Celebrating 125 years of the Great Western Railway, this model railway exhibition was taking place at the cathedral yesterday. I remember my brother had a Hornby trainset as a kid and had it on a wooden base and began building up a whole little town around it with miniature trees, people, animals, houses etc. I wonder if kids still do that these days?
Actually, Hubby and Otterboy worked on an HO scale layout and an N-scale layout up until a few months ago when the 15-year-old outgrew it. Apparently, there are still many that build trains and layouts, as he got quite a lot of money for some of his stuff on trademe (ebay type of website).
ReplyDeleteFun! I went through the model train phase when I was little. Still remember the acrid smell of the smoke pellets in the toy locomotive.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling not as many kids play with toy trains. But I bet it's a fun hobby!
ReplyDeleteMy OH built a wonderful train set with scenery when the boys were young. I think he enjoyed it more than they did!
ReplyDeleteNice to hear that people fondly remember their model train days!
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