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How did you get started in O/O27?
« on: January 26, 2013, 10:53:46 am »
How did you get started in O/O27?
When did you get your first train?
What was your first train?
Pictures please!
Railroad Crossings: Mother Natures way of thinning the gene pool.

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Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2013, 11:03:59 am »
I'll start this off...
For me, it all started off with a Marx Clockwork Steam Freight Set.

I received my First Electric Train for Christmas in 1959,
a Sears/Marx-Allstate O27 Steam Freight set.
I've had HO's, AF-S scale & am currently operating
Large Scale & N scale.  I've come full circle with the
acquisition of an MPC/Lionel Blue Streak Freight Set.
             
(this is who I become when I play with my trains,
never liked my picture being taken, so the smile is inside.)

                       My First Electric O27 Train



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Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2013, 11:54:10 pm »
Inherited a Lionel set early 50's, still have it and my dad's trains from the 20's. Still run.
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Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2013, 03:27:35 pm »
Had a Lionel when I was little. When to HO for 40 years the last year started watching Polar Express. My hands and eyes are as good now. So ordered a Polar Express set. Also have gotten a Santa Fe set and Rock Island freight now. Have a small layout 2 5x9 with a bridge of 4x4 making a U shape.
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Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2013, 09:41:09 pm »
I got started in 0/027 in 2002 bought the lionel chessie system starter set i was in HO and N scale before that

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Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2013, 10:54:48 pm »
Welcome to LTF Chessie!  Check in and post often,

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Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2014, 02:01:18 pm »
Christmas, 1946. I always wanted a train set, any kind would do. I was born in 1934 in the upper Ohio Valley which was still in the depression.
WW II ended the depression and the making of toy trains. My first train was the 1946 Lionel O-27 1400W set, the grey 221 with the blue and silver passenger cars. My aunt bought it for me and it cost her three weeks pay. $30.00. I think an O gauge set was $10.00 more and beyond reach. I still use O-27 track.

 

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