@Odd-d posted:Dear Alan Miller---I read with interest...and sadness... about your little grandson's interest in a particular Thomas set. You kept on finding excuses to put off setting it up for him.
No need to be sad. My best little buddy, Lucas, already has several trains (Polar Express and others) that he enjoys operating on Papa's big layout, and those will also run on my Christmas layout if I ever get the darn thing completed. He also has had fun running one of my battery powered/radio controlled Large Scale trains outdoors. . . at least he (and I) did before the flowers my spouse planted grew so abundantly that they completely overhung/blocked the track. That small outdoor barrel layout will feature an artificial Christmas tree during the holiday season, and some other sort of greenery next spring, and Luke and I will have some fun plowing snow (or trying to) with my Aristo-Craft snow plow if/when we get some of the white stuff.
