Amazing , this is exactly what happened to my grand child (your age in the beginning of the video) , she was scared from the sound of Lionel chief at the beginning , but now she loves it.
This video is WONDERFUL ! My love of trains stems from my grandfather who worked on the Maine Central RR on the line. I got my first Lionel starter set Christmas1956, played with it for a few years, then put it away for my first dark period. I expanded that original set in a bedroom of my first house. Didn't do all that much, then a long dark period until around 2010 when I discovered ebay. I've also had "out of hand" spells and have lots of trains, mostly having to do with Maine railroads. My layout goes around 3 sides of my basement. The tables are 4 feet wide due to my wood stove. I've got a long way to go and will continue to upload updates to You Tube. Thanks again for taking the time to share your story. I really enjoyed it.
Fantastic video! Thanks for the history and sharing. I'm always interested in hearing peoples story on how they got into trains and what lead them to the point they're in currently.
Hi Bob it was nice to see you learning about the hobby. It most brings back good memories for you. Thanks for sharing your past and future with the hobby. Greetings Nick from New Jersey
That video was great Bob it put me in a trance and made me rethink my 16 years of life and Railroading you have the voice that I could listen to all day LOL
Thanks! I hope I didn't put you to sleep. I know a lot of the younger train guys do rock and metal as background music. Sorry, ain't gonna happen here. Just keep nudging yourself to stay awake as I drone on. ;)
Hi Bob • Very cool to see all the 8mm films. Wow • TYCO & Train Club. No - Sold it off on e-bay & got it back. You have an excellent voice, that should be on FM radio. We all need snow tires. Like the N Scale Kit, great way to learn. Enjoy. • Cheers from Michigan
As always, thanks for your support and nice comments. We need to support each other because no one else cares of the time and effort we put into this stuff. :)
nice video. thank you for sharing your history. it was well presented and really showed so many of the pitfalls that it seems so many of us need to endure in order to reach a level of some happiness or at least inner peace that things are progressing in the right direction. I remember going back and forth from Lionel to Gargraves, Plasticville to Scratchbuilt or craftsman kits, O to HO to N to G to On30 ahhhhhhhhhh
That was really great! We seem to have a similar background with exposure to trains. Very addictive! Only difference is, I started with my first set at 13 and never did put them away.
The futuristic train at 3:17 is the Hot Wheels Railroad. The locomotive was the Speed Chief and the passenger car was the Folks Wagon; there were similarly clever names for the other cars but I don't recall them. The Speed Chief used the same battery and motor the Mattel Sizzlers used, including the Juice Machine with the C or D cells to recharge the vehicle batteries. The system was remarkably well done to include the switch tracks that featured air-powered mechanism! I saw these on TV commercials and remember them in the K-mart check-out isles. This was when tube testers were also in K-marts, next to the pinball machines. Wow, that's been a while! :)
Like your history of how you got into o gauge! I started out as a kid with marx, & lionel o-27 gauge trains. First got the railroad bug as a kid rideing in RPO cars with my late father who was a rpo clerk.Took pat in restoration of ex cn mail car # 1805 for centennial of construction of NFLD.RAILWAY in 1981 ( now abonded ) .
As a kid I loved Bosco syrup my dad bought the Lionel Bosco version of the milk car set with a car painted in the Basco company paint scheme. I would love to have that today. It's somewhere on somebody's layout this stuff will be around forever.
thanks for the walk thru of memory lane. i think most of us have been there. i've tried to build layouts in 3 scales, & can't wait to retire so i can move, & build one Last (lol) permanent layout!
This is my first time following your post and I enjoyed every bit of it, you did a fantastic job on your layout I love the music in the background , im a big jazz fan I'll be following from now on oh and by the way I think your sense of humor is cool to.
Love this! I just got back into model railroad after a 46 year hiatus. You've given me inspiration. Have 4 steam locomotives to date and plan to build small mobile layout...
awesome video bud! loved it! I remember those tyco trains - my father has those 1776 loco and caboose. excellect story and narrating- more people should do this- keep it up bud!
Glad you liked it. Sometimes I think about getting into HO because there is so much available as far as scenery items and rolling stock, engines, etc. I remember Rob (bravosixxx) switch to HO a few years ago, then last I heard came back to O. No matter what scale, it is a fun hobby.
