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Two weeks before Christmas every year, Mom would load the five of us kids into a station wagon and head downtown to see the department stores’ lavish and imaginative giant window displays. As fascinated onlookers took in animated figurines. I stood transfixed by a model train winding its way through an elaborate setting. Then and there, the only wish on my list was a Lionel train set.
At the time, a toy train was