Hey Tom, you big city guys! Heck we didn't even have kindergarden. My
little town only had a handful of kids with trains, and only two of us
had 'train tables'! One Lionel guy and my meager AF set.
On the liability thing, I didn't eat any trains either but just to prove
what kids will do...I had a little cousin that lodged the top from a Bic
pen up his nose. It was there for a long time before trouble
developed. I believe SHS has a warning on the box regarding age--good
thing there's not a upper limit where they take our trains away as some
of us might be getting close!
Bob Werre, going home shortly to a meeting of the Houston S Gaugers and
hopefully starting a Pine Canyon building kit on Saturday!
>
>
> Ah, yes, the old liability issue. That is most certainly with us. I
> recall, however, that I first noticed Lionel trains when I was in
> kindergarten at Bancroft School in Minneapolis. Bobby Growley took me
> to his basement and showed me a layout, complete with milk platform
> and other operating accessories, the coveted Berkshire locomotive, and
> cannot recall what else. It was all too glorious. A year or two later,
> I became aware of American Flyer. Although I was quite young, I recall
> no inclination to eat the train cars or locomotives. As a practical
> matter, getting even a 6464 box car into the mouth, truncated as it
> was, seemed an impossible task. Besides mother had supper waiting at home.
>
> A few years later, heated arguments arose at school regarding Lionel
> vs. American Flyer. No one won the debates, but they sure were fun.
>
> Tom
>
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