Were you running your trains in 1967?

Great pictures......

I have a video that shows train layouts 1958-1963......starting at around 2:10 in the video....

Peter

The closest I came to trains in 1967 was having Friday 10 cent drafts at the Boxcar after class at Cornell.😉

I was age minus 2.  I guess the answer is no? However by 1977 I was running trains and never stopped.

I was a Captain with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam at the time. Trains were just about the furthest thing from my mind at that point.

Yes, for several years by 1967.

@Putnam Division posted:

Great pictures......

I have a video that shows train layouts 1958-1963......starting at around 2:10 in the video....

Peter

Neat, you had Super O track. I also see the "hobo on freight car" in the video. Thanks for sharing.

Jeff

HO on the dining room table.

I was 34 years away from getting interested in trains in 67.

Steve

In 1967 I was not running my trains. They were packed away until 1969. On Thanksgiving day (1969) my Mother-in-law suggested that I use my wife's old bed room to set them up. They stayed there until we moved into our new home in 1971.

@jim sutter posted:

In 1967 I was not running my trains. They were packed away until 1969. On Thanksgiving day (1969) my Mother-in-law suggested that I use my wife's old bed room to set them up. They stayed there until we moved into our new home in 1971.

Sounds like you had a really nice mother-in-law.

Jeff

1967 ?, my Lionels had been traded in for HO stuff,  another mistake,  lol.

I was 16 that year and living and working summers on my own 200 miles from home in lake George, NY. That summer my Dad assumed that I no longer needed toys and sold my trains.

The rest of the year I was in High School and had curves, other than train curves, on my mind.

I did not get back into trains until 1983

Yes in 1967, I had an American Flyer set that got new two years earlier.  I'd set it up in the living room with the trestles as it was a figure eight design.   

Spent many an hour with it until one day that year Dad said it was time to put it away and focus on other things.     

Still have the set, and I have yet to run it since that day.

Yes, I was only 3, but the board was assembled and stored where it could be gotten out for me.  The train was kept in the closet in its box.  I still run that set (Marx) at least once/year.

No, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at the time.

Pete

No, I graduated high school that year and was too old to play with trains.

You bet.  9 years old.  Small oval and only one good locomotive (Lionel, #2037).  I had already disassembled a couple others (Marx) to see how they worked.

I caught it bad.  My friends called it "Choo-Choo's on the Brain".  To this day they still do.

BTW -- A very special and heart-felt thank you to those who were in the service in 1967 with your minds necessarily light-years away from your trains.  As a impressionable nine year-old, at the time, I saw every evening on the TV news what you were headed into.  Then and now, we here, and your country, owe you more than we can ever repay.

Mike

No.

I did trains around Christmas tree from 1953 to about 1961, on a 4 by 8 foot trestled layout (my father built for me) from 1961 to 1964, stopped trains at age 13 until I got married in 1978, again did trains around tree from 1978 to 1988 when we had kids, built layout on ping pong table in basement from 1988 until 1991, built bigger basement layout and then current abd biggest layout in 1995.

Last and current layout is O Gauge; all layouts before that were 027. Arnold

Pic posted before. Me & Grandpop Christmas 1967. Not my set then, but I inherited it and it's mine now.

By 1967, my childhood Lionel trains (Santa Fe ABA diesel 2207W set and small Hudson steam engine on a 4'-by-8' table) had been given away about ten years before, after which I dabbled in HO for about a year, and later on for a short while with my son. I was out of the model train hobby for 39 years. What I do now is like a second childhood. Probably a good thing at my age.

MELGAR

@Allan Miller posted:

I was a Captain with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam at the time. Trains were just about the furthest thing from my mind at that point.

Allan thank you for your service and glad you made it back home.  I was there '65 - '66.

I wasn't running trains then, but often begged my dad to fix the Lionel 2026 Engine he had as a kid. Fast forward 54 years, I had the 2026 rebuilt this spring and it is finally running the rails again! All on the original track, rebuilt 1033 transformer and the water tower, tower light and crossing bell all working!

In 1967 my childhood Lionel's were boxed up. We set up Märklin HO at Christmastime on the floor of our big formal dining room. Dad was bringing home suitcases full of Märklin from business trips to the NE US and Europe. It would be 1973 before I built a permanent basement layout for my Postwar Lionel trains.

@wild mary posted:

Allan thank you for your service and glad you made it back home.  I was there '65 - '66.

