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[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only thing missing is a little capitalist with a top hat you can tie to the rails.

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

They make Sir Topham Hat action figures

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

damn that train set is fire. It even got little windmills.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

There is one with a 720° spiral but is unrealisti

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My toddler likes to watch steam train compilations. No commentary or anything just videos of old trains usually at museums. I must be doing something right

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do they like those videos filmed from the conductor POV?

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No they mostly like the side view with lots of steam coming out

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah put them on a dose of cabride videos. Japan had cabride videos for almost every railway line in the country, as long as you search them in Japanese.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I watched one from Norway and one from Switzerland. Great videos

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your toddler has good taste

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It'll be like WTYP but even better and much less lib

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved my wooden trains when I was a kid, I think my parents still have them for when the grand kids come around. I remember staring wistfully through Thomas the Tank Engine catalogues at the cool playsets like the crane and locomotive shed. Then I graduated to Lego trains, those I still have in a box in my closet. Now I'm dreaming of having the space for an HO layout, I picked up a bunch of track, a couple locomotives, and some rolling stock at a thrift store a year ago since I couldn't let a find like that pass me by. Maybe once I have more time this summer I'll put together a small shelf switching layout, though I'll have to find a smaller locomotive and maybe some shorter rolling stock to make it work

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shelf switching is fun.

I probably would have gotten more into model railroading but what I've discovered is that I like the scheduling parts the most, and I got bored making scenery. My childhood model railroad had a weekly switching list but the scenery was never completed. That's why I got so into OpenTTD.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

OpenTTD sounds neat, I'll have to check that out. But I also love the modeling part, I've always loved building little things like that so I might just focus my energies on a small switching layout. I'd love to be able to do continuous running but that'll have to be in the future

[–] ultraviolet@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

This was my favourite thing to play with at school when I was a kid

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Wooden trains were the best. I had a whole collection.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Ironic how aside from kids, it's mostly the labor aristocracy that has time and money for model trains.