My experience was almost exactly the same as Allan's. Reading All Aboard, and the warm nostalgia it evoked when I discovered it back in the 80s, was the principal motivator to start buying vintage Lionels. Somehow Ron's book made you believe that those broken links to your past could be repaired by the totems from your childhood and buried memories could be unearthed and burnished. I still get out my dog-eared copy occasionally at Christmas for a trip down memory lane.
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