As with others, too many and not /never enough! Fortunately, I started years ago with a photo/item description inventory. Have the first Lionel Scout set I received in 1956 and everything my father and I collected. As with others, it is more than a hobby, more than numbers and bragging rights, but memories and connections.
Too many LOL!
More than "enough," so the collection has been sufficient, for a couple of years, now, that I have been able to gift these boys (they hug the gift and jump and do a little cheer each time) with a steady stream of trains, track, and transformers so they can gradually establish their own little RR empire, and still have enough to operate my layout, all ten loops, of course. The boys go baaazzzonkers, every time, just like they did on their visit to FAO NYC to see the Lionel layout their Uncle Frank worked on. To me, having a goodly number of trains means I can give some away to feel the joy these boys, and a couple other cousins, experience when presented with them. There are a number of ways I enjoy our hobby and the number of trains I possess.
FrankM.
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Very nice input to this topic. The kids are very cute. Thanks for the picture.
Bob C.
Started by my dad in 1940 and he added until 1956,nothing has been sold,now it is Legacy and DCS in its own building fully alarmed.
Too big. Off the top of my head, I cannot honestly say how many of any particular item I have. Items have arrived that I had forgotten that I had pre-ordered. There are items stored in boxes "somewhere" but I have no clue where.
I don't know.
86TA355SR posted:Jim 1939 posted:A few or many it's not a question I would answer online.
Agreed. I'll keep it to myself
Good choice Aaron!
Although my O gauge collection has shrunk to almost nothing I am still in O, but I will never tell. But it is cool.
One is too many and a million is not enough............ Trains every day and every way!
Pretty fricken big.
More than I need but not as much as most of you guys have. With everything my investment is still under 10K. And you know what? - with my new layout which will be less jammed, packed, New Jersey, crowded I will have to cull the herd! After I get it set up I will have boxed rolling stock and accessories in storage. I don't know how I feel about that.
Over the past few years I’ve purged myself of most of my collection. The pieces that I have decided to keep, which is one Lionel VL locomotive and a set of freight and passenger cars to accompany it, give me more joy that the entire collection put together. I guess it’s because I am just concentrating on that one train instead of hundreds of other around me and I find that I’m still having the time of my life with it.