Yeah, seeing and working on that small stuff is a problem as you age...but I couldn't keep it on the dang track. Any pressure, weight, or tug on the back half of the train normally makes the cars at the center of the train flip over. :)
Very well done video on your history of Bobot's Trains I am planning on doing a lay out and debating which track to use I currently have tubular track and trying to decide on Gar graves which some people hate as being a pain to fit right and the electric systems are not like the regular track. I am also considering RMT which is the old K-Line snap track. How was your experience with your track and what kind of ballast did you use? Thanks for sharing
You notice on the sheet metal tender it has the original sheet metal truck on the front but it has a later made truck on the back so it can pull post-war Lionel cars. I did the same to add o-gauge American Flyer streamline royal blue, I had the hobby shop owner cut off the American Flyer coupler and put a Lionel coupler on it and he said it ruined the collectability of it but I said it's a great running engine and I only paid $30 for it it has a front section of the m10000 are the only prewar locomotive I have. The lead unit of the m10000 was painted solid red and I was going to paint it solid orange because that's my favorite color The Hobby Shop guy was recuperating from a heart attack he painted it in the New York Central lightning strike paint Scheme which is very complicated because he used hand lettering transfers and striping. No charge just for something to do. He put so much work into it I would feel bad about painting it solid orange so since I model a breakfast at Central I could run that locomotive because you would have older locomotive still in service I cannot believe the original m10000 train we scrapped because the Winton distillate engine War out, I would have just repowered the locomotive and kept the whole training what a ways to scrap a whole train because the engine wore out that's like scrapping a beautiful car because you need a new engine.
I ran one of my dad's steam locomotives off the end of the training table and did not own up to it to the day he died. My brother bought a small box of what was left of his immense collection and in the Box was the steam locomotive with the broken pilot. I brought it at a bunch of Lionel diesels to a Lionel mechanic to get them all running I thought he would use the broken one for parts but he just lubricated and it runs just great. A small piece of my childhood managed to survive because it was undesirable but I might put a coupler on the front of the locomotive so I could double head to locomotive then you would not see that the pilot was broken on the second
It is ironic that today most model railroaders have more trains that a train shop or more motorcycles that a motorcycle shop would have in the old days. I love going to train shows because you never know what's going to be there. I walk out with bags and bags of trains and people wonder how I'm going to get them home on my motorcycle and then I load my side car full of trains. People would take pictures going down the road with a sidecar full of toy trains sticking out everywhere. They know me as the Orange train guy.
you know this may sound strange but.... one time, me and my parents were at a flea market. i was looking around for some HO trains (i model ho), and this one lady had a spirit of 76 alco engine, just like the one in this video. i bought it. the next day, she had a whole box of HO stuff. in it was a small ATSF switcher, legit identical to that one. in the box was also the matching 76 caboose, and some more stuff, like a log loader, and a couple under-and-over parts. how cool is that?!?! i almost got the same stuff in this video!
Many railroad siding that serve industries were designed for 40-foot cars and when you try to run a modern 60-foot car on it you have problems. I have seen video where big 60-foot cars will scratch along a concrete wall because they overhang so much. One video showed the guys modern car carriers were catching the side of the tunnels where they're we're turning so he had to make more clearance. The famous hoosac tunnel it's too small to take container trains that are double stack. So what you are encountering is prototypical in real life as well
I have a scrapbook of toy train ads when we had newspapers the Spirit of 76 was $30. Ahm would make a basic set with a circle of track and a transformer for $10 and a middle-range set for $20 and Tycho would have their top-of-the-line train layouts for $30. If you were a kid and had a part-time job at $2 an hour you could afford to buy trains all you wanted outside of say brass locomotives. I Model A prosperous Penn Central with my cutoff date being to Bicentennial so I can run all of my Bicentennial painted locomotives when I feel like and I have a Kaline gg1 Electric and Caboose set where you press the horn button and it plays God Bless America. It's funny how only the railroads get Bicentennial paint schemes on a locomotive to honor the birth of our country. It's also nice now that some of the regional railroads resurrect some of the paint schemes of the Fallen Flags like the New York Central lightning stripe paint Scheme which is very complicated as well as the Erie Lackawanna paint scheme. My favorites were the Santa Fe warbonnet and the Great Northern paint schemes and it is surprising in the 21st century that the BNSF runs both the Great Northern paint Scheme with Rocky the goat was much nicer than the Burlington Northern paint scheme in my opinion anyway.
WHAT IS THE OVERALL SIZE OF YOUR TRAIN TABLE ??? ... ACTUAL SURFACE AREA IN SF ??? ... LOOKS GOOD ... FUN TO WATCH RUN ... SO MUCH TO BUILDING A LAYOUT ... CAN GET PRETTY SOPHISTICATED VERY QUICKLY ...
