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Okay, maybe it isn’t technically the BEST, but I think it is pretty good.

Portland area transportation gurus have a new fancy light rail train, and our son freaks out every time he sees it go by:

Now, have you ever spent time around a 2, 3, or 4 year old?  What do they like?  If you answered, “Trains!” you are absolutely right.  Around Christmastime, our son told us that what he really wanted for Christmas was a “fancy train”.  Thinking that surely a well-run city transportation system like Tri-met would have plenty of merch, (at least a t-shirt for God’s sake!), we hit their website and even walked into their office in downtown Portland.

“Do you have any toy trains?” my husband asked.

“Toy whats?” they responded.

“Trains.  Like the wooden kind that can go with Brio or Thomas sets.”  They looked at him blankly.  ”Okay, maybe a poster?” he queried.  They offered a cardboard bus, but that was the best they could do.

So what do we do for the boy who just wanted a fancy train for Christmas?  We painted one.

It certainly wasn’t perfect (I am not a master painter by any means), but it captured the main idea.

Come on Tri-Met!  Wake up!  You need wooden toy trains and you need them fast.  Every indulgent bohemian bourgeois “car free” parent in the metro area would snatch one of these suckers up and they would consider $20 a bargain.  It is the BEST idea.  Come on already!

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