pauly
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starting them youngToday my mum was watching her godson son who loves steam engines so of coures he wanted to play with mine  so I steamed up my SR1A for him to use outside but he could not keep up with it (hes only 4 ) so I steamed up my wilesco smoky for him which is a lot slower so he spent some time playing with that until its was time for his tea after that he spent some time playing with my vintage clockwork engine then my pop pop boat which he loved the most and played with it until it was time for him to go home.
he loves trains to and kept asking about the garden railway even caught him walking around the trackbed making train noises  bless him
I hope I have sewn the seed that will keep him interested in steam for a long time. 
look at that steam plume 
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made-in-england
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My Two cousins one of which is autisic the other a girl are really into trains and steam engines and the girl also likes my Static engines! Ive definatley sewn the seed i think because between them they have about 400+ train related items
Sewing the Seed young is the BEST thing you can do! my gradparents done it to me! Like they say now after we've finished our time in restoration and heritage and are too weak and feeble to continue thes lot are the Fresh Blood!
Good thing you done pauly!
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pauly
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Thanks I would try it on his older brother if he could sit or be quiet for more than a couple of secinds
Im not kidding
I to have autism
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bessytractor
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good man, its nice to see people being encouraging towards the younger generations.
This is something I always try to do at the GCR if we have a party train in the morning. Let the birthday kid sit on the tender with my hat on, let their parents photo them, and then point to the dangly chain and say "pull that". You then watch them fall over backwards in surprise
Once again, well done
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Mamodman123
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Nice AT-AT Walker Pauly
My big bro had one, my dad threw it out and he has never forgiven him 
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pauly
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| Mamodman123 wrote: | Nice AT-AT Walker Pauly
My big bro had one, my dad threw it out and he has never forgiven him |
Thanks I collect star wars memorabilia on the side
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pauly
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| bessytractor wrote: | good man, its nice to see people being encouraging towards the younger generations.
This is something I always try to do at the GCR if we have a party train in the morning. Let the birthday kid sit on the tender with my hat on, let their parents photo them, and then point to the dangly chain and say "pull that". You then watch them fall over backwards in surprise
Once again, well done |
I know what you mean about the whistle when I pulled the rollers whistle you could see his eyes
double in size.
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bessytractor
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nothing beats a good
TOOT TOOT
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tmuir
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I have a four year old son, Thomas, he loves all my steam engines and if he is good I will let him have my SR1 or TE1a to push around like a play toy and he makes the steam and whistle noises and stops every now and then to pretend to put coal and water into it.
Of course he loves my trains and my blue Mamod he has named 'Thomas'. I also have another son who is one on Saturday 'James' so I have a wreck of a Mamod loco that I'm just getting the parts together for that will be completely stripped and repainted red of course as it will become 'James'
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made-in-england
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Bessy,
when i finally get to cockrow i wont to do that!!!
EL OH EL!! 
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bessytractor
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sure thing
TOOT!!
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toxx
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... Paul, which is the Star Wars memorabil on the picture? I'm very interested ...
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pauly
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| toxx wrote: | | ... Paul, which is the Star Wars memorabil on the picture? I'm very interested ... |
its my AT-AT
its a very good model with a joy stick to control the head and weapons with sound its vintage
my starwars collection is about 3 times bigger than my steam and thats not including my vintage starwars lego which is currently dominating my loft space.
its a big collection
they made toys so much better back then 
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toxx
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... wow, that's a BIG model! Congrats - I'm a vintage Star Wars fan ...
May the Force be with you ...
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pauly
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Thanks I actually got it off 1 of me dads mates because he knew I wouldnt sell it
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