This is what it is all about!

You are so right!!!!!!

Great father and son time.  Mom must be out Christmas shopping.  This looks much more fun.

Dan

Reminds me of my Grandson Cody.  When he was four months old he would sit in the middle of the old layout and watch the trains go by.  Never touched just watched.  We always let he handle what he wanted when he got older and then he would leave it alone.

Jim, your so right. Those photo's are priceless.

Thanks for posting, Alex

Smart Boy! Putting your nose down on the edge of the layout puts it in a whole new perspective. I know because I have ground foam under my nose to prove it! Great thread JD!

AGREED! What a great looking child. Must have been a wonderful day.  Cherish them, get on the floor and giggle with them, hug them and spend every second possible with that little boy. Its the greatest joy in life. Unfortunately those days are long gone for us.  Your life can change in an instant. Ours was just diagnosed with cancer. 

I spent some time with the gran kids and other tykes running Thomas this weekend. They loved it. When we moved to the main layout in he basement the first timer kids went crazy. I let the grand kids show them everything and run a few trains. As you said Jim, it's what it's all about. 

Priceless!!

I am sorry to hear about that mikemike.  I will pray that everything turns out ok.  

Your right because these days go by super fast!  I spend as much time as possible with them.  I am just lucky he enjoys trains so much so we can both enjoy them together.  Even though he is only 2, he is learning how to use the DCS and Legacy remotes and he has his favorite locomotives  The Legacy Pere Marquette 1225 is by far his favorite locomotive to watch and listen too.  

Nice looking son my friend....!!  You are so lucky to have family to enjoy!!

Alan

Priceless.

Joe

What a handsome young man! You guys are doing it right. What's that loco he's looking at in the second pic? That's not the 1225 but I like it.

Thanks

Its a MTH 2-8-0 that I repainted as a Pere Marquette version.  No the road number is not correct for the PM but it was easier to do it this way then to change the lighted number boards.

Amen to that!

--Greg

My great nephew was here for Thanksgiving.  He is nine years old.  I gave him the remote for the remote control Thomas and he had a blast running it on the layout as I ran my other Legacy engines.

Neal Jeter 

Amen, this is my grandson, he just loves Papa's trains!!

What a cute little boy! It will be fun to be around him this Christmas; he's at that magic age.

I had the same pleasure watching my grandkids watch the trains setup on the livingroom floor for Christmas. They like the ones that smoke!

Frank

My grandkids (2 girls age 4 & 6, boy, age 1) don't get to see my trains very often, but are always fascinated when they do.  The boy is already into trains - Thomas - and will be thrilled with the new Thomas set they are getting for Christmas (a little early though).  The 4 yr. old was intently watching my Reading Northern pulling its Madison passenger cars go by, which have silhouettes in the windows, and exclaimed "Papa, there's a woman texting on the train!"  

It's a different world these kids are growing up in!  

Here is my son Eric, who is now 31 years old. He used to love to sit on a clear spot on my old layout and watch trains run. He was about 2-1/2 yrs. old in this photo. In 2009 Eric, along with my younger son Matthew, helped me to build my new layout.

Cobrabob.

And as he got older we also shared my interest in Mustangs. His 1997 GT on the left and my 1977 Cobra II on the right. This was taken at Summit Racing's annual All Mustang Show in 2009.

Cobrabob.

Awesome pics Jim   That look makes all the work involved in this hobby worth it.  My son was into trains a little bit when he was that age but lost interest.  My grandchildren however think I rank right up there with Santa Claus when I bring them to the train club.

Don't mean to hijack the thread but this is for CobraBob

This is my sons 91 mustang  

My bonding toy with my son.

Here are two photos from 1950. In the top photo is my brother Bill and sister Barb. Bill was 2 and Barb was 4. This Lionel layout was built by our father in 1950 for my brother Bill as a Christmas present, trains too! It was built on two 4x8 foot sheets of plywood in an "L" shape. Eventually many more trains and track were added to the layout along with a ZW transformer. It was dismantled in 1963 when we moved to another home.

Cobrabob. 

Unfortunately all of my brother's Lionel trains are long gone, but luckily, I still have mine. He has said he wished that he would have never gotten rid of them all.

Blueline,

It looks like your son has a nice car there. I also have a 1988 Mustang convertible. It is in mint condition, no rust ever! It has a 5.0, 5 speed, 3.73 posi, new top, equal length headers, 17 inch Cobra R wheels, etc.

Cobrabob.