Great video makes me want to get my train set's out to play with but I live in an rv not much room for them and my wife well walk on them and break them.
In the 1970s you still had small Freight cars in service because they did not reached their 50-year limit. Semi scale would cars would have metal panels nail to the side to extend their lifespan. Before 1940 most Rolling Stock was 36 ft which translates to about 9 in which is about the right scale for o27. Since I Model A prosperous Penn Central with the cutoff date being the bicentennial I can run the smaller semi scale cars as older cars getting to the end of the service life and I could have like newer box cars like my 40ft high-cube Penn Central boxcar with no roof ladder because it was a modern car. I can also run stock Weaver 40-foot boxcars and Hopper cars they would be only halfway through their service life. Therefore I could run both and be prototypical at the same time.
One thing you can say about the zombie apocalypse zombies don't steal. Walker or not I would probably still play with my trains. Wouldn't that be weird?
I love the solid Diecast trucks without the subject coupler of the older Lionel Rolling Stock. The small 027 size Rolling Stock when it was constructed would have Arch bar trucks but as the cars became heavier Arch bar trucks became unreliable and were outlawed and replaced by Andrews trucks. You can rationalize them as older updated Rolling Stock which is a reason for their smaller size. The New York Central had meat packing plant with doors in the building placed for 36-foot cars therefore they had to lease option me cars from other railroads in order to service those meat packing plants.
Scale Freight cars can go around 031 curve but not 027. On my first outside layout I ran a docksider with a train of loaded coal cars and they were all diecast and when they went to the crossing they thumped and bang like a real train. I wish Lionel Train had continued with all diecast locomotive but in the old days plastic was considered modern and futuristic now it is just considered cheap
You are right about your Grandfather's train set, it is not an original set. The locomotive and tender are prewar with the tinplate trucks and the cars and back wheel truck of the tender has postwar wheels and the Lionel oversized knuckle couplers. Obviously from around the 1940's era. Wander who did the conversions.
I wish I was not such an HO scale snob putting down my dad's Lionel trains instead of running Lionel trains and spending time with my dad which was missed. He has a huge Lionel train layouts that stretch the whole length of the basement of the house in New York. I can barely remember it now.
Very nice, Bob. I got started in 55 or 55. My Dad bought something new every Christmas. You video brought back some fine old memories. Thanks Bud.
Maybe some time you'll find some old photos to share?
Had to chuckle at you as a small child.Thank goodness we live in a time when those choice memories can be recorded for future reminiscing
Amazing , this is exactly what happened to my grand child (your age in the beginning of the video) , she was scared from the sound of Lionel chief at the beginning , but now she loves it.
This video is WONDERFUL ! My love of trains stems from my grandfather who worked on the Maine Central RR on the line. I got my first Lionel starter set Christmas1956, played with it for a few years, then put it away for my first dark period. I expanded that original set in a bedroom of my first house. Didn't do all that much, then a long dark period until around 2010 when I discovered ebay. I've also had "out of hand" spells and have lots of trains, mostly having to do with Maine railroads. My layout goes around 3 sides of my basement. The tables are 4 feet wide due to my wood stove. I've got a long way to go and will continue to upload updates to You Tube. Thanks again for taking the time to share your story. I really enjoyed it.
Fantastic video! Thanks for the history and sharing. I'm always interested in hearing peoples story on how they got into trains and what lead them to the point they're in currently.
I'm glad you liked the video. I too like to hear of others stories and train room setups instead of watching trains go in a circle for 20 minutes. :)
Hi Bob it was nice to see you learning about the hobby. It most brings back good memories for you. Thanks for sharing your past and future with the hobby. Greetings Nick from New Jersey
That video was great Bob it put me in a trance and made me rethink my 16 years of life and Railroading you have the voice that I could listen to all day LOL
Thanks! I hope I didn't put you to sleep. I know a lot of the younger train guys do rock and metal as background music. Sorry, ain't gonna happen here. Just keep nudging yourself to stay awake as I drone on. ;)
Very enjoyable! Our family got that same Tyco set in 76 for Christmas.
Great video. I am 51 and getting back into the hobby that I enjoyed as a kid. You are right about buying more trains than you can use. Nice work.
Hi Bob • Very cool to see all the 8mm films. Wow • TYCO & Train Club.
