BryanEW710
New Member
Just stumbled on this forum and thought I'd stick around 
I came to trains by way of my father, who collects mostly Lionel. I grew up using the term "train room" to identify the one large bedroom in our house that was taken up floor to ceiling to house his collection. Additionally, one half of our basement was taken up by the skeletal remains of a large layout he'd built years before I was born. I went to auctions, meets (lots of good memories of the meet at York, PA and getting to see CarRail, the relocated Madison Hardware, and the Lionel factory during the Kughn era). I have seen the following video on VHS more times than I've probably said my own name in my lifetime:
Anyway, now that I have little ones of my own, I've found myself passing on the hobby. Between my father and my father-in-law and I, we built an elevated railway in my son's room:
DSC_0005 by Bryan Wyatt, on Flickr
Fun fact: that set is the same set my father took out of his collection for my brothers and I to play with as kids.
Now that he's a couple years older, we go driving around town looking for rail crossings. Thankfully, Hamilton, OH sits on two relatively active lines, so we are seldom disappointed:
11-14-15_0012 by Bryan Wyatt, on Flickr
0809152003 by Bryan Wyatt, on Flickr
0809151939 by Bryan Wyatt, on Flickr
Anyway, just wanted to say "hello"
I came to trains by way of my father, who collects mostly Lionel. I grew up using the term "train room" to identify the one large bedroom in our house that was taken up floor to ceiling to house his collection. Additionally, one half of our basement was taken up by the skeletal remains of a large layout he'd built years before I was born. I went to auctions, meets (lots of good memories of the meet at York, PA and getting to see CarRail, the relocated Madison Hardware, and the Lionel factory during the Kughn era). I have seen the following video on VHS more times than I've probably said my own name in my lifetime:
Anyway, now that I have little ones of my own, I've found myself passing on the hobby. Between my father and my father-in-law and I, we built an elevated railway in my son's room:
DSC_0005 by Bryan Wyatt, on FlickrFun fact: that set is the same set my father took out of his collection for my brothers and I to play with as kids.
Now that he's a couple years older, we go driving around town looking for rail crossings. Thankfully, Hamilton, OH sits on two relatively active lines, so we are seldom disappointed:
Anyway, just wanted to say "hello"
