dome car and an obs. Shortly thereafter followed 5 or 6 freight cars from Northlandz (I still have a northlandz boxcar and tanker!), and a battered 89' Athearn flatcar from a thrift shop (I had never seen kadees before... oh how that car baffled me as a little kid!)
Christmas, age 8 or 9... a big Bachmann Reading Bee-line set, 2 SD45's, 5 or 6 cars... got me hooked on HO for good. Age 10, an AHM C628 and ten cars... that was my first train show. It's just gotten worse ever since
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â March 08 2014Â :Â 8:50:44 PM
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 That was an interesting story. This is a good example of why I put this poll in. These interesting stories these people tell.
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Posted - March 09 2014 : 12:43:46 PM
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quote: quote:I had a Life Like set and didn't survive! The track and loco's sucked and they're really high priced ! Wiley209 is our official LL nut here!
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - February 26 2014 : 4:34:15 PM
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That's because I've started out with Life-Like! Luckily by the time I got old enough to play with electric trains, Life-Like came out with their Power-Loc roadbed track. Plus, the Toys R' Us in our city's mall complex had TONS of Life-Like model railroading products (it used to often be our go-to source for model trains in the days before online shopping.) So naturally, my first electric trains as a kid was this:
When it came time to start a "real" model railroad layout, I got this feature-packed set:
(It's still available, but was renamed "Diesel Driver" and has a Union Pacific locomotive and caboose.)
Yes, the Life-Like locomotives and cars are rather low-end (the locos still use that "Power Drive" motor from the 1980s, and HORN-HOOK COUPLERS), but it was great fun for starting out. And now I've got even better locomotives to use as I expanded, like Mantua or Walthers TrainLine, or even Life-Like's excellent Proto 1000 line (I have one of their Santa Fe F3A locomotives; it's a REALLY nice runner and way better than the low-end stuff.)
Too bad Walthers/Life-Like doesn't have any Proto 1000 train sets anymore, just individual locomotives and cars. You'd get good hobby-quality stuff and their nickel-silver Power-Loc track too! (They also had a super-deluxe Proto 1000 set called the "Triple Train Empire," featuring three trains and their own Power-Loc track loops, building kits and landscaping material.)
And as I said, I have moved up: I may have once used Power-Loc track and low-end Life-Like locomotives, but now I've got higher-quality Atlas snap-track and better-running locomotives, though I still like many of Life-Like's rolling stock, building kits and accessories; my upcoming layout will still have plenty of that, though I will probably weather the buildings...
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I remember when Toys R Us had model train products. They had Life Like, Model Power, Bachmann, and maybe even Athearn, although I'm not 100% sure.Last time I was there a couple of years ago to get a present for someone in my family, they were all gone. They don't sell them there anymore.
-Steve
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Posted - March 09 2014 : 12:49:15 PM
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true Kovac The only thing there is Chugginton & Thomas
Tho Bachmann is making both
I bought a Tyco Coca-Cola tank car from Toys "R" Us years ago in the 1990s
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| what was that you said ben "bought" a coca cola car,shame on youken
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Posted - March 09 2014 : 1:28:52 PM
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quote:true Kovac The only thing there is Chugginton & Thomas
Tho Bachmann is making both
I bought a Tyco Coca-Cola tank car from Toys "R" Us years ago in the 1990s
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Ya, Thomas kinda sucks except I have some Bachmann Thomas stuff I got from my brother who loves Thomas. But, believe it or not, Thomas is how I got into trains when I was little. I just got my first model train anything in 2004.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - December 27 2019 : 9:24:50 PM
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| My first locomotive was a bachman 0-6-0 union pacific switcher with a slope tender.
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Posted - December 27 2019 : 9:47:58 PM
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| My very first model train was a model power 0-4-0 with a tender. It was one of the newer ones with the visor on the headlight. I dont remember what the set was called but would love to get it again. I wonder if it was a set that was thrown together randomly, as I'm sure my dad got it secondhand. I only have teeny pics. It is in the backround of a Christmas card from 2010, but remember it fondly.
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Posted - December 28 2019 : 08:35:37 AM
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I thought it was an 0-4-0
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 Posted - December 28 2019 : 08:52:03 AM
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My first train set was a O scale Lionel steam freight set. My grandmother bought it for me in December of 1966.
She also bought the operating milk car to go with the set.
She and the set are gone but the happy memories remain.
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I honestly dont remember my first set. Most of my cars and locos were TYCO with some AHM mixed in. The one I remember most was a Silver Streak set.
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Posted - December 31 2019 : 01:56:08 AM
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My first train set was a O scale Lionel steam freight set. My grandmother bought it for me in December of 1966.
She also bought the operating milk car to go with the set.
She and the set are gone but the happy memories remain.
Originally posted by wks - December 28 2019 : 08:52:03 AM
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Nice photo, Richard... I have a similar photo of myself at 7 getting a Motorific set for Christmas...
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Posted - December 31 2019 : 4:41:23 PM
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This is a surviving Wrenn piece from my first set, 1966. Somehow it survived being tossed for
decades, and became the starting point for my British OO layout, "Henley." The guard's wagon
to the left, and the simple, plain brown wagon to the right are Hornby's, but, I believe similar
to what came with the original set.
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Posted - December 31 2019 : 4:59:24 PM
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The first train I remember seeing in any house in my life was a Lionel my Brother got
IT MAY have been a diesel set but I remember the box artwork on the box cover
Last time I saw it it was in back of Dad's Dodge Dart when THAT was brand new (1969) He had that car till 1986.
I either got an AHM Union Pacific set from Korvettes or a used Lionel set from an American Legion sale My mom paid for the Lionel...…………………………………………………………$ 1.00
The AHM Had a small UP Diesel UP (I Think) box car Mobil Tank Car caboose Still have the power pack
The Lionel I found out was from 1960 243 loco and tender a flat car (originally the 68120 the 6519 Aliss Chalmer car Cities Service Tank caboose with extra track bridge and a train station THE REST IS HISTORY
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Posted - December 31 2019 : 5:43:30 PM
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| I can't quite remember because I was always a "car kid". I do remember getting a larger scale Marx set for Christmas in 1971. Dad dated the underside of the engine. I still have this set and it runs well! As far as the HO scale stuff, I would have to look thru old Christmas photos which is always fun anyway!
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Posted - July 30 2020 : 12:54:16 PM
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Well I guess that's not quite right when I was just a little kid back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I remember having some old Tyco rolling stock and track that I liked to set up on the floor and push around I also have a very vague memory of me looking at an old yellow Tyco diesel locomotive I'm not sure what it was I think it was probably a Tyco chessie system 630 these must have belonged to my uncle when he was a kid and then I played with them when I was little at my grandparents house the rolling stock that I remember there being was an old Tyco baby Ruth refrigerator car and a Santa Fe crane I don't think the locomotive ever worked when I owned it I didn't have a power pack to run it with anyways I think my grandparents threw it out the locomotive because I didn't ever use it. then they moved to a different house I think they threw out the rest of the Tyco track and rolling stock. quote:My first locomotive was a bachman 0-6-0 union pacific switcher with a slope tender.
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