Do You Have Your First Set Of Trains ?

Yep.  The Lionel 2026 freight set received Christmas 1948.  Rehabbed once and now my grandson has it.  Runs like a Lionel!

I still have some of my early trains.

Had a big set of Child Guidance trains with track, turn table switches and all. It's all long gone. Not sure if the Midgetoys or CG set was first anymore.

First electric train was Tyco Bicentennial HO set. Still have some of the cars.

Here's mine:

And no, I'm not that old. This was given to me in the mid to late fifties by my uncle from New Jersey. It was given to him when he was a boy by a relative that worked in the Lionel factory. I only ran it at Christmas and it hasn't been run in the last 50 years, but I've kept it all these years and have it on display in my train room.

Ken

Yes, I do.

handyandy posted:

I still have some of my early trains.

 

Oh, wow!  I had a set just like the one at the top of the pic!  I haven't thought about that in years!  What kind did you say those are?

Yes...Lionel set 1591 USMC got it 24 Dec,1959.....

Yes a American flyer 322 Hudson (New York Central) with the smoke unit/diaphragm in the tender.
This was my first train set for Christmas and it was used but I did not care as it was a electric train.
After a couple of years went to Lionel and received a New Lionel Marine diesel set.
I was a happy kid

Yes I do.  Its Lionel Set #1423W made in 1948.  The entire set is in great condition and I also have the original set box along with the individual component boxes.  This set has a place of honor in my train room and I also run it at Christmas time. 

Yep, the engine, at least. When I was 7, in 1976, for Christmas I got the 1976 Lionel Rock Island Line O27 set with the 0-4-0. beats me where the cars went but I'm thankful I still have the locomotive. I have bene wanting to make a shelf to hang on the wall of the layout room to place it where it can be seen.

It's a little corroded from being in storage in attics and sheds since the 1990s, but I bet it'd run if I had the track and transformer. I really didn't put a lot of miles on the thing back then as I never had a permanent place to run it as a kid.

I also have a wood locomotive toy my dad made for me long before that. I must have cherished it as a kid as I didn't beat it up much (something I usually did with toys I really loved as a kid)

I still have mine, my Dad's and even some of my Mom's stuff.  I have a picture of Mom and Grandma by the Christmas tree with the train running around underneath.(1948)

Packed away in my parents attic are my HO trains. My first set was a ATSF ALCO AB set with 5 aluminum coaches. Made by Lionel.
We still have my Dad's tinplates too.

Yep

i still have my original set with the 2037 engine, flatcar w/ dozer, flatcar w/ scraper. track maintenance car, fire fightiting instruction box car, crane car, and work caboose.

 Thanks 

Richard 

Yes. I still have it and it still runs (like a rocket). I was 10-1/2 months old (1947) for Christmas when I got my first set (Marx) that until 20 years ago, ran under the Christmas tree.   Unlike me, it is only semi-retired.  We both show a lot of wear!

Dennis

The bottom picture shows the extra gondola I got at a train show.

Yes I do, I have all my sets I received at Christmas. 1954 Berkshire set with blue B&O double door boxcar, tuscan operating boxcar, 3 dome Sunoco tanker, black hopper, and tuscan PRR porthole caboose. Also have a 027 Macy's set with Burlington 44 tonner and three silver passenger cars, I think I received this in 1956. In 1957 I received the US Navy (blue) missile train with super O track, still have all this track.

No to my first set which was a Hafner clockwork, but yes to my first Marx and Lionel which came a year or two later

Yes, Lionel Scout Set...

...with a "stocking stuffer" addition in the form of the tank car from grandma.

Yes ... I received it Christmas morning 1965 . I display the loco but the cars are packed away deep in some box under the layout. The original suitcase style box it came in is long gone...It was a cheap 227 Canadian National Alco set I always wondered how a set that was supposedly meant for the Canadian market landed up for sale at a EJ Korvettes in North Brunswick NJ ???

I sure do: my first train was the Lionel C&O loco / tender and my first complete set was the Lionel Kickapoo Valley & Northern. Both still run like new--and they have a lot of miles on them. 

John

BlueComet400 posted:

I sure do: my first train was the Lionel C&O loco / tender and my first complete set was the Lionel Kickapoo Valley & Northern. Both still run like new--and they have a lot of miles on them. 

John

The KV&N set is a favorite whipping boy of so many modern 3-railers--"Oooo, look how cheap MPC was and how much better things are today!"  And yet you enjoyed the set, it got you into a hobby that remains enjoyable to you, and it still runs well and looks good to boot.  I think your situation is an important object lesson in both the history of the hobby and its future.

Yes Ho in 1970's and O scale in 2002

Set no, locomotive (MKT 600) yes ... sort of ... :-)

Yes.

The first was a Hafner (Wyandotte) yellow and turquoise wind up.

The first electric was the 1515WS set from Christmas 1954.

