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I received my first train (American Flyer 310 K5) for Christmas 1949 and I played with them until high school. One Sat I was downtown New Orleans wit my Dad and stumbled into a music store and spotted a Flyer layout in a back room. Was wanting to play guitar and swapped ALL my trains for a $160 Supro electric guitar and small amp. Poor decision as I never got really good on the instrument and later regretted losing the trains! Dabbled in HO some as a SR in high school but went off to college and forgot about the trains until the 2nd year after opening my hobby shop in 1987. One Saturday a fella came in wanting to be an 'Authorized' Lionel Service Station, We quickly became friends and that year we were up to our eyeballs in trains. He still operates as 'Uncle Sam;s Trains' No 224 near New Orleans.

Still have a few cards from 1989 that were 'hand drawn' and assembled!

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