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Growing Up With Trains
Bryan sent in his railroading memory to share:
I grew up in Mitchell County, NC, a couple of miles from the Clinchfield RR mainline. Every chance we got, my Dad would take us hiking on the railroad, mostly around the now-abandoned Yancey Railroad in Burnsville. I remember one Christmas getting an HO Scale GI Joe trainset from Tyco, complete with a GE 35 ton loco, flat car with two Sherman tanks, a gondola, tanker, and caboose. I still have the flat car, caboose, and the tanker and loco bodies. That same year, my brother got a Tyco set with a matching Conrail Geep and caboose, and a Rock Island boxcar. I still set giddy like a kid whenever I see the Conrail can-opener logo or the big black, blue and white.
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Hey Brian, isn’t it amazing what we remember of past layouts as a kid? I remember back in the 1960’s as a kid ordering an HO-scale layout from the Sears catalog and setting it up on a makeshift board on the floor. It was great, but don’t know what happened to it (or to my baseball cards, monster moldels, or my original 1962 NewYork Mets yearbook). The main thing is to keep what you have and don’t let go of it.