I am just wondering how many of us still have our first train we had as a kid and are still running it?? As for me I still have that first train that Santa brought me many many years ago. I run that train often, it is just a real cheep train, but it is still the one I like the best. Alan www.MrTrain.com
Still have it…Santa Fe Freifgt set. All the cars are pretty much destroyed as they were cheap plastic, but the engine still runs.
I still have most of my rolling stock, as the engines were lost thru my last divorce. I do have the engines and rolling stock from my older brother.
tom
Yes, I still have all our Lionels- 2 steamers,3 diesels, 40 various pieces of rolling stock, 1 passenger set, several operating accessories. All from lionels golden period(1950-1960). They are all in operating condition, as they were only used for 4 months out of each year(Nov. 1 to Mar. 1)
My first Marx trains are long gone, but I still have all of the Lionel trains I ever got.
Still running my 2020, now with a TAS TMCC conversion, with the majority of my rolling stock still on the layout, the remainder on display.
Yes, I still have all of the trains that my dad brought home back in 1952. Odd story, he worked in New York City and would go to the Post Office auction a couple of times a year and bid on the various train lots. My guess is that the proximity to Lionel and Madison Hardware caused a number of packages to be damaged or not able to be delivered. Unfortunately, none of these items ever had their boxes. Probably wouldn’t have mattered because he and my uncle set up a 8X8 layout in our Irvington, NJ basement and I’ve been running these same trains on and off for over 50 years with the usual time outs for college, etc. They will have their special place on my new, hi-rail layout in a “train museum” built around a roundhouse and turntable.
Bob
Still have it, Chesapeke flyer set. transformer died some years back. have the set including the yard signs. I even have an old lionel 6017 and the 490 marx engine I found at a yard sale for a quater when I was younger.
I was given a 628 NP 44 tonner set at the tender age of five and have a picture of the engine and I. I ran it into the ground and was later given a hand me down scout set which I destroyed too. I replaced the 44 toner as an adult and it sits next to the picture. I tell freinds that the 628 is the engine I had as a kid.
See this thread:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16530
Yes, I still own my forst train set…take a look at the photos!
Got mine [1952 NY Central Hudson]. Here is picture of it when I had the Cheif Eagles Very Short Line Railroad [now it makes a circle [:D]]
The only remaining relic from my childhood days is an American Flyer tank car. It’s got a funny looking coupler so I’m thinking that it’s prewar.
Mom sold the rest when I was away.
dav
All but 1 piece of rolling stock is from when I was growing up. I have 5 engines and approximately 40 cars (boxcars, flats, hoppers, passenger, tankers)
My Wabash GP-7, #2337, still runs like a champ and the freight cars that came with the set still look like new, though a couple went missing. This was my second set, the first set was long before this one when I was VERY YOUNG so don’t remember much about it. [^]
The Yardmaster, with #8111 DT&I NW2 switcher and work caboose. I bought it with paper route money at the local K-Mart, and it was about $20.00 during the “after Christmas” sale! Still runs great, but that manual e-unit is a pain on a large layout!
I still own every train I had during my cildhood and all still run great! As a kid, I was very protective of my trains and never was rough with them or anything. My first electric train was a Playmobil G scale set, which was later added on to. I have it displayed, but it hasn’t been run in a very long time. I then moved on to HO. My first HO set was a Bachmann F9 Warbonnet circle set. My HO collection grew very quickly and I had many HO trains as a kid. I still have many HO trains and a layout. My first O gauge toy train was a Marx 490 set which I got when I was 10 years old. As a kid, I had many other trains like those plastic battery-operated sets, which I still own today. Mind you, I’m only 17 and my interest in trains has never let down, so it would be unusual if I didn’t still have my childhood trains.