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The Gift Of Model Trains - How To Choose A Model Train To Give As A Gift
Model trains have been in existence for over a century. Ever since real, full size trains became prevalent, train companies have made scale models of their locomotives and rolling stock. These were first sold as a marketing tool to generate interest in their trains, but soon garnered interest as children’s toys due to their small size. Toy model trains are not exactly the same as real scale model railroads and depending on your interests, both make great gifts for the young and young at heart.
Toy model trains are lighter, less detailed, and usually more inexpensive than real scale model railroads. They are produced as toys and can be made of plastic or metal, and are generally a little less rugged than the real thing. Those attributes make them a good choice for smaller children who may not have the interest, patience or skills to assemble and operate the more expensive scale models.
Another thing to keep in mind in giving the gift of model trains is that they run on electricity. Shorter tracks and the “toys” we have been talking about are generally fairly simple to hook up. There will be a power unit that plugs into the wall, a transformer to reduce the voltage, and wires that run and connect to the track at some point. For these trains that is pretty much the extent of the electrical connections. For more sophisticated models and longer tracks, the electrical connections can be more complex and in some cases include DCC (Digital Command and Control) systems and multiple trains.
Giving a more sophisticated scale model railroad set to pre-teens will probably require some help from an adult, while toy model trains can be assembled and operated by those as young as 8 or 9 without much supervision. Most parents and grandparents however will want to “play” with the trains with their children and grandchildren though, since this is a hobby that appeals to young and old.
Price is another consideration when giving model trains as gifts. Small model toy train sets can be purchased for a couple of hundred dollars ready to roll out of the box from manufacturers like Lionel and Bachman. Those manufacturers and others also make much more expensive sets where the sky is the limit on costs depending on the scale, whether you purchase a ready to roll or a kit, how much scenery you like etc.
Last but not least, scale is important when deciding on which model trains to give as gifts. Consider how much space these train sets will take up when they are assembled and operating. N-scale is popular with those who don’t have much space, while HO-scale is the most popular scale in the world and offers more choices and accessories.
Toy model trains make great gifts and could lead to a lifelong hobby. If you are considering giving such a gift, get some good advice from model train hobbyists who will be eager to share their knowledge and love for this hobby.
About the Author
Henry Michael is a model train enthusiast who enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others to help them get the most out of this exciting hobby. For more information on toy model trains, visit my website at http://www.modeltrainenthusiast.com/ and learn how easy it is for you to get involved with model railroading. It will help you to avoid mistakes that most beginners make. If you are more experienced, it will give you a different perspective on things you may be doing or would like to do.
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Lionel LIO14198 80 Watt Transformer $140.49 Ut until you turn the unit off - even when you stop the train! Perfect for train sets and small to medium sized layouts. Made with the Best Quality Material with your child in mind. Top Quality Children's Item. |
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Lionel LIO14190 Lionel Train Book $35.82 Learn everything you need to know about setting up and maintaining a Lionel layout as well as maximizing th enjoyment of our Lionel trains. Included in this reference guide are an overview of product development, updated instructions on the setup and use of the TrainMaster Command Control system, track plans for the floor and tabletop, advice on buildling scenery and structures, wiring and track, how-to, help in choosing steam or diesel locomotives and freight or passenger operations, maintenance and restoration tips, techniques, and instructions for operation that best emulate those of prototype railroads. |
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Lionel Pedal Train $286.99 Whooooo Whooooooo!!!!! We are pleased to introduce the first pedal train in Lionel Trains history. This pedal car is made of quality all-steel construction and features realistic locomotive sounds along (2 AA batteries) with a ringing chrome bell. |
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Lionel LIO30127 The Scout Freight Set $195.13 Perfect Starter Set for Kids and Adults Alike!. With headlight blazing, the Scout 2-4-2 races through the night to reach its destination on time. Smoke billows from the roof stack and a sharp whistle pierces the air as this freight train comes to a quick halt. Just enough time to couple up another line of freight cars before it steams off again. Classic and affordable, the new Lionel Scout Set comes complete with track and transformer. |
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Lionel LIO18054 1665 Nyc 040 Steam Loco $396.19 These diecast metal switchers are ready for action on any layout. Push or pull rolling stock with dual operating couplers. Each locomotive also includes an allnew realistic steam whistle. Operating whistles headlights and couplers. Realistic smoke. Minimum Curve: O27. Affordable additions to Lionel train sets. Perfectly matched to Lionel Traditional Rolling Stock. Transformer controlled forward neutral and reverse operation. Electronic steam whistle. Powerful maintenancefree motor. Diecast metal locomotive body and frame. Traction tires. Puffing smoke unit. Diecast metal tender trucks. Diecast metal tender frame. Directional lighting including operating headlight and backup light. Front and rear operating couplers. |