Allan and Nick,

Thanks you for your service during this period.

In 1967 I was an Ensign USN on a ship stationed on the North Search and Rescue station (NSAR) located just a few miles off the coast of North Vietnam.  Our helicopter crew rescued nine air crews that were shot down that managed to get their "feet wet" before ejecting during that deployment.  Despite extensive effort and exceptional heroism of the helo crews, my ship wasn't able to rescue any pilots that ejected inland over North Vietnam.  

1967 was an extraordinarily stressful year for me and my shipmates.  I completed 3 more Vietnam deployments during subsequent years including one in-country as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy.  Trains were not on my mind.

NH Joe

Yes, I was running trains in 1967. Every Christmas my brother and sister would set up the Lionel train a couple weeks before. These are some of the best memories of my childhood. Still have my original 027 set in like new condition in the set box. My folks purchased for $19.99 in 1961.

By 1967 had moved away from trains and was into slot cars. Had a four lane HO Aurora setup with my brother. We had endless fun with friends spending hours racing our cars. Going back in time had an American Flyer set from 1958 - 1960 traded in;  From 1960 thru 1963 Lionel GP 9 Northern Pacific with Super O track which was given away; HO 1964 - 1967, then sold. From 1968 thru 1969 N Gauge, then sold. Returned to O gauge trains in 2008 and have not looked back.

@Allan Miller posted:

I was a Captain with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam at the time. Trains were just about the furthest thing from my mind at that point.

@wild mary posted:

Allan thank you for your service and glad you made it back home.  I was there '65 - '66.

@Norton posted:

No, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at the time.

Pete

@New Haven Joe posted:

Allan and Nick,

Thanks you for your service during this period.

In 1967 I was an Ensign USN on a ship stationed on the North Search and Rescue station (NSAR) located just a few miles off the coast of North Vietnam.  Our helicopter crew rescued nine air crews that were shot down that managed to get their "feet wet" before ejecting during that deployment.  Despite extensive effort and exceptional heroism of the helo crews, my ship wasn't able to rescue any pilots that ejected inland over North Vietnam.  

1967 was an extraordinarily stressful year for me and my shipmates.  I completed 3 more Vietnam deployments during subsequent years including one in-country as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy.  Trains were not on my mind.

NH Joe

Thank you for your service, Gents!

Peter

Mowingman, I did. My Mother in law was fantastic.

Yes between going to college and building UH-1D's at Bell

As mentioned above, the Vietnam War was foremost in our minds back in 1967.  As with the analogy of falling dominoes, my life, where I live and where I work was directly affected by that conflict. Trains came back into my consciousness 28 years later.

I was about 26 years away from playing with trains.

No, was in the Navy.

My parents hadn’t even met yet.  That makes my brain hurt.

Sure was!  I was 8 years old and had a loop on the attic floor.

I was 14 then. My mom gave my Lionel trains (2055 freight set, and a General boxed western set with  super O track and two manual switches, O gage track, a styrofoam tunnel and a ZW and plasticville structures)  to a family that had four boys. She accurately said you weren’t playing with them anymore. They left the one closet we had in that tiny NYC apartment. I happily  ended up playing with them again at them neighbors apartment on occasion in 1967. Though, I was preoccupied in 1967. I was busy learning to play the awful plaid stamps guitar I acquired. Looking for a cheap electric guitar. Never thought of trains again until 1980’s!

@Allan Miller posted:

I was a Captain with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam at the time. Trains were just about the furthest thing from my mind at that point.

Were you at TET in 68

@Allegheny posted:

Yes in 1967, I had an American Flyer set that got new two years earlier.  I'd set it up in the living room with the trestles as it was a figure eight design.   

Spent many an hour with it until one day that year Dad said it was time to put it away and focus on other things.     

Still have the set, and I have yet to run it since that day.

I also was running my American Flyer trains in 1967. They were displaced for 2 years by slot cars, but the trains came back.

I was 18 and in college. Besides school work, it was cars and girls for me.

Got back into trains around 1969, but still kept the cars and girls. Now I have more trains that I can count, am gradually selling off the cars, and still have women on my mind.

I was on an auto semi-hiatis in 1967, with Marx tinplate stored, and dabbling in HO, occasionally picking up Colorado roadnames rolling stock.  My prime interest then was cars, Chargers, Barracudas, and vintage (1930's) Chevrolets.