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I have been given some trains not many. I was just recently given a box of miscellaneous trains. One of them is a Lionel Steam engine and tender with 3 cars and some tubular track. I need to clean it up a bit and figure out if I can get it to run with my legacy remote. Since my layout is all command control. It also includes some HO as well an assortment of parts from rolling stock to engine to track. I am not sure what I will do with that since that is not what I want to run. I also was given my father-in-laws trains he had after he passed away. Looks to be N Scale, I am thinking about building a coffee table to put that in, or something similar.
I've been give a couple from other train guys that wouldn't use them, but knew I wasn't picky and would at least try to clean them up and run them with my kids.
I have given and been given many train items.
One of the most memorable gifts that I ever gave, was to a close friend of my Mother.
Linda's Father Clyde was a machinist by trade, and owned a very successful shop, Clyde Loved OLD machinery, and had the space, skills and resources to save many old machines, including an H.K. Porter 0-4-0T. Clyde's little Porter was the first Steam Locomotive that I ever pulled the throttle on, unfortunately, that was at the final Steam Up( Clyde also had steam farm tractors, Donkeys and a Stanley Steamer automobile) in Clyde's Honor after his passing.
The Bachmann Spectrum("G" Scale) Porter 0-4-0T Saddle Tank, was modeled after a Porter of the same class as Clyde's, just a few appliances located differently from Clyde's. Unfortunately, the Spectrum model has been long out of production, and is VERY Hard to find. Well by dumb Luck, I found TWO of them. It was a couple of years after Clyde's death, and a couple weeks before Christmas, I called Linda to say, I was in the neighborhood, and thought that I would stop by to visit. I had boxed and wrapped up the Porter with some track, transformer and a few cars(Clyde never had any cars). Linda didn't know really WHY, I was stopping by, and was surprised when I brought a Christmas Gift, when she opened the box, she instantly recognized her "Dad's Porter" and started crying. That was one of the most memorable moments in the hobby for me.
When my (now) Wife and I first started dating, I gave her and her kids a Lionel set for under their Christmas Tree, when her Dad first saw it, his reaction was "Fire Em' Up", so the first Christmas after we were married, I gave my Father-in-Law a set that I put together out of my collection. His eyes lit up when he unwrapped those trains. His family didn't have much money when he was a kid, and the only trains he had was a wind up set, that he had to share with five brothers.
I have given more trains to Family and Friends, than I can remember without really thinking about it.
Doug
Well as part of the Christmas Trains for Kids program we gave away some 50 sets or so on this site.
Bob c.
growing up in New Jersey as a kid I had a paper route. trash was always set out on the curb on Thursdays. obviously a favorite day to deliver papers. one morning sitting in an open box was a lionel steam set....nothing fancy ...2016 small steamer and 3 cars. started digging around found the 1033 transformer and what I thought at the time was enough track to circle the globe....it was summer so I wasn't in school, it took me all day to get them running....but when it did....35 years of collecting began!....I still have that set...nowadays I'm not rich by any means, but when I'm at a yard sale or a flea market and I see those lionel starter sets, I snap them up....I give them to kids who have that love of trains as I did.....so many years ago.
hello I was given my grandfather standard gauge trains it inc 2 392.e engines fright cars and 3 blue comet passengers cars I am starting to build my new layout now when I moved I haven't been able to rebuild till now
kevin
Gave a WBB Santa Fe Flyer set to my mom a few christmasses ago for around the tree. She had an old Tyco Santa Fe set when she was young so this kinda replaced that.
these 5 young people have been given a free train and we hope to give away more.
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