No - Sold it off on e-bay & got it back. You have an excellent voice, that should be on FM radio. We all need snow tires. Like the N Scale Kit, great way to learn. Enjoy.
• Cheers from Michigan
As always, thanks for your support and nice comments. We need to support each other because no one else cares of the time and effort we put into this stuff. :)
Great video Bob! Really enjoyed the video and narration. Thanks so much for sharing,
Ethan
Very well done. I can't believe I watched the whole thing -- but I did! Great job.
That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing with us.
nice video. thank you for sharing your history. it was well presented and really showed so many of the pitfalls that it seems so many of us need to endure in order to reach a level of some happiness or at least inner peace that things are progressing in the right direction. I remember going back and forth from Lionel to Gargraves, Plasticville to Scratchbuilt or craftsman kits, O to HO to N to G to On30 ahhhhhhhhhh
... good video and I really enjoyed the history lesson ... can relate to the many phases of the hobby ...
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That was really great! We seem to have a similar background with exposure to trains. Very addictive! Only difference is, I started with my first set at 13 and never did put them away.
Cool, thanks. I have too many other hobbies and they all come and go. I wish I could just pick something and stick with it. Nah.
The futuristic train at 3:17 is the Hot Wheels Railroad. The locomotive was the Speed Chief and the passenger car was the Folks Wagon; there were similarly clever names for the other cars but I don't recall them. The Speed Chief used the same battery and motor the Mattel Sizzlers used, including the Juice Machine with the C or D cells to recharge the vehicle batteries. The system was remarkably well done to include the switch tracks that featured air-powered mechanism! I saw these on TV commercials and remember them in the K-mart check-out isles. This was when tube testers were also in K-marts, next to the pinball machines. Wow, that's been a while! :)
Like your history of how you got into o gauge! I started out as a kid with marx, & lionel o-27 gauge trains.
First got the railroad bug as a kid rideing in RPO cars with my late father who was a rpo clerk.Took pat in restoration of ex cn mail car # 1805 for centennial of construction of NFLD.RAILWAY in 1981 ( now abonded ) .
So much Boston and Maine bluebird freight and engines my favorite railroad for sure
As a kid I loved Bosco syrup my dad bought the Lionel Bosco version of the milk car set with a car painted in the Basco company paint scheme. I would love to have that today. It's somewhere on somebody's layout this stuff will be around forever.
thanks for the walk thru of memory lane. i think most of us have been there. i've tried to build layouts in 3 scales, & can't wait to retire so i can move, & build one Last (lol) permanent layout!
This is my first time following your post and I enjoyed every bit of it, you did a fantastic job on your layout I love the music in the background , im a big jazz fan I'll be following from now on oh and by the way I think your sense of humor is cool to.
Really interesting how you learned all that work.
Love this! I just got back into model railroad after a 46 year hiatus. You've given me inspiration. Have 4 steam locomotives to date and plan to build small mobile layout...
Great! Glad you enjoyed the video. Just don't do any 30-40% grades. Hehe :D
Loved this! Well done.
Really enjoyed your video Bob!
Thanks for your support! Glad you enjoyed it.
Your welcome Bob!!
Thats a cool vedio man. Its not often see someone from the begging of the hobby to today.
I was fortunate to have some old photos and videos, and did a reasonable job of documenting my experiences in the last 15 years.
awesome video bud! loved it! I remember those tyco trains - my father has those 1776 loco and caboose. excellect story and narrating- more people should do this- keep it up bud!
Glad you liked it. Sometimes I think about getting into HO because there is so much available as far as scenery items and rolling stock, engines, etc. I remember Rob (bravosixxx) switch to HO a few years ago, then last I heard came back to O. No matter what scale, it is a fun hobby.
Nice history Bob. Makes me want to pull my old N scale shelf out.
Too bad the eyes aren't like they use to be.
Yeah, seeing and working on that small stuff is a problem as you age...but I couldn't keep it on the dang track. Any pressure, weight, or tug on the back half of the train normally makes the cars at the center of the train flip over. :)
Bob, this was a great video, very entertaining and informative.
+bbrock RailFan Glad you enjoyed it!
I ran into the same problem with the grading as well. It's so much I wanted to do but the trains had other plans. Smh
Randy Fowler ha
Hi Bobot Trains / I came back to watch this historic video again.
Gary from Michigan, the state with no palm trees 🌴 🌴 but we have snow. 😎
It always good to review history. Thanks for chiming in Gary. I watch all your videos too.
