Reply to "How much did you run your childhood trains?"

Yes, I am pretty  much with you.Our Xmas train was a 318  Standard gauge passenger set that, I might, be allowed to run for a day before the tree came down. Then it died.  I got my Scout set when they first came out at Xmas around 1947. I had an 027 layout  on wood with small wheels so it could roll under my parent's bed in our 4 room apt. All 5 of us and the dog. So I am in to trains in spite of my family.  My wife liked them, that helped.