My Daughter and Son grew up with my train layouts. For them it got to be a ho hum having trains. When my daughter was in her mid teens and kinda didn't want her friend to know her dad played with trains. Then one day I was sitting at the kitchen table looking threw a Greenberg price guide, my daughter came in with one of her friends, her friend noticed the Greenberg price guide and he said oh Lionel trains. I looked up and asked if he's familiar with Lionel trains. He said yep, he and his dad has a layout set up in their basement. He wanted to see my layout. From that day on, every time my daughter brought one of her friends over, the first thing she'd ask them, do you want to see my dad's trains.
Fast forward 20+ yrs w/my grandchildren, I decided to build a small layout and let the grandchildren help w/it. As the layout progressed, I named some locations on the layout after my grand daughter and grandson. I named the small town "MacKenzieville" after the grand daughter and the junk yard "Mason's Junkyard" after the grandson.
Here's a pc of my grand son last week playing on the layout.
