Who here as ever changed their mind about steam locomotives?

For the benefit of the uninitiated: 

However, I got these today instead: 

A man must have his priorities, after all. 

My first Lionel set had a steam engine,  and I grew up with streetcars running outside the family store,  so I was warped at an early age. 

Mitch 

No. Always steam was my focus. However, I saw virtually no steam growing up (twice, I recall), as the South dieselized early and many areas were essentially steamless by 1950. I was born in 1948 in Mobile on the Gulf Coast. Little steam around by the time I became aware of things. The L&N did run some steam into Mobile until 1954 so far as I know, but I didn't live close to any tracks so I wouldn't have seen it anyway.

Trains, Model Railroader, Lionel and American Flyer, a little Lobaugh, and Varney and Mantua and Tenshodo as well must be credited with nourishing my early RR interest in general and steam in particular. That stupid Lionel 700E NYC 5344 has cost me a fortune...I used to see photos in the 50's and was sure that I would never have one. Well, as a matter of fact...I don't have an actual 1937, but...

I've gone from favoring large steam locomotives to favoring small steam locomotives.

Rusty

colorado hirailer posted:

What the heck are Lorna Dunes (Doones?)? Like Indiana Dunes or Colorado's Great Sand Dunes?  Don't know what they are...do think a GG-1 is some kind of electric loco that never got to Pittsburgh, so how could it be a Pennsylvania RR loco? Coal and steel WAS the PA. RR.  I played around a station where Southern RR hoppers were dropped off by steamers. My first train set was steam outline.  Then l saw a test run of multi unit green SRR F's grinding a long freight up the creek bottom below, and the stores were full of Lionel warbonnets.  So l bought a Marx #21.  And then l rode the Colorado narrow gauge.  While the early E's and PA's "shore air purdy", l only want steam.

Lorna Doone is a golden, square-shaped shortbread cookie produced by Nabisco. Introduced in March 1912, it was possibly named after the main character in R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel, Lorna Doone, but no record exists as to the exact motivation behind the name. The original cookie recipe came from the Malloy’s. Wikipedia

Strummer posted:

Dan Padova posted:

 Nobody doesn't like Lorna Dunes.....LOL

...I thought that was "Sara Lee"... 

Mark in Oregon

You're correct.  Got my TV ads screwed up.....LOL