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Greetings.

For the last 5 years or so, my Father and I have had a 6'x12' O gauge layout. Until recently we would run conventional train sets including my Grandfather's postwar Lionel on the plywood tabletop, and enjoyed visiting model train shows.

Last winter is when significant progress was made on the scenery of the layout, and I gathered a good amount of knowledge from this forum, and figured it was time to make an account.

I look forward to participating in conversations and sharing my model railroad adventure with the great people of this forum.

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Hiawatha98 posted:

Greetings.

For the last 5 years or so, my Father and I have had a 6'x12' O gauge layout. Until recently we would run conventional train sets including my Grandfather's postwar Lionel on the plywood tabletop, and enjoyed visiting model train shows.

Last winter is when significant progress was made on the scenery of the layout, and I gathered a good amount of knowledge from this forum, and figured it was time to make an account.

I look forward to participating in conversations and sharing my model railroad adventure with the great people of this forum.

Welcome aboard!

Hiawatha98 posted:

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. Here is a picture I took a while back. The train is a LionChief+ Hudson pulling Menards freight cars. I might have a problem, I can't stop buying their cars.20180505_124529

Have a care my friend.I told my self"I will get this one boxcar and thats it"To day I have 4 containers full of o gauge freight cars.And lord help you if you go to a train show.People will start giving out deals.And the next thing you know your carrying more trains to your car.BTW welcome given enough time you will be nice and numb.

Hello John, welcome aboard, you have joined up with a great bunch of knowledgeable people and a great bunch of guys and gals.  As for me, I live in the arm-pit of Texas, far West Texas.  I don't know of any O gauge guys here in town but that's ok, I can live with it.  I don't have a layout either, not yet anyway but one is coming in the hopefully not to distant future.  I don't have a large collection either, I have a few postwar pieces and I like to run them when I set up a loop on my wife's Dept 56 display and that is when I run them.  I like to see the older stuff run as it reminds me of my childhood laying on my grandmothers living room floor with my Uncle and literally running the wheels off of his Marx SF F-3's or whatever they were, we ran the living daylights out of them.  Those were the days.  That is what got me interested in O gauge 3 rail.  My dad always bought me HO but deep down I really wanted a Lionel train set.  This was back in the early 50's.  So welcome aboard and have fun.

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