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I got my first train in 1947. Christmas day. It was a Lionel 224. I still have it and it still runs great. Got my second train in 1949. A Lionel 2026. I got that one because it smoked and the 224 didn't. My father had bought my uncle a 1700 in the late 1930's but my uncle was a jock. He boxed, football, basketball, So when he realized I loved trains he gave me the 1700. It was red & chrome. So it was my father who really was the toy train person and his messing with them rubbed off on me. I've had a small layout all my life. I'd come home from school and go straight to the basement. Run the Lionel trains until supper was ready. Every year at Christmas my father would give me something for the layout.

Wish I had not lost the 1700? Don't know what happened to it. Like I said before I still have the 224, 2026. Plus they still run like new. Lionel made some really great things back then.

Jack

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