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       How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: djacobsen Date: January 26, 2013, 10:53 am
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       How did you get started in O/O27?
       When did you get your first train?
       What was your first train?
       Pictures please!
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       Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: djacobsen Date: January 26, 2013, 11:03 am
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       I'll start this off...
       For me, it all started off with a Marx Clockwork Steam Freight
       Set.
       I received my First Electric Train for Christmas in 1959,
       a Sears/Marx-Allstate O27 Steam Freight set.
       I've had HO's, AF-S scale & am currently operating
       Large Scale & N scale.  I've come full circle with the
       acquisition of an MPC/Lionel Blue Streak Freight Set.
       
       (this is who I become when I play with my trains,
       never liked my picture being taken, so the smile is inside.)
       My First Electric O27 Train
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       Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: Sam Mamish Date: February 6, 2013, 11:54 pm
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       Inherited a Lionel set early 50's, still have it and my dad's
       trains from the 20's. Still run.
       Sam
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       Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: johnny333 Date: March 17, 2013, 3:27 pm
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       Had a Lionel when I was little. When to HO for 40 years the last
       year started watching Polar Express. My hands and eyes are as
       good now. So ordered a Polar Express set. Also have gotten a
       Santa Fe set and Rock Island freight now. Have a small layout 2
       5x9 with a bridge of 4x4 making a U shape.
       GB Johnny333 65++ and still ticking.
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       Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: chessie41 Date: May 7, 2013, 9:41 pm
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       I got started in 0/027 in 2002 bought the lionel chessie system
       starter set i was in HO and N scale before that
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       Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: Conductor Date: May 8, 2013, 10:54 pm
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       Welcome to LTF Chessie!  Check in and post often,
       LTF
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       Re: How did you get started in O/O27?
       By: rogruth Date: October 10, 2014, 2:01 pm
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       Christmas, 1946. I always wanted a train set, any kind would do.
       I was born in 1934 in the upper Ohio Valley which was still in
       the depression.
       WW II ended the depression and the making of toy trains. My
       first train was the 1946 Lionel O-27 1400W set, the grey 221
       with the blue and silver passenger cars. My aunt bought it for
       me and it cost her three weeks pay. $30.00. I think an O gauge
       set was $10.00 more and beyond reach. I still use O-27 track.
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