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Originally Posted by Don Ro
How many mature (old) guys buy the trains that they never received when a child?
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Guilty here.
Actually, my Dad, after his accident at age 87 mentioned in passing to one of my sisters, that he'd never had a model train as a kid.
That Christmas, a bunch of us got him an HO set. Just a bunch of pieces which were set up on the table in the "dining room" for a while, then got packed away.
When he passed, my Mother said, "Why don't you take that train set and do something with it." It started as a 4x8 table top, then quickly morphed into a 16x8 "J" shaped "dogbone" set up with about 60' of double tracks. There are times when I wonder what the heck I'm doing, as most of it has to have scenery built, but then I run a train off a siding onto the main line and I think of Dad.
Merry Christmas, All
Les