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11-22-2008, 02:16 PM
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Hey Folks!
I was just wondering if there was anyone else on this board that's into Model Railroading as a hobby (in addition to holding down the low end...  ).
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11-22-2008, 02:23 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I love model RRing! My wife & I got into N-scale before the kids came along then put it all away until they were 'old enough'. Now we can't find anything...
We also have my father-in-law's 1930-something Lionel enginee & a couple of original cars.
If we get back into it we may have to switch to a larger scale; my eyes aren't what they used to be. 
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11-22-2008, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | Theres a thread for this now, yippie  .
I'm a HO scale enthuasist here. Your track setup is great. I olny wish I had that kind of space and time. My girlfreind claims im living some sort of vicarious god-like postion (she's a graphic designer- so I giver her a hard time for never leaving the computer much in return). I got into it a while ago but had to put it aside to take care of family matters. If I ever have the time I'll put up some pictures.
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11-22-2008, 04:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | I'm "into" model railroading but not in the way you mean.
Though I don't practice modeling as a hobby, I have over a dozen years in as an employee of a manufacturer of HO scale rolling stock. I do everything from injection molding to painting to printing and a whole lot of other stuff as well. It's a great little company and the owner and the employees are all close and we are more like a family than a business.
I painted and printed this run.  http://www.nsmrc.org/images/cw_3bay_hopper.jpg
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11-22-2008, 04:57 PM
|  | Supporting Curmudgeon Moderator | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL | | | Long-time hard core modeler, heavily into operations. Mostly HO but starting to move to O 2 rail due to failing eyesight.
hbarcat, Dennis is a good friend of mine! Small world...
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11-22-2008, 05:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Cool! I'll tell him you said "HI"
Dennis opened up the machine shop a couple of times and did some work on my Ibby tuners and also helped with the neck joint on a rosewood bass body project I'm currently working on.
-Dan
BTW - I live a couple blocks away from the Rochelle Railroad Park at the quad diamond crossing between the UP Railroad and BNSF Railway mainlines between Chicago and points west. 
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11-22-2008, 05:22 PM
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11-22-2008, 05:36 PM
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11-22-2008, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat BTW - I live a couple blocks away from the Rochelle Railroad Park at the quad diamond crossing between the UP Railroad and BNSF Railway mainlines between Chicago and points west. | I'm not far east of you on the C&I (BN) in Aurora: 
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11-22-2008, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pacific Northwest USA | | My 6 y.o. son is playing with the same H.O. scale train I had as a kid  . We attend the model train show at the college most every year, and receive engines / cars here and there for his birthday and such.
We love Thomas and Friends too  .
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11-22-2008, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Indiana | | | My best friend is into O gauge 3-rail. It's got the remote controls and proto (?) sound. A lot of MTH stuff. Right now his layout sits on 15 pieces of 4x8 plywood. It's got a downtown, carnival, monstertrucks, etc.
I'm most impressed with a covered bridge he built. It's an exact model of one in Wabash county. He's got a lot of time and money wrapped up in it.
He's also got two tracks that go around his house near (of course) the ceiling. Fun stuff. I'll ask him for some pics.
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11-22-2008, 11:19 PM
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11-22-2008, 11:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | Were you guys at TrainFest a couple of weeks ago?
I was talking to a guy at work about this a few weeks ago- right before TrainFest. He was resigned to pretty much leaving his paycheck there.
I'm not into it, but here's my modeling story. When I was in college I went to a friend's house- his dad was really big into model railroad stuff and had a HUGE spread over the basement. I barely had to lay eyes on it, and asked my friend- "is that Blackhawk/Central City Colorado?"
My friend's dad built a scale replica of Blackhawk/Central City so perfectly I recognized it by sight.
That was cool.
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11-22-2008, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by The Golden Boy Were you guys at TrainFest a couple of weeks ago? | Yup.
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11-22-2008, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by HeavyDuty Yup. | There's billboards for it still up.
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11-23-2008, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by The Golden Boy Were you guys at TrainFest a couple of weeks ago?
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The factory manager (who happens to be my younger brother and also the drummer in my band) and the production supervisor (who is an excellent guitarist) both spent the weekend at TrainFest representing our company. The Milwaukee TrainFest is the high point of our year.
They said it was the busiest, ever.
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11-23-2008, 01:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | When we were kids, my brother and I used to like visiting our uncle's house because he had a huge layout in his basement and he would let us run the trains around (with supervision  ). We thought it was cool that his setup was so much bigger than anyone else's we had ever seen and also it had all these overhead wires for the trolleys to run under.
One day our dad showed us that our uncle's "toy trains" were featured in a magazine and we thought that was even cooler. 
[Model Railroader July 1980 feature article. Bruce Goehmann's Midland Electric]
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11-23-2008, 02:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | I used to be into model railroading as a kid. My grandma had a HO scale train set (most of it was my uncles from back in the 60s, my grandad was civil engineer with the railroads and he went a bit crazy with the setup). Unfortunately now I don't have the space, time and money to devote to it.
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11-23-2008, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat When we were kids, my brother and I used to like visiting our uncle's house because he had a huge layout in his basement and he would let us run the trains around (with supervision ). We thought it was cool that his setup was so much bigger than anyone else's we had ever seen and also it had all these overhead wires for the trolleys to run under.
One day our dad showed us that our uncle's "toy trains" were featured in a magazine and we thought that was even cooler.
[Model Railroader July 1980 feature article. Bruce Goehmann's Midland Electric] | Your uncle was a big inspiration to me! I never met him, but he had quite a few articles published on traction modeling - including a whole series in 1988 on building a small interurban in HO.
Is he still with us?
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11-23-2008, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | My grandfather was into it. He had a 8'x8' set up when you first walked into the house. We were allowed to look, but touching would bring the fire and brimstone. We were told he had a HUGE setup in the basement, but no one besides the adults were allowed downstairs to see. He's since passed. I've got no idea where it all went.
The idea has always fascinated me, but I can't afford another hobby.
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