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Lionel Train Media => Lionel Train Videos => Topic started by: Rockerbob on May 14, 2018, 03:54:50 pm
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Greetings and felicitations!
I am a new member. This is my first post.
Circa 1966 my uncle gives me a old train set. We played with it a lot as kids. It has extras like the Log Loader and cattle car. Some time between 1966 and 1972 my thing was HO slot cars. The train takes a back seat. Family moved to Florida in 1972. The train was packed in boxes and moved with us. They sat on a shelf in my father's closet until Oct 2017. I was in Florida and my dad asked me if I wanted the train. Duh?!
The loco is # 238 and needed an E-Unit. I stripped it down and cleaned everything. The engine will pull many cars. Whistle works after some electronics degreaser and using a small forceps to remove spider webs. This is very little rust, which surprised me due to living in a humid climate for decades.
I had a set for around the Christmas tree that I bought about 2006. I ran two loops this past Christmas. Since I have spent too much money on trains and trains related stuff. Before trains, guitars were my thing. At one time I had 25 at the same time. All top shelf and name brands. Hard times made me sell off most of the guitars. I kept 6. The best 6. The ones in the $5K range. I can't hear anymore, or not very well, making my music hobby difficult- but I went nuts with the trains.
I'm medium old and have taken early retirement due to Meniere's disease, the source of my hearing loss. I can play with my trains every day if I want.
So here's my 2 things: the 50 years of guitar and 3 rail I'm really mostly new to.
Long damn intro to a video with music. The music was written and recorded in my basement in 2001. I'm playing with myself because I performed all the parts, for better or worse. If you write songs you gotta write a train song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVmQeQxDNk