No.

No, but wish I did. It would be 70 + years old.

Yes. While pictures exist of Christmas 1960 when I received it, I do not have any of them. Thanks to Adrian and our now closed LHS, it is in running condition.  

 

Sure do. My Lionel 682 set from 1954 is still running strong on my layout. This very moment it is sitting in the train shed getting routine maintenance. Thank goodness for the forum sponsors who sell the parts that allow me to keep it running.

I have my first Lionel set but my first electric was a 999 freight set sold many years ago to a poorer than us neighbor boy. Yes I have replaced it.

I do. Here is mine, a 682.

 

I still have mine considering I got it about 14 years ago. It was The World of Disney Set Lionel Produced.  Run it once to four times a year and it depends on when I can run it.

Yes.

 

2055 Hudson, and set, plus. Got a layout, 4X8, Christmas morning, 1955. On a table in a corner of the dining room. Oval, 1 passing siding, 2 spur tracks. Uncoupling tracks. Control panel. My father built it all (and some scale-ish buildings). He wasn't a "train guy", as such - but he liked all kinds of machinery.

 

I still have every bit of it, except the layout table itself. There is even a bit of 8mm footage of me running it, 1960 (I was 12, by then).

All I have left is my Lionel SRR F-3 AA set from 1954.

Still have mine - #2350 New Haven electric set from 1956. Also have all the Plasticville and Tootsietoy cars and trucks, along with the operating cars I got each Christmas for many years after. 

Yes.  I don't recall the exact year; but, I do have my Dad's hand written "inventory" and all of the items listed except for the track clips which I donated to a forum member earlier this year.

 

 

And they are all in their OB's except for the transformer.  Ran them last Christmas for the first time in 10+ years.

Yes, I do.  But no original boxes, as it was bought used without any, about 1951.  Number 2026 has been worked on at least four times over the years and runs well.

Does my Skaneateles wooden push train count?  If so.....YES!!!!

 

Then my Lionel Scout set.......YES!

 

Then my 2343 Santa Fe freight set.....YES!

 

Then my 623 Santa Fe switcher.....YES!

 

etc., etc., etc.....UNTIL..

 

Along about age 12 I ventured into HO.  For the most part, the answer to your question then becomes....No, all gone.  The HO trains just didn't seem worth hanging on to as I left for college.  The Varney diesel set, the Mantua Mikado kit I built, the Athearn Hi-F (a.k.a. rubber band) drive RDC's, the Globe Santa Fe F7's, etc., etc., etc....gone......with no regrets.  No wonder HO stands for How Ordinary!  (Kidding, of course....)

 

And, I still have Dad's one and only train set....a 366W Standard Gauge set.  He received it from his parents in the mid 1930's...when he was a 'kid' of about 27 years old!!!

 

Of course, the rest of these 70+ years is another story.....

 

 

my 1st 2025 and green pulmans

No, I sold it in 1959 so that I could buy some Athearn Blue Box stuff.

Yes, somewhere...

 

 

Eventually inherited the Lionel stuff that mysteriously disappeared one day while away at school. Oh well...I have since more than made-up for the loss.

Me too Terry. same 1st set.

Yes I do. !946 NYC 221 with the blue passenger cars. It still runs but delegated to display shelf. I still have all my childhood trains, my SF 2343 is my champ. I've been running it this month.

Never had one as a child, but I had a load of these:

 

 

 

 

No, but I remember a green sheet of plywood with a 1"x3" or 1"x4" border and 3 rail track on it that I had when I was 5 or 6. We moved a lot and I have no idea what happened to that or to the train?

Yes, I have our family's original Standard gauge set with an engine,#318E, and 3 passengers cars bought used by my Dad. Everything  we got was "used". Still runs. I have a Lionel 027  2018 I bought in 1956 to replace the Scout  1011 that I burned up. My nephew still has the Scout freight cars from the set which I gave them in 1957 when I was drafted. Still have the 6411 flatcar from the set, though.

Yes, a basic 027 set with a 2-6-4 steamer, no whistle, a Baby Ruth boxcar, a black gondola, and a caboose. I also have most of the train stuff that my parents bought me over the next few years, and most of it is in surprisingly good shape. 

Yes I do...I'm missing the original Lionel Steam engine/tender (Pennsylvania 2-4-0 with the "rock tumbler tender....would like to buy one btw,,,), but still have the 4X8 sheet.  Since then, (and with the help of this forum) I've greatly expanded my O gauge empire.  I bought a second 4X10 layout fully built this spring for me and the kids to run.

