Remember when..........

Yep when I was a kid we had a big country house with a huge porch that went across the front and down the side of house.  My pals and I would get together with everyone's trains and set them up.  Loved to lay on the floor and watch them eye to eye.

Here's that noisy CP Diesel beautiful train

As a young kid growing up in Brooklyn, NY, I always had my layout on the floor, from linoleum central to my last layout that was on a 5' x 9'  3/4" plywood board.  It was a layout with the track all around the board and a switched line going down the center. My operating accessories were the cattle car, milk car, and sawmill. Lighting was a beacon, a few grade crossing and block signals.  Scenery was grass paper and a tunnel that I constructed from wire screen , newspaper and plaster of paris. Engines were 2047 Hudson and 736 Bershire with an assortment of long (O gauge) and short (027) box cars. Power was a 1033 transformer and eventually dad purchased a ZW. I remember that layout well and all my firends layouts were also on the floor.

Remember? This was just a couple of years ago before I started my layout.

Does it count as a "layout" if I had to pick up and put away the trains, track and transformer when I was finished playing?  

What, me worry?

Gentlemen,

   Unfortunately our trains were restricted to a Christmas Time Toy.  The Trains were a special very expensive Toy, in our family.  In the beginning all my Trains were Tin Plate, set up on a platform, they ran around the Christmas Tree, not on the floor.

Because of this care taken with our O GaugeTrains, they have been passed down thru the family for generations.  I now have my own Train Room where our Trains are up all the time, each time one starts I know my Grandpa is watching from God's great layout in the sky.  He told me I would live to see our trains run by remote control, his engineering foresight has come true.

PCRR/Dave