No, my father did not get me in to trains. He has been dead for 74 years and I am 74. He was an Army Air Corps fighter pilot who flew a British Spitfire and was killed in action during WW 2 when I was 2 months old. My grandfather liked real trains and got me to like them also.
Although I had a Christmas garden at an early age, Lionel trains just didn't look real to me, and in 1955 I got my first O scale trains when I lived with my grandparents and set up a permanent layout.
Currently I have what I refer to as an O scale 2 rail Christmas garden that I keep up year 'round. I worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Penn Central, and the Steam Locomotive Corporation of America, and if I were younger I would do it again if only they existed.
