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Anyone do the tradition of an electric train under the Christmas tree?
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:44 pm
It is a good tradition if you have kids. This is the first year I haven't put this train under the tree - a 30's vintage Lionel Blue Comet. It is big and heavy (the trim is copper, for example) - much bigger than what people usually think when they think Lionel train. Kids love it. All I do is lubricate it and it runs as well as it did in the 30's. Lionel really made a quality product.
For size comparison, the tender behind the locomotive is about the size of a shoe box.
For size comparison, the tender behind the locomotive is about the size of a shoe box.
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:46 pm to chinhoyang
Thanks for sharing
We used to, don't anymore. Fake smoke from the engine and everything
We used to, don't anymore. Fake smoke from the engine and everything
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:46 pm to chinhoyang
RIP Bobby Bacala
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:47 pm to chinhoyang
Yes. I ride the rails.
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:49 pm to chinhoyang
That's a really cool train.
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:50 pm to chinhoyang
I wish they still made things today like they did back then.
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:50 pm to chinhoyang
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:51 pm to chinhoyang
Actually I've always wanted to get into model trains. But I couldn't afford it as a kid and I've never gotten around to it as an adult. To do it seriously is very expensive as well as very time consuming. I've been to a few model railroad displays, that's about it.
Rod Stewart with his trains:
Posted on 12/24/15 at 10:53 pm to chinhoyang
My parents used to do that.
Until the year i stomped on the train track from running full speed down the stairs as a five year old and put a big hole in my foot from one of the little train crossing bars
Until the year i stomped on the train track from running full speed down the stairs as a five year old and put a big hole in my foot from one of the little train crossing bars
Posted on 12/25/15 at 12:33 am to chinhoyang
So if I don't have kids wtf I like trains & shite.
I'm gonna go adopt a kid just to bully yours
That is a sweet arse Lionel 027?
I'm gonna go adopt a kid just to bully yours
That is a sweet arse Lionel 027?
This post was edited on 12/25/15 at 12:34 am
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:14 am to chinhoyang
We did when I was kid. I don't know what my parents did with the trains we had. They were old, for sure.
Think I will start this next Christmas.
Think I will start this next Christmas.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:15 am to chinhoyang
My great aunt and uncle had one when I was a kid. My cousin got it when they died. Still pissed about that.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 6:10 am to chinhoyang
Me and some of my friends pulled a train on a chick last week.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 7:50 am to chinhoyang
No way I'd put that model under a tree to be destroyed.
That belongs in a case, on a shelf, or in a very prized model train display.
When I retire I'm going to build model trains. Is that weird?
That belongs in a case, on a shelf, or in a very prized model train display.
When I retire I'm going to build model trains. Is that weird?
Posted on 12/25/15 at 7:58 am to chinhoyang
quote:
All I do is lubricate it and it runs as well as it did in the 30's
I know what you mean.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 8:25 am to chinhoyang
We did for the past several years, until our Boston Terrier decided last year that she didn't want that train under the tree any longer.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 9:36 am to chinhoyang
I have my dads Lionel train from the 50's but I need to get a new transformer.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 12:09 pm to chinhoyang
I've always wanted a train set under the tree but never had it. That one is beautiful.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 12:45 pm to chinhoyang
There's a pretty neat train museum at the Glenwood Springs, CO train station if you're ever there. The old train station itself is neat.
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:51 pm to chinhoyang
That's a fine train bro. I would run it. (IWRI?)
I run one through the Christmas village but not round the tree.
I run one through the Christmas village but not round the tree.
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