Why Do You Collect The Trains You Do?

[Ucwepn]

Well you probably know who I am if you're here, I probably hassled you enough that you finally came to have a look hehe. My first experience with these types of trains would have been around 2002 when my eldest son thehsvdude was 2 years old and we had a modest Thomas layout mounted on a wooden board. He had around 6-7 engines including magic rail talking thomas and an angry thomas. We would let him play under supervision but they still tended to be handled quite roughly at times until he eventually lost interest and the layout was in disrepair (I had screwed the tracks to the baseboard and many were cracked and or coming apart). He finally lost interest and moved onto the next big thing which I believe was starwars.

I still have all of the locos from our 2002 collection, In around 2011 I picked up a tomica world set for $30 or so and I dusted off all the old Thomas trains and it has grown from there! I collect the trains I do because I enjoy making videos of them and customizing them to be much more than what they originally were. This is a great train system with an ease of accessibility unmatched by any other.