Your first model train.

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I know when I was really little my great-grandparents had a box of toys set aside for me to play with. In that box was a old (and possibly rare as I can't find much info on it) wind-up Hafner train set. I never had track but would just let it race along the floor with it's three car train. I still have it to this day, and last time I touched it I wound it up to verify that the mechanism still works.

What makes it potentially rare is from the research that I did the 1010 Hafner set normally had a black locomotive and tender with a gondola, a tank car and a caboose. My set has all of that but the locomotive is red. That's where the info stops, I have no clue when they made a red locomotive and have only found another one searching images on Google.

As far as actual scale models though, they didn't come until I was four or five. My mom figured that since I have small hands I should have small trains, so I started this journey in N scale. I've had two 2x4 layouts, while the second one was well done (it had a full mountain scenery with a cool lake and well detailed buildings) I had more fun with my first one (just a flat layout but I cut out roads of black construction paper and put my buildings wherever I wanted). Both of the layouts are now gone and I've sold my locomotives but I still have most of my rolling stock and buildings.