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Terry:
We started in late April or early May 2020.

The idea was this would fill in for the inabilty to go to train meets. Right now the majority of posts are about Lionel trains from before 1925 because that's what the people I know collect. Hopefully as time goes by, more people with other interests will join.

I have a New One CNJ camelback imported by GHC on the table downstairs. It's oversize for HO and I was thinking I could widen the drivers and run it on the 00 layout, but I think it's too small. The same thing was imported in the 1950s by Polk's under the Aristocraft brand.

CNJRR:
The more Prewar the better, the older too.
There are not too many sites for Prewar info.

Someone started a site and a few of us got it going by adding pictures and fixes.
Then after a year the guy who started it went AWOL.
After some internet sleuthing we found his email and emailed him.
Still wouldn't answer the emails, someone found his phone number and got a hold of his sister.
She said he just lost interest and abandoned the site.
We did try to buy the site but he didn't want to sell, don't know why it was strange the way he just went MIA.
We all were making the site come alive.

I have little Prewar. I am mainly Postwar, I have very little new fangled electronic trains.
Most of mine are saves from the dumps or buy and fix it's.

starfire700:
This forum is dominantly Prewar Lionel, because that is the main interest of the early members. We have been trying to expand into postwar LL, American Flyer, Marx, Ives and others, but need the help of new members to make their contributions of information, experiences and pictures.

cndctr111:
Hello my name is Dino and I live in Rhode Island,
     I'm delighted to be labeled a "newbie" here because I just turned 60. I only started collecting Marx around 2014 or so. When I was young, my dad had an inexpensive Marx 400 set with about 6 tin litho cars and a few basic Plasticville structures. I don't ever recall seeing it in operation as a child, but my older brothers did. As a youngster I was an avid model builder and accumulated well over 100 by the time I became more interested in other things (driving cars & girls). I did set up that train set when I was 13 or so, it was a basic 4x8 layout, and I used the same plywood that my dad used the last time he set it up. The thing I remember was he let me do it all on my own, I guess he had enough faith in me.
     When he passed in 1993 I inherited that set. By that time I had been married 10 years, had a 4 year old daughter with a son on the way. Those trains remained boxed all through my first marriage, followed me for 10 years as a divorcee, and was still boxed in my second marriage, never assembled since the last time I put it together when I was 13 or so.
     Then one pivotal day I believe around 2014, my darling wife Lori asked that infamous question, "when are you going to get those trains out of those boxes and set that thing up?" Within days I did so, and set up a 4x8 layout similar to what I remembered when I was younger. Do you know that Marx 400 locomotive, though sluggish, ran on the first attempt after being boxed for over 40 years, with the original transformer!
    And then of course as we all know there was no going back.  I read about collecting and scenery and discovered Ebay! My old layout came down, I took over an entire room in my basement, started collecting and you know the rest.
     I learned to repair just about any issue with any Marx train through trial and error, YouTube and my bootleg copy of Repair Manual for Marx Trains by Dr. Julio Castillo.  I have slowed down a bit with the collections though, the one's I don't have are hard to get or very $$. But I have loved every minute of the work and play that I have put into this hobby and continue to do so. I'm so fortunate to have a wife that understands my passion for this hobby as well. As she always says "I always know where to find you."  The best part is she can never blame me, it was her fault that I got back into this hobby in the first place!

I'm blessed and honored to be part of this group,

Dino Ferro, Feb. 2021

early0electric:
Great to have you. My wife would have said "When are you going to get RID of those trains?" Just kidding!

Mike

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