 

They like to run their "Kitty Kat" train (Chessie system diesels), I prefer my UPRR and Wisconsin Central....

 

I have my original 1951 set my father gave me......2035 with it's freight cars, 1033 transformer, track etc. And every car and motorized unit (Tie-jector, Gang Car), semaphores, every Plasticville building I had (though I no longer use them on the layout). As a tribute to my father, I have his original 4x6 plywood layout board in the center of my current layout. All my stuff sat in my attic and basement until 7 years ago, when I got back into trains (after a 40 year absence). I have added a considerable amount of stuff to my collection (Postwar and modern), but everything I had from my original trains, runs like a top.   Whether my modern command stuff will be running after that kind of time span, I highly doubt.

 

Roger

Yes, an American Flyer Reading Lines 300AC set plus AF handcar, and Ringling Bros. whistling billboard. And not only does it still run but soot covered and immersed in water at that time nearly 26 years ago, it survived the destruction of my home by a massive house fire. Only childhood memory saved from that catastrophe.

Lionel from 1956 & 1957. 

 

Yes, a Marx #15765 set:  NYC #490 0-4-0 (cracked pilot) w/slope-backed tender, red Pennsy gon, blue Erie log dump car (logs gone, alas!), white Pacemaker caboose, all with Type F trucks and plastic slant-fork couplers.  Some of the track, including the activation track for the dump car (without the trip) remain, and the transformer still works.  I run it every Christmas; got it the day AFTER Christmas 1964.  I was 7 months old.

Still have every piece even the transformer.

Just the engine from Christmas 1947.

 

 

Also do have a metal four door Pennsylvania box car #61100.

 

Ron

My first was an HO set when I was only three or four. My parents divorced and had money problems (and others) so my grandparents took me in. That HO set is long gone. My first O set, though, I still have. It was a hand-me-down from my uncle (who raised me most of my life) that he had received when he was a kid. It and my girlfriend's dad's train this past Christmas are what got me back into the hobby nine months ago.

Yes. My first train was an actual complete Lionel Display layout with scenery on a six by four foot board. It featured a Milwaukee Road GP-7, Lehigh Valley hopper, orange flat car carrying three sets of train trucks, work crane and DL&W work caboose. What amazes me to this day is how my father, an immigrant WW2 Displaced Person working as a machinist was able to- 1. Purchase this entire layout, 2.Get this layout up into a second floor Brooklyn railroad flat apartment, 3. Hide it in my Grandparents bedroom without any of us, my older brother and younger sister knowing. Santa Claus had to have helped!

The board and track and buildings stayed up for about three weeks. They are long gone. The train, although not being run any longer spent a couple of years being played with along with my toy soldiers eventually making its way into storage and then forgotten.

Twenty seven years ago, my wife bought me an inexpensive  Lionel train set on sale from her company. I went back to my Father's and found the engine and rolling stock which weren't in the best of shape. I purchased the Greenberg Lionel Repair Manual and was able to get the GP-7 running again and fixed up the rolling stock.

That was the start of my re-kindled love of Toy Trains which continues today!

 

Yup, I do.  After I get shelves up to put my trains on, I'll e able to take photos.

Yes, I have it displayed in an antique writing desk in my foyer.  I promised my mom that I would never sell it and won't.

 

Art

Sure do.  The locomotive sitting on "display" on our home layout is from the Lionel PRR Cannonball set, circa 1987 - my first train set.  The "chuff" sound is made courtesy of what is, effectively, a rock tumbler in the tender. 

 

-Dustin

No.  It was a #25000 Marx #999 set that was on the basement floor too close to a

water heater that broke while I was away working.  However, I have my brother's

similar and contemporary boxed #25249, #999 set that was up on a shelf when that happened. 

Never had a trainset but I still have my first HO scale loco from 1957....DaveB

Sure do.  A Marx Allstate set sold at Sears.  I got it for Christmas 1958 (I was 4).  My mother claimed that my dad and her father bought it for themselves.   I think she had their number.  

 

Here's old Sparky...

 

 

 

 

It came with a transformer, a bunch of Marx O34 track, and some accessories (non-electrical).  It had a lot of play value and many happy memories.

 

George

I have my Lionel 2065 Lionel Lines 4-6-4 hudson steamer freight set from 1956.  Great set and all still intact..... operating milk car, operating box car, operating log dump car ( which no longer works ) Sunoco 3 dome tank car, and Lionel Lines porthole caboose.

Great train set!!  As a kid it brought miles of smiles and still does!!

Yup, Marx/Allstate set from about 1956-58 time frame. It was originally my brother in laws, but became my first set.

 

Steve