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Saying goodbye to my first love locomotive

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#1

Nearly a year after I decided that I don’t need shelf queens collecting dust, and put my New Haven train set up for sale, I finally sold it. She is going to a great home where I can visit her should I get nostalgic; The Wilton Historical Society where the loco and cars will serve in Christmas Display service.

This was my very first Large Scale loco. Purchased in the local hobby shop and first run around a Christmas Tree. Pictures are dated 2002, but I have drawings from my earliest mods dated 2000, so I think it was Christmas 2000…

1224 was the sole locomotive when I first experimented outdoors…

She served faithfully on the North Slope and Southern (my 1:29 RR) for many years and last ran in regular service on a New Year’s special in 2014…

I had to open her up one last time. As part of the deal I donated the labor to return it to track power. I thought it would be simple, but cheapskate me removed the track pickup plugs from the switch board and hard wired my battery train line :frowning:

This was the final run on track power at the C.V.S.Ry.

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#2

Yea, it’s hard to part with them sometimes even though they just sit and collect dust.

I have a Bachmann 10 wheeler that came in a train set from COSTCO about 1998, my second engine, the first was of course The Shay about 1998.
Through the years the 10 wheeler has been rebuilt and or modified at least a half dozen times, scaled up to 1:20 with new cab etc. loads of details, BBT drive, AirWire, Phoenix, battery etc. Not to mention the rebuild after taking a 4 foot dive onto the concrete floor.
Hardly ever run it but to sell it, maybe not at least at this time.

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#3

I still have my first G scale loco: an LGB DSP&P red mogul. My wife purchased it for me sometime in the early 1980’s. It has been on display in my house for about 30 years. It has been run, but untouched with any mods.

#4

i would not be german, if my first largescale loco were something else than a Stainz.
a LGB 2040 (first Stainz after the howler) from the first (?) or second trainsets ever. in december it will be 54 or 55 years old.

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i’m refering to the Stainz on the right side of the pick.
the other Stainz in H0n is even older.

#5

Still have my first, an LGB Porter in 1999, good grief has it been 25 years?

#6

I bought the kids, and me, my first LGB Stainz powered starter set around 1990. When I was a kid my father was buying mostly used and some new American Flyer trains. That was in the 1950’s.

#7

Just think, if your first LGB had been a Colorado and Southern mogul you might have ended up as an Austrian Australian who finds reasons to use ümlauts surreptitiously, like me!:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
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#8

Korm - So far you hold the record! I sold off all of my HO years before getting into large scale to fund a Ham Radio hobby that I have since abandon.

If my Geep had been an antique like that Stainz, I probably would have kept it, but at this point it’s just an old dusty locomotive with lots of detail parts glued back on multiple times!

#9

I don’t get attached to any of my model RR items that I own, but I still have an LGB #2063 Rio Grande diesel that I purchase new when they came out from Watts Trains. It’s new in the box, but I did put some power to it to see if it still runs, it does. I did buy and repaint another one to my RR name and added Rail Pro, I just couldn’t chop up my original and oldest purchase.

#10

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Not my first, that one is long gone. But possibly from the same production run. Tender lacks the whistle mine had. No worries, the Marx Girard station has a whistle and the original control button.

Regards, David Meashey

#11

that description fits my Stainz as well!

this conversation about “firsts” sent me thinking.
it is always the firsts, that stay in the memory. getting old, weak, slow-witted, grumpy… - but the firsts always stay in memory.
first toy figures made from plastic (!! in the '50ies), first H0 train, first H0 train blown up with fireworks, first belting (rightfully) received, first landing after a motorbike ride, first teeth lost in a fight, first scar, first girl xxxxxx (family forum) first car (beetle, what else?) first own horse, first horse broken in by myself, first boar (can still feel the taste on my tongue), first own adobe-house(hut) built, first wedding (no, that doesn’t count, thats not a first, but an once),
first child (no woman will ever understand the hardship for men of waiting without being able to do something/anything/a thing, save going crazy), first ‘homespun’ largescale railway car, first time some green boy asked me for the hand of one of my daughters (i still don’t beleive, that he was only intersted in her hand) - well, shutting off short my rant, but you get my gist?
three quarters of a century - and only one or two pages worth of memories worth to remember.
in a full, good life.
what are the leftovers from a dull life?

#12

My first loco still lives within the LSC community (sorta). I sold it to Cousin Matt (not really a cousin but same last name). He still runs it from time to time and I love seeing it on his videos.

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