Model trains fascinate all of us sometime in our lives. Some of us never out grow the special feeling we get when we watch them. I was first initiated into trains when I was a little girl. My older brother has a Lionel set that we put around the Christmas tree every year. We would play for hours with the train. When I was around ten the train was packed away and although my brother still has it, he doesn’t have the room to put it on display.
Fortunately for me, my husband is into model trains in a big way. He runs HO gauge which is half the size of Lionel. His layout is on a table sixteen feet long and five and half feet wide. It has two main tracks plus a yard (moving trains on and off the main track) and other sidings. Tunnels, mountains and other landscape complete the table. He has a large number of engines with different road names and of course the cars that go with each engine. There are many different types of engines. There are steam and diesel, cab forward and regular, soundless or sound enhanced. The sound enhanced engines make all the sounds you would expect from a real engine.
There are many different model train sizes. The Garden train is G scale, Lionel is O scale, half of O is HO scale, half of HO is N scale and the smallest is Z scale. Depending on your situation and how much room you have, almost anyone can have a train layout. Now is the time to make those wishes come true. Visit your local hobby shop and buy the train of your dreams.
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