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I am grateful to my late father and mother, who spent over a week's salary to give me a Lionel train with a Santa Fe diesel, and a ZW transformer to operate it, for Christmas in 1953.  Passing that train to my youngest son after he had children of his own, made me realize how much I missed it and led to my first modern 3-rail train, an MTH A-B-A E8 and 9 passenger cars.  From there, it grew and has been very enjoyable.

Thanks, Mom and Dad.  You started it.