Lou N

I bought three KV&N sets complete with track and transformer when they first came out. They were $14.95 each. The buy of the century.

My first (top) was a Marx 396 set that I received in 1941.

My second (middle) was a Marx 999 set that I received in 1951.

My third (bottom) was a Lionel 671 set that I bought in 1955.

Yes, Lionel Erie Alco from 1953 - dad bought it at London Marine in London Ontario.  Also have all the cars and extras that were under the tree!

Of course I do.  Set consisted of a 627 LV 44 ton, a gondola with some canisters, a metal flatcar with some pipes and a caboose.  My uncle added an operating boxcar to the mix.  This set only saw the light of day the 2 weeks of Christmas season, my mother insisted it be packed away only to be seen at Christmas.  It emerged my first Christmas on my one after college and still runs around the tree every year.  

I got an HO set that didn't hold much interest. But I have my Dad's and my late Uncle's first trains.

Yes, the Lionel 224E freight set from 1939 including the extra 3659 dump car. Here's a photo showing part of the set.

Here is a photo of my first train set, that I mentioned in an earlier post. I just got it out today for operation on the Christmas layout. It is a 1955 Set #1527.

Yes, it was a Christmas gift from my parents when I was 5 or 6 years old around 1956. It was a Lionel set that included the 2065 baby Hudson and tender, operating milk car, operating log dump car, red gondola, yellow cattle car, and lighted Lionel Lines caboose with round portals. Not sure, but it might also have included the operating barrel car or the searchlight car. 

Everything is in good operating order, but no boxes, and everything is a little scuffed up, so those trains aren't worth much.

C'est la vie. But wouldn't want to sell them anyhow, so nothing is lost.

Well not exactly. I had a replacement locomotive in 1960 after my Dad dropped my AF 283 pacific putting it away. Everything else my younger brothers totally destroyed. Still have this one.

My father gave them to a poor family when I stopped playing with them when I was about 13 years old & started playing with girls which was a lot more interesting.

You bet!

From the wooden Skaneateles train, to the Lionel Scout set, to the Lionel 2161W Santa Fe freight set....and beyond.  Have it all.....including Dad's 366W set given to him in the mid 30's when he was a kid of 26 years!

Mom & Dad were not prone to selling off, donating, or trashing our childhood toys.  There was as much sentiment....and stretched money!....in those things for them as there were great memories for me and my two sisters.  Nope, they were carefully packed away during the teen/early adult years until we had homes of our own to take responsibility for the treasures.

And they ALL run perfectly......even the wooden push train!

KD

mowingman posted:

juniata guy posted:

I do.  Lionel outfit no. 1527, delivered by Santa Claus for Christmas 1955.

Curt

That is the same set I got in 1955, as I mentioned in my above post. Just wondering, what color is your work caboose from this set? My caboose is solid red, but some of these sets seem to have had different colors of cabooses.

Jeff

Jeff:

Just saw your question.  My caboose is the same solid red with a black frame as in the photo you posted above.  I've read someplace these weren't as common as the caboose that was red and gray.

One thing I have discovered that is fairly common with the 1615 switchers that came with these sets is at least one of the class lights is broken off.  

Mom was running mine in the early '60's for a neighbor kid while I was in school.  She took a turn too fast and the engine jumped the track and landed on the basement floor, breaking one of the class lights off.  That was the first and last time she ran one of my trains.  😲

Curt

Curt,

 My 1615 is missing a marker light too. It derailed on my elevated trestle and hit the floor. I was not a happy camper the day that happened, as it was my only engine way back then, and my "

pride and joy".

Jeff

dkdkrd posted:

 

Mom & Dad were not prone to selling off, donating, or trashing our childhood toys.  There was as much sentiment....and stretched money!....in those things for them as there were great memories for me and my two sisters.  Nope, they were carefully packed away during the teen/early adult years until we had homes of our own to take responsibility for the treasures.

And they ALL run perfectly...

Same here, my friend.  That's why my first train (Lionel 2026 and cars) is still running better-than-new today, and will continue to do so as long as I'm around to maintain it.  After which it will pass to my sister.

Still have my first set of electric trains  (American Flyer Set #5107 W Santa Fe Diesel Freight ) from my 1st Christmas, still runs well and gets run regularly 

Here's a video of a similar unit off the internet https://youtu.be/_oNt2wOh07E 

LittleTommy

Yes, still have my Marx #333 NYC Pacific freight set from 1950.  The only maintenance has been a drop of oil and a dab of grease, but it still runs well.  Also still have my small postwar Lionel collection from my youth.

Yes, my Lionel 1467w set from 1951.    Runs like a fine watch.    

palallin posted:

handyandy posted:

I still have some of my early trains.

 

Oh, wow!  I had a set just like the one at the top of the pic!  I haven't thought about that in years!  What kind did you say those are?

They were made by Midgetoy. They did a lot of toy cars too. Rivals to Tootsie Toy.