For me the golden age is always now 
. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the resurgence of postwar repros and postwar with command control that occurred in the Century Club and Century Club II eras. The various "classics" also were appealing, although I preferred the command control versions. Command control (TMCC, beginning about 1995-96) was what got me back into three rail trains. So for me the height of the rebirth of three rail trains was the 1995-2005 era roughly. I got to purchase reproductions, usually enhanced, of the 1950s and 1960s trains that my family couldn't possibly afford back then. I made up for that with perhaps over the top collecting. I had little or no interest in large, scale steam locomotives, although the Century Club II certainly included a few scale locos. To me, that period was when Lionel finally came up with model trains that were as interesting and operations oriented as LGB, Marklin and Kato in other scales.
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