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Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:01:19 -0600

Forgot to mention - last time I took my two preschool girls to a toy store, it wasn't the stuffed kitties or horse's or dolls... it was the wooden trains. Doug and Melissa make a decent train set for about $100 with enough parts to keep Dad interested. :-)

Reply from Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:43:07 -0600

I don't know what it is with kids and trains either - my 2.5 y/o son's also obsessed with them. Which is fine by me - trains are awesome :-)

Ben

Reply from Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:00:12 -0600

We took Alex for his 3rd birthday on Hallowe'en this year. He liked the trains but he and big brother James (5) seemed more interested in the Thomas they have parked near Eurostar and the playpark outside. Oh well! Mummy and Daddy liked the big trains, in particular the Royal Trains.

Reply from Rebecca Dorman

Rebecca Dorman — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:26:57 -0600

I was at that train museum earlier this year when I was in the UK on my honeymoon. Great place! I can definitely understand why the kids love it. We also got lucky in that we actually got to see one of the steam trains being let out on the tracks through York for a run. It went under a bridge right near our B&B.

Reply from Troy Robinson

Troy Robinson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:45:49 -0600

All my daughter asked Santa for this year (she is almost 3) is a Train. ???!!???!!???? She has seen a handfull of Thomas videos, but watches Bob the Builder and Dora the Explorer religiously... yet.. wants a train for x-mas.... and that is all she has asked for. No backback, no tractor, no hard hat... just a train.

Seems to me, kids just love trains!!

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:25:40 -0600

@ Philip - Sounds like a nasty bug is going around London - keep clear!

Great photos Jake. I remember riding on a working steam locomotive at Huckleberry Rail Road near Flint, Michigan, as a boy... loved the smell... till I got a cinder in my eye. It was coal fired and a rough ride in open carriages, but what a neat thing to do. I also got to ride on the last run of a restored "modern" era steamer, I think it was the 611, from Ypsilanty, MI to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, when I was about 12. I'll never forget it. That was the last run for that steamer, it's in a museum now. At the yard in Ft. Wayne, we all got off and were allowed to place copper pennies on the rail as the train came by for a photo op - we then went looking for our coppers, flat as pancakes, some of them never seen again.

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:27:36 -0600

London? Not likely. Get yourself to Shottingham. It's where it's at.

Reply from Philip King

Philip King — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:58:20 -0600

I used to love the railway museum in York, it seemed huge as to me as a child.

Back in the UK later this week, any chance you are in the city at all?

//Philip