While at a train show this past weekend I was standing next to a little boy who kept asking his father if they could make the trains go faster. The operator did a good job of explaining why trains don't "go fast" but do not think the boy thought it was acceptable. I'm sure he was much more pleased when they visited the nearby Lego layout.... I was tempted to show a video of this train I saw lumbering through the Reno yard recently but opted not to.
When my grandson, (3yo), I let him have the throttle, (with a gentle hand on his), a couple of times. Yep, he 'Red Lined' it. Note: I had already tested the full speed and knew there was no worry. ☻ Children relate to motion.
"Lumbering" - I see what you did there. Speaking of Lumber, I know exactly where this train came from - By the fully-loaded centerbeams, it's a UP train that originated in Oregon heading eastbound somewhere.
They may have also originated in my neck of the woods, we have an SPI mill nearby that is serviced by Sierra Northern Railway at least once per week hauling 3-5 fully loaded cars and occasionally hauling tankers for propane. And some news about their recent derailment: https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/3295060/train-derailment-in-downtown-sonora.html https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/l...sierra-northern-railway-train-derailment.html https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/3298951/sonora-sinkhole-repairs-getting-underway.html
yup my grand son loves full throttle ....i put him in go cart for the first time ......BAD move full throttle right in the fence..... hahahah lil bugger.
I do a bit of lumbering after I get up in the morning after I spend the night sawing wood. Then I have coffee. Been there, done that. Crank that Tyco power pack until it smokes!
When my older kid was something like 4, I went extra lenghts to buy him a HO/OO scale thomas the train set. It costed me a huge sum of money as they were not sold in Italy, so I had to buy it in the UK and pay outrageous postage fees to Italy. We started playing for a while, it was also nice since the curves were kind of wide and not the 12 inch radius you usually get on these sets. Then i had a genius idea: why dont i run some of my older locos that had been sitting for a while? One of these was the one in the pic below that a friend of mine gave me to complete some modifications he sterted with brass parts, it is a Rivarossi model from the 60/early 70s. these were halfway between OO and HO scale designed in the 60s to fit the motors, so it has a very high centre of gravity, and like all its contemporaries ran like a rocket. Used to the Thomas engines running at a limited speed, he obviously redlined at what i reckon well over 125 scale mph and.... it went straight on its side at the first curve. So one major issue: - I throw away some 150 dollars (no thomas trains running anymore) - He switched to my old trains..... and wanted to but high speed trainsets.....
Around the holidays, a local museum sets up an operating train display with several independent loops of track, each with its own power pack which can be accessed by the visitors. Invariably, any kiddie who goes to run a train treats the speed control as if it was an on-off switch - mainly fully on.
It's not just the boys. My daughter and niece at 2 years old were (very entertaining) little terrors' on the O scale track. A with the walkers in the park.
