Paul Kallus posted:My Mom got us nice Christmas presents each year, but other than a Tyco HO set I got at 8 years old one Christmas - which was an added gift from St. Nick ~ probably because of my sledding accident a few weeks prior - trains were not included. I learned later in life why: they were prohibitively expensive compared to other toys and games. Of course, if I really wanted them, I could've opted to include them in my letters to Santa, but as kid I knew what was and what wasn't reasonable to ask for.
To this day, I consider trains expensive. In the 1990s, I could barely justify buying a Railking steam engine. Now, I am buying scale steamers from MTH and Lionel.
Its amazing how the change in disposable income has changed from the generations.
Paul
thats what I always got was a HO Rock Island Tyco set but I still enjoyed it. Never new much about O scale when I was young all the neighbor kids was like me poor and couldn’t afford it