Thanks 😎
Very well done video on your history of Bobot's Trains I am planning on doing a lay out and debating which track to use I currently have tubular track and trying to decide on Gar graves which some people hate as being a pain to fit right and the electric systems are not like the regular track. I am also considering RMT which is the old K-Line snap track. How was your experience with your track and what kind of ballast did you use? Thanks for sharing
Way cool!! So funny how so many of us evolve and got hooked by MTH The same. Atlas still has probably the nicest Scale cars too.
Nice presentation!
very enjoyable and great naration!!
Nice to see and inspiring
Great video, i learn a lot of very informative stuff in your video. Keep up the good work !!!
+RCAFpolarexpress Thanks for the kind words...glad you enjoyed it!
You notice on the sheet metal tender it has the original sheet metal truck on the front but it has a later made truck on the back so it can pull post-war Lionel cars. I did the same to add o-gauge American Flyer streamline royal blue, I had the hobby shop owner cut off the American Flyer coupler and put a Lionel coupler on it and he said it ruined the collectability of it but I said it's a great running engine and I only paid $30 for it it has a front section of the m10000 are the only prewar locomotive I have. The lead unit of the m10000 was painted solid red and I was going to paint it solid orange because that's my favorite color The Hobby Shop guy was recuperating from a heart attack he painted it in the New York Central lightning strike paint Scheme which is very complicated because he used hand lettering transfers and striping. No charge just for something to do. He put so much work into it I would feel bad about painting it solid orange so since I model a breakfast at Central I could run that locomotive because you would have older locomotive still in service I cannot believe the original m10000 train we scrapped because the Winton distillate engine War out, I would have just repowered the locomotive and kept the whole training what a ways to scrap a whole train because the engine wore out that's like scrapping a beautiful car because you need a new engine.
Awesome video bro. It's crazy I'm uploading a video simililar to this on my channel. Loved seeing the vids of you as a kid, Really great stuff!
Thanks man. Great minds think alike?
haha they do. Glad I'm subbed to your channel my friend!
Love your videos.
I am known as “Pap” and “Choo-Choo” to my 2 year old grandson😃❤️
Love Atlas Too!
Thank you for sharing as this is simply awesome !
Nice layout Bob.
I ran one of my dad's steam locomotives off the end of the training table and did not own up to it to the day he died. My brother bought a small box of what was left of his immense collection and in the Box was the steam locomotive with the broken pilot. I brought it at a bunch of Lionel diesels to a Lionel mechanic to get them all running I thought he would use the broken one for parts but he just lubricated and it runs just great. A small piece of my childhood managed to survive because it was undesirable but I might put a coupler on the front of the locomotive so I could double head to locomotive then you would not see that the pilot was broken on the second
Great video!
Neat video. Inspiring.
Glad you liked it
It is ironic that today most model railroaders have more trains that a train shop or more motorcycles that a motorcycle shop would have in the old days. I love going to train shows because you never know what's going to be there. I walk out with bags and bags of trains and people wonder how I'm going to get them home on my motorcycle and then I load my side car full of trains. People would take pictures going down the road with a sidecar full of toy trains sticking out everywhere. They know me as the Orange train guy.
you know this may sound strange but....
one time, me and my parents were at a flea market. i was looking around for some HO trains (i model ho), and this one lady had a spirit of 76 alco engine, just like the one in this video. i bought it. the next day, she had a whole box of HO stuff. in it was a small ATSF switcher, legit identical to that one. in the box was also the matching 76 caboose, and some more stuff, like a log loader, and a couple under-and-over parts. how cool is that?!?! i almost got the same stuff in this video!
+ktrainbfs Cool. Both pieces were maybe very popular and there were a lot around. Neat coincidence.
+BobotsTrains yeah it is! Also neat vid bro new sub right here!
Many railroad siding that serve industries were designed for 40-foot cars and when you try to run a modern 60-foot car on it you have problems. I have seen video where big 60-foot cars will scratch along a concrete wall because they overhang so much. One video showed the guys modern car carriers were catching the side of the tunnels where they're we're turning so he had to make more clearance. The famous hoosac tunnel it's too small to take container trains that are double stack. So what you are encountering is prototypical in real life as well
Scale O is what hooked me! MTH Alaska F7ABA!,, the rest is history! Still buying!
Lionel had problems at the factory with certain switches that the larger locomotives would hit therefore they redesigned the switch.
