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GTRS Fiero

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Even better than big trains
« on: March 09, 2017, 10:35:33 pm »
Union Station emptied out, but I found this neat little place up in Hannibal:








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Re: I lost my thought. Don't look in here!
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2017, 11:19:30 pm »
I could get poor in there.
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Re: I lost my thought. Don't look in here!
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2017, 11:25:06 pm »
Some of the engines are $15K

I forget how many trains there were.  I think the owners got poor, which is why they charge to come see their toys.  It was really cool.  Everything is radio-controlled.

The train club here put on an exhibit at Oliver-Joseph (a car dealer).  What a blast!  It took 3 days for everyone to set up for a 1-day show, but only a day to take it down.
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Re: I lost my thought. Don't look in here!
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2017, 06:43:42 pm »
One of Mel's Uncles had a large collection.  They could travel from the basement all the way to the top floor of the house.  Passing through walls where the passages were decorated as tunnels.
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Re: I lost my thought. Don't look in here!
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2017, 10:18:15 pm »
I always wanted a train.  So my wife bought me a Polar Express kids' train.  Not exactly what I had in mind.
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Re: I lost my thought. Don't look in here!
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2017, 09:52:15 am »
I can't believe I still have my old Lionel set with oodles of track and the transformer still works.
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Re: I lost my thought. Don't look in here!
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2017, 10:04:48 am »
I picked up an old train, that had supposedly only been used a few times.  It sortof worked, but the connections in the track are poor, so it kept stopping, and the engine didn't sound good.  The track oval filled up a 4'x8' panel.  I dunno what happened to that train.  That was 10 or so years ago, and I've moved since then.
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