Playing with 5 Different Train Sets

I had tears of joy watching Lionel on your channel and the shoutout came as a complete surprise! Thanks Jimmy and great video as always!

I had several wooden sets that my kids combined and it took over the whole floor! They really liked it up to the age of 8 and then moved on to Lego construction kits. Sadly, due to divorce, I never got the chance to introduce my sons to HO scale but I might get there as adults.

Best HO starter sets you can still find in unopened condition is the President Choice set.🇨🇦Grocery Store(Loblaws)offer.locos were all Mehano overbuilt units.Ebay,Marketplace,Kijji. My 6060 from that.

Lifelike HO scale Burlington Northern was my first set. I was 7 or 8 i think ,it was a very good Christmas got a nintendo that year too.

Good video at the right time. Remember black with two sugars!

That was fun Jimmy.

I started out with a Lionel set. Then swapped to an HO set a few years later. That grew until N scale showed up and I started that with a set also. On a side note, there was an article in MR mag back in the 80's or maybe 90's about a guy who had a N scale layout in an L configuration in his basement. He also had 2 girls who at the time were 6 & 8 I think. When they were a couple of years younger he rebuilt his layout and gave the kids the freedom to play on the front edge of the layout which included a bit of water front. Very little detailing and his buildings were all cheaper plastic kits on the front side too. He made sure the kids knew how to run it and what the rules were. Kids being kids they love to use their imagination and incorporated boats, planes, cars, and trucks. He said he always knew when they had been playing with it because the toys were spread all over the front of the layout in some unlikely places. They hadn't broken anything as of the writing the article.

Nice overview of how to get our kids, nieces, nephews, and grand kids into the hobby.

Sometime in the late 70's or early 80's We got a Tyco Chatanooga (GP20) train set for the X-mas tree. I loved it but it would only come out at xmas and I would spend hours playing with it. I wanted a train I could play with all year long. I loved (at the time) steam engines and asked Santa every year for one. I finally got a steam engine set (Bachmann) when I was 8 years old. It was AWESOME! and the following X-Mas I got the Tyco Turbo Train which was basically a slot car on rails that could go through a loop and up a wall. When I say I was hooked at this point I am not lying. I have had either a model train sitting on display or a layout ever since... Even while I served in the Navy, I had one of my trains in my barracks room.

I’m a huge fan of the budget sets especially the Lionel ready to play sets. Great video, thanks!

I'll never forget Christmas morning of 2003, the day I received the Lionel Riding the Rails Hobo Train set. My dad helped me build a table to set up all the track on. I was a very happy little lady that year. 😊

Lionel is magic

This video shows the essence of why modelling in general is fun! Brings back a ton of memories that wood set, great video!

0:38 I started with Thomas wooden Railway, mostly hand me downs from my older brothers who’s layouts I destroyed as a toddler. I still remember having a fit over loosing my Fearless Freddie in New York, he was just in a weird spot. Eventually I graduated to track master, which I still have along with Thomas wood, collected track master from the time I was 7 till I was 9 or 10 I think, lotta fun early track master. The first train set I got was a caterpillar g scale set from my Grandma. Not sure where it is but it came with a a generic Geep, boxcar, 2 flatcars and a caboose. My aunt later got me an old west 2-6-0 G scale set made my Lionel that took like 6 d cell batteries to power. It was a lot of fun. Into first grade, I got a G Scale Polar Express and I had to earn stickers for every piece of the set. Unfortunately it didn’t work so my dad had to fine tune it which was torture as an 8 year old. Last but not least, I had 2 generic classic toy train sets as a kid. One had a flat car the other had a hopper. I ran the 2 generic sets, with my g scale sets and track master simultaneously and it was awesome. After moving to Texas, my parents got me a Bachmann HO Chattanooga set, which I didn’t play with much. Finally in November of 2014, I got my first n scale engine a Kato Santa Fe F3, and here I am an avid n scale enthusiast but a small part of me wants some O scale, maybe a small switching layout one day could be fun.

Went to a Train show and saw that. All n All playing with Trains Rocks.

LOL Watching the bit about the Bachmann set reminded me of my Tyco set, the classic "Chatanooga Choo Choo" set with the EMD SD20(?) diesel locomotive. But what caught my attention was the re-railer. My set was designed with that piece being the "interface" for the power / throttle as well. I always thought it was supposed to be a road crossing! I went WAY out of my way to bury the wires so I could use it as such on my first layout, with the road crossing the rails at that point, because it makes a really good rail-road crossing! LOL Somehow I never figured out that it was actually designed to align the car's wheels with the rails... he he he. Now I want to dig that thing out of the box its in and set it up under the Christmas tree... :-) FYI, I was seven when I got this set. That was Christmas of 1977. Now you know how old of a child I am. :-)

when I was little, I had a Lionel Christmas train set but I got rid of it so I could get a toy firetruck I never ended up playing with

My first O scale set was the Lionel Santa Fe chief

I just literally set my Lionel Pa Flyer :D Cheers and the coffee order is black

I recently got a model train for christmas. It was the Bachmann BNSF rail chief with 3 cars a GP38-2 engine and a caboose