I have a scrapbook of toy train ads when we had newspapers the Spirit of 76 was $30. Ahm would make a basic set with a circle of track and a transformer for $10 and a middle-range set for $20 and Tycho would have their top-of-the-line train layouts for $30. If you were a kid and had a part-time job at $2 an hour you could afford to buy trains all you wanted outside of say brass locomotives. I Model A prosperous Penn Central with my cutoff date being to Bicentennial so I can run all of my Bicentennial painted locomotives when I feel like and I have a Kaline gg1 Electric and Caboose set where you press the horn button and it plays God Bless America. It's funny how only the railroads get Bicentennial paint schemes on a locomotive to honor the birth of our country. It's also nice now that some of the regional railroads resurrect some of the paint schemes of the Fallen Flags like the New York Central lightning stripe paint Scheme which is very complicated as well as the Erie Lackawanna paint scheme. My favorites were the Santa Fe warbonnet and the Great Northern paint schemes and it is surprising in the 21st century that the BNSF runs both the Great Northern paint Scheme with Rocky the goat was much nicer than the Burlington Northern paint scheme in my opinion anyway.
Great I love it good video.
WHAT IS THE OVERALL SIZE OF YOUR TRAIN TABLE ??? ... ACTUAL SURFACE AREA IN SF ??? ... LOOKS GOOD ... FUN TO WATCH RUN ... SO MUCH TO BUILDING A LAYOUT ... CAN GET PRETTY SOPHISTICATED VERY QUICKLY ...
Current layout is 12 ft x 12 ft with center cut out for access
Great video makes me want to get my train set's out to play with but I live in an rv not much room for them and my wife well walk on them and break them.
and yes jazz and toy trains go together very well :)
Around here it's usually jazz or soft rock. Sorry to disappoint my younger viewers. :)
Bobot's Trains and Maker Zone Yeah I could see some Miles Davis going with train vids.
In the 1970s you still had small Freight cars in service because they did not reached their 50-year limit. Semi scale would cars would have metal panels nail to the side to extend their lifespan. Before 1940 most Rolling Stock was 36 ft which translates to about 9 in which is about the right scale for o27. Since I Model A prosperous Penn Central with the cutoff date being the bicentennial I can run the smaller semi scale cars as older cars getting to the end of the service life and I could have like newer box cars like my 40ft high-cube Penn Central boxcar with no roof ladder because it was a modern car. I can also run stock Weaver 40-foot boxcars and Hopper cars they would be only halfway through their service life. Therefore I could run both and be prototypical at the same time.
10:31 is that a strausburgh Src 21 wheel load flat car?
One thing you can say about the zombie apocalypse zombies don't steal. Walker or not I would probably still play with my trains. Wouldn't that be weird?
I love the solid Diecast trucks without the subject coupler of the older Lionel Rolling Stock. The small 027 size Rolling Stock when it was constructed would have Arch bar trucks but as the cars became heavier Arch bar trucks became unreliable and were outlawed and replaced by Andrews trucks. You can rationalize them as older updated Rolling Stock which is a reason for their smaller size. The New York Central had meat packing plant with doors in the building placed for 36-foot cars therefore they had to lease option me cars from other railroads in order to service those meat packing plants.
Scale Freight cars can go around 031 curve but not 027. On my first outside layout I ran a docksider with a train of loaded coal cars and they were all diecast and when they went to the crossing they thumped and bang like a real train. I wish Lionel Train had continued with all diecast locomotive but in the old days plastic was considered modern and futuristic now it is just considered cheap
You are right about your Grandfather's train set, it is not an original set. The locomotive and tender are prewar with the tinplate trucks and the cars and back wheel truck of the tender has postwar wheels and the Lionel oversized knuckle couplers. Obviously from around the 1940's era. Wander who did the conversions.
I always had a train i still have a silver tree but never had the train under the tree.
Nice
Hey Bob I just ended up with a Lionel milk car 3462 And log 3611
What is the footprint of your layout. I was putzing with my trains today and would like to maximize the area needed like you did.
Hopefully this will help: bobotstrains.blogspot.com/2018/04/bobots-trains-layout-footprints.html
Nice story
I've got the same loco and tender
I wish I was not such an HO scale snob putting down my dad's Lionel trains instead of running Lionel trains and spending time with my dad which was missed. He has a huge Lionel train layouts that stretch the whole length of the basement of the house in New York. I can barely remember it now.
16:00 why do you have 2 remotes
Logan Reichert For two people to operate simultaneously
Now THATs a Grade A grade eh
Oor
You forgot about girls.