YOJIMBO: WELCOME BACK! ☺ Since you have been gone, I have sold all my O gauge, mostly to a local fellow TCA member, and got back into vintage LGB pretty heavy ($5000 and counting) and I thinned out my standard gauge "herd" to an MTH state set pulled by a Lionel Classics 2-400E and a 200 series work train that includes an MTH 219P motorized crane and three LCT cars pulled by an MTH dark green 408E. I am really rocking the LGB, which I initially got involved in with a starter set in 1978. I prefer the German made vintage production and I was fortunate enough to find a very reliable family-run supplier who purchases new-used trains from collectors. I have two high-end coaches ($350 EACH that are current Marklin-LGB Hungarian production and they both have ball bearing wheelsets, fully detailed interiors, and factory lighting and are 1:22.5 scale at 26" long! Wife approves and life is good! She even let me upgrade our home theatre system with a Samsung 4K Smart TV and a Samsung Ultra Blue Ray player, all connected to a Samsung 750 vacuum tube sound bar. The latest Xfinity DVR rounds out my mini home theatre and that upgrade was FREE! Life is good at 76 even having been on dialysis almost fourteen years now! ☺
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