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You know, we always called each other good modellers. Like you said to, uh, somebody, "You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a good modeller. He's one of us." You understand? We were good modelers. Three-railers. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had 2-rail layouts. It didn't even matter that my mother was into 3-rail. To become a member of a 3-rail group you've got to be one hundred per cent 3-rail so they can trace all your relatives back to the pre-war Lionel stuff. See, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a 3-rail model railroad club. It means that no HO scalers can mess around with you. It also means you could mess around with anybody else in the hobby into other scales just as long as they aren't also a 3-railer. It's like a license to run trains as fast as you can, in an endless loop. It's a license to do anything with trains. As far as Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made. We would now have one of our own as a member.

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