>>9545134>my dad loved Lionel>I got my first train set for my 4th birthday>Lionel Santa Fe Super Chief>I kept the set in immaculate condition despite being a child>26 years later>I am now a father>I still have the set in the original box, along with an add-on dummy unit>the set is under my pinball machine, the same one my dad bought years before I was born, that I grew up playing in my parents' basement>my dad is still with me, in an urn on top of the pinball machineIt's been almost 3 years since he passed. The last time I played with trains was at his wake, on the same basement layout I grew up using, for the kids of one of my parents' neighbors.
Pic related: the Super Chief set(not mine)