Train Sets for Kids! Fun for all!
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Everybody loves a train set!
Do you remember your first train set? I certainly do. Mine was a wind-up Mickey Mouse train. It was a gift from Santa. We moved that year to Clemson, SC, and somehow the train got lost. I can remember being so upset that my dad drove me back to Ware Shoals to look for it. We never did find that little train.
When our son was about 3 years old, Santa brought him his first train. And last year at Christmastime, our grandson received his first train set, complete with a train table! What a marvelous invention - that train table!
Generations of children have enjoyed trains! Is it time for a new train at your house?
Or maybe this year is the year to build your own train table!
Holiday Train Set
Click the train for more details from Amazon
So pretty under the Christmas tree!!
One of the reviewers suggest adding the optional 9.6v battery pack. If you have small children who will be continuously running the train, I would think the battery pack would be a requirement. The little ones will adore this Christmas train!
One of the reviewers suggest adding the optional 9.6v battery pack. If you have small children who will be continuously running the train, I would think the battery pack would be a requirement. The little ones will adore this Christmas train!
Lionel Holiday Central G-Gauge, Battery Powered Ready to Run Train Set
Amazon Price: $300.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
The Earliest Train Sets
Information from Wikipedia about Toy Trains
Lionel's first train, the Electric Express, was not intended for sale to consumers, but rather, as a storefront display. Delivered in 1901, it ran on a brass track and was powered by a battery and a motor Cowen originally intended to use in an electric fan. Cowen hoped to use the public's fascination with railroads and electricity to capture the public's attention and direct it to the goods for sale. Members of the public started approaching store owners about buying the trains instead, prompting Lionel to begin making toy trains for the general public. Lionel ended up selling 12 examples of the Electric Express.[2]
Amazing model train layout
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Did you have a train when you were a child?
Share your memories here. Or just say hello! Thank you for your visit!
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EMangl
Oct 10, 2011 @ 4:01 pm | delete
- Sure i had one, but i quickly learned that i got it for christmas only that my father could play with it
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OhMe
May 23, 2011 @ 10:10 am | delete
- Back to this wonderful Trains lens to lensroll to my Palmetto Live Steamers Club.
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MediaMom
Apr 5, 2011 @ 11:13 pm | delete
- I don't think I had a train set, but I've loved helping my kids with their wooden tracks and train cars! Lots of fun!
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mytrainbrain
Feb 21, 2010 @ 10:50 pm | delete
- Great stuff Bev,
I think there is a train style for all personality types like you mentioned here. I have never met anyone that didn't like some sort of train whether it was fast, historical, or even Thomas.
Thanks,
Max
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Millertime
Dec 7, 2009 @ 8:56 pm | delete
- Brings back memories of my train set when I was a kid. There's just something fascinating about trains... Nice lens!
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JenOfChicago
Nov 30, 2009 @ 12:48 pm | delete
- I want to get a train set this year@
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BevsPaper
Nov 29, 2009 @ 3:48 pm | delete
- When my second daughter was born and I called to tell my oldest daughter that she had a new little sister (she was 3 at the time), she was terribly upset. "Noooo!" she cried. "Take her back, I want a baby brother!". As the conversation went from bad to worse...I discovered she wanted a brother because they play with trains. So, Daddy went right out and bought her a toy train so that she would love her little sister.
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Joan4
Nov 29, 2009 @ 4:01 pm | delete
- Oh Bev! What a precious story! Thank you!
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mshomeec
Nov 29, 2009 @ 8:46 am | delete
- The full model videos are delightful! I don't recall having a train as a child, but certainly enjoy a real train trip! This is a good reminder for a special gift...thanks!
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Marelisa Jul 29, 2009 @ 4:48 pm | delete
- Hi Joan: You're right, everyone loves a train set. I have one I put under my Christmas tree every year. :-)
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blue22d
Mar 3, 2009 @ 2:17 pm | delete
- I love trains, models and real ones. This has been a fun lens. Five stars and a lensroll my lens: Things Loved.
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ratso
Dec 16, 2008 @ 10:21 am | delete
- I love your lens !! 5*
and welcome to The Train Lovers group.
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kenny478@yahoo.com
Mar 11, 2010 @ 9:08 am | delete
- looking for a little train set that vibrated and the trains ran wround the track! It was like the electric football games but this was two little sets of trains! I have searched everywhere and cant find the set! A guy on e-bay had the trains but not the platform that they ran on! HELP! from early sixties!
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Evelyn_Saenz
Nov 15, 2008 @ 4:08 pm | delete
- Cowen's idea certainly captured my children's attention. Trains are fascinating.
Lensrolled to Trains: a Christmas Gift of Time.
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Joan4
Nov 14, 2008 @ 8:46 am | in reply to AndyPo | delete
- That sounds fabulous, Andy! Every kid's dream, huh? What great parents !!!
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AndyPo
Nov 14, 2008 @ 8:21 am | delete
- Great lens. I built a rather splendid train set as a child: Rather than move house my parents built a new bigger bedroom for me on top of the garage and before the roof was put on a huge board, too big to go through a door, was lowered in and attached to the walls, taking up almost half of the room. I installed my train set on the huge board, complete with landscape, tree and animals etc.
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Evelyn_Saenz
Nov 5, 2008 @ 11:11 am | delete
- Great lens!
I remember the first train set my sister and I received for Christmas. It wound up and had smoke come out of the smoke stack.
Lensrolled to Trains Go By.
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sjones81
Sep 18, 2008 @ 3:05 am | delete
- Great lens - particularly enjoyed the videos you posted - the attention to detail in the trainsets is unbelievable. The books you've recommended also look interesting - I'll have to check them out. I've just started a new Toy Model Trains blog which I intend to update regularly - you might want to check it out if you get a chance.
Many thanks,
Steve
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SewWithSarah
Aug 29, 2008 @ 8:43 pm | delete
- Great lens! Our 4 year old grandson LOVES trains - Thomas the Tank Engine books, DVD and on TV --- when he's playing he sets up all the little quadruplet babies' chairs in a row so they can be part of the train and he is the "train driver". Love the lens.
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Laura
Aug 24, 2008 @ 10:35 am | delete
- My son loved Thomas the Tank Engine when he was younger - I used to watch the show with him and his many videos. Love this lens for reminding me of this time we used to share.
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OhMe
Aug 23, 2008 @ 5:09 pm | delete
- Great train lens. That is the first time I heard about your Mickey Mouse Train. So sad. 5*
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