My story is simpler but no less interrupted.
A Lionel train set was purchased for me at the age of four. By my eighth birthday I had a train table, a Santa Fe F-3 freight set and a Lionel steamer to run. I kept the O gauge trains for a few more years but then decided to change to HO. So, my father gave the Lionel trains to the son of a co-worker. I reworked the layout for HO but quit model trains a year or so later and my interest became flying model airplanes, which led to a career in engineering. Around the time my son was ten years old, we briefly updated the HO layout but quickly put it aside. I again began to take an interest in model trains when my children had gone off to college. I attended a train show and had to leave with something, so I bought an HO Big Boy locomotive thinking that I might resume modeling in HO. However, at the next show, I saw and purchased an MTH Premier New York Central Hudson and have continued in O gauge ever since. The interruption was only forty years...
MELGAR
