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Yes many moons ago, long gone
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I got an A.C. Gilbert American Flyer when i was young. Great train - properly scaled and realistic with two-rail track. It circled the Christmas tree for years and years. About 20 years ago I realized that it was languishing in storage and sold it to a collector who had a large lay-out in his basement.
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Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
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Yep. A Lionel set in 1957. My younger brothers and I had a lot of fun with it. I still have it.
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Yep, mid 60's, A Lionel O gauge set with a "Missile car" Still have it.
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You ever get the [bleep] shocked out of you by putting your hands on the track, me neither
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.... no but my girlfriend in college did back in '73. She was intent when the featured twirler, gal from Waterbury Connecticut, and I and another gal did a hit of microdot. Other gal was a cheerleader. Next thing you know it was me and the three gals and some wicked weed and a bottle of Jim .... and Gilly was pulling the train and I was trying to keep up.
A few days later we all went home for Christmas and I banged out my HS gilfriend like a porn pro. College was a learning experience that freshman year. Trains are for choo choos ... that night I was the caboose.
Just sold my Cockaboose in November after 20 years.
Funny how that works.
What you think about, you do ... what you do, you become.
In a nation where anything goes ... eventually, everything will. We're almost there.
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.... no but my girlfriend in college did back in '73. She was intent when the featured twirler, gal from Waterbury Connecticut, and I and another gal did a hit of microdot. Other gal was a cheerleader. Next thing you know it was me and the three gals and some wicked weed and a bottle of Jim .... and Gilly was pulling the train and I was trying to keep up.
A few days later we all went home for Christmas and I banged out my HS gilfriend like a porn pro. College was a learning experience that freshman year. Trains are for choo choos ... that night I was the caboose.
Just sold my Cockaboose in November after 20 years.
Funny how that works. Rock out with hour cock out
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Yes, a Lionel, over 60 years ago. It got heavy use.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
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Gilbert's from his dad. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/RCYfN5C.jpg)
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I got an A.C.Gilbert train for Christmas in '58 or '59. I would still have it but for Hurricane Rita in 2005.
Imagine a corporate oligarchy so effective, so advanced and fine tuned that its citizens still call it a democracy.
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No but wish I did. Some of those HO sets with the full diorama set ups are really impressive.
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some of you fuggers sound like richie rich. i got an orange and a new filter for the iron lung.
My diploma is a DD214
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Nope....
Didnt want or ask for one.
Was more into GI Joe stuff, BB guns, pellet rifles, pellet pistols, and model planes, tanks, and ships.
All of them could be combined for the violent scenario play I liked or for killing birds, squirrels, or shooting practice.
But I did get a full blown train set for the girls when they was young.
( really for me)
They enjoyed it.
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No but wish I did. Some of those HO sets with the full diorama set ups are really impressive. It's basically impossible to keep HO track together unless you nail it to a board.
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