Your tale did not bring real tears to my eyes but did bring a little emotion as it brought back memories of some Lionel cars that I had been given (by my Uncle Eddie, I believe). I distinctly remember a tender of some sort (my very first toy train memory is of pushing that around on the rug), a blue observation car, a dark brown/light brown flatcar with two searchlights, a light tan crane, a red cabin car, and a light tan/green roof(?) house, and some very flexible track that could be coiled up that Dad would not let me use it as he said that all of those joints (and you thought that Fastrack was noisy!) would tear up the train wheels (I saw box of it floating in the 'bay and probably should have bid on it). There may have been some other stuff in that pile but I do not remember now. I also had a large Lionel signal bridge (might have been for standard gauge) and its' control panel that came from a school rummage sale. Those are the items that got me started in O and later, when I joined the Baltimore Society of Model Engineers (#369J) in 1964, I was introduced to scale O and have been hooked ever since. At the time of joining, I had one true O scale piece of equipment; an R&T Cleveland trolley with Wagner power and poles, that the B.S.M.E. had a large O trolley line was my reason for joining.
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