Would anyone like to share what their first train set or sets as
I know from magazines and stories that a few people
recived more than one trains during their childhood as chistmas or
birthday gifts or trains bought from savings?
Can anyone share some stories, info, or pictures?
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Oh, mine was a 2055 Hudson given to me with a black gonola and red MS&TL caboose by my granfather and some Fastrack and more freight cars off e-bay.
Mine was an inherited 1958 ‘Owl’ Set (with a #665 Hudson) and an extra Milw #2338 Geep. That was in 1967…
I had 4-wheel Marx, then 8-wheel Marx, then a Japanese MU train, then, at last, in 1955 a Lionel 2243 and 2400-series streamliners. The 2243 still runs beautifully.
My first train set was a Marx wind-up, tin-plate set on two rails. Then, in 1965, I received a Marx Allstate set from Sears for Christmas.
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Mine was a 1952 Lionel Berkshire, 726RR, tender, operating boxcar (ATSF) NYC gondola, Sunoco tank car, and a LL caboose. RW transformer, 4 switches, and a ton of track. I got it in '67 or 68, the result of pestering an uncle who had announced that he had it for me. I still have it.
The first new set that I got was a Tyco spirit of 76. I still have that too, although the Alco 430 [xx(] hasn’t fared as well as that old berk [:D]
My first train set was a Marx engine and tender with three cars: box car, tank car and caboose. I still have the cars but not the engine. I received it as a Christmas present around 1948. About 1951, I received a Lionel Santa Fe engine for my birthday and a number of cars and switches for Christmas that same year. I still have all of it and it runs well.
New York Central Marx wind-up with 3 cars/caboose for Christmas in 1938.
224E set Xmas 1938. In 1939 catalog $17.95
First train set was in 1949 (I think)
I still have it and it still runs.
My first set was a 2037 ,without tender and a few othes rolling stock.
my father found this set in a flea market in chile. In those year a new set was really expencive.
the set still runing.
Andre.
Nice,
Anyone else???
My first set was a 2141WS Lionel 4 car freight set with a RW transformer
( This information was provided by one of the Forum members )
My Dad bought it for me at Higbee’s in downtown Cleveland
In 1949.
It was a # 671, like Spankybird’s.
Spankybird… We had a good Christmas that year.
Chuck
I feel very young to nigth…
because my father bought the set in 1983 when I was 11 years old.
in the 50’ my father was a little boy.
any way guys very nice memories.
Andre.
1969 - Aurora Postage Stamp "N’ gauge set. N gauge was “new” back then.
1995 - First Lionel set for my sons first Christmas. We’ve had a layout under the tree every year since.
My first train was a Marx windup given in 1949. I don’t think it lasted a year. My Lionel 2035 set came the following year with the added cattle set. A few years later I received a 3461 log dumper with a conveyor log loader. When I was older (8,9?) and began to earn spending money I picked up a 317 bridge and 151 semiphore , billboard set, and a bunch of Plasticville. I cut wooden ties by hand and ballasted the track. In the late '50s, detail and realism was becoming more important to me and Lionel was moving in the other direction with the rocket cars, etc. I sold all of my Lionel and switched to HO around 1960.
Pete
1969 - Aurora Postage Stamp "N’ gauge set. N gauge was “new” back then.
1995 - First Lionel set for my sons first Christmas. We’ve had a layout under the tree every year since.
A Lionel Scout set with the old plastic couplers that spread apart. My father converted
them to the regular couplers about three years later in 1953. I still have the set today.
The engine is nothing compared to today’s engines. The set had the steam engine
and a Sunoco single dome tank car and a Lionel blue gondola. I was five years old at the time and 55 years later I still love trains of all types.
chuckshearman…WELCOME to the Forum
I just noticed that was your first post. We got started on trains about the same year.
Chuck