12-12-2013, 11:21 PM
I can't say exactly what my first train was. I probably received a number of cheap tin windup sets in the late 40s -- I think one was a Rheingold.
I did receive a Hornby windup set sent over by an uncle in Scotland.
My first electric was a Hornby O gauge about 1950/51. That was never successful.
My first Lionel was in 1953 -- May I think. I'd accumulated enough money to buy it, somehow, but the money didn't come out of my savings account. The price was $57 in Canada. Dad was paying $50 a month rent at that time.
Much later, at the end of the 50s, I got an Athearn reefer, Mantua stock car, and a HObbyline switcher which were my first HO.
I did receive a Hornby windup set sent over by an uncle in Scotland.
My first electric was a Hornby O gauge about 1950/51. That was never successful.
My first Lionel was in 1953 -- May I think. I'd accumulated enough money to buy it, somehow, but the money didn't come out of my savings account. The price was $57 in Canada. Dad was paying $50 a month rent at that time.
Much later, at the end of the 50s, I got an Athearn reefer, Mantua stock car, and a HObbyline switcher which were my first HO.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.