Model Railways

I desperately wanted a model railway as a child. Unfortuneatly my parents didn't beleive it was a suitable present for a girl, (it was a long time ago). I got a doll and my nephew got a train set. When my daughters were small I made sure they had cars and trains as well as dolls, mainly because I would have preferred those to dolls.

This may sound strange being female but i have always wanted a model railway . Everyone thinks i am silly but it is something as long as i can remember.I would love to make all the scenery, buildings, mountains, bridges stations but i honestly dint think i will have one . Do you still have it and set it up .I would love to have it set up permanently.

I love the railroad. I never had a train set when I was a kid but my Great Uncle had model trains everywhere! He used to work on the railroad. Then he developed Alzheimer's and couldn't tell me stories anymore. When I worked as a personal care aid at a nursing home I discovered that one of the residents there had worked with my Great Uncle and I would listen to his stories about the railroad.

I never had one, but my brother did. It was a Lionel set that I would imagine is worth money now. I'm sure he still has it amongst his things somewhere. What I remember most about it is how we used to have marble races down the tracks. Shows what kind of a train buff I am!

Not as far as I remember. My 6 year old is mad for trains though, he must have loads of different types of sets, it's an advantage for Christmas and birthdays though, we've got a pretty big choice of sets which we can just add to!

I see that we have both trains and outhouses in common! Before they moved to Indiana in September of 1962, my grandparents, aunt (didn't move north, as she and my uncle were about to get a divorce), uncle, and cousins lived on a farm about a dozen miles from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Although they also had indoor plumbing, they also had an outhouse that everybody still put to good use. It was a fairly large outhouse with a long bench containing three holes of man, woman, and kid sizes with a long door that closed over the holes when they weren't in use, forming a bench, and we kids liked to use it for a playhouse/clubhouse. The grown-ups used to ask us how we could stand to stay in there for such a long time, as it, naturally, had an odor, but it never bothered us. For one thing, the odor wasn't that bad because it was one of those places where everything you did was dropped down into an area with no back so that it could be shoveled out and put onto the burnpile, and we "flushed" it, in the meantime, by covering it with lime. Anyway, we never ran any trains in there. However, back home, I had, among my toys, a wonderful Lionel train set. At three or four, I was unable to operate it without parental help. One evening, the last place I had used it was upstairs in my playroom, and I now wanted to play with it in the living room downstairs. My folks arranged to work different shifts so that at least one of them would be home with me at all times, and my dad's turn was in the evening. We had been watching TV when I suddenly got in the mood to play with my train set, so I asked my dad to come upstairs and help me to bring it down. He told me to wait until the program that he was currently watching had ended--but I wanted something more immediate, so I decided to get the train set down to the main floor all by myself. Since I had been instructed to always hold onto the banister when going up and down the stairs, I couldn't very well carry the train set easily, so I decided to throw it down the stairs. Unfortunately, that made the train unable to operate, so my railroading days (at least, with my Lionel train set) were over. We still have the train somewhere in some box, but I couldn't tell you where at the moment. I bet--even with its imperfections from being thrown downstairs--that it would be worth a mint these days. The question is: Should I pay for repairs and keep the train set for my own fun or should I sell it and buy another train set when I'm able to afford one? If it means several thousand much-needed dollars now, I would probably sell it and buy a new one when I was more financially able to. But, first, I've got to find it! LOL

Well i never had one, though how i wish i would get one!

I had one when I was a kid. Dad did it with me. I had so much fun playing with it with him. And, as an artist since 2 years old, I loved painting lakes and making trees, instead of buying them. It was set up inside the garage.

I have a set I never was able to set up never had room, or had family that would not respect it. So it sits in a box. I sneak down to the basement about 2-3 times a year.. take them cars and engines out to this cannoball set drool over them... wipe my drool.. then out them back into the box. :) (not literally drooling ;) ) .. So that is as close to model railroading I got. I love drawing train pictures though.

I have entire room dedicted to O gauge trains. Most of them are new, but I have a few pieces I've collected from the 1950's that are Lionel classics.

My father and grandfather always used to have large displays with multiple trains running. I remember one year father got this neat passenger car that lit up and silhouettes of people showed up. He was so excited. My garndfather carved a lot of his display,he was very artistic. it sounds like you had a great display

Whrn I was younger I got an InterCity 125 trainset, unfortunbately i was far too young to appreciate it an it got broken, but ever since I've always wanted to get a new one. Now my son is 6 I think i might set up a track in the attic.

No, I and my sisters never had one, but I do have a trainset now, we keep it under the setee for when my grandson comes to stay.

Yes I have a HO Marklin M track model railway with heaps of track. I bought it in the seventies and I am in the process to put it back together.

I have one, in HO scale, that I'm building. I buy a used train set from Frateschi (brazilian manufacturer) and get the old train that my father bought in middle of 60's, it's still working :) I get one room of my house to put the table of the model.