In reply to MHutch: Cruel electric -abusing man!...much worse than charging up industrial capacitors and playing catch with them.
Which we never did, obviously
Never really 'got' model trains as a kid. I still don't, though i do help out at a local junior-infants school where my mates daughter goes...we set up a 20' x 12' painted sheet on the tables and run tracks all over the place, the guy's got tonnes of stuff! There's usually a little group of Dads fiddling around with stuff and talking about their childhood sets
The kids love it! even the little'uns of 3 or 4. Though they are quite keen on trying to eat the scenery and derailing stuff as well
disappointed that there aren't any ascents or descents and a spiral one round a mountain would be excellnt.