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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 Kafka
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Rod Stewart with his trains
Would you say he has an Infatuation with 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 12/24/15 at 10:55 pm to Btrtigerfan
quote:no I'd say tonight's the night when he faces his hobby
Would you say he has an Infatuation with trains?
of course maggie may say something different
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 12:39 am to Btrtigerfan
More like a Passion
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:04 am to Cracker
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That is a sweet arse Lionel 027?
Standard gauge - much bigger than 027. They reproduce it now, but Lionel stopped making it originally in the early 30's.
Here's the size comparison - the brown caboose is 027, the yellow crane is standard gauge:
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:09 am to chinhoyang
Did you say trains?
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:10 am to Marco Esquandolas
What kind do you like?
Posted on 12/25/15 at 1:13 am to chinhoyang
There was a place in BR that was used to go to on field trips that had a huge model train set. I thought it was the coolest thing when I was little
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 1:17 am to chinhoyang
Santa is delivering a pair of KCS ES44AC Lionel Legacy diesel locomotives to add to the fleet...
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