Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to share some of the trainset that the little man and I got the chance to play with recently!
We went to visit some family recently and I haven't seen them in unfortunately too long. It was a lot of fun to be able to see them and hang out with them but one of the things I was really looking forward to, is to see if they still had the train set that I always loved playing with as a kid!
The little man is a lot like me in that he has a lot of the same interests as I do, which I guess is a nature versus nurture discussion. I don't know exactly if it's more one or the other but in any case, I love the model train sets! We got a chance to play with some of my family's hobby train set and damn was he loving it let me tell you!
My family member used to have a massive train set in their house and it wrapped around the whole attic and was crazy how complex it was and all the different features and things that went into it! They have since scaled it back though, as they are getting older and are busy with other things. Still though, the train set here was so much fun to walk around and explore the various details! I know that one day the little man is going to want to have a set like this in our house if we can find the space for it lol
The details all over the place were super cool! Having little puffs of cotton balls that represent the smoke coming out of the tops of the train was genius for sure lol
What was a lot of fun for me was that I got one of the more finnicky trains to run nicely! There was one train that just wasn't doing well because it was a different style, one that was a little fancier and supposed to operate better but it ended up being one that was overly complicated and needed some special work.
The train didn't really run well for months from what they said so I figured I would give it a whirl and spent most of my time with the train set on getting that one to run! You can see it here, it's moving pretty well at this point! :D
The train is one that has a different mechanism for how it connects it's energy to produce the movement. I don't remember the type of connection it was as this was a while ago now, but I remember that it took a lot of effort to get it to run and when it did, it puttered along and then stopped and I had to coax it for quite a while. By the end, we were pumped as it was running like a dream!
You can see it humming around the track here. It was pretty fast! I love adding all the cool and small details to it like the sandy ground, raised track and all that to make it feel more realistic and like a set of train tracks running through the mountains.
Having the extra cars lying around doesn't hurt either! Those extra cars make it seem like they are waiting to be loaded up with some stuff and taken off down the tracks.
It felt great to go back and relive some of my childhood where I got to play with these trains again! It's been well over a decade since I got to see these trains and boy do I miss it! I would love to go back and spend a day or two helping him build it up and I know the little man will definitely agree on that one! Lol. We soaked up every minute of the few hours that we got to play with the trains and I will say that it was one of my favorite times of the year so far getting to do that!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI.
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