Well, it was definitely Marx. I think it was a 999 but frankly I do not remember for sure. it was a 2-4-2 though, at least 'til I damaged it by launching it up ramp-trackss to fly across the room. Ultimately it became a 0-4-0!
I love it!
I was a late bloomer. Got my from o-gauge train around 50 years old. It was an MTH Premier GP-60 Santa Fe with Protosound.
My first engine was also the Lionel Cannonball Express Set - complete with the plastic truss bridge and a (seemingly) big loop of tubular track. I got it from my grandfather in 1987 at age 5, and I still love the low-tech chuff sound produced by the wheel in the tender. I still have the whole set, though the box has certainly seen better days!
My daughter's first train set will be the pink William's girls' passenger set with the GG-1. I've already upgraded the GG-1 to proto-2 (Williams and MTH semi-scale GG-1 shells are conveniently identical and easy to swap), I'm installing LEDs in the passenger cars next, and plan to replace the silhouettes with strips featuring pictures of family members. Should be a good first set and a fun project!
-Dustin
Christmas, 1948 2025 Steam Engine, still running strong. I added a railsounds tender to have updated sounds. Looks good with my original Madison cars.
happy Holidays to all
About 2002 I got my brother in laws Marx 9625 Allstate set with the 666. Still have it. Runs great.
Steve
A Pennsy Flyer 4-4-2!
--Greg
I don't remember my first Lionel locomotive. I can remember all the ones I had but I can't remember which one was my first.
MPC DT&I Diesel Switcher.
Cesar
Mid 70's. Plastic body, no lights, no sound, no smoke. Still runs!
My first engine too. Mine also still runs.
About 1955, a Sakai set from Japan, still have them, still runs well.
Mine was the Lionel Quaker Oats Promotional Set X600. I think it was from 1962? My cousin and I both got one for Christmas. Looks like my grandparents ate allot of oatmeal that winter!!
A Lionel 520 set for Christmas 1957 at age 4 and still have it.
Not sure what a guage is, (gooahgee?)
Anyway, I started off right, Lionel 681 dad bought for me in 1951. Since I was born in 11/52, I wonder how he knew?
1998 - Lionel Alaska set. Been buying ever since, mainly Lionel Alaska items. Went in to postwar a few years ago. Alaska 614 - 681 Turbine & what I thought was Santa Fe 2343 for parts, but turned out to be 2333. The CW transformer went out last night, brought out the big - old ZW and had the ozone going with the 681 & whistle tonight around the tree. Popped in a repro smoke pill and had the smoke rolling.
The third one up from the bottom. Christmas 1938.
Wore out the armature bearings. Dad replaced them with "kumshawed" miniature ball bearings (IBM, a great place to work in WWII).
Wore out the tender trucks, replaced with homemade 6 wheeled ones.
Still runs.
The 2353 Santa Fe's from the 1954 catalog, received for Christmas 1954. Here they are on the layout, spliced by a 1990's "Water" B-unit. They are always on the layout, and run often.
I still have a Lionel engine only (black steam Pacific type that used pills inserted in the smoke stack) from my childhood days. Somehow lost track of the tender years ago.
However my first purchase was a MTH Railking Milwaukee Road Hiawatha from Jim's Train Shop in Homer City, PA. Think the price was $420.00 (Jim did you give me any discount)? No longer have this engine and every futher purchase was always 3 Rail scale.
Christmas,1949 a 2025.
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