My father was born in 1898. His mother died within the year and eventually his father remarried. However at age 10 he lost his father too and the step mom parceled all but the youngest child out to aunts and uncles for them to raise.
As was common for the era children received clothing and items of need for Christmas rather than toys.
When my dad turned age 53 on December 23 and Christmas arrived shortly thereafter mom and my two brothers and I gave dad an electric train set---his very first Christmas toy.
Naturally it was mom and dads way of giving their sons a train set with clear cut guidelines that none of us owned it nor had exclusive rights to it.
While we all played many hours with it, being the youngest it finally became somewhat mine and at an age when I was thrilled with it. Over several years I bought additional track, switches, and accessories. It was played with enough to wear out two transformers.
At my dads estate sale in 1996 it sold for more than the original purchase price even though it was a Marx brand rather than Lionel or American Flyer. Thanks mom and dad for figuring out an equitable way to gift a train to your three sons!
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