This past December, 2013, I took my daughter, Autumn to work with me, as school was out for the holidays. She decided lunch should be spent at Wendy's and she got her usual chicken strips. Along with her kids meal came a toy. It was a plastic windup "Toys R Us" train (I found a video of it here for you too see: http://youtu.be/YpFGyiDIp7c ).
This got Autumn and I talking about trains. And that got me to thinking about how cool it would be to have a train layout. Because I loved the whole railroading thing? Well, not really.
I'm not a huge train nut. I do love trains and have ridden many of them. A train trip from California to Pennsylvania was an event in my life that I'll never forget.
But I can't tell one train type from another. I don't know what track gauges are, I'm not into building models and I am terrible with wood (I took three pieces of wood and six nails and made a bookstand for my final project in high school woodshop.....sad).
But this little plastic train running around and around would come back to haunt me after the holidays.
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