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I have a loop of track on the dining room table with a few buildings, vehicles, and Thanksgiving decorations. I'm running a short train with my new B6 pulling, and thinking of Thanksgivings in the '50s when we would go to my grandparents and, before dinner, my grandpa and I would run trains on his O-27 layout. Steam engine, freight cars, lighted caboose, smoke pellet aroma, and that air whistle in the tender. Those were the times that made me a model railroader for life.

I don't have the smoke pellet smell, and certainly the whistle isn't right, but I can still be nostalgic, and be thankful for those good times spent running trains with grandpa.

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How many here like me have old Christmas morning photos of us in our PJs proudly holding up our latest Lionel prize?

My earliest memories was that of my father removing the dining room table for four weeks and setting up a 072  loop for the pre war Hudson and Madison cars.

Over the years all the childhood trains have moved on however each one has been replaced with the current scale size counter part.

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