@RJT posted:In 1969 I was working part time and my dad still had a love for Lionel trains as I got a little older turned 18 I started working with him in the trucking industry making the same money. He being the soul provider as my mom was a stay at home mom I started supporting his train hobby love. He found a group of gents that met once a month at each others home and they called themselves The Gold Coast Train Collectors and through those get togethers I would bankroll his love for Lionel Trains. That was the biggest thing that kept us close being a teenager and knowing it all we generally did not see eye to eye but the trains kept us close. To this day I still collect and operate PW Lionel Trains my dad even collected MPC Era stuff as I still do in his memory I pick up stuff he always wanted but could not afford at the time. That was 50 years ago he has been gone since 1984 and I still miss him.
My dad loved them as well, I was always surprised he didn't do a layout after my brother and I had moved on from them I remember taking him to a big HO club layout and him saying it was great, but wasn't the same thing. Plus being an engineer he always got a chuckle at how Lionel did things in the accessories and of course the infamous E unit
. I don't think he ever knew about the command revolution,he passed in 2000 and hadn't been around them for more than a few years.
