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       Montage of my trains with original music
       By: Rockerbob Date: May 14, 2018, 3:54 pm
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       Greetings and felicitations!
       I am a new member.  This is my first post.
       Circa 1966 my uncle gives me a old train set.  We played with it
       a lot as kids.  It has extras like the Log Loader and cattle
       car.  Some time between 1966 and 1972 my thing was HO slot cars.
       The train takes a back seat.  Family moved to Florida in 1972.
       The train was packed in boxes and moved with us.  They sat on a
       shelf in my father's closet until Oct 2017.  I was in Florida
       and my dad asked me if I wanted the train.  Duh?!
       The loco is # 238 and needed an E-Unit.  I stripped it down and
       cleaned everything.  The engine will pull many cars.  Whistle
       works after some electronics degreaser and using a small forceps
       to remove spider webs.  This is very little rust, which
       surprised me due to living in a humid climate for decades.
       I had a set for around the Christmas tree that I bought about
       2006.  I ran two loops this past Christmas.  Since I have spent
       too much money on trains and trains related stuff.  Before
       trains, guitars were my thing.  At one time I had 25 at the same
       time.  All top shelf and name brands.  Hard times made me sell
       off most of the guitars.  I kept 6.  The best 6.  The ones in
       the $5K range.  I can't hear anymore, or not very well, making
       my music hobby difficult- but I went nuts with the trains.
       I'm medium old and have taken early retirement due to Meniere's
       disease, the source of my hearing loss.  I can play with my
       trains every day if I want.
       So here's my 2 things: the 50 years of guitar and 3 rail I'm
       really mostly new to.
       Long damn intro to a video with music.  The music was written
       and recorded in my basement in 2001.  I'm playing with myself
       because I performed all the parts, for better or worse.  If you
       write songs you gotta write a train song.
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