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earlier today, while cycling on an abandoned train line past the remains of a fake airport (that the nazis had built to trick the allies), my two companions (one heavily invested in toy robots, the other a connoisseur of model trains) came to the conclusion that from an investment point of view Lego is the future for the coming decades

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My son loves model trains.  He was started in this habit by his uncle, who has loved them since being a child.  My son has O, HO and N gauge, as well as Lego trains (the Lego trains have their own tracks, engines and remote).  He currently focuses on N gauge.  O gauge is great, but it's hard to find the area needed to set up a nice layout.

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I'm an HO scale all the way. I went with this full tilt as a youth.  Trains and buildings were huge at Christmas.  These days it's pretty much limited to one boxcar on a railroad crossing in my office.

I ride real trains from time to time--in fact, two vintage trains (steam locomotives) this past summer in West Virginia.

  

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On 12/13/2021 at 9:20 AM, Milestones said:

I'm an HO scale all the way. I went with this full title as a youth.  Trains and buildings were huge at Christmas. 

  

Same. Love the real thing too and am lucky to live mere blocks from the CSX River Line in Kingston.

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On 12/13/2021 at 9:24 AM, Rabshakeh said:

Brio for me. Sometimes the kids are allowed to play with it too 

When my son was little, he had many Thomas & Friends trains that look like they ran on Brio track.  He still has the cars...how can you throw away Percy, Edward, et al?

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43 minutes ago, mjzee said:

When my son was little, he had many Thomas & Friends trains that look like they ran on Brio track.  He still has the cars...how can you throw away Percy, Edward, et al?

Absolutely. Those are the friends you grow up with. 

Mine has a Henry and a Gordon for his Brio track. Off brand, I think 

45 minutes ago, mjzee said:

When my son was little, he had many Thomas & Friends trains that look like they ran on Brio track.  He still has the cars...how can you throw away Percy, Edward, et al?

Absolutely. Those are the friends you grow up with. 

Mine has a Henry and a Gordon for his Brio track. Off brand, I think 

There's a great bit in Graham Lock's Forces In Motion when Anthony Braxton suddenly starts getting excited over choo choo trains.

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55 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

It's that time of year.

I'm starting to think about trains again.

Anyone else?

Why at this time of year? Shouldn't you be thinking about sleigh rides and/or reindeer transportation?

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4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Why at this time of year? Shouldn't you be thinking about sleigh rides and/or reindeer transportation?

Oh, I do think about sleigh rides and reindeer, but I do a fairly elaborate HO winter MCM layout every year under the aluminum tree, so I tend to obsess over trains this time of year.  I've always associated trains with the holidays, though not exclusively.  I'll post some pix when I have it set up.  I try to set it up later rather than sooner so the cat has fewer days to destroy it, although based on how well-behaved he was last holiday season, we think it was our late, beloved Siamese cat Pyewacket who was the culprit of the destruction in past years. 

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2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Oh, I do think about sleigh rides and reindeer, but I do a fairly elaborate HO winter MCM layout every year under the aluminum tree, so I tend to obsess over trains this time of year.  I've always associated trains with the holidays, though not exclusively.  I'll post some pix when I have it set up.  I try to set it up later rather than sooner so the cat has fewer days to destroy it, although based on how well-behaved he was last holiday season, we think it was our late, beloved Siamese cat Pyewacket who was the culprit of the destruction in past years. 

Okay. I'm up for photos.

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I’ll have to find my playlist, but I remember including two Ellington tunes, “Track 360,” “Happy-Go-Lucky Local” and Mulligan’s “K4 Pacific,” one of the tunes played by his big band that Concord Jazz chose to omit from his CD with Mel Torme and George Shearing.

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