Well, time for me to join this party!!
Heres one of the few pics I could find of just a small portion of my Grandfathers collection of Lionel trains and Train-abilia!! After not setting it up for over 30 years, my brother and I decided to get it out and set up a layout for my son to enjoy on Christmas 2007.
This collection has so many memories for my brother and I, as our Grandpa would take an entire month off over the Christmas season and set up the entire collection down in his basement for us kids to enjoy. He would make us all wait at the top of the stairs, peeking over the dutch door, and give the "all aboard" for us to come down, and come down we did!! We were (and still are) in awe of a lot of the pieces, from the little guys running the switchyard car, to the streamliner train partially seen in the picture, and the crossing gate that dinged and flashed when the train was coming!!
Our Grandpa was very special to us, and this collection is something that everybody in the family can agree on that his soul is in that set, and it comes to life through us when we see it run!!
Thanks for bringing up this thread, I'm sure a lot of memories were made the same way as ours!! Geof
