In 1965, when I was 13, Dad traded my 681 Turbine set, and a Standard Gauge Ives passenger set for some new H0's. At first I thought H0's were neat (did I have a choice?).
But where is the whistle? The Smoke? The real knuckle couplers?
Oh wait, the H0's don't go around the track in reverse without derailing.
And speaking of reverse, no e-unit, I was Gomez Addams watching what happened when you hit the DC reverse button at full speed.
And those chintzy plastic couplers, that don't stay together, and break off with the slightest tug.
And this brass/copper looking track. If you don't run the trains just one day, you have to clean the track with an eraser and Life-Like track cleaner.
Yes, it was cool to run a H0 Big Boy that you could actually afford, at full speed without derailing, but that was about it.
Too bad it took 35 years, the birth of my two sons, and selling/trading away most of my other possessions (including Dad's H0 collection) to get back into O (scale,Gauge). I'm never leaving again, at least while I'm vertical and above ground.
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