Lionel Trains
In the past few days, I had some hands-on experience with a new Lionel train set. When I was a child, I used Lionel trains exclusively in my model railroading hobby. I actually had a large model railroad in our attic. By high school, I had progressed into more realistic trains in N scale (realistic track, realistic slow speeds, realistic direction control, realistic and detailed trains, etc) but I continued using my large Lionel model railroad on the other side of the attic space. Sometime in the 1970s, Lionel started producing more toy-like plastic trains including their locomotives. I'm sure they still had some of their higher end, highly detailed metal trains but I only had access to my friends' lower end new Lionel trains. Unfortunately, my experience just the other day was with very low end, almost what I would consider junk, toy-like plastic Lionel trains. This train set is very toy-like and, worse yet, likely to prove to be easily broken by a child. This train