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Christmas train
Dec. 7th, 2012 10:32 amI love little model trains. Just love them. Back when I was a little kid, my brother had a Lego train set, which we played with endlessly, creating Lego City, Lego Town, Legoville and Lego Space (Lego trains go everywhere) as places to send the train to. The train also went under the bed which added to the mystery and sometimes the Lego people had wars over the train, as you do, and sometimes they just quietly traded, and sometimes they carried cookies.
Back in the States, my brother next got one of the model electric trains, on a little track, which I could watch endlessly. I got him a second little toy train set later, when we were in Connecticut. More watching trains.
Some day, I told myself, I would have a house of my own and a room that had a full train set with lots and lots and lots of trains on multiple tracks.
And then I kinda grew up – only kinda – and lived in places that were too small for trains. Or so I told myself. Plus setting them up was going to be a bit of a problem. I did consider putting up a shelf high up on the walls in my Hollywood apartment so I could have a train going round and round – but the corners. Oooh, the corners. That was going to take a little bit more balancing and bridging and –
So I didn't. And slowly the idea of model trains backed off, bit by bit.
Until last week, when I heard various sounds coming from the living room. This happens a lot, so I ignored it, until I came out and saw –
Christmas train!!!
Yes, we now have a Lionel Christmas train going round the Christmas tree and the coffee table (the coffee table mostly by necessity because moving the coffee table to accommodate the train would mean blocking access between the kitchen and the living room). It has a little train engine that lights up and makes train whistles and a little caboose that lights up and a little car dragging Christmas trees.
Naturally, we have put little Star Wars Lego figures on it. Originally this was just Lego Christmas Yoda and Lego Chewbacca guarding the train and then somehow Darth Vader and a stormtrooper got on board ready to attack. So if I no longer have Boba Fett firing at Ewoks in the Christmas tree (a decade long tradition ended when Boba Fett's head came off) we at least have Yoda on a Christmas train.
The moral of the story: you are never too old for Christmas trains.
And speaking of returning to childhood...I wasn't going to get one this year, really really truly I wasn't, and then it was on sale, so...yes, I have another Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar. Because starting the day with a touch of magic and mystery is always a good thing.
Back in the States, my brother next got one of the model electric trains, on a little track, which I could watch endlessly. I got him a second little toy train set later, when we were in Connecticut. More watching trains.
Some day, I told myself, I would have a house of my own and a room that had a full train set with lots and lots and lots of trains on multiple tracks.
And then I kinda grew up – only kinda – and lived in places that were too small for trains. Or so I told myself. Plus setting them up was going to be a bit of a problem. I did consider putting up a shelf high up on the walls in my Hollywood apartment so I could have a train going round and round – but the corners. Oooh, the corners. That was going to take a little bit more balancing and bridging and –
So I didn't. And slowly the idea of model trains backed off, bit by bit.
Until last week, when I heard various sounds coming from the living room. This happens a lot, so I ignored it, until I came out and saw –
Christmas train!!!
Yes, we now have a Lionel Christmas train going round the Christmas tree and the coffee table (the coffee table mostly by necessity because moving the coffee table to accommodate the train would mean blocking access between the kitchen and the living room). It has a little train engine that lights up and makes train whistles and a little caboose that lights up and a little car dragging Christmas trees.
Naturally, we have put little Star Wars Lego figures on it. Originally this was just Lego Christmas Yoda and Lego Chewbacca guarding the train and then somehow Darth Vader and a stormtrooper got on board ready to attack. So if I no longer have Boba Fett firing at Ewoks in the Christmas tree (a decade long tradition ended when Boba Fett's head came off) we at least have Yoda on a Christmas train.
The moral of the story: you are never too old for Christmas trains.
And speaking of returning to childhood...I wasn't going to get one this year, really really truly I wasn't, and then it was on sale, so...yes, I have another Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar. Because starting the day with a touch of magic and mystery is always a good thing.
