[AJD] Classics

[Steven P.Allen]

While there is much wisdom in this thread, I would caution anyone against
assuming that all collecting is a function of nostalgia.  I, too, was born
after the era of the two-cylinder ended, and they are my primary interest in
tractors.  Like some others here, I also collect trains, but many of mine
stem from the great Standard Gauge Era of the 1900s to the 1930s, decades
before my birth.  

In both cases, I appreciate them for their mechanical elegance and
simplicity, their style and form, and the history that rides along with them.
 I did not recieve any of those Standard Gauge trains for Christmas, but some
one did, and the idea that I can play with toys first played with by my
father's and grandfather's generations (just my father's, in the case of the
tractors) is intriguing to me, and I often wonder who first ran the trains or
the tractors, where, and under what circumstances.

These motivations are larger than nostalgia for one's own childhood, and I
rest assured that both the trains and the tractors will be appreciated and
played with long after this generation of collectors is gone.

The "Original" Steve Allen

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