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Lionel LIO18054 1665 Nyc 0-4-0 Steam Loco $320 These die-cast metal switchers are ready for action on any layout. Push or pull rolling stock with dual operating couplers. Each locomotive also includes an all-new realistic steam whistle. Operating whistles, headlights, and couplers. Realistic smoke. Minimum Curve: O-27. Affordable additions to Lionel train sets. Perfectly matched to Lionel Traditional Rolling Stock. Transformer controlled forward, neutral, and reverse operation. Electronic steam whistle. Powerful, maintenance-free motor. Die-cast metal locomotive body and frame. Traction tires. Puffing smoke unit. Die-cast metal tender trucks. Die-cast metal tender frame. Directional lighting, including operating headlight and back-up light. Front and rear operating couplers. |
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Lionel Corporation Employee Testing New Model Train Sets $79.99 Lionel Corporation Employee Testing New Model Train Sets - Premium Photographic Print |
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Lionel O Gauge Super Streets Train Conversion Transition $8.99 SuperStreets roadway is functionally O gauge three-rail track built very unobtrusively into a realistic street. Because at heart SuperStreets is O-gauge track, you control the traffic on with your existing transformer. Visually the roadway pieces look very much like the concrete and asphalt streets in cities and town of the last seventy-five years. There is a countersunk screw hole in each piece, hidden by a detailed manhole cover. RailRoadster vehicles are designed especially for SuperStreets. However, any O gauge engine or motorized unit like vans, speeders, inspection vehicles, and trolleys run on SuperStreets. Type: Trains Gender: Male Age: Child |
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Lionel LIO65038 O-27 Straight Train Track Section $14.53 027 straight track of the older Lionel style. FasTrack being the newer style that includes the roadbed with the track. Each piece is 8-3/4" long. |
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Lionel LIO65038 O27 Straight Train Track Section $17.99 027 straight track of the older Lionel style. FasTrack being the newer style that includes the roadbed with the track. Each piece is 83/4 long. |
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Lionel Accessories at Work on Toy Train Layouts (Paperback) $27.7 Lionel`s electric accessory items from the 1940s and 1950s through the present day have been very opoular with toy train enthusiasts. This book provides a variety of ways to incorporate them--both originals and modern reproductions of older items--into toy train layouts. Selected by Classic Toy Trains editor Neil Besougloff from the magazine, the material has been updated and supplemented to make it current. Includes high-quality track plans, repair and placement information. |
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A Century of Legendary Lionel Trains - $24.99 In this two-tape set, the history of the Lionel model train company is presented, from its beginnings in 1900 to modern times. Host and avid Lionel collector, Tom Snyder visits several collectors in A Century of Lionel Trains, and checks out their formidable layouts. He also speaks with Lionel Chairman Emeritus Richard Kughn. The model train enthusiast will see many of the classics in action, including the Norfolk Western J, 75th Anniversary Set, the Standard gauge Blue Comet, the scale Hudson, the Santa Fe F-3s, and the articulated steamer trains. ~ Alice Day, Rovi |
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The Polar Express RC Lionel Train Set $149.95 'All Aboard The Lionel® Polar Express!' This heirloom Lionel® Train Set will thrill children of all ages with authentic details that capture the magic of the holiday classic—including a keepsake bell from Santa's sleigh! Just like Lionel trains from your childhood, but with an easy-to-use remote controller, this large G-gauge set includes an exquisitely crafted steam locomotive with headlight and whistle, coal tender, observation car with "disappearing hobo," passenger coach with working doors, 3 play figures and 16-piece oval track. Batteries included. Sorry, no Express Delivery. Ages 4+. |
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Lionel Conacher $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP (May 24, 1900 May 26, 1954), nicknamed The Big Train, was Canadas top allaround athlete in the 1920s, excelling in Canadian football, ice hockey, lacrosse, baseball, boxing and wrestling. He later became a politician and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2010/12/22 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.22 inches |
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Lionel LIO31960 Polar Express Set $343.9 It's back! What is now called a Christmas Classic movie right next to "It's A Wonderful Life" and "The Christmas Story". It is even improved from the previous versions AND will have additional add-ons that will be coming out in the months to come!. 2-8-4 Berkshire steam locomotive (one of the most massive train engines to exist). Two illuminated passenger coaches that have silhouettes at the window depicting movie action. One passenger observation car with a new rounded platform and also with silhouettes. Three straight FasTrack sections. Eight curved FasTrack sections. One FasTrack terminal section. CW-80 transformer. Four articulated movie character figures, and smoke fluid. Air whistle in tender as well as operating coupler on rear. Engine with operating headlight. Powerful maintenance-free motor. Two traction tires, and puffing smoke as well as die-cast metal body and frame. Separately applied metal handrails and all-new pilot and headlight lens shield. Interior lighting and decorated drumhead on the obse |
