What was your First O guage engine?

Trains were handed down in my family. Being the youngest of 3 brothers, my turn came about 1952 . I received a prewar 264E Red Comet, 3 passenger cars, five  600 series freight cars and a 675 steam engine equipped with a box coupler on the tender. The coupler modification was a Madison hardware modification.

 

The originals are long gone but I have replacements acquired at York.

A Lionel 2026 2-6-2, 1949 model.  I still keep it running.  It's had a gear replaced, one wheel rim reattached and the smoke unit rebuilt. 

 

Year was 1950, enginne 2344

It was a Lionel freight set, circa 1952. I was too young to really appreciate it. Came with loco, gondola, tank car, milk car, caboose. Price on the box (which I still have) was $49.95. That was probably a week's salary for my dad back then. Also have a KW that he bought. It's seen some tough times, being run off the end of the "platform", but still runs. My oldest son has it now. Some fond memories there. Merry Christmas, Ron

Mine was lionel chessie system train set bought new in 2002  when i got into O gauge i was in HO and N scale before that. Here is a pic of the engine in my set i have run this engine alot for a starter set engine only thing i have  done was replace traction tires

My first set was  a 671 Turbine ( Pennsylvania) and a ZW transformer in '49 or '50.

Both are still running in good condition.

My "first" locomotive was my Dad's old Marx 999.  I was about 6 when I found the set stored in a closet.   My dad and uncle built a small layout on a 4 x 4 sheet of plywood.

 

The first locomotive that I actually claimed ownership to was a Lionel 8030 Illinois Central GP-9.  My family went together to get me the Cross Country Express set for Christmas when I was 10.  I still have the loco and all of the cars.

 

Tom 

Lionel 675

Mine was a 726 Berkshire given to my father from my uncle because his son did not want it anymore and the rest became train history I have been hooked on trains since then back in 1952..............Paul

This is mime 

Well, with 300,000 Marx sets reported as produced a year in their heyday, maybe it

is not unusual that mine is the third Marx #999 set to be listed here, not sure how old I was when I got it..7 or 8 years old, for we moved after I was 8, about 1947-8. 

Mine was a bright red center-cab switcher that fell victim to a damp basement when I joined the Air Force.
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My first train was a Lionel, K-4 Pacific.  It ran fine until the train had a deer mount fall of the wall and land on the train.  Now it's just a shelf item, but still looks good.

Christmas, 1950.  I was one.

 

Dad bought me (him) a Lionel freight set headed by a 681 Turbine and 2671W 12 wheel tender.  This mighty pair pulled all of three freights: an operating boxcar, gondola with six wooden barrels and an illuminated caboose.  An RW and an oval of "O".

 

I still have the set.  The beginning.

 

 

Lionel, LV, 44 Tonner, the best train set in the neighborhood. All right, the best one in my basement, but it was cool!

Mid 70's.  Plastic body, no lights, no sound, no smoke.  Still runs!

 

 

That would have been the 1225 Polar Express back in 2008. My first train however was an American Flyer set back in 1960. Just took me a little while to come around...

 

Gilly

In 1962 dad brought home an American Flyer 3116 pre-war electric engine. We were in S gauge at the time so it sat on the shelf until a Marx set and a Lionel 624 C&O switcher wandered in.  

Early 1971. My fathers Lionel 2037. Still have it and it still runs great. Regardless of how many times I tried to make it go around an 0-27 curve at full throttle.

Mike R