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So, out of no where my Dad buys a condo, and he's selling his house of 49 years. He's in his 80's, and it's time.

He told me, everything in the attic is going to be tossed, so grab what I want. I knew of only one thing......His Trains!!!

I've always known about them, but never really saw them. He had them between age 5-10. I believe the trains are pre-war, so late 30's probably.

Couldn't wait to go thru them. They were wrapped in plastic, and news paper, from 1963. The plastic turned to dust as I touched it. I was hoping for good shape as the conditions aren't to friendly in the attic.

Haha, MINT!!! How does a kid keep his toys in such great shape for over 70 years!! Awesome. He had Grand Central Station, all tracks and power station too!! I'm going to display them with pride. :)

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Bocc69 said:
So, out of no where my Dad buys a condo, and he's selling his house of 49 years. He's in his 80's, and it's time.

He told me, everything in the attic is going to be tossed, so grab what I want. I knew of only one thing......His Trains!!!

I've always known about them, but never really saw them. He had them between age 5-10. I believe the trains are pre-war, so late 30's probably.

Couldn't wait to go thru them. They were wrapped in plastic, and news paper, from 1963. The plastic turned to dust as I touched it. I was hoping for good shape as the conditions aren't to friendly in the attic.

Haha, MINT!!! How does a kid keep his toys in such great shape for over 70 years!! Awesome. He had Grand Central Station, all tracks and power station too!! I'm going to display them with pride. :)

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Oh, wow! I was a total 'HO' scale nerd! That's so cool, Man!
 
Awesome! Be sure and post up some follow up photos of your display when you get it set up.

The only thing I asked from my Mom and Dad when the time came was their vinyl albums. I now have them. Some from the 50s.
 
Boc, that's way cool ! As far back as I can remember my dad had HO trains. The train board was a 4x8 sheet of drywall on a frame with 3 levels. Fast forward when all the kids had moved out, he turned the finished basement in the house in MD into a huge train board. He made one track run the entire length of the basement, made the turn and ran the width, then ran behind the bar, under the bar, a bridge to cross the bar opening and then back to the train board. It was 180 foot run.

I have a shadow box full of his trains in my game room. I did N gauge train for about 10 years.
 
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WOW HUGE SCORE MAN!!! gorgeous train! --
My great Uncle was a Lionel repair man in his retirement -- he collected and repaired and flipped (hhmmm interesting) trains and train STUFF for decades--very skilled at the repairs people sent stuff from all over the country for him to repair----in a time BEFORE the internet!!! ----
His basement was a HUGE train set--- with faux walls and tunnels and the trains ran ALL AROUND the entire basement --- it was an amazing wonderland --- sadly he is long gone as are the trains.......thanks guys for the reminder of Uncle Ed, the walk down memory lane and the good times had. :)
 
I gave away all my HO stuff. I have only one engine left - a Baldwin Bowker 2-4-0 that Mom and I bought many years ago by clipping out an ad in a catalog and mailing in a money order. It sits on a small piece of track.

In this photo is my great grandfather's WWI bugle, a Southern Pacific Tin Railroad Cup, (containing an eye bolt Dad taught me to make from scratch) a metal model of a 1969 Dodge Charger I built as a kid and other keepsakes in Mom's knick knack cabinet....

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The goblet is the first thing I ever bought my mom with money I saved as a kid. I was around 4 years old.
 
Robert Herndon said:
I gave away all my HO stuff. I have only one engine left - a Baldwin Bowker 2-4-0 that Mom and I bought many years ago by clipping out an ad in a catalog and mailing in a money order. It sits on a small piece of track.

In this photo is my great grandfather's WWI bugle, a Southern Pacific Tin Railroad Cup, (containing an eye bolt Dad taught me to make from scratch) a metal model of a 1969 Dodge Charger I built as a kid and other keepsakes in Mom's knick knack cabinet....

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The goblet is the first thing I ever bought my mom with money I saved as a kid. I was around 4 years old.
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Real cool Robert. Some neat stuff there. And, IMO, '69 was the BEST year for cars. Actually, I'm going to state that as fact, LOL!! :):)
 
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