All these hobbies and the little electrical train.

I welcome myself now since this is my first posting.

I have one hobby. To have hobbies. No, just joking!
Well, I have had several hobbies since I was a kid. I think I won´t tell about all of them now, but maybe writing here can make me sort up among my interests a little because I think I have more of them than I have spare time to do it.

I remember when I was 4 years old somewhere between 1969-70, how I wished to find an electrical train in the grocery store bag when my father would come home every time. And how I remember it.
I looked into it every time when he came, to find there was no train. Memory is real close. How could I stay on that hope for so many times?

When I was 10, I bought a little electrical train by Minitrix. It was a complete box with 2 wagons and some rail, and I liked it. I enjoyed watching that little mechanics. I will try to find a picture of it to show you.

I found this on a danish site by someone who wrote he had been also 9-10 but he was slightly over 10 years after me!

My set looked very similar to this one, my transformer was green and I think I had only 2 wagons and not that thing as here in the middle of the box..


Unfortunately, I had (and have) a cousin who wanted to trade with me. He wanted my train for something else. And I just did it. I can´t remember thinking what I wanted myself, if I actually wanted to keep my train. I should have kept it. I had to wait several years before I got the things he offered me, and those were in worse shape than I had expected.

I think if I´d had a little more self respect back then, I would have kept it. I can still feel, or rather feel the "retroactive" regrets now. Anyway.... some years back I bought several trains, actually many at an auction. Very cheap. In three scales, N, like the minitrix above, and the standard HO and then some trains in a scale size inbetween.
Even though I have two sons, now aged 5 and 11, I have not mounted any model railway. These train that I bought have been placed in a pair of boxes for several years.
Shouldn´t be so, so I will try to do something with it. And having these trains have not felt even close to the feeling I had when I bought my train when I was 10 which was a new train, and only mine. Well, I´m not 10 but for my sons.

We can appreciate things more even if they are simpler or less. Instead of buying and buying in the "progress" of a hobby, maybe we should take a break sometimes so that we can better appreciate what we have later on too.