Reply to "I miss my wooden train and todays stuff doesn't help"

When my oldest son was about 6, my wife's Mom, in her 70's, used part of her meager income to buy a simple Brio train  set for him.  She found it at a store near Disney World in FLA, where we had taken the whole family in a 'just in case' scenario for my 6 year old son who was about to have open heart surgery in a few weeks.  Over the years, that set has been played with countless times, track, cars, trains, accessories added for birthdays and Christmas, with the trains being pushed along an encyclopedia of track plans from the minds of children.  Now, that same oldest son at age 43, has his 4 year old daughter playing with the same set.  This picture is of her, and it will be hard to believe, but she set this whole track up by herself, only needing my help when a piece did not fit the way she wanted it.  My oldest and his brother, and I, set up many a Lionel layout on the floor in our house over the years, complete with return loops, crossings, blocks and signals, but never had a table layout for them.  Remains to be seen if I can get my granddaughter to catch the O gauge bug, but I am trying.  One note in the 'find a use for everything' world I grew up with where both my parents were adults during the Great Depression, dad and mom being born in 1908 and 1913, respectively, are those brown triangle shaped 'mountains'.  They were the corner protectors for a roll top desk that was in a huge cardboard box, bought from Home Depot when it was a brand new business.  There are actually 8 of them, 4 for the desk and 4 for a matching file cabinet, but she only wanted a two mountain range that day. The corner protector became Brio mountains, and the roll top desk is still the land of bill paying and model building.