Tomorrow is my son's birthday. Back in mid-December I picked up an NYC LionChief Plus GP20 for what I consider to be a great deal. I also picked him up a scale-sized caboose and an MTH operating dump car, both also NYC. (His great-great grandfather, grandfather, and grand uncle were all engineers on the NYC/Penn Central.) Aside from his Thomas and Percy LionChief sets and two post war operating cars that I've gotten him, these will be his first "real" locomotive and scale/scale-sized cars. A Lionel scale PS-2 hopper should arrive later this week.
He still has fun with his Thomas trains, but this past year he's shown more and more interest in my scale locomotives and cars. He loves the detail, things like opening hatches, and doors, etc. I brought him to the Amherst Railway Society show at the Big E for the first time and he had a blast. He picked out an MPC-era NYC transfer caboose. (It was a complete coincidence that it was NYC.) I have been sitting on the gifts for two months, excited to give them to him. They're all wrapped. I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve.
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Fun times ahead!
