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For me it all started with having the trains running during Christmas season before I was in kindergarten.  Since that was the only time of the year my Dad, Grandfather and I had the trains running, I equated the trains with the joy of Christmas. Friends and relatives would visit and I’d proudly run the trains for them.

It wasn’t long before I’d want that feeling during the rest of the year. I would sneak a set or two out and run them on the basement floor during the summer. To get them off the floor, my Grandfather built me a 4’X4’ platform with a circle of Super O and a circle of O27 track. No scenery or buildings, just two small circles of track on plywood. I ran my post war trains round and round and imagined they were traveling to far away places.  It was a great placeholder until the big 5’X9’ Christmas layout was put together starting Saturday after thanksgiving.

And then all that stuff Art mentioned, and more, kicked in as I got old…. umm, more mature.

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