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None of my close friends had trains. There was one kid I played hockey with who talked about his father's train collection. He took us down the basement where there was a huge layout that used up all the available floor space. The walls were filled from floor to ceiling with trains on display shelves. All O gauge Lionel I believe.  This would have been early 70s. I didn't even know people collected trains like that I just thought they ran them on the floor or up on saw horses like we did. I had told this kid about the Standard Gage trains we had.

I found out later from the kid that his father was furious that he had allowed us down the basement. I guess he was afraid we touched something. He let it be known in no uncertain terms that we were not welcome back there, but he would buy the Standard Gage trains from me. Needless to say I still have them but I always wonder what became of all that train equipment.

My cousins had an HO layout that they set up on a ping pong table in the basement...it would switch over to HO Slot cars at other times. Another set of cousins also had HO trains set up next to the basement bar...don't remember much about it except ALL of it was purchased from the local Two Guys Department store. There was the giraffe car where they ducked their heads to clear the bar and a "cop and robber"  type car where they would pop up and down from the roof hatches as the train ran around.

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