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Lionel LIO62985 Lionel Train Book - 132 Pages $24.8 Tips and tricks on building and maintaining your model railroad. 132 Pages. Made from the finest materials. Satisfaction ensured. |
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Lionel LIO62985 Lionel Train Book 132 Pages $30.71 Tips and tricks on building and maintaining your model railroad. 132 Pages. Made from the finest materials. Satisfaction ensured. |
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Lionel LIO15038 Csx HiCube Boxcar $52.04 Traditional Freight Cars are great additions to any traditionally sized Lionel train set or locomotive. Made from the finest materials. Satisfaction ensured. |
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Lionel LIO30124 Thunder Valley Freight Set $367.73 Hidden dangers lurk at every turn on the Thunder Valley Railroad as a work train snakes its way to the heart of quarry mine operations. Explosives and work equipment must be shipped in by train and falling rocks quarry blasts and pitfalls are never far away. Make way for the rugged Thunder Valley 060 docksider as it pulls its work load to the quarries. A jetblack gondola is packed with mined rocks and a special Box Car carries dangerous explosives to the site. Stop the train to unload the Thunder Valley steam shovel off the flatcar deck and survey the evening terrain with the mighty searchlight on the work caboose. This readytorun train set comes complete with Fas Track and 80watt transformer and also includes an explosive quarry mine diorama. Set Includes:. 060 dockside switcher. Explosive cargo boxcar. Gondola with rock load. Flatcar with steam shovel. Searchlight work caboose. Three straight FasTrack track sections eight curved FasTrack track sections a FasTrack terminal section. CW80 Transformer. Quarry mine diorama. Locomotive Features:. Transformer controlled forward neutral and reverse operation. Electronic steam whistle. Directional lighting with operating headlight and backup light. Puffing smoke unit. Dual operating couplers. Powerful maintenancefree motor. Traction tires. Interior illumination in cab. Diecast metal locomotive body and frame. Engineer and fireman figures. Locomotive Road Number: 1302. Gauge: Traditional O Gauge. Length: 48 1?2 . Layout Dimensions: 40 x 60 . Minimum Curve: O27. |
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Lionel LIO22193 Cold Drinks Vending $22.49 Match up with Lionel or Woodland Scenic people and Lionel Woodland and or Bachmann O buildings. Other vending machines as well. Train personel and travelers get thirsty. Also adds a great touch of color and realism to any O/027 layout. |
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Lionel LIO36145 Philadelphia Quartz 3-Dome Tank $41.71 Colorful and durable, Lionel Traditional Freight Cars are great additions to any traditionally-sized Lionel train set. Operating couplers. Metal handrails and ladders. Traditional O Gauge. Dimensions Minimum Curve is O-27. |
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Lionel LIO36145 Philadelphia Quartz 3Dome Tank $51.64 Colorful and durable Lionel Traditional Freight Cars are great additions to any traditionallysized Lionel train set. Operating couplers. Metal handrails and ladders. Traditional O Gauge. Dimensions Minimum Curve is O27. |
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Lionel LIO5906 Original Mint Activation Railsounds Button $25.23 Lionel Original Mint 6-5906 Sound Activation Button. This button is not to be used with 6-4690 type MW Transformer. Made from the finest materials. Satisfaction ensured. |
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Lionel LIO11020 Harry Potter Hogwarts Express $370.77 Bring the magical world of Harry Potter to life with the Hogwarts Express ready-to-run train set! Based on the best-selling books by J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. movies, this die-cast metal steam locomotive. Includes: a pwerful maintenance-free motor, puffing smoke, operating headlight, air whistle and more. The three passenger cars feature interior illumination and operating couplers. The set is made up of a 4-6-0 locomotive and tender, two passenger coaches and one combination car, FasTrack to make up a 40"x60" layout, one terminal section, and a powerful CW80 transformer. Other features include two traction tires separately applied metal details, and die-cast metal locomotive body and sof moded diaphragms between passenger cars. Look for other Harry Potter items soon to come. |
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The Transformer $7.49 The Transformer |
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Transformer $6.49 Transformer |
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Lionel LIO15038 Csx Hi-Cube Boxcar $42.03 Traditional Freight Cars are great additions to any traditionally sized Lionel train set or locomotive. Made from the finest materials. Satisfaction ensured. |
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Lionel LIO30116 Lone Ranger Wild West Set $414.39 With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western US. Nowhere in the pages of history can one fine a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again in this very special Wild West set. Hi-ho Silver, away!. Locomotive features include transformer controlled forward, neutral, and reverse operation; Train Sounds sound system in tender with steam chuffing, whistle, bell, and squealing brakes; operating headlight; operating coupler on rear of tender; maintenance-free powerful motor; two traction tires; and puffing smoke unit. Rolling stock features include die-cast archbar-style trucks with operating couplers, metal frame on Lone Ranger and Outlaw car; Lone Ranger and outlaw figures bob up and down through the roof openings; all-new simulated wood gondola sides and ends on |